Primary and Secondary Faculty Members

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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
Wyndham Lathem	lathem@northwestern.edu	Yersinia pestis biology, host-pathogen interactions during primary pneumonic plague
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@northwestern.edu	Immune responses by suppressor T cells; immune modulation by alcohol
Chyung-Ru Wang	chyung-ru-wang@northwestern.edu	TBA
Susan Winandy	s-winandy@northwestern.edu	Transcriptional regulation of T cell development, molecular basis of leukemogenesis
Secondary Faculty
Michael Abecassis	m-abecassis@nmh.org	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 tolerance therapy
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	Focus of the lab is the pathogenesis of urinary tract infections (UTIs), and how neural circuits can induce bladder inflammation by activating the innate immune response.
Robert Lamb	r-lamb@northwestern.edu	Investigating the molecular structure and the mechanism of replication of two enveloped RNA viruses: influenza virus and the paramyxovirus SV5. Both viruses cause diseases in humans and animals, with important biological and socioeconomic consequences.
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