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Research in our lab seeks to understand the means by which the bacterial pathogen Salmonella responds to its environment to express traits necessary for survival and virulence One major research focus describes the cues...

Despite major advances in the fields of microbial pathogenesis and medicinal chemistry, only 2 new chemical classes of antibiotics have been approved in the past 20 years Some infections that were once predictably curabl...

Steering Committee

Ilana Brito uses systems biology approaches to study the transmission of bacterial and genetic components of the human microbiome As an undergraduate at Harvard University, she double majored in Biology and Government Gi...

Interest in bacterial stress pathways, with a special interest in peptidoglycan remodelign in Vibrio cholerae

John Helmann earned bachelor`s degrees in Chemistry and Biology (University of California, Santa Cruz) in 1982 He then joined the Department of Biochemistry at the University of California at Berkeley where he studied ba...

My research is in the epidemiology and public health of infectious and foodborne diseases Depending on the question, research in my computer laboratory may involve a variety of epidemiologic approaches, including mathema...

Sean Nicholson focuses his research in three areas: the value of new medical technologies; innovation in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries; and the causes of regional variations in medical spending Profe...

Joe Peters earned a BS in Biology from Stony Brook University, a PhD in Microbiology from the University of Maryland at College Park and was a post-doctoral fellow at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Pe...

Dr Russell’s laboratory’s research focuses on the interplay between the macrophage and the intracellular pathogens Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) and Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Tuberculosis: The succe...

Dr Westblade received his PhD at the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom in 2002 He then spent five years as a post-doctoral associate at the Rockefeller University He next worked briefly as a research scienti...