| Boris Belitsky, Ph.D. Assistant Research
Professor, Department of
Molecular Biology and Microbiology. |
| Andrew
Camilli, Ph.D. Professor, Department
of Molecular Biology and Microbiology. Analysis
of host-pathogen interactions; virulence factors
of the human diarrheal pathogen Vibrio cholerae
and respiratory tract pathogen Streptococcus
pneumoniae; regulation of virulence gene expression
during infection. |
| John
Coffin, Ph.D. American Cancer Society Research
Professor, Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology.
Mechanisms of replication, expression, and integration
of retroviruses; mechanism of acquisition of retroviral
oncogenes; molecular biology of carcinogenesis;
structure, genetics and evolution of endogenous
viruses; genetic variation and evolution of retroviruses;
superantigens of endogenous and exogenous retroviruses.
|
| Edward
Goldberg, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Molecular
Biology and Microbiology. Genetic design and biological
fabrication of parts for self-assembly of useful,
functional nanostructures. |
| Ekaterina
Heldwein, Ph.D. Assistant
Professor, Department of Molecular Biology and
Microbiology. Structural and mechanistic studies
of herpesvirus entry into host cells. |
| Ralph
Isberg, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Molecular
Biology and Microbiology and Howard Hughes Medical
Institute Investigator. Analysis of entry and growth
of intracellular bacteria into host cells; molecular
analysis of integrin receptor function; growth and
survival of bacterial pathogens in macrophages. |
| Carol
Kumamoto, Ph.D. Professor, Department
of Molecular Biology and Microbiology; Deputy Director, Graduate
Program in Molecular Microbiology. . Invasive
growth of the fungal pathogen, Candida albicans.
Mechanisms of
antifungal resistance in Candida albicans. |
| Stuart
Levy, M.D. Professor (Joint
Appointment), Departments
of Molecular Biology and Microbiology
and of Medicine.
Molecular, genetic, and biochemical bases for drug
resistance in bacteria and mammalian cells, as
well
as genes involved in the infectious process including
colonization and survival of pseudomonad soil bacteria. |
| Michael
H. Malamy, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Molecular
Biology and Microbiology; Director, Graduate
Program in Molecular Microbiology. Transfer factors, transposons
and conjugal transposons responsible for DNA rearrangements
and dissemination in medically important bacteria;
virulence factors in the anaerobic pathogen Bacteroides
fragilis and in vivo models of infection. |
| Joan
Mecsas, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department
of Molecular Biology and Microbiology. Study of
host-pathogen interactions using the bacterium Yersinia
pseudotuberculosis. |
| Claire
Moore, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Molecular
Biology and Microbiology. Molecular mechanism and
regulation of mRNA 3' end formation in eukaryotic
cells; genetic and biochemical characterization
of factors catalyzing polyadenylation and transcription
termination. |
James Park, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus,
Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology
Mechanisms of biosynthesis and degradation of the
structural component of bacterial cell walls. |
| Debu Raychaudhuri, Ph.D. Assistant
Research Professor, Department
of Molecular Biology and Microbiology. |
| Igor M. Rouzine, Ph.D. Associate
Research Professor, Department
of Molecular Biology and Microbiology. |
| Abraham
L. Sonenshein, Ph.D. Professor and Acting Chair, Department of
Molecular Biology and Microbiology. Regulation of
bacterial differentiation in Bacillus subtilis
and Clostridium difficile; transcriptional
control of carbon and nitrogen metabolism genes;
role of metabolic intermediates in controlling gene
expression; synthesis and secretion of bacterial
toxins and vaccine antigens. |
| Andrew
Wright, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Molecular
Biology and Microbiology. Regulation of DNA replication
and chromosome segregation in Escherichia coli;
mechanisms of bacterial pathogenesis. |
