Immunology
Faculty Expertise and Research Areas

Aria Eshraghi

  • Our goal is to define the mechanisms governing how bacteria use virulence factors to evade detection by the immune system and cause disease.

Ayalew Mergia

  • Host and viral interactions relevant to therapeutic and vaccine developments.

Julie M. Moore

  • Application of human, field-based studies, in vitro cell culture models and mouse models to understand malaria pathogenesis in pregnancy and gain enhanced understanding of placental biology in health and disease

David Pascual

  • Through adapting basic mucosal immunology approaches, vaccines to protect against human and animal infectious and autoimmune diseases are developed and tested.

Liang Zhou

  • Transcriptional and metabolic regulation of tissue immune responses in health and disease

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