Host-Pathogen Researchers
Principal Investigators
David Bradley
Immunogenetic as well as immunopathogenic events in relapsing polychondritis; Role
of microbial agents in susceptibility/resistance to the onset of arthritis
Colin Combs
Neuroimmune interactions during aging and neurodegenerative diseases
Project Leaders
Catherine Brissette
Lyme disease, spirochetes, bacterial pathogenesis.
Nadeem Khan
Respiratory bacterial-viral co-infection, Streptococcus pneumoniae (pneumococcus)
colonization and pathogenesis, innate and adaptive type 17 immunity, natural immunity
to pneumococcal colonization, vaccine development.
Masfique Mehedi
Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) - host interactions: by delineating the mechanism
of filopodia-driven RSV cell-to-cell spread, novel insights into RSV biology and targets
for therapeutics development will be identified.
Bibhuti Mishra
Immunology, Mounting an Immune Response and Myeloid cell Activation, Neuro-immunology,
Epigenetic mechanisms in regulation of inflammation, Role of epigenetics in inflammation-associated/autoimmune
diseases, Parasitology, Sjögren's syndrome.
Research Core Directors
Bryon Grove
Image and Imaging Center Core Supervisor
David Bradley
Flow Cytometry Core Supervisor
Colin Combs
Histology Core Supervisor
Min Wu
Human Tissue Core Supervisor
Pilot Grant Awardees
2018-2019
- Kumi Combs
- Suba Nookala
- James Porter
2017-2018
- Xuesong Chen
- Min Wu
- James Porter
- Matthew Nilles