Norbert K. Herzog, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Pathology and Microbiology & Immunology
Molecular biology of cellular signal transduction in viral pathogenesis using proteomics; antivirals.

Erich Hoffmann, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Microbiology & Immunology

Clifford W. Houston, Ph.D.
Professor
Herman Barnett Distinguished Professor, Microbiology & Immunology
Associate Vice President for Educational Outreach and Diversity
Aeromonas hydrophila; cytotoxic enterotoxin.

Thomas K. Hughes, Jr., Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus, Microbiology & Immunology
Vice Chair for Education, Microbiology & Immunology
Program Director, Graduate Program in Microbiology & Immunology
Cytokine mechanisms of action; neuroimmunoendocrinology.

Gary R. Klimpel, Ph.D
Professor, Microbiology & Immunology
Innate and adaptive immune responses to different bacterial pathogens; leptospirosis; bioterrorist agents such as Franceisella tularensis; bacterial pathogenesis.

Rolf König, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director, Microbiology & Immunology
Molecular and cellular mechanisms of T-cell activation and differentiation; signal transduction in T cells leading to activation or apoptosis; functional genomics of inflammation and autoimmune diseases; antitumor and biodefense vaccinology.

James Le Duc, Ph.D.
Professor, Microbiology and Immunology
Robert E. Shope Chair in Global Health
Director, Program on Global Health
Institute for Human Infections and Immunity
Associate Director, Galveston National Laboratory
Mechanisms and overwintering of arthropod-borne viruses, as well as the natural hosts and epidemiology of hantaviruses.

Stanley M. Lemon, M.D.
Director, Institute for Human Infections & Immunity
Professor, Microbiology & Immunology and Internal Medicine
Molecular mechanisms involved with replication of positive-strand RNA viruses and the pathogenesis of human hepatitis viruses, particularly hepatitis C virus; antiviral drug development; mechanisms of immune evasion of hepatitis C virus.

Michael Lett-Brown, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Internal Medicine and Microbiology & Immunology
New sources of IL-4 in allergic/immune reactions.

Dorothy Lewis, Ph.D.
Professor, Internal Medicine and Microbiology &Immunology

Shinji Makino, D.V.M., Ph.D.
Professor, Microbiology & Immunology
Molecular virology and pathogenesis of SARS coronavirus and Rift Valley fever virus.

Annette Martin, Ph.D.
Adjunct Associate Professor, Microbiology & Immunology
Hepatitis A; hepatitis C; picornaviruses.

Peter Mason, Ph.D.
Professor, Pathology and Microbiology & Immunology
Flavivirus (West Nile virus and dengue virus) and picornavirus (foot-and-mouth disease virus); pathogenesis and control.

Jere McBride, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Pathology and Microbiology & Immunology
Obligate intracellular bacteria; pathobiology; immunity; molecular pathogenesis; vaccine development and diagnostics.

Michael McGinnis, Ph.D.
Professor, Pathology and Microbiology & Immunology and Dermatology
Molecular evolution and taxonomy of fungi

Terry McNearney, M.D.
Associate Professor, Neuroscience - Cell Biology, Internal Medicine and Microbiology & Immunology
Viral interference of host immunosurveillance; autoimmunity; contribution of neurotransmitters to generation and persistence of inflammatory arthropathies; outcome studies in systemic sclerosis.

Gregg N. Milligan, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Pediatrics and Microbiology & Immunology
Viral immunology; immunity to herpes simplex virus; neuroimmunology; mucosal immunology.

John Morrill, Ph.D., D.V.M.
Visiting Professor, Microbiology & Immunology
Viral pathogenesis - Rift Valley fever virus

Vladimir Motin, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Pathology and Microbiology & Immunology
Yersinia pestis pathogenesis; vaccine; therapeutics

Joan Nichols, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Internal Medicine and Microbiology & Immunology
Viral pathogenesis and influence of aging on host response to pathogens (immunosenescence) and development of human model systems using tissue engineering.

David W. Niesel, Ph.D.
Chair
Professor, Microbiology & Immunology
J.P. Saunders Professor in Graduate Biomedical Sciences
Vice Dean, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
In vivo virulence gene expression; bacterial pathogenesis; functional genomics.