Department Chair
David A. Leib, PhD
Chair and Professor
Pathogenesis of herpes simplex virus (HSV)
Faculty
Jennifer M. Bomberger, PhD
Professor
Viral-bacterial co-infections and innate immunity in the respiratory tract
James B Bliska, BS, PhD
Professor
Bacterial effectors and pathogen-leukocyte interactions
David Bzik, PhD
Professor
Parasite biology, Immunity, Cancer Immunotherapy
Robert A Cramer, PhD, MSC
Professor and Vice Chair
Fungal Pathogenesis and Host Interactions
Steven Fiering, PhD
Professor
Tumor immunotherapy
Felicia Goodrum, PhD
Professor
Complex interaction between DNA viruses and their host
Deborah A. Hogan, PhD
Professor
Bacterial and fungal pathogenesis
Yina H. Huang, PhD
Professor and Vice Chair
T cell migration and activation, Cancer Immunology
Claudia V. Jakubzick, PhD
Professor
Myeloid cell biology: Innate and Adaptive Immunity
Chen Liao, PhD
Assistant Professor
Gut microbiome, computational metabolomics, and machine learning
George A. O'Toole, PhD
Professor
Microbial biofilms
Joshua J. Obar, PhD
Professor
Influenza A virus and Aspergillus fumigatus
Patricia A. Pioli, PhD
Associate Professor
Autoimmune disease and cancer
Pamela C. Rosato, PhD
Assistant Professor
T cell responses to viruses and cancer
Benjamin D. Ross, PhD
Associate Professor
Interbacterial interactions among the gut microbiota
Sladjana Skopelja-Gardner, PhD
Assistant Professor
Lupus skin disease, innate immune responses, skin injury, kidney injury, autoimmunity
Daniel Schultz, PhD
Associate Professor
Evolution of antibiotic resistance in bacteria
Charles Sentman, PhD
Professor
Immunotherapy and innate immunity
Bruce A. Stanton, PhD
Professor
Host pathogen interactions in epithelial cells
Mary Jo Turk, PhD
Professor
Tumor Immunology
Edward J. Usherwood, PhD
Professor
T cell immune surveillance to viruses and cancer
Affiliated Faculty
Margie Ackerman, PhD
Protein engineering and vaccine technology
Alix Ashare, MD, PhD
Lung macrophages
Tyler Curiel, MD, MPH
Advancing the Frontiers of Cancer Immunotherapy Research
Francesca Gilli, MS, PhD
Neuroinflammation in neurodegenerative diseases
Anne G. Hoen, PhD
Development of the microbiome in infants and children
Alexandra L. Howell, PhD
HIV infection
Caitlin H Kowalski, PhD
How skin-resident fungi interact with the host and other microbes.
Carey D. Nadell, PhD
Population and community dynamics of microbial biofilm collectives
Rahul Sarpeshkar, PhD
Synthetic analog and digital biological circuits
Jarrod Smith, PhD
Host-microbe symbiosis
Li Song, PhD
Designing algorithms and developing computational methods to analyze sequencing data
Mark S. Sundrud, PhD
Intestinal immune regulation and inflammation
Michael E. Zegans, MD
Bacterial biofilm formation and ocular infection
Emeritus Faculty
Ambrose Cheung, MD
Emeritus
William Green, PhD
Emeritus
Paul Guyre, PhD
Emeritus
Nicholas Jacobs, PhD
Emeritus
Randolph Noelle, PhD
Emeritus
William Rigby, MD
Emeritus
Paula Sundstrom, PhD
Emeritus
Charles Wira, PhD
Emeritus