Thomas Albrecht, Ph.D.
Professor, Microbiology & Immunology and Director, Infectious Disease and Toxicology Optical Imaging Core, Cellular and molecular pathogenesis of herpesviruses; signal transduction; regulation of viral and cellular gene expression; cell-cycle perturbation; induction of cellular damage.

Judith Aronson, M.D.
Professor, Pathology, Director of Autopsy Service and Microbiology & Immunology Inaugural holder of the L. Clarke Stout, Jr., Professorship in Anatomic Pathology
Arenavirus pathogenesis.

Samuel Baron, M.D.
Professor Emeritus, Microbiology & Immunology and Internal Medicine
Interferon action; innate immunity; HIV; smallpox.

Alan D.T. Barrett, Ph.D.
Professor, Pathology and Microbiology & Immunology
Molecular genetics of flaviviruses; bunyaviruses; tropical virus diseases; vaccine development.

Michael Beard, Ph.D.
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Microbiology & Immunology
Molecular biology of positive-strand RNA viruses, hepatitis C virus, picornaviruses

David Beasley, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Microbiology & Immunology
Molecular basis of virulence variations between West Nile virus (WNV) strains; flaviviruses, arboviruses and smallpox.

Abdelhakim Ben Nasr, Ph.D.
Instructor, Microbiology & Immunology
Francisella Tularensis and leptospira spp with the human innateimmune system

Istvan Boldogh, D.M & B., Ph.D.
Professor, Microbiology & Immunology
Oxidative stress, mitochondrial abnormalities in inflammation, and aging processes.

Nigel Bourne, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Pediatrics and Microbiology & Immunology
Genital herpes; hepatitis C virus; vaccines and antiviral agents.

Gavin Bowick, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor, Pathology and Microbiology & Immunology
Comparative molecular pathogenesis of emerging virus infections.

Antonella Casola, M.D.
Associate Professor, Pediatrics and Microbiology & Immunology
RSV, hMPV.

Teh-sheng Chan, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor, Microbiology & Immunology
Transgenic mouse model for hepatitis C; asthma research using a mouse model; gene therapy.

Sadhana Chauhan, Ph.D.
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Microbiology & Immunology
Microbial degradation of halogenated and aromatic compounds; protein secretion in Y. pestis; development of a multiple locus variable number tandem repeat (MLVA) analysis to reveal the ecology and the evolution of B. anthracis; Y. pestis virulence

Ashok K. Chopra, Ph.D., C.Sc.
Professor, Microbiology & Immunology
Virulence gene regulation; pathogenic mechanisms; cell signaling; vaccine development; inflammation.

Premkumar Christadoss, M.D.
Professor, Microbiology & Immunology
Autoimmunity; cellular and molecular mechanisms of immunopathogenesis; new therapy for autoimmune diseases, i.e., myasthenia gravis.

Miles W. Cloyd, Ph.D.
Professor, Microbiology & Immunology and Pathology
Biological, genetic, and molecular mechanisms of HIV and mouse leukemia virus pathogenesis.

Dorian Coppenhaver, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Microbiology & Immunology
Antimicrobial host defenses; nutrition in cancer and infection; molecular evolution.

Robert Couch, M.D.
Adjunct Visiting Scientist, Chair of Microbiology & Immunology at Baylor College of Medicine