Faculty
Janet Gilsdorf, Co-founder (left) Betsy Foxman, Director (right)
Associate Professor, Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology
Associate Chair, Undergraduate Studies
Research interests include: the dynamic process that allows bacteria to integrate and adapt to their environment.
Assistant Professor, Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases
Assistant Professor, Microbiology & Immunology
Research interests include: The study of bacterial factors that promote colonization and disease with respiratory pathogens.
Associate Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Research interests include: Microbial community genomics, geomicrobiology, and marine microbiology.
Professor Emeritus, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Research interests include: Microbial symbiosis, bioluminescence, and quorum sensing.
Chair, Epidemiology
Research interests include: Infectious disease, transmission modeling, risk assessment, waterborne pathogens, vectorborne disease.
EcoDess: Environmental Change and Diarrheal Disease in Ecuador
Associate Professor, Natural Resources and Environment
Research interests include: Research and teaching in conservation biology and the ecology and evolution of infectious diseases.
Director of MAC-EPID
Hunein F. and Hilda Maassab Endowed Professor of Epidemiology
Research interests include: Molecular epidemiology of acute, chronic recurring infections of multiple etiology affecting primarily women and children; urinary tract infections; candida vaginitis; lactation mastitis, and otitis media.
Associate Director of MAC-EPID
Professor Emeritus, Pediatrics Infectious Diseases
Professor Emeritus, Epidemiology
Research interests include: Haemophilis influenzae pathogenesis, epidmiology of respiratory pathogens in day care, and antigenic diversity of H. influenzae.
Elzada U. Clover Collegiate Professor Emeritus and Chair, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Research interests include: Community ecology, plant ecology.
Assistant Professor, Epidemiology
Research interests include: the areas of infectious disease epidemiology and global health. Her current research focuses on the epidemiologic features and transmission of influenza in Nicaragua.
Professor, Internal Medicine
Professor, Microbiology and Immunology
Associate Director, T32 Multidisciplinary Training in Pulmonary Diseases
Research interests include: Mechanisms of pulmonary immunity to infectious diseases (C. neoformans). Interaction between cryptococcal virulence factors and host defenses in the lungs. Role of TNF and chemokines in pulmonary cell-mediated immunity.
Associate Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and Mathematics
Research interests include: Modeling particular systems, in analyzing particular models, and in developing general methods for modeling and analysis.
Co-director, Center for Systems Biology
Associate Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
Research interests include: Host pathogen interactions during persistent infections.
Robert G. Wetzel Collegiate Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Research interests include: How elements such as carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, and sulfur move through the environment. This research requires study at the scale of the ecosystem, and encompasses physical transport phenomena, geochemical reactions, and the role of organisms in element storate and transformation.
Professor Emeritus, Epidemiology
Research interests include: Transmission system analysis in geographically and socially structured populations for: vaccine trial design, microbial risk assessment for EPA, and design of surveillance systems for CDC.
Professor, Pediatrics Infectious Diseases
Professor, Epidemiology
Research interests include: The molecular epidemiology and taxonomy of Burkholderia cepacia, a significant pathogen among persons with cystic fibrosis. Dr. LiPuma maintains a bacterial repository of B. cepacia complex and other non-fermenting bacterial isolates for the CF clinical research community.
Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering
Research interests include: Biological switching, microbial symbiosis, metabolic modeling and engineering, bioenergy, systems biology, synthetic biology
Professor and Chair of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research interests include: general area of environmental biotechnology
Professor, School of Natural Resources & Environment
Research Affiliate, Population Studies Center
Research interests include: evolutionary biology and its applications to fertility behavior in human and non-human populations. She is currently working on applications of evolutionary psychology to the study of sexual attitudes and behavior in Thailand.
Professor, Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases
Research interests include: Cellular factors which are involved in the activation of human retroviral transcription, gene therapy methods to treat HIV infection and autoimmune diseases, the effect of chemokines on HIV replication, and the mechanism by which the LON protease influences gene expression.
Associate Professor Emeritus, Epidemiology
Research interests include: Molecular epidemiology of Group B Streptococcus and Escherichia coli; Virulence related genetic variation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains; Haemophilus influenzae genes associated with acute otitis media and COPD; Transmission dynamics and antibiotic resistance in Escherichia coli; Antibiotic resistance gene resistance transfer in biofilms; Public health genetics; Molecular epidemiology of oral and vaginal bacteria
Assistant Professor, Epidemiology
Research interests include: Infectious disease epidemiology, specifically focusing on infections with multiple pathogens and in chronic carriage of bacteria or viruses in people without symptoms. Molecular and clinical epidemiology of patients who have dual bacterial infections with MRSA and VRE.
Professor and Chair, Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Research interests include: Bacterial pathogenesis; virulence of uropathogens and Helicobacter pylori
Paul Dirac Collegiate Professor, Physics and Center for the Study of Complex Systems
Research interests include: Networks and graph theory; statistical physics including glassy systems, Monte Carlo methods, and percolation; epidemiology and the structure of contact networks; macroevolutionary theory, space diversity, and extinction.
Paul de Kruif Endowed Professor of Academic Pathology
Department of Pathology
Research Interests include: Innate immunity, host defense against bacterial pathogens, role of the microbiota in pathogen colonization
Altarum/ERIM Russell O'Neal Professor, Environmental Engineering
Research interests include: Biological processes in engineered systems.
Assistant Professor, Epidemiology
Research interests include: biofilm communities and the role of coaggregation and cell-cell signaling in promoting health or disease.
Associate Professor, Microbiology and Immunology
Research interests include: Interplay between humans and the microbes that reside on and within us - the human microbiome.
Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Microbiology and Immunology, and Internal Medicine
Research interests include: the physiology and ecology of microbes. His research is currently focused on two microbial communities: those found in terrestrial environments and are involved in the flux of greenhouse gases, and microbes that constitute mammalian microbiome. A current point of interest is testing the hypotheses that there is a trade-off between growth rate and resource use efficiency.
Professor Emeritus , Economics, Mathematics and Public Policy
Director, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program
Research interests include: Mathematical models of the spread of infection, both at the population and at the cellular level, with special interests in HIV and influenza, in vaccination strategies, and in the effects of contact patterns on transmission.
Professor Emeritus , Epidemiology
Professor Emeritus , Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Research interests include: Analysis of transmission dynamics, the evolution of vector-host-parasite systems, and the determinants of human disease risk.
Associate Professor, Environmental Health Sciences
Research interests include: advanced imaging of biofilm structure and function, and the role of biofilm in infectious diseases and antibiotics resistance
Associate Professor, Epidemiology
Research interests include: The molecular epidemiology and pathogenesis of tuberculosis (TB).
Associate Professor Department of Internal Medicine
Research interests include: Role of bacteria in acute and chronic gastrointestinal (GI) illness. Click here for more information.
Zöellner, Sebastian K, PhD, MS
AssociateProfessor, Biostatistics
Associate Professor, Psychiatry
Research interests include: using genetic data to identify variants that contribute to the risk of common diseases in humans. Understanding the patterns in population genetics data and make inferences about histories of populations.