Faculty Profiles

Armbruster, Chelsie

PhD

Associate Professor

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

Ph.D.

Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Professor

Specialty/Research Focus: Cell Cycle; Cytoskeleton and cell motility; DNA Replication, Recombination and Repair; Eukaryotic Pathogenesis; Gene Expression; Infectious Disease; Microbiology; Mitochondria; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Molecular genetics
Bangs, James

PhD

Grant T. Fisher Professor and Chair of Microbiology & Immunology

Specialty/Research Focus: Eukaryotic Pathogenesis; Microbial Pathogenesis; Microbiology; Molecular and Cellular Biology
Boliar, Saikat

PhD

Assistant Professor

Specialty/Research Focus: Infectious Disease; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Retroviruses; RNA; Translational Research; Viral Pathogenesis; Virology
Bou Ghanem, Elsa

PhD

Associate Professor

Specialty/Research Focus: Ageing; Bacterial Pathogenesis; Immunology; Infectious Disease; Inflammation; Microbial Pathogenesis; Microbiology; Mitochondria; Translational Research; Vaccine Development
Huang, Yolanda

PhD

Assistant Professor

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

Associate Professor

Specialty/Research Focus: Bacterial Pathogenesis; Bioinformatics; Biomedical Informatics; Computational Biology; Genomics and proteomics; Infectious Disease; Microbial Pathogenesis; Microbiology; Molecular genetics; Transcriptomics
Jacobs, Amy

PhD

Research Associate Professor

Specialty/Research Focus: Microbial Pathogenesis; Microbiology; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Protein Function and Structure; Viral Pathogenesis; Virology
Luke-Marshall, Nicole

PhD

M.S. Program Director; Education & Instructional Support

Specialty/Research Focus: Bacterial Pathogenesis; Infectious Disease; Microbial Pathogenesis; Microbiology
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
Smith, Joseph

Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Specialty/Research Focus: Eukaryotic Pathogenesis; Membrane Proteins; Metabolism; Microbial Pathogenesis; Microbiology; Mitochondria; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Molecular Basis of Disease; Protein Function and Structure
Stavrou, Spyridon

PhD

Associate Professor

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

PhD

Professor of Bioinformatics and Associate Director of AI and Health Science

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
Crane, John

MD, PhD

Research Professor HS

Specialty/Research Focus: Bacterial Pathogenesis; DNA Replication, Recombination and Repair; Infectious Disease; Microbial Pathogenesis; Vitamins and Trace Nutrients; Infectious Diseases; Medical Microbiology; Research Lab
Halterman, Marc

MD, PhD FAHA

Research Professor HS

Specialty/Research Focus: Blood-Brain Barrier and Drug Delivery; Brain Research; Brain-Immune System-Gut Axis; Drug Development; Immunology; Inflammation; Molecular Basis of Disease; Neuroscience; Stroke
Hu, John

M.D., Ph.D.

Research Assistant Professor

Specialty/Research Focus: Immunology; Microbiology; Translational Research; Infectious Diseases; Internal Medicine
Kamina, Anyango

Ph.D

Research Assistant Professor

Kenney, Patrick

M.D., M.S.

Research Assistant Prof

Specialty/Research Focus: Bacterial Pathogenesis; Drug Development; Drug Discovery; Global Health; Infectious Disease; Microbiology; Infectious Diseases; Internal Medicine - Pediatrics; Pediatric Infectious Diseases
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
Pili, Roberto

MD

Research Professor

Specialty/Research Focus: Medical Oncology; Oncology
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
Tsuji, Brian, PharmD, FCCP, FCCM, FIDSA