Secondary Faculty

Research Interests: Newborn SCID screening, primary immunodeficiency therapies, and Mycoplasma-related respiratory disease

Research Interests: Translation termination mechanisms, nonsense-mutation supression therapeutics, NMD regulation, and treatments for CF & MPD I-H

Research Interests: Clinical parasitology, zoonotic parasites, and rapid diagnostic approaches to Mycobacterial infections

Research Interests: Maternal and congenital CMV infections, CMV transmission mechanisms, and CMV-related hearing-loss pathogenesis

Research Interests: B-cell/autoantibody roles in RA, RA genetics in diverse populations, and biomarkers of RA treatment response

Research Interests: Cytomegalovirus pathogenesis, maternal-fetal CMV transmission, CMV vaccines, and virus-host immune interactions

Research Interests: HPV gene expression, replication, pathogenesis, and virus-host interactions in epithelial keratinocytes

Research Interests: Immune-mediated disease genomics, B-cell dysregulation, chronic inflammation pathways, and biomarkers in myeloma/autoimmunity

Research Interests: T-cell regulation in chronic antigen exposure, immune control mechanisms in transplantation, and suppressive T-cell pathways

Research Interests: MDR Acinetobacter and S. pneumoniae pathobiology, microbial surface glycan variation, and epidemiologic drivers of pathogen spread

Research Interests: Host-microbe interactions, microbial regulation of substance-use disorders and cancer, and engineering microbial-based therapeutics

Research Interests: Structural biology of pathogen proteins, protein structure-function in infectious diseases, and molecular targets for vaccines/drugs

Research Interests: Lymphocyte immunobiology, FCRL receptor function, and immune dysregulation in autoimmune and malignant B-cell conditions

Research Interests: B-cell immunity in tuberculosis, antibody-mediated protection, and host-pathogen interactions guiding TB vaccine/therapy design

Research Interests: Mycoplasma genetics and genomics, minimal-genome bacterial biology, and molecular variation informing pathogen typing

Research Interests: Genetic and immune determinants of ANCA-associated vasculitis, host-enviroment interactions, and immunogenetic risk factors

Research Interests: Mucosal immune regulation, microbiota-driven T/B-cell responses, and flagellin- specific immunity in inflammatory bowel disease

Research Interests: Transplantation immunobiology, allograft vascular disease, heme-oxygenase-1 pathways, and immune regulation in heart/kidney injury

Research Interests: Immune-CNS interations, stress-induced immune modulation, tumor-immune regulation, and age-related changes in immune cell function

Research Interests: HIV-specific T-cell immunity, immune correlates of viral control, and vaccine development for HIV and emerging viral infections

Research Interests: STI diagnostics (gonorrhea, chlamydia, syphilis), antimicrobial-resistence surveillance, STD epidemiology, and behavioral/clinical interventions

Research Interests: HIV-1 molecular biology, lentiviral vector engineering, and mechanisms of HIV transmission and early viral replication

Research Interests: Osteoimmunology, early B-cell development, B-cell-bone crosstalk in aging and rheumatic disease, and immunoglobulin repertoire formation

Research Interests: Innate immune-bacterial interactions, polymicrobial respiratory infections, epithelial-microbe crosstalk, and bacterial evolution in CF airways

Research Interests: Immunogenetics of autoimmune disease, immune-cell signaling pathways, and translational mechanisms driving rheumatic disease susceptibility

Research Interests: HIV-1 eradication strategies, molecular control of HIV latency, and drug-discovery approaches targeting persistent infection

Research Interests: Immune self-tolerance mechanisms, effector/regulatory T-cell biology, and immunotherapeutic strategies for CNS tumors and glioma

Research Interests: Host-microbiota interactions, antimicrobial resistance, chromatin/gene-expression dynamics, and mechanobiology-driven determinants of disease

Research Interests: Lupus, arthritis, autoimmune B/T-cell dysregulation, Fas-mediated apoptosis, T-cell senescence, molecular imaging, and antiviral/gene-therapy immune responses

Research Interests: Pneumococcal capsule diversity, vaccine-related serology, and immune mechanisms of streptococcus pneumoniae pathogenesis

Research Interests: congenital cytomegalovirus infection pediatric infections requiring hospitalization 

Research Interests: Respiratory and mucosal immunity, B- and T-cell responses, and mechanisms shaping vaccine-elicited protection against viral infections

Research Interests: Congenital cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection, CMV epidemiology, maternal-fetal transmission, and pediatric antiviral/vaccine studies

Research Interests: B-cell repertoire development, constraints shaping immunoglobulin diversity, and genetic mechanisms underlying primary immunodeficiency

Research Interests: GI infections and inflammation; mucosal immunity; epithelial-immune crosstalk; macrophage/dendritic-cell roles in H. pylori, CMV, HIV, and IBD

Research Interests: Microbiome-spondyloarthritis links; adaptive immunity to gut/ oral microbes; TMJ arthritis in JIA

Research Interests: Host-microbe factors driving airway bacterial colonization and persistence in opportunistic repiratory infections

Research Interests: HIV/AIDS immunogenetics, aging in PLWH, and immune correlates of protection in infectious diseases

Research Interests: Bacterial pathogenicity; how S. pneumoniae and P. aeruginosa sense host cues to regulate virulence and persistence

Research Interests: CD4 T-cell differentiation, Th17 biology, and immune regulation in gut and imflammatory diseases

Research Interests: Translating molecular biology to antiviral therapies, including monoclonal antibodies for herpesviruses and engineered HSV for gene therapy

Research Interests: Cancer pharmacology; therapies for drug-resistant solid tumors; metastasis regulation; personalized tumor-targeted treatments

Research Interests: Cancer immunotherapy; metabolic and immune signaling control of T-cell function; mechanisms driving response and resistence to checkpoint blockade