Microbiology
The Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology (MIC) Department is home to the PhD degree-granting program in Microbiology. PhD students study under internationally-recognized scientists in the areas of immunology, cancer biology, virology, bacteriology, infectious diseases, biodefense, cell-signaling, and gene regulation. The wide variety of choices in laboratories and coursework coupled with flexible departmental requirements enables each student to design a custom-tailored training program.
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Program Faculty
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Abounader, Roger
Basic and translational brain tumor research
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Agaisse, Hervé
Genetic approaches, cellular and molecular biology of intracellular pathogen infection
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Bender, Timothy P.
Regulation of gene expression during lymphocyte development
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Bouton, Amy H.
Signaling Pathways and Breast Cancer
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Brautigan, David L.
Protein Phosphorylation in Cell Signaling
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Braciale, Thomas J.
T Lymphocyte Responses To Virus Infection
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Brown, Michael G.
Natural Killer Cells, Viral Immunity, Genetic basis of host resistance to viral infection, Tumor immunity, Immune cell regulation
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Bullock, Timothy N.
Pathways to enhance T cell function in tumors.
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Casanova, James E.
Role of Arf family GTPases in vesicular transport and cytoskeleton assembly.
Cell Biology of bacterial pathogenesis.
The innate immune response to bacterial infection. -
Cliffe, Anna
Herpes Simplex Virus Infection of Neurons
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Criss, Alison K.
Cellular and molecular mechanisms of Neisserial pathogenesis
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Derré, Isabelle
Host/pathogen Interaction – Chlamydia Infection
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Desai, Bimal N.
Ion channels and Ca2+-signaling in inflammation, immunity and tissue homeostasis
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Dudley, Andrew
Tumor microenvironment and mechanisms of tumor neovascularization
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Engel, Daniel A.
Drug Discovery and Molecular Biology of Pathogenic RNA viruses: Influenza, Dengue and Ebola.
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Engelhard, Victor H.
Identification of MHC-restricted tumor antigens / Control of T cell homing to tumors / Role of lymphatic endothelial cells in regulating immunity and self-tolerance
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Erickson, Loren D.
Cellular and molecular mechanisms of B lymphocyte function; Genetic susceptibility in systemic lupus erythematosus; Immunotherapeutics in the treatment of B cell disorders
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Ewald, Sarah
Innate immunity, chronic disease, host-parasite interactions
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Fox, Jay W.
Basement Membrane Structure and Metalloproteinases
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Gioeli, Daniel
Signal transduction in cancer cells
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Guler, Jennifer
Cell Biology and Parasitology.
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Hahn, Young S.
Immune regulation for HCV infection and chronic liver inflammation
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Hammarskjöld, Marie-Louise
Post Transcriptional Gene Regulation and the Molecular Biology of Human Retroviruses
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Harris, Tajie H.
Immune response to infectious disease in the CNS
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Hughes, Molly A.
Biodefense and emerging pathogens
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Kashatus, David F
The Role of Mitochondrial Fusion and Fission in Tumorigenesis.
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Kedes, Dean H.
Human Herpes virus associated with malignancy, including Kaposi’s Sarcoma
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Kendall, Melissa M.
Bacterial cell signaling, host-pathogen interactions, intestinal pathogens
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Lorenz, Ulrike M
Involvement of the protein tyrosine phosphatase SHP-1 in signal transduction pathways
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Loughran, Jr., Thomas P
Hematologic malignancies; bone marrow disorders; leukemia; large granular lymphocyte (LGL)
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Mann, Barbara J.
Pathogenicity of Francisella tularensis and vaccines
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McNamara, Coleen A.
Atherosclerosis, Obesity, Diabetes
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Nataro, James P.
Pathogenesis of diarrheagenic Escherichia coli and Shigella.
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Park, Kwon-Sik
Mechanisms of organ development and homeostasis and tumor development
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Pemberton, Lucy F.
Nuclear Transport in Chromatin Assembly and Transcriptional Regulation
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Petri, William A.
Immune mechanisms of defense against enteric (diarrheal) infections
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Ramakrishnan, Girija
Iron-uptake mechanisms and Virulence Factors of Francisella tularensis; Microbial Pathogenesis
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Ravichandran, Kodi S.
Apoptotic cell clearance mechanisms in health and disease
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Rekosh, David M.
Human Immunodeficiency; Virus Gene Expression
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Rutkowski, Melanie
Influence of commensal microbes on immune homeostasis, anti-tumor immunity, and metastasis
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Smith, M. Mitchell
Functional Genomics of Histones, Chromatin, and Protein Acetylation Signaling in Cancer and the Cell Cycle
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Woodfolk, Judith A.
Cellular and molecular mechanisms of allergic disease in humans.
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Zeichner, Steven L.
Pathogenesis of infectious diseases and the development of new therapies and vaccines for infectious diseases and cancers.
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Zong, Hui
Early detection, cancer prevention, and tumor microenvironment