MARC Faculty – Department of Microbiology, Immunology, & Pathology

Program Directors

Professor,
Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology

Associate Dean of Academic and Student Affairs,
College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
Professor,
Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology

Mark Zabel, Ph.D.

Associate Dean of Research,
College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
Professor,
Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology

Program Coordinator

Grace Borlee, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor,
Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology

Program Faculty

Name	Degree(s)	Rank	Primary Department	Research Interest
Abdo, Zaid	PhD	Associate Professor	Microbiology, Immunology & Pathology	Microbiome/ Metagenomics/ Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Akkina, Ramesh	DVM, PhD	Professor	Microbiology, Immunology & Pathology	HIV and Dengue virus, gene and antimicrobial therapies in humanized mouse models and human stem cells
Argueso, J. Lucas	PhD	Associate Professor	Environmental & Radiological Health Sciences	Genome stability
Belisle, John	PhD	Professor	Microbiology, Immunology & Pathology	Mycobacterium tuberculosis proteins, growth regulation, pathogenesis, immunization targets
Borlee, Brad	PhD	Associate Professor	Microbiology, Immunology & Pathology	Bacterial signaling in the regulation of pathogenesis and biofilm development
Chicco, Adam	PhD	Associate Professor	Biomedical Sciences	Mechanisms and (patho) physiological consequences of altered mitochondrial function and fatty acid metabolism in the context of physiological and pathological stress
Crick, Dean	PhD	Professor	Microbiology, Immunology & Pathology	Structure and biogenesis of the cell-wall and lipids of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Dean, Gregg	DVM, PhD	Professor	Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology	Innate immunity in immunodeficiency virus infections; lactobacillus based vectors to induce mucosal immunity
Dobos, Karen	PhD	Associate Professor	Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology	Mycobacterium bacterial physiology
Ebel, Gregory	ScD	Professor	Microbiology, Immunology & Pathology	Arboviral genetic diversity and adaptation to host and vectors
Ehrhart, Nicole	DVM	Professor	Clinical Sciences	Bone healing in cancer; mesenchymal stem cell therapy to improve bone allograft survival
Foy, Brian	PhD	Professor	Microbiology, Immunology & Pathology	Vector biology, arbovirology, interactions at the interface of hosts, vectors and pathogens
Geiss, Brian	PhD	Professor	Microbiology, Immunology & Pathology	Molecular virology and biochemistry of mosquito-borne Arboviruses
Gonzalez-Juarrero, Mercedes	PhD	Professor	Microbiology, Immunology & Pathology	Immunology/infectious diseases/aerosol therapy
Gustafson, Daniel	PhD	Professor	Clinical Sciences	Pharmacologic modalities for cancer treatment, pharmacokinetics, and mathematical modeling
Henao-Tamayo, Marcela	PhD	Assistant Professor	Microbiology, Immunology & Pathology	Memory immunity in tuberculosis
Jackson, Mary	PhD	Professor	Microbiology, Immunology & Pathology	Biosynthetic pathways of M. tuberculosis envelope; agents to prevent nosocomial infection
Kading, Rebekah	PhD	Associate Professor	Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology	Ecology and transmission dynamics of vector-borne pathogens, emerging arboviruses
Kim, Seonil	PhD	Assistant Professor	Biomedical Sciences	Synapse biology, neuron function, cognition in brain disorders
Magzamen, Sheryl	MPH, PhD	Assistant Professor	Environmental & Radiological Health Sciences	Environmental health science and quantitative methodology applied to chronic diseases
Mathiason, Candace	PhD	Professor	Microbiology, Immunology & Pathology	Mother to offspring transmission of prions and viruses and intervention therewith; prions in blood
Mayo, Christie	DVM, PhD	Associate Professor	Microbiology, Immunology & Pathology	Genetic and ecological context of pathogens, transmitted by midges
Perera, Rushika	PhD	Assistant Professor	Microbiology, Immunology & Pathology	Impact of cellular metabolism on arbovirus replication within vertebrate hosts and arthropod vectors
Podell, Brendan	DVM, PhD	Assistant Professor	Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology	Diabetes-tuberculosis comorbidity, Pathology
Rao, Sangeeta	PhD, MVSc	Associate Professor	Clinical Sciences	Epidemiology
Regan, Dan	DVM, PhD	Assistant Professor	Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology	Anatomic Pathology, Cancer Biology
Robertson, Gregory	PhD	Assistant Professor	Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology	Clinical microbiology, Antibacterial discovery
Ryan, Elizabeth	PhD	Associate Professor	Environmental & Radiological Health Sciences	Interaction between food components, gut microbiome, and immunity
Santangelo, Kelly	DVM, PhD	Assistant Professor	Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology	Animal models of primary and secondary osteoarthritis
Schaeffer, Joshua	PhD	Assistant Professor	Environmental & Radiological Health Sciences	Occupational and environmental aerosol exposure assessments
Schountz, Tony	PhD	Professor	Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology	Vaccine development and immunomodulatory therapeutics for zoonotic viruses
Stenglein, Mark	PhD	Associate Professor	Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology	Viral evolution, genomics and computational biology of emerging diseases
Thamm, Douglas	VMD, MS	Associate Professor	Clinical Sciences	Tyrosine kinase signaling in cancer cells, biomarkers for therapeutics, therapy to enhance chemosensitivity
Tjalkens, Ron	PhD	Professor	Environmental & Radiological Health Sciences	Neuroinflammation and the role of glial cells in neurodegenerative disorders
Tsunoda, Susan	PhD	Professor	Biomedical Sciences	Signal Transduction; Protein Targeting; Phototransduction; K+ Channel Regulation
VandeWoude, Sue	DVM	Professor	Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology	Trans-species infectivity, and co-evolution of HIV-like retroviruses of domestic and nondomestic felids
Vigh, Jozsef	PhD	Associate Professor	Biomedical Sciences	Retinal signal processing; optic neurotransmitters and optic nerve degenerative diseases
Wilusz, Jeff	PhD	Professor	Microbiology, Immunology & Pathology	RNA Biology