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.

Anaerobe-host interactions (Ryan Hunter)
Artificial intelligence and machine learning (Yijun Sun)
Bacteria (Elsa Bou Ghanem; Ryan Hunter)
Bacterial Pathogenesis (Elsa Bou Ghanem; Ryan Hunter)
Bacterial pathogens (Chelsie Armbruster; Ryan Hunter)
Bacterial Pathogens (Chelsie Armbruster; Ryan Hunter)
Bioinformatics and computational biology (Yijun Sun; Ryan Hunter)
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-pathogen interactions (Thomas Russo; Michelle Visser; Ryan Hunter)
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 (Elsa Bou Ghanem)
Innate immunity (Spyridon Stavrou)
Innate Immunology (Elsa Bou Ghanem; Michelle Visser)
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)
Microbial physiology (Ryan Hunter)
Mitochondrial dynamics (Joseph Smith)
Molecular mycology (John Panepinto; Mira Edgerton)
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; Ryan Hunter)
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 (Spyridon Stavrou; Amy Jacobs; Thomas Melendy)