Collaborations

One of our major goals is to continue developing productive collaborations among our center’s members.

Currently, members of the Witebsky Center for Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunology are working together on projects including:

Screening for human papillomavirus in nasal polyp tissues

Richard B. Bankert, PhD, professor of microbiology and immunology
Thomas Melendy, PhD, associate professor of microbiology and immunology and biochemistry

Analyzing the role of A. baumannii surface polysaccharides in virulence

Anthony A. Campagnari, PhD, professor of microbiology and immunology and medicine
Thomas A. Russo, MD, professor of medicine and chief of the Division of Infectious Disease

The effect of Cryptococcus neoformans capsule on HIV entry

Amy Jacobs, PhD, research associate professor of microbiology and immunology
John C. Panepinto, PhD, associate professor of microbiology and immunology

Influenza and secondary bacterial pneumonia; pathogenesis of aspiration pneumonitis

Paul R. Knight III, MD, PhD, UB Distinguished Professor in the departments of Anesthesiology and Microbiology and Immunology
Thomas A. Russo, MD, professor of medicine and chief of the Division of Infectious Disease

Evaluating adjuvant activities and mechanisms of enterobacterial heat-labile enterotoxins including cholera toxin and E. coli type II enterotoxins

Michael W. Russell, PhD, professor emeritus
Terry D. Connell, PhD, professor of microbiology and immunology

Role of arginine methylation in the function a novel trypanosome RNA binding protein

Laurie K. Read, PhD, professor of microbiology and immunology
Noreen Williams, PhD, professor of microbiology and immunology