Department of Pathology

Research Interests

My research focuses on the characterization of mutations made in the envelope protein of West Nile virus, and their role in pathogensis.

Research Interests

My research focuses of the molecular mechanisms of innate immune evasion of Severe Fever with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome virus (SFTS virus) as well as the innate immune evasion of other arthropod-borne viruses.

McLaughlin Scholar
Research Interests

I am interested in the role of yellow fever virus structural proteins in virulence and the molecular determinants of attenuation of the yellow fever vaccine strain 17D.

McLaughlin Scholar
Research Interests

My research will focus on genetic determinants of pathogenesis for hemorrhagic arenaviruses, with a focus on live attenuated vaccine development.

Research Interests

I am interested in Rift Valley Fever virus MP-12 vaccine with silent mutation markers for reassortment and recombination analyses between RVFV strains and other bunyaviruses.

Research Interests

My research is focused on the pathogenesis of pathogenic arenavirus infections utilizing animal models and the interaction between pathogenic arenavirus and the host innate immune response.

McLaughlin Scholar

Research Interests

My research is focused on the molecular mechanisms of lung inflammation during tuberculosis and HIV co-infection.

Research Interersts

My interests are focused on neuropathogenesis of viral infections. I am focusing my research on neurotropic flaviviruses, specifically tick-borne encephalitis virus.

Presidential Scholar
Research Interests

My research is focused on understanding how the obligately intracellular bacterium, Ehrlichia chaffeensis, exploits evolutionary host cell signaling pathways to enter and evade innate host defenses of the mononuclear phagocyte. 

McLaughlin Scholar
Research Interests

My research focuses on filovirus replication and transcription. Effects of the innate immune response and viral interferon antagonism on filovirus polymerase function. Comparative immunology of pteropoid fruit bats in the context of filovirus infection.

Presidential Scholar
Research Interests

My research is focused on the pathogenesis and sequelae of hemorrhagic arenavirus infections as well as the development of live attenuated vaccine candidates.

Research Interests

I am interested in determinants of attenuation in flaviviruses, particularly in regards for use in live attenuated vaccines.

Presidential Scholar
Research Interests

My research will focus on Immune response to Orientia tsutsugamushi. I am interested in novel immune cell signaling pathways that regulate inflammation during infection with pathogens.

Presidential Scholar
Research Interests

I am interested in the evolution of the virus within and between hosts and the effect of the viral diversity that drives this evolution within the host.