C. J. Peters, M.D.
Professor, Microbiology & Immunology and Pathology
Virology and viral immunology - Ebola virus; Rift Valley Fever; Hantavirus; Nipah virus.

Silvia S. Pierangeli, Ph.D.
Professor, Internal Medicine and Microbiology & Immunology
Pathogenic mechanisms of antiphospholipid antibodies in antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) and in lupus; new targeted therapies for APS.

Johnny W. Peterson, Ph.D.
Samuel Baron Distinguished Professor, Microbiology & Immunology
Toxins; inflammation; molecular pathogenesis of bacterial infections of the intestine; therapeutics against diarrheal disease and anthrax.

Richard Pyles, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Pediatrics and Microbiology & Immunology
Scientist, Sealy Center for Vaccine Development.
Herpesvirology; molecular virology; viral pathogenesis; innate immunology of mucosa.

Krishna Rajarathnam, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and Microbiology & Immunology
Sealy Center for Structural Biology and Physiology and Biophysics
Structural biology of chemokine and chemokine receptors; inflammation; protein therapeutics.

Cristiana Rastellini, M.D.
Professor, Surgery and Microbiology & Immunology

Victor Reyes, Ph.D.
Professor, Pediatrics and Microbiology & Immunology
Antigen processing; T-cell presentation; mucosal immunity; H. pylori, inflammatory bowel disease, gastric cancer, peptic ulcer disease.

René Rijnbrand, Ph.D.
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Microbiology & Immunology (Research)
Structure and function of the hepatitis C virus internal ribosome entry segment.

Gautam Sahu, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Microbiology & Immunology
Mechanisms of HIV-persistence during HAART

Catherine Schein, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, HBC&G and Microbiology & Immunology

Jian Sha, M.D.
Assistant Professor, Microbiology & Immunology

Edward Sherwood, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor, Anesthesiology and Microbiology & Immunology
Immunological alterations; Immunosuppression; Inflammation.

Chiaho Shih, Ph.D.
Professor, Pathology and Microbiology & Immunology
Molecular virology and pathogenesis of human hepatitis B virus and hepatoma; vaccine development for tropical infectious agents.

Eric M. Smith, Ph.D.
Professor, Psychiatry and Microbiology & Immunology
Psychoneuroimmunology; immune and neuroendocrine systems; hormone production in immune responses.

Lynn Soong, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor, Microbiology & Immunology and Pathology
Protective immunity and pathogenesis of intracellular pathogens; Dendritic cell-pathogen interactions; T cell priming; Cytokines/Chemokines; Vaccine development.

Lawrence R. Stanberry, M.D., Ph.D.
Adjunct Professor, Pediatrics and Microbiology & Immunology
Herpes simplex virus pathogenesis and control; prophylactic and therapeutic vaccines.

Jiaren Sun, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Microbiology & Immunology
Protective immunity and pathogenesis of hepatitis C virus infection.

Sanjiv Sur, M.D.
Professor, Internal Medicine, Allergy, Asthma and Microbiology & Immunology
Allergic sensitization and asthma using molecular biology tools; role of genes in asthma.

Robert B. Tesh, M.D.
George Dock Distinguished Professor, Pathology and Microbiology & Immunology
Epidemiology of arthropod-borne and other zoonotic viral diseases.

Alfredo Torres, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Microbiology & Immunology and Pathology
Diarrheal pathogens, mechanisms of bacterial pathogenesis, biodefense-related microorganisms.

Chien-Te Kent Tseng, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Microbiology & Immunology
Virology and viral immunology - Ebola virus; Rift Valley Fever; Hantavirus; Nipah virus; Hepatitis C; SARS

Stephen Tyring, M.D., Ph.D.
Adjunct Professor, Microbiology & Immunology
Herpes simplex virus pathogenesis and control; prophylactic and therapeutic vaccines, HIV

Michael P. Underbrink, M.D., M.B.A.
Assistant Professor, Otolaryngology and Microbiology & Immunology
Human Papillomavirus (HPV)

Joseph M. Vinetz, M.D.
Adjunct Associate Professor, Center for Tropical Diseases, Pathology and Microbiology & Immunology
Malaria and Leptospirosis

David H. Walker, M.D.
Carmage and Martha Walls Distinguished Chair in Tropical Diseases;
Director, WHO Collaborating Center for Tropical Diseases
Professor and Chair, Pathology and Microbiology & Immunology
Immunity to and pathogenesis of arthropod-transmitted obligate intracellular bacterial infections (Rickettsia and Ehrlichia).

Pramila Walpita, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Microbiology & Immunology, Pathology
Vaccine development for paramyxoviruses.

Tian (Tina) Wang, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Microbiology & Immunology
Flavivirus, West Nile Encephalitis, Immunity, Vaccines and anti viral agents

David A. Watson, Ph.D.
Adjunct Professor, Microbiology & Immunology
Host responses to natural infection and to vaccination; virulence factors; dissemination of antibiotic resistance; streptococci.

Scott Weaver, Ph.D.
Professor, Pathology and Microbiology & Immunology
Ecology, epidemiology, evolution, and pathogenesis of arboviral diseases; antiviral and vaccine development.

MinKyung Yi, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Microbiology & Immunology
Replication of hepatitis A virus and hepatitis C virus.

Xue-Jie Yu, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Pathology and Microbiology & Immunology
Ehrlichia and Rickettsia.