Faculty

Susan Uprichard, PhD

InDIRI Co-Director
Professor
Department of Medicine, Hepatology
Department of Microbiology & Immunology

Research Interests: Development of experimental model systems to elucidate critical viral-host interactions, the molecular mechanisms of viral spread, and optimize antiviral treatment response

Nina Clark, MD

InDIRI Co-Director
Professor
Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases

Research Interests: Novel antimicrobials. Infections in solid and hematopoietic cell transplant recipients.

Bryan Mounce, Ph.D.

InDIRI Graduate Program Director
Associate Professor
Department of Microbiology & Immunology

Research Interests: Virus-host interactions at the metabolic interface
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Prabhodh Abbineni, PhD

Assistant Professor
Department of Microbiology & Immunology

Research Interests: Molecular regulation of the secretory pathway to understand how this pathway modulates intercellular communication innate immunity, and inflammation

Fritzie Albarillo, MD

Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Disease

Research Interests: Novel antimicrobials. Infections in solid and hematopoietic cell transplant recipients. Appropriate use of antimicrobials and impact of stewardship. Urinary microbiome studies.

Jonathan Allen, PhD

Assistant Professor
Department of Microbiology & Immunology

Research Interests: Molecular mechanisms by which the opportunistic pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa is able to cause severe and invasive infections.

Susan C. Baker, PhD

Professor
Department of Microbiology and Immunology

Research Interests: Study how viruses replicate and cause disease,. Identifying and characterizing viral proteins that modulate host response to infection

Pauline Camacho, MD, FACE

Professor
Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism

Research Interests: Osteoporosis. Metabolic diseases including vitamin D deficiency, primary hyperparathyroidism and calcium and mineral disorders.

Edward Campbell, PhD

Professor and Chair
Department of Microbiology and Immunology

Research Interests: Cellular factors promoting or inhibiting HIV-1 infection; prion-like spread of amyloid proteins in neurodegenerative diseases; the role of inflammation in disease pathogenesis.

Abdullah, Chahin, MD, MA, MS

Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases

Research Interests: Clinical outcomes of sepsis Immune modulators and pathogenesis of sepsis

Mashkoor Choudhry, PhD

Professor
Department of Microbiology & Immunology

Research Interests: Gut immunity and epithelial barrier in response to injury

James Cook, MD

Professor
Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases

Research Interests: Adenovirus interactions with the host innate immune response. Anthrax immunopathogenesis and drug discovery for biowarfare agents.

Daniel F. Dilling, MD, FACP, FCCP, FAASM

Associate Professor
Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine

Research Interests: Advance and rare lung diseases and lung transplantation. Immune responses to melanocyte-associated antigens involved in lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM)

Thomas Gallagher, PhD

Professor
Department of Microbiology & Immunology

Research Interests: Molecular mechanisms of virus assembly and entry.

Gopal Gupta, MD

Professor
Department of Urology, Surgery and Radiology`

Research Interests: Diagnosis and treatment of prostate and bladder cancer.

Justin Harbison, PhD

Assistant Professor
Department of Public Health Sciences

Research Interests: Assessing measures to control mosquitoes and ticks and the diseases they spread .

David Hecht, MD

Professor
Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases

Research Interests: DNA transfer, antibiotic resistance, and virulence factors of pathogenic bacteria Mechanisms by which Bacteroides fragilis causes serious infections and acquires resistance to antimicrobial agents

Alyson M Hockenberry, Assistant Professor, Microbiology & Immunology

Alyson Hockenberry, PhD

Assistant Professor
Department of Microbiology and Immunology

Research Interests: Quantitative and systems biology of infectious disease; bacterial pathogenesis

Karthik Hullahalli

Assistant Professor
Department of Microbiology and Immunology

Research Interests: Host-microbe interactions in bacterial infection

Makio Iwashima PhD

Professor
Department of Microbiology and Immunology

Research Interests: Immunological tolerance and memory; their mechanisms and clinical applications

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James (Hong-Long) Ji, MD, PhD

Professor
Department of Surgery

Research Interests: profiling host and microbial protein signatures in the lung to identify new endotypes, regenerative signaling pathways, biomarkers in extracellular vesicles (exosomes), and host-pathogen interaction in the specimens of septic ARDS (acute respiratory distress syndrome), COVID-19, and sarcoidosis.

Stuart Johnson, MD

Professor
Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases

Research Interests: Clinical and translational studies of Clostridioides difficile colitis

Katherine L. Knight, PhD

Professor
Department of Microbiology & Immunology

Research Interests: Host-microbe interaction that affect the immune system; Trained immunity

Abby Kroken, PhD

Assistant Professor
Microbiology & Immunology

Research Interests: Host-pathogen interaction at the ocular surface leading to bacterial keratitis.

Phong T. Le, PhD

Professor
Department of Microbiology & Immunology

Research Interests: Biology of human thymic epithelial cells (TECs)

Rochella Ostrowski, MD, MSCR

Professor
Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology

Research Interests: Autoimmune rheumatologic disorders including Sjogren syndrome, lupus, giant cell arteritis, sarcoidosis and interstitial lung disease

Susan Pacheco, MD

Associate Professor
Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases

Research Interests: Research Interests: Clostridioides difficile colitis Prevention and treatment of healthcare-associated infections Antimicrobial stewardship

Jorge Parada, MD, MPH, FACP, FIDSA

Professor
Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases Parkinson School of Health Sciences and Public Health, Department of Public Health

Research Interests: Research Interests: Prevention and treatment of healthcare-associated infections Quality improvement and mitigation of CLABSI, CAUTI, C diff, and MDROs. Outbreak investigations