Dennis A. Bente, DVM, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Pathogenesis and transmission of tick‐borne hemorrhagic fever viruses; BSL-4; hemorrhagic fevers; animal models; tick vector biology; host‐vector‐virus interaction
Trevor Brasel, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Study Director, Regulated Studies, Institutional Office of Regulated Nonclinical Studies
Istvan Boldogh, DM&B, PhD
Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Director, Tissue Culture Core Facility
Oxidative stress; mitochondrial abnormalities in inflammation; aging processes
Ashok K. Chopra, PhD, CSc
Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology
John S. Dunn Distinguished Chair in Global Health
Assistant Director, Microbiology & Immunology Graduate Program
Virulence gene regulation; pathogenic mechanisms; cell signaling; vaccine development; inflammation
Imran Chowdhury, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Jason E. Comer, PhD
Associate Professor, Department
of Microbiology and Immunology
Study Director, Institutional Office of Regulated Nonclinical Studies
Yingzi Cong, PhD
Samuel Baron Distinguished Professor
Professor, Departments of Microbiology & Immunology and Pathology
Director, Germ-Free Mouse Facility
Mucosal immunology; host-microbiota interaction at mucosal surface; pathogenesis of inflammatory bowel diseases
Robert Cross, PhD, MPH
Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology
and Immunology
Viral hemorrhagic fever biology and pathogenesis; molecular and classical virology; drug and vaccine development
Laura Dickson, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Tonyia D Eaves-Pyles, PhD
Associate
Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Pathogenic bacteria and their products induce innate immune response in the human host
Janice Endsley, PhD
Professor, Department of Microbiology
& Immunology
Associate Dean for Student Affairs ad interim, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
TB and TB/HIV co-infection; cell mediated immunity; signal transduction
Mark Endsley, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Matthieu G. Gagnon, PhD
Assistant Professor,
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Structural studies of protein synthesis; ribosome structure and function; ribosome-binding factors; antibiotics; antibiotic resistance mechanisms; X-ray crystallography; cryo-electron microscopy
Nisha Garg, PhD
Professor, Departments
of Microbiology & Immunology and Pathology
Franklin Fellow of the US Department of State / US Agency for International Development
Oxidative response networks and inflammation in chagasic cardiomyopathy; vaccine efficacy against T. cruzi and Chagas disease; Strategies for the elimination of tropical infectious diseases
Thomas W. Geisbert, PhD
Professor, Department
of Microbiology & Immunology
Ebola virus; Marburg virus; Lassa virus; Nipah virus; Hendra virus; nonhuman primate models; pathogenesis; vaccines; therapeutics
Maria Giraldo, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Matthew Huante, PhD
Instructor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Yashoda M. Hosakote, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology
and Immunology
Molecular biology; biotechnology; virology
Haitao Hu, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology
& Immunology
Director, Flow Cytometry and Cell Sorting Core Lab
HIV/AIDS, Emerging viruses, Host-virus interactions, Antiviral Immunity, Epigenetics
Ruksana Huda, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department
of Microbiology & Immunology
Molecular immunology; therapy for autoimmune disease
Gary Kobinger, PhD, OM, MSC
Director, Galveston National Laboratory
Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology And Immunology
John Sealy Distinguished University Chair in Tropical and Emerging Virology
William S. Lawrence, PhD
Associate Professor,
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Director, Aerobiology Division Manager
James LeDuc, PhD
Adjunct Professor, Department of Microbiology
& Immunology
Global health; biodefense and biosecurity; epidemiology of infectious diseases
Sunhee Lee, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology
& Immunology
Host-pathogen interactions during Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection, TB pathogenesis, Bruli ulcer, drug-resistant TB, TB vaccine development, Nontuberculous mycobacteria
Yuejin Liang, PhD
Assistant Professor,
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Shinji Makino, DVM, PhD
Professor, Department
of Microbiology & Immunology
Molecular virology and pathogenesis of SARS coronavirus and Rift Valley fever virus
Vineet D. Menachery, PhD
Assistant Professor,
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Coronaviruses; systems biology; aging; immunology; genetics; SARS-CoV; MERS-CoV; viral emergence
Chad E. Mire, PhD
Adjunct Associate Professor, Department
of Microbiology & Immunology
Associate Director, GNL BSL-4 Core B
David W. Niesel, PhD
Adjunct Professor, Department
of Microbiology & Immunology
Kenneth Plante, PhD
Assistant Professor,
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Ricardo Rajsbaum, PhD
Adjunct Associate Professor,
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Innate immunity to virus infection (Influenza and other viruses); Pattern recognition receptor signaling and E3-ubiquitin ligases in antiviral responses; Antagonism of innate immune response by viruses
Jian Sha, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology
& Immunology
Bacterial pathogens such as Aeromonas, Salmonella, and Yersinia
Parimal Samir, PhD
Assistant Professor, Departments of Microbiology & Immunology
Stress granules, inflammasomes, programmed cell death, systems biology, liquid-liquid phase separation, innate immune system
Lynn Soong, MD, PhD
Professor, Departments of Microbiology
& Immunology and Pathology
Director, Microbiology & Immunology Graduate Program
Protective immunity and pathogenesis of intracellular pathogens; Dendritic cell-pathogen interactions; T cell priming; Cytokines/Chemokines; Vaccine development
Jiaren Sun, MD, PhD
Professor, Department of Microbiology
& Immunology
Protective immunity and pathogenesis of hepatitis C virus infection
Keer Sun, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of
Microbiology & Immunology
Kaori Terasaki, DVM, PhD
Assistant
Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Rift Valley fever; phleboviruses
Alfredo Torres, PhD, MS
Herman Barnett Distinguished
Professor, Departments of Microbiology & Immunology and Pathology
Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion for the Academic Enterprise
Diarrheal pathogens; mechanisms of bacterial pathogenesis; biodefense-related microorganisms
Chien-Te (Kent) Tseng, PhD
Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Virology and viral immunology - Ebola virus; Rift Valley Fever; Hantavirus; Nipah virus; Hepatitis C; SARS
Tian (Tina) Wang, PhD
Professor, Department
of Microbiology & Immunology
Flavivirus; West Nile encephalitis; immunity; vaccine; antiviral agents
Scott Weaver, PhD
Chair, Department of Microbiology
& Immunology
Director, Institute for Human Infections and Immunity
Scientific Director, Galveston National Laboratory
Professor, Departments of Microbiology & Immunology and Pathology
Ecology, epidemiology, evolution, and pathogenesis of arboviral diseases; antiviral and vaccine development
Suxia Yao, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology
and Immunology
Analysis of unique murine models of inflammatory bowel disease
MinKyung Yi, PhD
Professor, Department of Microbiology
& Immunology
Molecular biology of hepatitis C virus; virus-host interactions related to HCC (hepatocellular carcinoma) and metabolic diseases