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Faculty & Post Doc List

Faculty:

Atasoy, Ulus X., (Surgery, MMI, Child Health) Assistant Professor - Posttranscriptional gene regulation and microarray analysis in asthma, breast cancer and recurrent hernia formation.

Bennett, Karen, (MMI) Associate Professor - Developmental and molecular biology of nemotodes, Ascaris suum, Caenorhabditis elegans, and Ascaris lumbricoides.

Braley-Mullen, Helen, (MMI, Medicine) Professor - Regulation of immune response, autoimmune disease, cellular immunology.

Brown, Charles R., (Vet Path, MMI) Associate Professor - Host response to infectious disease.

Burke, Donald H., (MMI, Biochemistry) Associate Professor - Antiviral RNAs, aptamers, and HIV-1 gene therapy; Mechanism and evolution of catalysis by ribozymes, and origin of life.

Calcutt, Michael J., (Vet Path, MMI) Assistant Professor - Molecular biology of mycoplasmas.

Cannon, John F., (MMI) Associate Professor - Genetics of Saccharomyces cerevisiae; Role of protein phosphatase in all cell cycle regulation.

Daniels, Mark A., (MMI, Surgery) Assistant Professor - T cell development and activation.

Duan, Dongsheng, (MMI) Associate Professor - Application of recombinant adeno-associated virus (rAAV) in muscle gene therapy.

Fang, Deyu, (Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, MMI), Assistant Professor - The molecular mechanisms of autoimmunity.

Fritsche, Kevin L., (Animal Sciences, MMI), Associate Professor - Dietary fat effects on host immunity, with emphasis on omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (n-3 PUFA), cytokines, interferon - gamma receptors, arachidonic acid metabolism, eicosanoids and vitamin E.

Hahm, Bumsuk, (Surgery, MMI) Assistant Professor - Interplay between viruses and host immunity.

Johnson, Marc C., (MMI) Assistant Professor - Focuses on three model retroviruses: human immunodeficiency virus HIV, murine leukemia virus MLV, and Rous sarcoma virus RSV.

Lee, David R., (MMI) Associate Professor - Major histocompatiblity complex antigen presentation, effect of differential Toll-like receptor activation of human dendritic cells and the subsequent effect on human T cell differentiation, human immune responses to influenza virus.

Lorson, Christian L., (Vet Path, MMI) Associate Professor - Molecular basis of spinal muscular atrophy; RNA processing; gene therapy.

McIntosh, Mark A., (MMI) Chair, Professor - Iron-mediated regulation of gene expression; bacterial membrane transport processes using energy-driven receptors; molecular biology of mycoplasmas.

McKarns, Susan C., (Surgery, MMI) Assistant Professor - TGF-b signaling in maintaining peripheral tolerance and regulating immune responses.

Misfeldt, Michael L., (MMI) Professor - Innate immunity; Toll-like receptors (TLRs).

Pintel, David J., (MMI) Professor - Analysis of eukaryotic gene expression using parvovirus model systems.

Sarafianos, Stefan,,(MMI) Assistant Professor - Molecular mechanisms of drug resistance and inhibition of HIV, SARS, and other viral and bacterial pathogens.

Stacey, Gary, (Plant Micro and Pathology, MMI) Professor - Microbial-host interactions. Specific interests include host response to pathogen associated molecular patterns (PAMPs), signal transduction, microbial genetics, plant-symbiont interactions.

Teixeiro-Pernas, Emma, (MMI, Surgery) Assistant professor - Regulation of T cell immune responses against infections and tumors.

Wall, Judy D., (Biochemistry, MMI) Professor - Genetics of uranium reduction by sulfate-reducing bacteria.

Ye, Shui Q., (Surgery, MMI) Professor - Omics and Bioinformatics Approaches in the identification of biochemical and genetical biomarkers in cardiopulmonary diseases.

Zaghouani, Habib, (MMI) Professor - T cells in Immunity and Autoimmunity.

Emeritus Faculty:

Engley, Frank B. Jr., (email) (MMI) Professor Emeritus

Finkelstein, Richard A., (MMI) Curator's Professor Emeritus

Goldberg, Herbert S., (email) (MMI) Professor Emeritus

Wise, Kim S., (MMI) Professor Emeritus - Variation, function and architecture of membrane surface proteins; genomic and post-genomic analysis of mycoplasmas.

Teaching Faculty:

Thai, Louise, (email) (MMI) Resident Instruction Associate Professor, MD

Research Assistant Faculty:

Chance, Deborah, (email) (MMI, Child Health) Research Assistant Professor

Chen, Zi-Jiang, (email) (MMI) Research Assistant Professor

Post-Docs: