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Arf family GTPases and their function in membrane trafficking and cell motility Cell biology of bacterial infection The innate immune response to bacterial infection
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The Chalfant Laboratory has historically focused on two major, but diverse areas of basic science in regard to Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Molecular Biology. Specifically, the Chalfant Laboratory studies mechanisms of…
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Research description: Herpes simplex viruses type 1 and type 2 are significant human pathogens. Approximately 65% of the US population are infected with HSV-1 and 20% with HSV-2. The viruses persist…
6/17/2025
The Cowardin laboratory, located within the Child Health Research Center at the University of Virginia, focuses on understanding how the gut microbiota during pregnancy and early postnatal life set the…
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Our laboratory studies N. gonorrhoeae, an obligate human bacterial pathogen that causes the sexually transmitted infection gonorrhea. Gonorrhea has existed within the human population for all of recorded history and…
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The central objective of my lab is to understand how the host immune response is reprogrammed by tumors to promote growth and metastasis. Specifically, we focus on the role of…
6/17/2025
*Our perspective*: It is generally known that electrical signals lie at the very core of our beating hearts and thinking brains. It may however surprise you to know that the…
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Research in the Dolatshahi lab combines multiplex experimental measurements with computational methods (including statistical machine learning, network inference, information theory, signal processing and kinetic-dynamic modeling) to solve problems in the…
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The research focus in the Elliott Lab is to understand the function of tissue-resident macrophages as effectors of innate immunity in acute and chronic inflammation, and cancer. Macrophages are a…
6/17/2025
The work of my laboratory over the last 40 years has been broadly concerned with the recognition of antigens by CD8 T cells. In the last 20 years, that work…
