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
Introduction to Epidemiology
Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases
Advanced Immunology
Host Defense to Cancer
Immunological Methods
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
Complex molecular machines, cell biology, influenza
Inference, re-engineering, evolution of biological networks
Evolution of proteins and viruses
computational systems biology; complex networks;metagenomics
lymphocyte function, homeostasis and localization
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
Plant-microbe interactions
innate immunity and tissue repair
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
Pathogenesis of autoimmune disease
Molecular basis of bacterial social behavior
T-cell targeting of viruses and malignancies
tuberculosis virulence
Regulation of innate immune response
sensory transduction in bacteria
HDL and macrophages in atherosclerosis, diabetes and obesity
Antifungal Immunity
HIV immunology
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
genomic instability, gene therapy, cancer
evolutionary studies of genetic conflict
immune control of HIV infection
Mechanisms of DNA replication and repair in bacteria
molecular basis of bacterial pathogenesis
protein secretion and virulence in Pseudomonas aeruginosa
HIV-human host relationships
Parasite molecular biology, genomics and bioinformatics
The causes and consequences of programmed cell death
HIV transmission and pathogenesis
matrix metalloproteinases
Microbial communities and infectious disease
cell biology of protozoan parasites
CD8 T cells and NK cells
Understanding bacterial disease pathogenesis
genetics, immunology and pathogenesis of tuberculosis
dysregulated B cell development and signaling, gene therapy
Molecular biology of tumor-inducing herpesviruses
Pathogenesis of Helicobacter pylori stomach infection
high throughput DNA sequencing
tuberculosis biology: virulence and dormancy
role of defensins in antiviral immunity
Innate Immunity
Malaria invasion and pathogenesis
HIV immunity
Innate immune detection of nucleic acids
structural molecular immunology
Trypanosomatid pathogens
Adhesion proteins and molecular biomechanics
genetics and biochemistry of protein folding and function
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
lymphocyte lineage-defining transcription factors
Innate immunity and Listeria pathogensis
HIV-1 controller, vaccine, latent infection
Regulatory T cells/allergic inflammation
