Infection, Immunity and Inflammation
Infection, Immunity and Inflammation – III
Research related to infection and subsequent host response; innate and adaptive immunity; inflammatory responses; genetic evaluation of virulence that affect colonization of tissues and systems; disease pathologies related to inflammation and immune dysfunction; e.g., diabetes, neurodegenerative disease; mesenchymal stem cells differentiation for immune function and wound healing.
Faculty
Helene Andrews-Polymenis, DVM, PhD
handrews@tamu.edu | 979.436.0340 | Office: MREB, 3008, Bryan Campus
Research Interest
Salmonella Infection
Graduate Program Affiliation
Carolyn Cannon, MD, PhD
carolyn.cannon@tamu.edu | 832.822.3300 | Office: MREB-II, 3342, Bryan Campus
Research Interest
Novel antimicrobials, MDR bacterial infections, cystic fibrosis, host-pathogen interactions
Graduate Program Affiliation
Adam Case, PhD
acase@tamu.edu | 979.436.9709 | Office: MREB-II, 3414, Bryan Campus
Research Interest
Redox signaling in the immune system
Graduate Program Affiliation
Sanjukta Chakraborty, PhD
schakraborty@tamu.edu | 979.436.0697 | Office: MREB-II, 2416, Bryan Campus
Research Interest
Lymphatic inflammation, chemokine interactions, immune suppression, signaling pathways
Graduate Program Affiliation
Jeffrey Cirillo, PhD
jdcirillo@tamu.edu | 979.436.0343 | Office: MREB-II, 3350, Bryan Campus
Research Interest
Molecular pathogenesis, therapeutics, vaccines and diagnostics
Graduate Program Affiliation
Pritesh Desai, PhD
pdesai@tamu.edu | 979.436.0342 | Office: MREB-I, Room 3100, Bryan Campus
Research Interest
Immunity to viruses and vaccines; helminth mediated immunomodulation
Graduate Program Affiliation
Shannon Glaser, PhD
sglaser@tamu.edu | 979.436.9260 | Office: MREB-II, 2342, Bryan Campus
Research Interest
Inflammation during chronic liver diseases, cholestasis, alcohol induced liver damage
Graduate Program Affiliation
Michelle Hook, PhD
michellehook@tamu.edu | 979.436.0568 | Bryan Campus
Research Interest
Recovery of function following a spinal cord injury (SCI)
Graduate Program Affiliation
David Huston, MD
dhuston@tamu.edu| 713.677.8110 | Office: ALKEK 1111, Houston Campus
Research Interest
The biology of allergic inflammation with emphasis on the structure/ function of IL3, IL5, and GMCSF
Graduate Program Affiliation
Jenny Hyde, PhD
jhyde@tamu.edu | 979.436.0872 | Office: MREB, 3002, Bryan Campus
Research Interest
Pathogenic mechanisms of Borrelia burgdorferi for infection and inflammation
Graduate Program Affiliation
Jason Karpac, PhD
karpac@tamu.edu | 979.436.0767 | Office: MREB-II, 4342, Bryan Campus
Research Interest
Exploring innate immune-metabolic signaling network integration using Drosophila
Graduate Program Affiliation
Julian Leibowitz, MD, PhD
jleibowitz@tamu.edu | 979.436.0313 | Office: MREB-II, 3224C, Bryan Campus
Research Interest
Coronavirus pathogenesis
Graduate Program Affiliation
Fei Liu, PhD
fliu@tamu.edu | 979.436.9642 | Office: REYNOLDS, 242B, Bryan Campus
Research Interest
Treatment of autoimmune diseases with mesenchymal stem cell extracellular vesicles
Graduate Program Affiliation
Alistair McGregor, PhD
mcgalistair2013@tamu.edu| 979.436.9400 | Office: MREB-II, 3348, Bryan Campus
Research Interest
Innate & adaptive immunity to cytomegalovirus (CMV). Virus virulence factors and interventions for cmv
Graduate Program Affiliation
Brett Mitchell, PhD
brettmitchell@tamu.edu | 979.436.0751 | Office: MREB-II, 2412, Bryan Campus
Research Interest
Immunity and inflammation in hypertension
Graduate Program Affiliation
Mariappan Muthuchamy, PhD
marim@tamu.edu | 979.436.9264 | Office: MREB-II, 2410, Bryan Campus
Research Interest
Regulatory roles of lymphatics in inflammation
Graduate Program Affiliation
Adam Nock, PhD
adamnock@tamu.edu | 979.436.0354 | Office: MREB-I, 3102, Bryan Campus
Research Interest
How bacterial pathogens sense and respond to host signals focusing on the biology of Rickettsia rickettsii
Graduate Program Affiliation
Joseph Rutkowski, PhD
rutkowski@tamu.edu | 979.436.0576 | Office: MREB-II, 2414, Bryan Campus
Research Interest
How chronic inflammatory disease and tissue injury are impacted by lymphatic-immune cell modulation.
Graduate Program Affiliation
Lee Shapiro, PhD
lshapiro@tamu.edu | 979.436.0272 | Office: MREB, Bryan Campus
Research Interest
Immune/Neuroimmune axis in brain disorders
Graduate Program Affiliation
Jon Skare, PhD
jskare@tamu.edu | 979.436.0353 | Office: MREB, 3004, Bryan Campus
Research Interest
Bacterial pathogenesis, Lyme disease, Arthropod disease transmission, vector-borne diseases
Graduate Program Affiliation
Farida Sohrabji, PhD
f-sohrabji@tamu.edu| 979.436.0335 | Office: MREB, 4102, Bryan Campus
Research Interest
Neuroinflammation, gut-brain axis
Graduate Program Affiliation
Jim Song, PhD
jus35@tamu.edu | 979.436.0633 | Office: MREB-II, 3344 , Bryan Campus
Research Interest
Immune regulation
Graduate Program Affiliation
Vernon Tesh, PhD
vltesh@tamu.edu | 979.436.0357 | Office: MREB-II, 3224A, Bryan Campus
Research Interest
Shiga toxins
Graduate Program Affiliation
Yi Xu, PhD
yi-xu1@tamu.edu | 979.436.0568 | Office: ALKEK, Houston Campus
Research Interest
Elucidating the molecular interactions between bacterial pathogen and the host
Graduate Program Affiliation
Keith Young, PhD
kayoung@tamu.edu | 254.760.5568 | Office: MREB-II, 2310, Bryan Campus
Research Interests
Blood and brain inflammation, B-cell trafficking to brain
Graduate Program Affiliation
David Zawieja, PhD
dcz@tamu.edu | 979.436.0829 | Office: MREB-II, 1341, Bryan Campus
Research Interest
Role of lymphatic function in inflammation and immunity
Graduate Program Affiliation
Keywords: infection; inflammation; microbial pathogenesis; bacteriology; virology; immunology; cytokines; chemokines; phagocytes (macrophages, neutrophils, dendritic cells); complement; wound healing; mesenchymal stem cells