Microbial Pathogenesis Faculty
Herve Agaisse
Associate Professor of Microbial Pathogenesis
Research Interests:Host/pathogen interaction, microorganisms; infection; cell-to-cell spread; Listeria; Shigella; Chlamydia; Rickettsia; Vaccinia; Drosophila melanogaster; immune response; stem cells; JAK/STAT signaling; aging
Choukri Ben Mamoun
Associate Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases) and of Microbial Pathogenesis
Research Interests:Malaria
Michael Cappello
Professor of Pediatrics (Infectious Disease), of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases) and of Microbial Pathogenesis
Director, Yale Program in International Child Health
Director, Yale World Fellows Program
Research Interests:Molecular parasitology; Hookworm pathogenesis & vaccine development; International child health
Clinical Interests:Infectious Diseases; Tropical Medicine and Parasitology; International Adoption
Jason Crawford
Assistant Professor of Chemistry and of Microbial Pathogenesis
Research Interests:Small molecule signaling; Antibiotic discovery & biosynthesis; Host-bacteria interactions; Bacterial secondary metabolism; Bacteria; Pathogen
Erol Fikrig
Waldemar Von Zedtwitz Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases) and Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases) and of Microbial Pathogenesis
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Section Chief, Infectious Diseases
Research Interests:Vector-borne diseases; Lyme disease; Human granulocytic ehrilichiosis; West Nile virus
Clinical Interests:Lyme disease; Anaplasmosis; General infectious diseases; Rheumatology
Jorge Galan
Lucille P. Markey Professor of Microbial Pathogenesis and Professor of Cell Biology
Chair, Department of Microbial Pathogenesis
Research Interests:Microbial Pathogenesis; host/pathogen interaction
Andrew Goodman
Assistant Professor of Microbial Pathogenesis
Research Interests:Microbiota; Microbiome; Genomics; Gnotobiotic; Germfree; Symbiosis; Gut; Flora; Bacteria; Pathogen
Eduardo Groisman
Professor of Microbial Pathogenesis and Residential College Associate Fellow in Faculty of Arts and Sciences
HHMI Investigator
Research Interests:bacterial genetics; signal transduction; infectious diseases; gene regulation; bacteria-host interactions; gut commensal bacteria
Christine Jacobs-Wagner
Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and of Microbial Pathogenesis
HHMI Investigator
Research Interests:Cell division; chromosome segregation; cell cycle coordination; cell morphogenesis, cytokeleton, cell polarity
Barbara Kazmierczak
Associate Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases) and of Microbial Pathogenesis
Associate Director for Basic Research, MD-PhD Program, Yale University
Research Interests:Pseudomonas aeruginosa; Staphylococcus aureus; innate immunity; host-pathogen interactions; mucosal immunity
Clinical Interests:Inpatient management of and consultation for infectious diseases.
Priti Kumar
Assistant Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases) and of Microbial Pathogenesis
Research Interests:RNA interference (RNAi)-based strategies for treating viral infections
Brett Lindenbach
Associate Professor of Microbial Pathogenesis
Research Interests:Cell Biology; Enveloped Viruses; Hepatitis; Hepatitis C Virus; Molecular Biology; Positive-strand RNA Viruses; RNA; Virology; Virus
John MacMicking
Associate Professor of Microbial Pathogenesis
Research Interests:Cell-autonomous immunity; Constitutive and inducible host defense programs; Inflammasomes; Interferons (IFNs); Intracellular pathogens; Single cell analyses; Vertebrate and bacterial genetics
Walther Mothes
Associate Professor of Microbial Pathogenesis
Research Interests:cell biology; retroviral replication; retroviruses; immune; viral biology; genetic; biochemical; cell imaging; Viral entry and exit; Retroviruses including HIV
Craig Roy
Professor of Microbial Pathogenesis
Research Interests:Molecular; cellular; microbial pathogens; bacteria; vesicular transport; Legionella pneumophila; Coxiella burnetii; macrophages; protozoan; proteins
Richard Sutton
Associate Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases) and of Microbial Pathogenesis
Research Interests:HIV replication and the development of small animal models of HIV; HIV vectors; HIV replication and gene transfer into non-dividing cells
Clinical Interests:HIV and general infectious diseases
