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Faculty

The Department of Microbiology and Immunology is represented by a diverse, yet highly interactive, faculty devoted to excellence in research as well as graduate and medical education. Faculty research is supported by outstanding postdoctoral associates, graduate students and research assistants. Research interests of the faculty are described in the links below.

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Professor and Chair MIIM

Katherine L. Knight, PhD

Professor and Chair

Microbiology & Immunology

Research Interests:

  • B-lymphocyte development and generation of the antibody repertoire.

MIIM Faculty

Prabhodh Abbineni, PhD

Assistant Professor

Microbiology & Immunology

Research Interests:

  • Molecular regulation of the secretory pathway to understand how this pathway modulates intercellular communication innate immunity, and inflammation.

Jonathan Allen, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

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

Microbiology & Immunology

Research Interests:

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

Edward Campbell, PhD

Professor

Microbiology & 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.

Thomas Gallagher, PhD

Professor

Microbiology & Immunology

Research Interests:

  • Molecular Mechanisms of Virus Assembly and Entry.

Alyson M Hockenberry

Assistant Professor

Microbiology & Immunology

Research Interests:

  • Quantitative and systems biology of infectious disease; bacterial pathogenesis

Makio Iwashima, PhD

Professor

Microbiology & Immunology

Research Interests:

  • Cell biology of T cell subsets.

Abby Kroken, PhD

Assistant Professor

Microbiology & Immunology

Research Interests:

  • Host-pathogen interaction at the ocular surface leading to bacterial keratitis.

Bryan C. Mounce, PhD

Bryan Mounce, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Microbiology & Immunology

Mounce Lab

Research Interests:

  • Virus-host interactions at the metabolic interface.

Clodia Osipo, PhD

Professor

Liang Qiao, MD

Professor

Microbiology & Immunology

Research Interests:

  • Innate immunity, mucosal immunity, and vaccine development.

Dorothy K. Sojka, PhD

Assistant Professor

Microbiology & Immunology

Research Interests:

  • Advancing endometrial health to help treat pregnancy complications by targeting resident natural killer cells in the female reproductive tract.

Karen Visick, PhD

Professor

Microbiology & Immunology

Research Interests:

  • Biofilm formation and dispersal in the context of an animal using the Vibrio fischeri-squid mutualism as a model.

Alan J. Wolfe, PhD

Professor

Microbiology & Immunology

Research Interests:

  • Bacterial protein acetylation and the urinary microbiome.

Yee Ling Wu, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Microbiology & Immunology

Research Interests:

  • Immune regulation of antibody generation and genetic diversity of innate immunity in health and diseases.

Mashkoor Choudhry, PhD

Professor

Microbiology & Immunology

Research Interests:

  • Gut immunity and epithelial barrier in response to injury.

Kimberly E. Foreman, PhD

Associate Professor

Phong T. Le, PhD

Professor

Microbiology & Immunology

Research Interests:

  • Biology of human thymic cells

Catherine Putonti, PhD

Professor

Susan L. Uprichard, PhD

Professor

Qun Sophia Zang, PhD

Associate Professor

David Hecht, MD

Professor Emeritus

Herbert L. Mathews, PhD

Professor Emeritus

Richard Schultz, PhD

Professor Emeritus

Pamela Witte, PhD

Professor Emeritus

 

The Department of Microbiology and Immunology is represented by a diverse, yet highly interactive, faculty devoted to excellence in research as well as graduate and medical education. Faculty research is supported by outstanding postdoctoral associates, graduate students and research assistants. Research interests of the faculty are described in the links below.