Immunology Faculty
Program Director
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Genetic analysis of signal-transduction pathways regulating B lymphocyte development and function
Faculty
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Tumor immunology, molecular engineering, radiation and immune responses, gastrointestinal cancers
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Lung cancer microenvironment, immunotherapy
Professor
Research Interests: Molecular mechanisms for the pathogenesis of skin diseases.
Regental Professor
Research Interests: The role of cytokines in the inflammatory response, forward genetic analysis of immunity
Professor
Research Interests:Postnatal development of the immune system; paracrine crosstalk between immune and epithelial cell using human organoids
Professor
Research Interests: Molecular control of inflammatory responses in the intestine, inflammation and cancer progression, regulation of NF-kB activity, COMM.D. proteins
Professor
Research Interests: Ubiquitin-proteasome pathway; NF-kappaβ signaling; innate immunity; T-cell receptor signaling
Professor
Research Interests: Somatic diversification of antigen receptor genes; repertoire characteristics as biomarkers of immune status and disease; host-pathogen interactions
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Molecular immunology; signal transduction; regulation of T-cell differentiation and cytokine gene expression
Assistant Professor
Research Interests:Innate immunity, mucosal immunology, immunometabolism, post-translational regulation, long noncoding RNA's, inflammatory diseases, infectious diseases
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Host-pathogen interactions, genetic conflicts, positive selection​, genome evolution, innate immunity, evolutionary immunology, horizontal gene transfer, poxviruses, mutation, genetic disease, genomics
Tamia Harris-Tryon, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Skin microbiome; sebaceous gland biology; lipidomics; skin steroid hormones; bacterial metabolism
Professor
Research Interests: Host-microbial interactions; mucosal immunology
Professor
- Koh Lab
Research Interests: Host-microbial interactions; bacterial-fungal interactions in the gut; the role of antibiotics in modulating infection and graft-versus-host disease
Assistant Professor
Research Interests:Host-Microbe interactions, mucosal immunology, fungal immunology, inflammatory diseases
Professor
Research Interests: Transplant tolerance; regulation of macrophage function; ontogeny of macrophage function and its implications for self/nonself discrimination and autoimmunity; mechanisms of renal allograft rejections
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Antibody effector runctions,antibody glycosylation, host microbial interactions, humoral immunity, tuberculosis
Panagiotis Mastorakos, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Cerebrovascular disease, stroke, subarachnoid hemorrhage, subdural hemorrhage, immune response, innate immunity
Professor
Research Interests: Translational research on the autoimmune disease multiple sclerosis (MS). Specifically, focused on the impact of B cells on MS and the mouse model of MS (Experimental Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis)
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Lymphocyte quiescence Calcium homeostasis, Autoimmunity, Lymphoproliferative diseases, Cell competition
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Neuro-Immune interactions, Intestinal Neural Circuits, Host-Microbial interactions
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Host-pathogen interactions, virology, immunology, norovirus, CRISPR/Cas9 screening
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Innate immunity, metabolism, transcriptional regulation, immunometabolism, disease tolerance
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Inflammation, tumor immunology, ubiquitionan, T cell differentation, tolerance
Kartik Rajagopalan, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Influenza, COVID, Leptin, Adipose
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Breast cancer, Immunotherapy, Innate Immunity, Translational Immuno-oncology
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Co-infection, herpes viruses, host-pathogen interaction, immunology, virology
Hans-Christian Reinecker, M.D.
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Schlafen family proteins, immune responses by Sensor Stimulator of Interferon Genes (STING), cancer immunotherapy, Inflammatory Bowel Diseases
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Immunology, microbiology, host-pathogen interactions, molecular mechanisms of immune surveillance, and inflammation
Professor
Research Interests: Virus-host interactions and viral pathogenesis, antiviral immune responses, interferon effector mechanisms
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Innate immune response to intracellular pathogens, microbial pathogenesis, mucosal immunology, mycobacterium tuberculosis, and role of carbon monoxide (CO) in host-pathogen interactions
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Mendelian, Genetics, Allergy, Glycosylation, Autophagy, Metabolism
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Forward genetics, Mucosal immunology, Host-microbe interactions, Innate immunity, Vesicle trafficking
Professor
Research Interests: Inborn errors of immunity: From discovery to restoration
Professor
Research Interests: Innate immune recognition of HIV and other retroviruses; innate immune sensing of self versus non-self nucleic acids; pathogenesis of autoimmune diseases such as Aicardi-Goutieres syndrome and lupus
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: T cell differentiation and function, anti-viral immune response and anti-tumor immunity
Associate Professor
Research Interests: NOD-like receptors; innate immune signaling pathways; host-pathogen interaction; intestinal inflammation and cancer
Chengcheng (Alec) Zhang, Ph.D.
Professor
Research Interests: Signaling and function of immune inhibitory receptors in cancer and immunity; novel immunotherapies targeting cancers and tumor microenvironment.
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Inflammation, innate immunity, mitochondrial signaling pathways and tumor immunology
Associate Members
These faculty members do not accept graduate students. They participate in teaching, co-mentoring, exam and dissertation committees, and all other program responsibilities.
Jaehyuk (Jae) Choi, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor
Research Interests: Skin cancer, Skin immunology, Cancer immunology, Autoimmune diseases, Immunotherapy
Professor
Research Interests: Function of class II molecules of the major histocompatibility complex, including antigen presentation and its role in autoimmune disease; role of complement receptors in B-cell activation and presentation of soluble antigens
Professor
Research Interests: Alzheimer’s disease and genetic neurological disease
Professor
Research Interests: Experimental therapies for autoimmune disorders, Immune tolerance, Molecular and cellular markers of autoimmunity
Edward K. (Ward) Wakeland, Ph.D.
Professor
Research Interests: Genetic variability in the immune system, molecular genetics of susceptibility to autoimmune diseases