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The Agaisse Lab is associated with the Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology (MIC). Our laboratory studies the bacterial pathogen Shigella flexneri, which causes approximately 270 million cases of…
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A main goal of research in the Brown Lab centers on the genetics of host resistance to viral infection, and the role of natural killer (NK) cells in viral immunity.…
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The focus of our work is on the use of costimulatory pathways, particularly the CD70-CD27 TNF-superfamily members, to promote immunotherapeutic T cell responses against melanoma and other malignancies, and as…
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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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I completed my PhD in South Korea. After joining the Sun lab, I have focused on the underlying mechanisms by which tissue immune cells cause chronic disease following respiratory viral…
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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…
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Josh is an epidemiologist and spatial demographer with research interests that include childhood undernutrition and infectious diseases and their socio-economic and environmental determinants in low-resource settings. He provides analytical expertise…
6/17/2025
Membrane proteins facilitate the transfer of information across lipid bilayers, comprise approximately 25% of a typical proteome, and represent over half of all drug targets. The membrane proteins that mediate…
