Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

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Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Plant and Microbial Biosciences
Molecular Cell Biology
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology

Research summary
We study how bacterial defend themselves from their viral predators, bacteriophage.

Key words
bacteria, phage, bacteriophage, virus

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Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology

Research summary
Defining molecular mechanisms at the host-pathogen interface

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Plant and Microbial Biosciences
Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology
Molecular Cell Biology

Research summary
Bacterial growth and antibiotic susceptibility

Key words
Bacterial, growth size, antibiotics, tolerance, antibiotic resistance, systems biology, cytoskeleton, biochemistry, microbiology, microscopy

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Computational and Systems Biology
Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Plant and Microbial Biosciences

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A computational and experimental lab studying bacterial colonization and transmission at the boundary of built and natural environments and exploring microbiomes as environmental sensors and public health sentinels

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Immunology
Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology
Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

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Understanding how host genetics and environmental factors interact to shape gut metabolism leading to inflammation and epithelial differentiation defect

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Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Immunology

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The Lopez Lab studies how viruses interact with the body and how defective viruses influence the development of diseases in humans

Key words
virus, respiratory syncytial virus, Sendai virus, innate immunity, antiviral immunity

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Plant and Microbial Biosciences
Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

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How the environment shapes host-associated microbial communities both within and across species

Key words
Gut microbiome, nonhuman primates, environmental health

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Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Immunology
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology

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We investigate how host-microbe interactions at epithelial barrier sites impact skin diseases.

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acne, microbiome, cryogenic electron microscopy, cryoEM, crystallography, Cutibacterium acnes, melanoma, immune checkpoint inhibitor, ICI

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Computational and Systems Biology
Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology

Research summary
Next-generation experimental, multi-omic and computational approaches to empower the study of infectious diseases and the human microbiome

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Genomics of Infectious Diseases, Helminth Genomics, Human Metagenomics

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Immunology
Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Molecular Cell Biology

Research summary
Cell biology of the immune system -- understanding how cytoskeletal control of cell motility and adhesion impacts host immunity to infection

Key words
actin cytoskeleton, L-plastin, T cell, B cell, lymphocyte motility, pneumococcal pneumonia,