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James Fleckenstein, MD

Professor

Program affiliation
Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Plant and Microbial Biosciences

Research summary
Molecular investigation of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC)

Key words
enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli; microbial pathogenesis; vaccine development; diarrheal disease

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Jennifer Foltz, PhD

Assistant Professor

Program affiliation
Computational and Systems Biology
Immunology
Cancer Biology
Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Biomedical Informatics and Data Science

Research summary
My research interests lie in integrating and applying novel computational biology techniques with mechanistic experimental immunology to understand drivers of response and resistance to NK cell therapies for cancer

Key words
natural killer cells, computational biology, single-cell sequencing, immunotherapy, nk cells

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Tom Foutz, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor

Program affiliation
Neurosciences
Computational and Systems Biology

Research summary

Key words

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Tom Franken, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor

Program affiliation
Neurosciences

Research summary
Understanding how the primate brain processes sensory information to perceive the world as an organized collection of objects

Key words
primate, macaque, visual, auditory, cortex, electrophysiology, multiphoton imaging, optogenetics, perception, figure-ground, foreground, background, image segmentation, laminar circuit, cortical column, neuropixels, binocular disparity, depth, 3D

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Victoria Fraser, MD

Adolphus Busch Professor and Head of the Department of Medicine

Program affiliation
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Research summary
Healthcare epidemiology, including the study of nosocomial infections, specifically surgical site infections, blood stream infections and ventilator-associated pneumonia

Key words

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Daved Fremont, PhD

Professor

Program affiliation
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology
Immunology
Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Research summary
Mechanisms of host immunity and viral evasion

Key words
immunology, virology, structural biology, viral immune evasion, cytokine receptors, signaling, protein trafficking

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Anthony French, PhD, MD

Alan L. Schwartz, PhD, MD, Professor

Program affiliation
Immunology
Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Research summary
In vivo NK cell responses during viral infections

Key words
immunology, virology, NK cells

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Carl Frieden, PhD

Professor

Program affiliation
General

Research summary
Protein structure/function relationships

Key words
apoE lipoproteins,, intrinsically disordered proteins, amyloid-beta, Alzheimer’s Disease, bacterial infection, curli proteins

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Gayle Fritz, PhD

Professor Emeritus

Program affiliation
General

Research summary
Analysis of archeological plant remains; evolution of agricultural societies; subsistence and cultural change

Key words
plant biology, ecology, paleoethnobotany, archaeology, agricultural origins

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Stephanie Fritz, MD, MSCI

Associate Professor

Program affiliation
Human and Statistical Genetics
Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Research summary
Asking and answering critical questions to guide clinical practice and ameliorate childhood suffering due to staphylococcal disease

Key words
Staphylococcus aureus; antibiotic resistance; epidemiology; infection treatment and prevention; genomic determinants of disease; host immune response