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Faculty Members With Primary Appointments To The Department of Microbiology-Immunology

Faculty Member

E-mail

Research Interests

Melissa Brown

m-brown12@

northwestern.edu

Interleukin 4 (IL-4) gene regulation in mast cells and T cells, the role of mast cells in protective and pathological immune responces

Nick Cianciotto

n-cianciotto@

northwestern.edu

Molecular pathogenesis, Legionella pneumophila, Legionnaires' disease

Alan Hauser

ahauser@

northwestern.edu

Pseudomonas aeruginosa type III secretion system in virulence

Geoffrey Kansas

gsk@

northwestern.edu

Selectins in leukocyte adhesion and migration

Byung Kim

bskim@

northwestern.edu

Antigen processing, T-cell activation, viral immunity, viral disease

Lou Laimins

l-laimins@

northwestern.edu

Cancer biology and gene expression

Jonathan Leis

j-leis@

northwestern.edu

Mechanisms of Retrovirus Replication

Richard Longnecker

r-longnecker@

northwestern.edu

Epstein-Barr virus transformation, latency, and entry

Stephen Miller

s-d-miller@

northwestern.edu

Immunoregulation of T-cell immune responses

Kathleen Rundell

krundell@

northwestern.edu

Genetics of DNA tumor viruses

Karla Satchell

k-satchell@

northwestern.edu

Molecular pathogenesis of Vibrio cholerae; structure/function studies of the Vibrio RTX toxin

Hank Seifert

h-seifert@

northwestern.edu

Bacterial pathogenesis, DNA recombination mechanisms, epithelial cell adherence

Greg Smith

g-smith3@

northwestern.edu

Cell biology of herpesvirus transport and neuronal spread

Patricia Spear

p-spear@

northwestern.edu

Molecular mechanisms of herpevirus infections, viral entry

Bayar Thimmapaya

b-thimmapaya@

northwestern.edu

Transcription factors, genetics, cancer, metastasis, adenovirus, E1A

Carl Waltenbaugh

waltenbaugh@

northwesterrn.edu

Immune responses by suppressor T cells; immune modulation by alcohol

Susan Winandy

s-winandy@

northwestern.edu

Transcriptional regulation of T cell development, molecular basis of leukemogenesis

Secondary Faculty

Michael Abecassis

m-abecassis@

northwestern.edu

Molecular mechanisms of cytomegalovirus latency and reactivation.

Terry Barrett

tabarrett@

northwestern.edu

Inflammation-induced changes in intestinal epithelial stem cell behavior (Wnt/beta-catenin signaling) and inflammation-induced colon cancer, and the regulation of T cell recruitment to sites of intestinal inflammation

Syamal Datta

skd257@

northwestern.edu

Molecular mechanisms of systemic autoimmunity and tolerence therapy

David Dean

dean@

northwestern.edu

C  Disease applications include vascular proliferative diseases, corneal inflammation, asthma, and acute lung injury

Dave Engman

d-engman@

northwestern.edu

Tropical infectious diseases, autoimmune heart diseases

Kasturi Haldar

k-haldar@

northwestern.edu

Cell biology of host-pathogen interactions

Mary Hummel

m-hummel@

northwestern.edu

Molecular mechanisms which allow cytomegalovirus to establish latent infection in the host and the factors that induce reactivation of the virus from latency

William Karpus

w-karpus@

northwestern.edu

Chemokine regulation of lymphocyte trafficking in autoimmune diseases

David Klumpp

d-klumpp@northwestern.edu

Robert Lamb

ralamb@northwestern.edu

Anne Rowley

a-rowley@northwestern.edu

Etiology, pathogenesis, and immunology of Kawasaki Disease

Paul Stein

p-stein2@northwestern.edu

Signal transduction in regulating lymphocyte activation and development; NKT cell development

Research Faculty

Masato Ikeda

m-ikeda2@

northwestern.edu

Molecular mechanisms of Epstein-Barr virus latency   

Elizabeth Stohl

e-stohl@

northwestern.edu

Aspects of the pathogenesis of Neisseria gonorhoeae (Gc). Mechanisms by which Gc survives oxidative damage that it encounters during human infection, and DNA recombination and repair in both Gc and Eacherichiavoli 

Deb Tobiason

d-tobiason@

northwestern.edu

Bacterial genetics and pathogenesis, DNA replication and cell division in Neisseria

Miri Yoon

miriyoon@

northwestern.edu