Microbiology and Immunology
The track leaders, along with their contact information, are:
| Guangming Zhong | zhongg@uthscsa.edu | 210-567-1169 |
| Anthony Infante | infantea@uthscsa.edu | 210-567-0510 |
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AHUJA, Sunil, Medicine-Infectious Diseases, UTHSCSA. Key Words: Role of chemokine and chemokine receptors in immune system development, defense against chronic or infectious diseases, and HIV-1 pathogenesis
BASEMAN, Joel B., Microbiology & Immunology, UTHSCSA. Key Words: Host-mycoplasma interplay; Mechanisms of cytadherence; Invasion; Intracellular persistence; Molecular basis of virulence; Toxin-mediated cytopathology; Gene regulation
BERTON, Michael T., Microbiology & Immunology, UTHSCSA. Key Words: Cytokine and Toll-like receptor signaling; immunity to infection; Francisella tularensis; interleukin-4
BOSE, Santanu, Microbiology & Immunology, UTHSCSA. Key words: Innate immunity against respiratory RNA viruses; virus-host interactions; identification and characterization of anti-viral factors; anti-viral signaling pathways; development of anti-cancer therapeutics with oncolytic viruses
CLARK, Robert E., Medicine-VP for Clinical Research, UTHSCSA. Key Words: Inflammation; phagocytosis; neutrophil; NADPH oxidase (NOX); oxygen radicals; superoxide; signal transduction; transcription; biology of aging; neurodegenerative diseases
COLE, Garry T., Biology, UTSA. Key Words: medical mycology; animal models of mycoses; vaccine development; fungal virulence; transcription profiling; proteomics
CURIEL, Tyler, Med/Hematology & Med Oncology, UTHSCSA. Key Words: Dendritic cell; Regulatory T cell; Chemokines; Tumor immunity; Immune dysfunction
DHANDAYUTHAPANI, Subramanian Microbiology & Immunology, RAHC, UTHSCSA. Key Words: bacteria; tuberculosis; virulence; vaccine; signal transduction; stress response; mycoplasma
DUBE, Peter H., Microbiology & Immunology, UTHSCSA. Key Words: Bacterial host-pathogen interaction in vivo; inflammation; cytokine response; Yersinia; asthma, inflammatory T-cell responses
GAO-Shou-Jiang, Pediatrics, CCRI, UTHSCSA. Key Words: KSHV/HHV8; Kaposi's sarcoma; AIDS-related malignancies; Angiogenesis; Inflammation; microRNA; Herpesvirus; Latency and Reactivation
GIAVEDONI, Luis D., Virology & Immunology, SNPRC, SFBR. Key Words: Innate and adaptive immune responses to vaccines and viral infections; SIV pathogenesis and vaccine development
HALDENWANG, William G., Microbiology & Immunology, UTHSCSA. Key Words: Microbial Genetics; Bacillus; RNA Polymerase; Sporulation; Transcription Regulation; Bacterial Stress Responses; Microbial Development
INFANTE, Anthony J., Pediatrics, UTHSCSA. Key Words: Primary immune deficiency diseases; T-cell receptor repertoire development; immune reconstitution; autoimmune diseases; myasthenia gravis
IZUMI, Kenneth M., Microbiology & Immunology, UTHSCSA. Key Words: Epstein-Barr virus transformation of B-lymphocyte growth; viral oncoprotein signal transduction; nuclear transactivation
KADOSH, David , Microbiology & Immunology, UTHSCSA. Key Words: Candida; Transcription; Filamentous growth; Genomics; Fungus; Morphology; Virulence; Infection
KLOSE, Karl E., Biology, UTSA. Key Words: Molecular mechanisms of Vibrio cholerae and Francisella tularensis pathogenesis; transcription regulation; biodefense and food-borne disease vaccine development
KOLODRUBETZ, David J. , Microbiology & Immunology, UTHSCSA. Key Words: Bacterial genetics; virulence mechanisms in periodontal pathogens; transcriptional regulation; function of microbial surface layer proteins
KRAIG, Ellen B., Cellular & Structural Biology, UTHSCSA. Key Words: Molecular immunology; autoimmunity; bacterial pathogenesis
KROLICK, Keith A., Microbiology & Immunology, UTHSCSA. Key Words: acetylcholine receptor; autoimmune disease susceptibility; IL-4 receptor; iNOS; muscle; muscle fiber type; myasthenia gravis; rat disease model
LANFORD, Robert E., Virology & Immunology, SNPRC, SFBR. Key Words: Molecular biology and pathogenesis hepatitis B virus, and hepatitis C virus
MCMANUS, Linda M., Pathology, UTHSCSA. Key Words: inflammation; tissue regeneration; pathobiology
MELBY, Peter C., Medicine-Infectious Diseases, VA, UTHSCSA. Key Words: Immunopathogenic mechanisms and protective immunity; in leishmaniasis
ORIHUELA, Carlos J., Microbiology & Immunology, UTHSCSA. Key Words: Streptococcus pneumonia; Aging; Pneumonia; Lungs; Virulence; Bacterial pathogenesis
PATTERSON, Jean L., Virology & Immunology, SNPRC, SFBR. Key Words: Molecular Biology of RNA viruses and development of Anthrax therapeutics
TEALE, Judy M., Biology, UTSA. Key Words: Immunobiology, immunology and pathogenesis of neurocysticercosis, immune response to Francisella tularensis
WICKES, Brian L., Microbiology & Immunology, UTHSCSA. Key Words: Medical mycology; Aspergillus Cryptococcus and Candida molecular biology; fungal mating systems; fungal molecular identification
XIANG, Yan, Microbiology & Immunology, UTHSCSA. Key Words: Poxvirus pathogenesis and immune modulation; virus-host interactions; protein structure-function
ZHONG, Guangming, Microbiology & Immunology, UTHSCSA. Key Words: Microbial pathogenesis; microbial interactions with host cells; immunity and microbial immune evasion; diagnosis and vaccine development; Chlamydia trachomatis; Chlamydia pneumoniae
