Research Opportunities
Our trainees like Andrea Alfaro Chacon participate in a diverse array of research opportunities.
You will work with top researchers in the field. You may contribute to discoveries related to gene expression, signal transduction, mucosal immunology, tumorigenesis and microbial pathogenesis.
- Artificial intelligence and machine learning (Yijun Sun)
- Bacteria (Elsa Bou Ghanem)
- Bacterial Pathogenesis (Elsa Bou Ghanem)
- Bacterial pathogens (Chelsie Armbruster)
- Bioinformatics and computational biology (Yijun Sun)
- Bioinformatics: sequencing, genomes, metagenomes, 16S, fitness analysis (Yolanda Huang)
- Calcium-dependent signaling (Gustavo Arrizabalaga)
- Cell and Molecular Biology (Techung Lee; Gustavo Arrizabalaga)
- Cell intrinsic immunity (Spyridon Stavrou)
- Drug target discovery (John Panepinto)
- Functional genomics: DNA barcoding, high-throughput fitness assays (Yolanda Huang)
- Gut anaerobes: genetics, biochemistry (Yolanda Huang)
- Gut microbiota: anaerobes, Bacteroidales, phages, bacteria-phage interactions (Yolanda Huang)
- Host cellular factors (Spyridon Stavrou)
- Host-directed therapeutic strategies for HIV-1 (Saikat Boliar)
- Host-pathogens interactions (Spyridon Stavrou)
- Immune Regulation and Wound Repair (Elizabeth Wohlfert)
- Immune Senescence (Elsa Bou Ghanem)
- Immunobiology (Elizabeth Wohlfert)
- Immunoparasitology (Elizabeth Wohlfert)
- In vivo models of infection (Spyridon Stavrou)
- Inflammation (Ding Xu; Elsa Bou Ghanem)
- Innate immunity (Brahm Segal; Spyridon Stavrou)
- Innate Immunology (Michelle Visser; Elsa Bou Ghanem)
- Kinases and phosphatases (Gustavo Arrizabalaga)
- Kinetoplastid parasites: Trypanosoma brucei, Trypanosoma cruzi (Joseph Smith)
- Life cycle progression: parasite signaling, parasite differentiation (Joseph Smith)
- Membrane contact sites (Gustavo Arrizabalaga)
- Metabolite carrier proteins (MCPs) (Joseph Smith)
- Microbial pathogenesis (Amy Jacobs; Thomas Melendy; Thomas Russo; John Crane)
- Mitochondrial dynamics (Joseph Smith)
- Molecular mycology (Mira Edgerton; John Panepinto)
- Molecular parasitology (James Bangs; Gustavo Arrizabalaga)
- Molecular Parasitology (James Bangs; Gustavo Arrizabalaga)
- Molecular virology (Amy Jacobs; Thomas Melendy)
- Molecular virology and viral pathogenesis: HIV-1 replication and latency, HIV-1 persistence in tissue-resident alveolar macrophages (Saikat Boliar)
- Motility (Chelsie Armbruster; Jad Bou-Abdallah)
- Mucosal immunology (Elizabeth Wohlfert)
- Parasite (Gustavo Arrizabalaga)
- Parasite-specific regulatory kinases: RDK1 and RDK2 (Joseph Smith)
- Polymicrobial infections (Chelsie Armbruster)
- Protein biochemistry: metabolism, stress tolerance, colonization factors (Yolanda Huang)
- Retroviruses (Spyridon Stavrou)
- RNA Biochemistry (John Panepinto)
- RNA biology: Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) as host-dependency factors in HIV-1 infection (Saikat Boliar)
- Transgenic mice (Spyridon Stavrou)
- Urease (Chelsie Armbruster)
- Urinary tract infection (Chelsie Armbruster)
- Vaccine Responses (Elsa Bou Ghanem)
- Viral immunopathogenesis: HIV-1 infection and innate immunity (Saikat Boliar)
- Viral pathogenesis (Amy Jacobs; Thomas Melendy; Spyridon Stavrou)