Microbiology and Immunology
Microbiology and Immunology offers opportunities for original research in the areas of molecular and applied microbiology, biotechnology, cell and developmental biology, epigenetics, geomicrobiology, molecular biology, molecular genetics, molecular immunology, microbial ecology, microbial pathogenesis, and virology.
Faculty Members
| Name | Research Interests |
|---|---|
| Abraham, Ninan | Mammals, pathogens, genetic analysis, proper cell funtion, development, maintenance and proper functioning of T- and B-cells |
| Av-Gay, Yossef | Infectious Diseases; Microbiology; drug discovery; Macrophage biology; Tuberculosis |
| Beatty, John | Bacteria; Molecular Genetics; Regulation; Molecular Structure and Sizing; Gene transfer mediated by virus-like particles; Light-driven reactions in photosynthesis proteins; Applications of photosynthesis proteins to solar energy |
| Brown, Kelly | Diseases of the Immune System; Immune Mediators: Cytokines and Chemokines; Cell Signaling and Infectious and Immune Diseases; childhood rheumatic diseases; phagocytes |
| Crowe, Sean | Geobiology, biogeochemistry, microbial evolution |
| Eltis, Lindsay | Microbiology; Enzymes and Proteins; Metabolism (Living Organisms); Bacterial catabolism of steroids and lignin; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; biocatalyst development |
| Fernandez, Rachel | Bordetella pertusis, whooping cough, lipopolysaccharide |
| Finlay, B Brett | Infectious agents, bacteria, microbial infections and how humans react to it |
| Gantt, Soren | cytomegalovirus, Burkitt’s lymphoma, Cytomegalovirus, epstein-barr virus, herpes simplex virus, congenital infection, newborn infection, Burkitt |
| Gaynor, Erin | Molecular mechanisms of pathogenesis, foodborne human pathogen, Campylobacter jejuni |
| Gold, Michael | understanding cell signaling, morphology, trafficking, and effector function of immune cells and tumour cells |
| Hallam, Steven | methanogenesis, methane oxidation, methyl coenzyme M reductase, metagenomics, environmental microbiology, genomics, proteomics, microbial ecology, systems biology, archaea, energy, bioinformatics, Microbial communities, construction and interpretation of environmental genomic libraries, generation of computational tools and workflows for taxonomic and functional binning, population genome assembly, and comparative community analysis, development and functional screens to interrogate environmental genomic libraries for bioactive small molecules and biocatalysis |
| Hancock, Robert E | Cationic Antimicrobial Peptides, Host Defence Peptides and Innate Immunity, Functional Genomics of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Regulation of Antibiotic Resistance, Array Data, Self-promoted uptake hypothesis |
| Haney, Cara | genetic and metabolic factors that regulate assembly of host-associated microbial communities ( |
| Harder, Kenneth | Host-pathogen, tumours, infection, immunity, atherosclerosis, role of macrophages in inflammation |
| Hirst, Martin | Carcinogenesis; Leukemia; Cellular Differentiation; Bioinformatics; Genomics; Molecular Genetics; Epigenomics |
| Horwitz, Marc | Mechanisms of viral-induced immune disease in a variety of complex chronic disorders |
| Jean, Francois | Medical virology; Protein trafficking in cell biology; Proteomics; Enzymes (including kinetics and mechanisms, and biocatalyst); Organelle function; Virology; Systems biology; Cellular virology; Emerging human viruses; COVID-19; Host-virus interactions; Broad-based antiviral agents; Antiviral agents; Natural products as antiviral agents; Lipid-modulating drugs; Cellular protease inhibitors; Viral protease inhibitors; Human coronaviruses; SARS-CoV-2; Human flaviviruses; Dengue virus; Zika virus; West Nile virus; Influenza A virus; Human microRNAs; Therapeutic microRNA; Viral and cellular biomarkers; Molecular diagnostics for detecting viral infection; Circulating exosomes; Exosomal microRNAs; Proteomics-based technologies; Multiplexed and Mass Spectrometric quantitation assays |
| Jefferies, Wilfred Arthur | Iron transport molecules |
| Johnson, Pauline | Diseases of the Immune System; Immunology; Inflammation; Immune-cancer interactions; Innate immunity; Macrophages and myeloid cells |
| Kronstad, James | Microbiology; Molecular Genetics; Genomics and Proteomics; Pathogenesis of infectious diseases; Medical Mycology; Plant-Microbe Interactions; Fungal diseases of plants |
| Levings, Megan | Immune homeostasis |
| Manges, Amee | Epidemiology; Molecular epidemiology; Public health |
| McMaster, W Robert | Molecular Immunology |
| Mohn, William | pollutant biodegradation, pollutant bioremediation, biological treatment of forest industry effluents and wastes, microbial ecology, environmental biotechnology, forest soil microbial ecology, tuberculosis, microbial genomics, Microbial ecology |
| Murphy, Michael | Microbiology; Functional and Structural Proteomics; Biological and Biochemical Mechanisms; Microbial metal metabolism; Bacterial pathogenesis; Alternatives to antibiotics |
| Osborne, Lisa | influence that the bacteria that live on and in our intestines, lungs and skin have on human health; understanding how the host recognizes the diverse species that reside in the gut - from microscopic viruses to large, multicellular helminthic worms - and tailors an immune response of the appropriate scope and magnitude necessary to achieve homeostasis |
| Redfield, Rosemary | Microbial evolution |
| Reiner, Neil | Host/Pathogen Interactions, host defense against intracellular infection and how intracellular microbes disrupt cellular functions to favor their survival |
| Sadarangani, Manish | Microbiology; Bacteria; Immune System; Epidemiology; Vaccine Development; Bacterial Vaccines; Vaccine immunity; Childhood infections |
| Sly, Laura | Childhood Diseases; Macrophages; Inflammatory bowel diseases; Inflammation; Innate immune responses |
| Steiner, Theodore | Cell Signaling and Infectious and Immune Diseases; Cell Therapy of Infectious and Immune Diseases; Gastrointestinal Pathologies; Infectious Diseases; intestinal immunology; Innate immunity; gastrointestinal infections |
| Suttle, Curtis | Marine Environment; Microbial Diversity; Marine Microbiology; Environmental Virology; Biological Oceanography; Viral Discovery; Viruses; Phage |
| Thompson, Charles | Regulation of bacterial gene expression |
| Tocheva, Elitza | Microbiology; Biological and Biochemical Mechanisms; Functional and Structural Proteomics; Microbial Ultrastructure; Cryo-electron tomography and Structural Biology; bacterial physiology; Microbial Diversity; Secretion systems and Mechanisms of pathogenesis; Novel bacterial phyla |
| Tropini, Carolina | Bacteria; Biological and Biochemical Mechanisms; Bioinformatics; Microbiology; Gut microbiota; Bacteriophages; Bioengineering; Biophysics; Inflammatory bowel disease |
| Turvey, Stuart | Immune System; Asthma; Immunodeficiencies; Microbiome cohort studies; Primary Immune Deficiencies; Precision Medicine |
