MCB students and faculty are actively engaged in research designed to understand microorganisms, their pathogenesis and the response of the immune system to their invasion.
Microbiology, Infection & Immunity
Molecular Medicine
Molecular Medicine
Microbial Population Biology
Microbial Evolution
Fundamentals of Prokaryotic Biology
Diseases of Public Health Importance and Strategies for their Control
Biochemistry and Genetics of Pathogens and Their Hosts
Cell Biology of Human Pathogens and Disease
Molecular Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases
There are no pending events related to this area of interest
innate immunity
Inference, re-engineering, evolution of biological networks
HCV pathogenesis and liver diseases
Evolution of proteins and viruses
computational systems biology; complex networks;metagenomics
Pathogenesis of chlamydia
keratinocyte migration and transformation
Topoisomerases and retroviral replication
B lymphocyte biology
inflammation and protective host responses
herpes virus
T cell biology and liver immunology
innate immunity
molecular and genetic basis for autoimmune diseases
HIV replication and host antiviral genes
bacterial pathogenesis, phagocyte-pathogen interactions
T cell development and tolerance
The Fredricks Lab studies human microbial communities
innate immunity to virus infection
human papillomaviruses (HPVs) and epithelial cancers
Host virus interactions and translational control
enzymatic processes of medical significance
Molecular basis of bacterial social behavior
T-cell targeting of viruses and malignancies
tuberculosis virulence
Regulation of innate immune response
sensory transduction in bacteria
Antifungal Immunity
chronic and latent viral infections
Systems biology of virus-host interactions
stem cell biology and therapy
Viral oncogenesis and KSHV
Metabolic networks and integrated metabolism
viral-host interactions in assembly and restriction
immunoglobin gene rearrangement in development and cancer
evolutionary studies of genetic conflict
immune control of HIV infection
DNA Replication, repair, recombination
virology/gene therapy/cancer biology
molecular basis of bacterial pathogenesis
protein secretion and virulence in Pseudomonas aeruginosa
HIV-human host relationships
HIV transmission and pathogenesis
matrix metalloproteinases
Microbial communities and infectious disease
cell biology of protozoan parasites
Understanding bacterial disease pathogenesis
genetics and pathogenesis of tuberculosis
Molecular biology of tumor-inducing herpesviruses
Pathogenesis of Helicobacter pylori stomach infection
high throughput DNA sequencing
tuberculosis biology: virulence and dormancy
Innate Immunity
role of defensins in antiviral immunity
Malaria invasion and pathogenesis
HIV immunity
Innate immune detection of nucleic acids
structural molecular immunology
Trypanosomatid pathogens
Adhesion proteins and molecular biomechanics
T cell responses to Mycobacterium tuberculosis
drug development/Infectious Diseases/Parasitology
molecular biology of Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus
antitumor immune responses T cell repertoire
Innate immunity and Listeria pathogensis
HIV-1 controller, vaccine, latent infection
Regulatory T cells/allergic inflammation
