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Peter Fischer, PhD

Professor

Program affiliation
Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Research summary
Medical helminthology, especially filariasis and other neglected tropical diseases caused by parasitic worms.

Key words
helminths, parasitology, tropical medicine,

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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

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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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Doug Frantz, PhD

Professor

Program affiliation
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology
Cancer Biology
Neurosciences
Immunology
Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology

Research summary
Small molecule drug discovery inspired research across multiple therapeutic areas including chronic pain, oncology, and neurodegeneration.

Key words
drug discovery, medicinal chemistry, chemical biology, synthetic methods

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Victoria Fraser, MD

Adolphus Busch Professor and Head of the Department of Medicine

Program affiliation
General

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

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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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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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James Friend, PhD

Stephen F. & Camilla T. Brauer Distinguished Professor and Department Chair of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science

Program affiliation
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology
Neurosciences

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