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
Catherine Brissette
Lyme disease, spirochetes, bacterial pathogenesis
Colin Combs
Senior Advisor
Project Leaders
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
Shahram Solaymani-Mohammadi
Immunology/Mucosal Immunology/Gut Immunology/Mucosal inflammation Microbiome/Infectious
Diseases/Parasitology Host-Pathogen Interaction/Vaccine Development
Research Core Directors
Bryon Grove
Image and Imaging Center Core Supervisor
David Bradley
Flow Cytometry Core Supervisor
Shahram Solaymani-Mohammadi
Immunology/Mucosal Immunology/Gut Immunology/Mucosal inflammation Microbiome/Infectious
Diseases/Parasitology Host-Pathogen Interaction/Vaccine Development
Masfique Mehedi
Respiratory syncytial virus, Ebola virus, host-pathogen interactions, cytoskeletal
dynamics, virus cell-to-cell spread, Ebola virus RNA editing, antiviral therapeutics
Computational modeling of diabetic neuropathy, high-throughput genomic data analysis in neurological disorders, biomedical literature mining,systems pharmacology modeling of drug adverse event
Pilot Grant Awardees
2018-2019
- Kumi Combs
- Suba Nookala
- James Porter
2017-2018
- Xuesong Chen
- Min Wu
- James Porter
- Matthew Nilles