Faculty Profiles

Armbruster, Chelsie

PhD

Associate Professor

Specialty/Research Focus: Ageing; Bacterial Pathogenesis; Infectious Disease; Microbial Pathogenesis; Microbiology; Translational Research; Urinary Tract Infection
Bangs, James

PhD

Grant T. Fisher Professor and Chair of Microbiology & Immunology

Specialty/Research Focus: Eukaryotic Pathogenesis; Microbial Pathogenesis; Microbiology; Molecular and Cellular Biology
Blader, Ira

PhD

Professor

Specialty/Research Focus: Eukaryotic Pathogenesis; Immunology; Infectious Disease; Microbial Pathogenesis; Microbiology; Molecular Basis of Disease; Signal Transduction; Vision science
Bou Ghanem, Elsa

PhD

Assistant Professor

Specialty/Research Focus: Bacterial Pathogenesis; Immunology; Infectious Disease; Microbial Pathogenesis
Huang, Yolanda Yue

PhD

Assistant Professor

Specialty/Research Focus: Bioinformatics; Genome-wide Screening; Metabolism; Microbial Pathogenesis; Microbiology; Molecular genetics; Protein Function and Structure; Genomics; Infectious Diseases; Mass Spectrometry
Jacobs, Amy

PhD

Research Associate Professor

Specialty/Research Focus: Microbial Pathogenesis; Microbiology; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Protein Function and Structure; Viral Pathogenesis; Virology
Melendy, Thomas

PhD

Associate Professor of Microbiology & Immunology, and Biochemistry

Specialty/Research Focus: DNA Replication, Recombination and Repair; Drug Discovery; Emergent Pathogens; Genome Integrity; Infectious Disease; Microbiology; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Molecular genetics; Virology
Panepinto, John

PhD

Professor, Senior Associate Dean for Biomedical Education

Specialty/Research Focus: Eukaryotic Pathogenesis; Gene Expression; Infectious Disease; Microbial Pathogenesis; Microbiology; RNA; Signal Transduction
Read, Laurie

PhD

Professor

Specialty/Research Focus: Eukaryotic Pathogenesis; Gene Expression; Genomics and proteomics; Infectious Disease; Microbial Pathogenesis; Microbiology; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Molecular genetics; Protein Function and Structure; RNA
Stavrou, Spyridon

PhD

Assistant Professor

Specialty/Research Focus: Infectious Disease; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Transgenic organisms; Viral Pathogenesis; Virology
Sun, Yijun

PhD

Professor of Bioinformatics

Specialty/Research Focus: Artificial Intelligence; Bioinformatics; Biomedical Informatics; Computational Biology; Gene Expression

Collaborating Faculty

Berenson, Charles

MD

Research Associate Professor HS

Specialty/Research Focus: Immunology; Infectious Disease
Hu, John

M.D., Ph.D.

Research Assistant Professor

Specialty/Research Focus: Emergent Pathogens; Immunology; Infectious Disease; Inflammation; Microbial Pathogenesis; Microbiology; Models - cell and animal; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Translational Research; Vaccine Development; Infectious Diseases
Kamina, Anyango

Ph.D

Research Assistant Professor

Lesse, Alan

MD

Research Associate Professor HS

Specialty/Research Focus: Infectious Disease; Microbial Pathogenesis
Murphy, Timothy

MD

Professor of Microbiology

Specialty/Research Focus: Infectious Disease
Russo, Thomas

MD

Research Professor

Specialty/Research Focus: Infectious Disease; Microbial Pathogenesis
Sinha, Animesh

MD, PhD

Professor

Specialty/Research Focus: Autoimmunity; Gene Expression; Genomics and proteomics; Immunology; Dermatology
Surtees, Jennifer

PhD

Research Associate Professor

Specialty/Research Focus: Cell Cycle; Community Based Participatory Research; DNA Replication, Recombination and Repair; Genome Integrity; Genomics and proteomics; Infectious Disease; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Molecular genetics; Protein Function and Structure; Public Health; Team Science; Viral Pathogenesis

Volunteer Faculty

Kay, Jason, PHD
Kramer, Jill, DDS, PhD
Ruhl, Stefan, PHD