Members

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
Bou Ghanem, Elsa

PhD

Associate Professor

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

MD, PhD

Professor of Medicine; Adjunct Professor of Micro & Immunol. and of Pharmacol & Tox.

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

PhD

Research Associate Professor

Specialty/Research Focus: Anesthesiology; Anti-Viral Therapy; Immunology; Infectious Disease; Inflammation; Lipidic Delivery Systems; Microbial Pathogenesis; Models - cell and animal; Critical Care Medicine; Nanoparticles; Drug Delivery; Drug Formulation; RNA; Vaccine Development; Viral Pathogenesis; Virology; Immunoassays; Infectious Diseases; Inflammation; Nanoparticles; Research Lab; Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine; Targeted Drug Delivery; Translational Research
Falls, Zackary

PhD

Assistant Professor

Specialty/Research Focus: Artificial Intelligence; Bioinformatics; Biomedical Informatics; Clinical Informatics; Computational Biology; Computational Chemistry; Computational Drug Discovery; Drug Design; Drug Discovery; Proteomics; Translational Research
Specialty/Research Focus: Autoimmunity; Cell growth, differentiation and development; Gene Expression; Immunology; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Molecular genetics; Signal Transduction; Transcription and Translation; Transgenic organisms
Gulick, Andrew

PhD

Professor

Specialty/Research Focus: Bacterial Pathogenesis; Infectious Disease; Metalloenzymes; Microbial Pathogenesis; Microbiology; Protein Function and Structure; Structural Biology
Hicar, Mark

MD, PhD, FPIDS, FIDSA

Associate Professor; Chief, Pediatric Infectious Diseases; Program Director, Pediatric Infectious Diseases Fellowship

Specialty/Research Focus: Immunology; Infectious Disease; Monoclonal Antibodies; Retroviruses; Vaccine Development; Kawasaki Disease; Pediatric Infectious Diseases; Pediatrics
Hu, John

M.D., Ph.D.

Clinical Assistant Professor

Specialty/Research Focus: Immunology; Microbiology; Translational Research; Infectious Diseases; Internal Medicine
Huang, Yolanda

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
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
Kay, Jason

Associate Professor

Specialty/Research Focus: Apoptosis and cell death; Image Processing and Analysis; Immunology; Inflammation; Lipid Homeostasis; Microbial Pathogenesis; Microbiology; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Molecular Basis of Disease; Oral Biology; Signal Transduction; Oral Biology
Kramer, Jill

DDS, PhD

Associate professor

Specialty/Research Focus: Oral Biology; Oral Biology; Oral Pathology; Oral/Maxillofacial Pathology
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
Morse, Eugene

PharmD

SUNY Distinguished Professor, Division of Clinical and Translational Therapeutics

Specialty/Research Focus: Board Certified Pharmacotherapy Specialist (BCPS)
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
Reynolds, Jessica

PhD

Associate Professor

Specialty/Research Focus: Immunology; Infectious Disease; Neurobiology; Neuropharmacology; Viral Pathogenesis; Virology
Ruhl, Stefan

Professor and Department Chair

Specialty/Research Focus: Oral Biology; Pediatric Dentistry; Periodontics
Russo, Thomas

MD

SUNY Distinguished Professor; Professor and Chief, Infectious Disease

Specialty/Research Focus: Infectious Disease; Microbial Pathogenesis
Samudrala, Ram

PhD

Professor and Chief, Division of Bioinformatics

Specialty/Research Focus: Artificial Intelligence; Bioinformatics; Biomedical Informatics; Biophysical Modeling; Computational Biology; Computational Chemistry; Computational Drug Discovery; Drug Design; Drug Development; Drug Discovery; Genomics and proteomics; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Nanotechnology; Protein Folding; Protein Function and Structure; Proteomics; Structural Biology; Translational Research
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
Surtees, Jennifer

PhD

Professor; Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education and STEM Outreach

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
Sutton, Mark

PhD

Professor

Specialty/Research Focus: DNA Replication, Recombination and Repair; Gene Expression; Genome Integrity; Microbiology; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Protein Function and Structure; Signal Transduction
Craig Brackett.
Paul Cullen.

Cullen, Paul

PhD

Professor

Specialty/Research Focus: Yeast Genetics, Microbiology, Cell Signaling, Cell Polarity, Rho GTPases, MAPK Pathways, Mucins

pjcullen@buffalo.edu

Dey-Rao, Rama

Ashlee Ford Versypt PhD.

Ford Versypt, Ashlee

PhD

Associate Professor

Specialty/Research Focus: Quantitative Systems Pharmacology; Infectious Disease; Inflammation; Pulmonary Medicine; Drug Delivery; Immunology; Computational Biology; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Biophysical Modeling

ashleefv@buffalo.edu

Stephen J. Free.

Free, Stephen J.

PhD

Research Professor

Michael Russell.

Russell, Michael

PhD

Professor

Specialty/Research Focus: Mucosal immunology; immunity to Neisseria gonorrhoeae; gonococcal vaccine development; mucosal immunity to COVID.

russellm@buffalo.edu