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Microbiology Track

Microbiology Track Leadership

  • Director of Graduate Admissions, Microbiology Track

    Associate Professor of Infectious Diseases and of Microbial Pathogenesis; Director of Graduate Admissions, The BBS Microbiology Track; Director, Yale Predoctoral Training Program in Virology, Virology Laboratories; Chartered Member, Study Section: NIH: NIAID- AIDS Discovery And Development Of Therapeutics, National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

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Faculty

  • Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases); Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health

    Research Interests
    • Trypanosomiasis, African
    • Tsetse Flies
    • Global Health
    • One Health
  • William H. Fleming, M.D. Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry and Professor of Genetics and of Therapeutic Radiology

    Research Interests
    • Organelle Biogenesis
    • Genetics
    • Molecular Biology
    • Ribonucleoproteins
    • Radiation Oncology
    • RNA Helicases
    • Genes, rRNA
  • Assistant Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases); Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health

    Research Interests
    • Africa
    • Ecology
    • Genetics
    • Genetics, Population
    • Senegal
    • Malaria, Falciparum
    • Molecular Epidemiology
    • Malaria Vaccines
    • Disease Transmission, Infectious
    • Genomics
    • Host-Pathogen Interactions
    • Adaptive Immunity
    • Biostatistics
  • Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases) and of Microbial Pathogenesis; Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health

    Research Interests
    • Antifungal Agents
    • Babesiosis
    • Malaria
    • Opportunistic Infections
    • Protozoan Infections
    • Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures
    • Infectious Disease Medicine
    • Drug Discovery
    • Translational Research, Biomedical
  • Sterling Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology; Chair, Dept Basic Science: Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry

    Research Interests
    • Bacteria
    • Biochemistry
    • Biology
    • Biotechnology
    • Fungi
    • Genetics, Microbial
    • Microbiology
    • Molecular Biology
    • Computational Biology
    • Genomics
    • Metabolomics
  • Waldemar Von Zedtwitz Professor of Medicine (Rheumatology) and Professor of Pathology and of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases); Chief, Rheumatology, Allergy, & Immunology; Rheumatologist in Chief, Rheumatology; Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health

    Research Interests
    • Africa
    • Epidemiology
    • Macrophage Migration-Inhibitory Factors
    • Malaria
    • Pathology
    • Public Health
    • Rheumatology
    • Stem Cells
    • Global Health
    • Communicable Diseases, Emerging
    • Infectious Disease Medicine
  • Department Chair and Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases); Professor of Pediatrics (Infectious Disease) and Microbial Pathogenesis; Interim Director, Yale Institute for Global Health; Associate Director, MD-PhD Program

    Research Interests
    • Africa, Western
    • Developing Countries
    • Ghana
    • Hookworm Infections
    • Malaria
    • Microbiology
    • Pediatrics
    • Public Health
    • Tropical Medicine
    • Global Health
    • Infectious Disease Medicine
  • Henry Bronson Professor of Pharmacology; Chairman, Consortium for the Globalization of Chinese Medicine (CGCM)

    Research Interests
    • China
    • Drugs, Chinese Herbal
    • Hong Kong
    • Medicine, Chinese Traditional
    • Neoplasms by Histologic Type
    • Pharmacology
  • Eugene Higgins Professor of Immunobiology and Professor of Cell Biology

    Research Interests
    • Biology
    • Cell Biology
    • Endoplasmic Reticulum
    • Immunity
    • Major Histocompatibility Complex
  • Associate Professor Adjunct; Director, Center for Pulmonary Infection Research and Treatment (CPIRT)

    Research Interests
    • Respiratory Tract Infections
    • Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive
  • Waldemar Von Zedtwitz Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases) and Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases) and of Microbial Pathogenesis; Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health; Section Chief, Infectious Diseases, Internal Medicine

    Research Interests
    • Bacteria
    • Epidemiology
    • Lyme Disease
    • Parasitology
    • Public Health
    • Ticks
    • Viruses
    • West Nile virus
    • Global Health
    • Ehrlichiosis
    • Malaria Vaccines
    • Borrelia burgdorferi
    • Infectious Disease Medicine
  • Sterling Professor of Immunobiology; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

    Research Interests
    • Biology
    • Diabetes Mellitus
    • DNA, Recombinant
    • Immune System
    • Immunity
    • Lyme Disease
    • Autoimmunity
    • Gene Expression
    • Gene Transfer Techniques
    • Mice, Knockout
    • Cell Lineage
    • Lyme Neuroborreliosis
  • Associate Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Immunobiology

    Research Interests
    • Asthma
    • Bacterial Infections
    • Biology
    • Common Cold
    • Cell Biology
    • Diagnostic Techniques, Respiratory System
    • Environmental Health
    • Epithelial Cells
    • Histology
    • Immune System
    • Immunity, Innate
    • Interferons
    • Microbiology
    • Pathology
    • Respiratory System
    • Rhinovirus
    • RNA Virus Infections
    • RNA Viruses
    • Viruses, Unclassified
    • Virology
    • Immunity, Mucosal
    • Respiratory Mucosa
    • Genomics
    • Infectious Disease Medicine
    • Translational Research, Biomedical
    • Epigenomics
    • Transcriptome
  • Lucille P. Markey Professor of Microbial Pathogenesis and Professor of Cell Biology

    Research Interests
    • Campylobacter
    • Cell Biology
    • Immunity, Innate
    • Inflammation
    • Microbiology
    • Microscopy
    • Microscopy, Fluorescence
    • Salmonella
    • Cryoelectron Microscopy
    • Host-Pathogen Interactions
    • Microbiota
    • Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment
    • Type III Secretion Systems
  • Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry

    Research Interests
    • Biochemistry
    • Gene Expression Regulation
    • Molecular Biology
    • RNA Processing, Post-Transcriptional
    • Protein Biosynthesis
    • Genomics
    • Transcriptome
  • Assistant Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases)

    Research Interests
    • Immunity, Cellular
    • Immunity, Innate
    • Infections
    • Vaccines
    • Vaccines, Attenuated
    • Vaccines, Synthetic
    • Viral Vaccines
    • Virology
    • Virus Diseases
    • Zoonoses
    • Immunity, Mucosal
    • Communicable Diseases, Emerging
    • Infectious Disease Medicine
    • Adaptive Immunity
    • Immunity, Humoral
    • Pandemics
    • Vaccine-Preventable Diseases
    • Vector Borne Diseases
    • SARS-CoV-2
  • C.N.H. Long Professor of Microbial Pathogenesis and Director of Microbial Sciences Institute; Chair, Microbial Pathogenesis

    Research Interests
    • Bacteria
    • Germ-Free Life
    • Symbiosis
    • Genomics
    • Microbial Consortia
    • Microbiota
  • Waldemar Von Zedtwitz Professor of Microbial Pathogenesis

    Research Interests
    • Ecology
    • Biological Evolution
    • Genetics
    • Signal Transduction
    • Infectious Disease Medicine
    • Microbiota
  • Associate Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases); Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health

    Research Interests
    • Aedes
    • Arthropod Vectors
    • Chikungunya virus
    • Culex
    • Dengue Virus
    • Disease Outbreaks
    • Epidemiology
    • Genetics, Microbial
    • Molecular Sequence Data
    • RNA Viruses
    • West Nile virus
    • Directed Molecular Evolution
  • Associate Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology

    Research Interests
    • Bacteria
    • Biochemistry
    • Enzyme Activation
    • Gastrointestinal Diseases
    • Microbiology
    • Host-Pathogen Interactions
  • Associate Professor Term; Director of Graduate Studies, Microbiology PhD Program of Biological and Biomedical Sciences

    Research Interests
    • Genetics
    • HIV
    • Immunotherapy
    • Microbiology
    • Host-Pathogen Interactions
    • Transcriptome
    • Epigenetic Repression
  • Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology

    Research Interests
    • Genetics
    • Glioblastoma
    • Genetic Variation
    • Genomics
    • Systems Biology
    • Gene Regulatory Networks
    • Bioengineering
    • Synthetic Biology
    • Gene Editing
  • Sterling Professor of Immunobiology and Professor of Dermatology and of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases); Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

    Research Interests
    • Arboviruses
    • Autophagy
    • DNA Viruses
    • Herpes Simplex
    • Immune System
    • Immunity, Cellular
    • Immunity, Innate
    • Influenza, Human
    • Molecular Biology
    • Pneumonia, Viral
    • Pregnancy Complications
    • Proviruses
    • RNA Viruses
    • Sexually Transmitted Diseases
    • Tumor Virus Infections
    • Encephalitis, Viral
    • Central Nervous System Viral Diseases
    • Inflammasomes
  • Gustavus and Louise Pfeiffer Research Foundation M.D.-Ph.D. Program Director and Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases) and of Microbial Pathogenesis; Professor, Microbial Pathogenesis; Director, MD-PhD Program, Yale University

    Research Interests
    • Bacterial Infections
    • Education, Medical, Graduate
    • Immunity, Innate
    • Microbiology
    • Pseudomonas
    • Biomedical Research
    • Host-Pathogen Interactions
    • Infectious Disease Medicine
  • Raj and Indra Nooyi Professor of Public Health and Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases) and of Medicine (Infectious Diseases); Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health

    Research Interests
    • Dengue
    • Epidemiology
    • Leptospirosis
    • Urban Health
    • Global Health
    • Meningitis, Bacterial
    • Infectious Disease Medicine
  • Associate Professor; CyTOF Core Director, Medicine

    Research Interests
    • Infant Nutrition Disorders
    • Infant, Premature
    • Placenta
    • Inflammatory Bowel Diseases
    • Immunity, Mucosal
    • Enterocolitis, Necrotizing
    • Gastrointestinal Microbiome
  • Associate Professor of Infectious Diseases and of Microbial Pathogenesis; Director of Graduate Admissions, The BBS Microbiology Track; Director, Yale Predoctoral Training Program in Virology, Virology Laboratories; Chartered Member, Study Section: NIH: NIAID- AIDS Discovery And Development Of Therapeutics, National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

    Research Interests
    • T-Lymphocytes
    • RNA Interference
    • Infectious Disease Medicine
    • Molecular Targeted Therapy
  • Professor of Microbial Pathogenesis and of Immunobiology; Member, Yale Systems Biology Institute; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

    Research Interests
    • Cell Biology
    • Immunity, Innate
    • Interferons
    • Host-Pathogen Interactions
  • Assistant Professor

    Research Interests
    • Arboviruses
    • Flavivirus
    • Infections
    • Inflammation
    • RNA Viruses
    • Virology
    • Coronavirus
    • Flavivirus Infections
    • Immunity, Mucosal
    • Dengue Vaccines
  • Sterling Professor of Immunobiology; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

    Research Interests
    • Allergy and Immunology
    • Immunity
    • Inflammation
    • Macrophages
    • Gene Expression
    • Host-Pathogen Interactions
    • Adaptive Immunity
  • John F. Enders Professor of Pediatrics (Infectious Disease) and Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases) and of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry

    Research Interests
    • Biophysics
    • Pediatrics
    • Sarcoma, Kaposi
    • Virology
    • Epstein-Barr Virus Infections
    • Infectious Disease Medicine
  • Associate Professor of Immunobiology

    Research Interests
    • Allergy and Immunology
    • Homeostasis
    • Inflammation
    • Neuroimmunomodulation
    • Gastrointestinal Tract
    • Adaptive Immunity
    • Microbiota
    • Brain-Gut Axis
  • Professor Adjunct; Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health

    Research Interests
    • Drug Resistance
    • Pneumonia
    • Respiratory Tract Infections
    • Infection Control
    • Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive
    • Gastrointestinal Microbiome
  • Assistant Professor

    Research Interests
    • Adaptation, Biological
    • Bacterial Infections
    • Signal Transduction
    • Clostridioides difficile
    • RNA-Binding Proteins
    • Host Microbial Interactions
  • Dorys McConnell Duberg Professor of Immunobiology and Professor of Pharmacology; Co-Leader, Cancer Immunology, Yale Cancer Center

    Research Interests
    • Inflammation
  • Waldemar Von Zedtwitz Professor of Microbial Pathogenesis and of Immunobiology and Director of Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS); Vice-Chair, Department of Microbial Pathogenesis

    Research Interests
    • Bacteria
    • Immune System
    • Macrophages
    • Protozoan Proteins
    • Legionella pneumophila
    • Coxiella burnetii
    • Vesicular Transport Proteins
  • Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Professor of Cell Biology

    Research Interests
    • Biochemistry
    • Biophysics
    • Cell Biology
    • Congenital, Hereditary, and Neonatal Diseases and Abnormalities
  • Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases) and of Microbial Pathogenesis; Chief, Infectious Diseases at VACT

    Research Interests
    • HIV
    • Molecular Biology
    • Severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus
    • Infectious Disease Medicine
  • Elihu Professor of Biostatistics and Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Co-Leader, Genomics, Genetics, & Epigenetics Research Program

    Research Interests
    • Algorithms
    • Bacteria
    • Bacterial Infections and Mycoses
    • Beer
    • Bread
    • Cell Transformation, Neoplastic
    • Coccidioidomycosis
    • Computing Methodologies
    • Biological Evolution
    • Fungi
    • Genetic Engineering
    • Microbiological Phenomena
    • Models, Genetic
    • Models, Theoretical
    • Mycoses
    • Neoplasm Metastasis
    • Neoplasms
    • Phylogeny
    • Viruses
    • Wine
    • Models, Statistical
    • Likelihood Functions
    • Logistic Models
    • Polymerase Chain Reaction
    • Sequence Analysis, DNA
    • Nonlinear Dynamics
    • Molecular Epidemiology
    • Gene Transfer Techniques
    • Crops, Agricultural
    • Evolution, Molecular
    • Nature
    • Sequence Analysis, Protein
    • Gene Expression Profiling
    • Public Health Informatics
    • Microarray Analysis
    • Genetic Speciation
    • Host-Pathogen Interactions
    • Genetic Phenomena
    • Mathematical Concepts
    • Organisms
    • Phenomena and Processes
  • John Rodman Paul Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases); Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health; Director of Graduate Studies

    Research Interests
    • Parasitic Diseases
    • Tropical Medicine
    • Trypanosomiasis, African
    • Genomics
    • RNA Interference
  • Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases), Anthropology, and Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases); Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health

    Research Interests
    • Brucellosis
    • Leptospira
    • Leptospirosis
    • Malaria
    • Parasitic Diseases
    • Tropical Medicine
    • Global Health
    • Zoonoses
    • Malaria, Falciparum
    • Malaria, Vivax
    • Malaria Vaccines
  • Associate Professor Term; Medical Director, Immune Monitoring Core Facility

    Research Interests
    • Immune System Diseases
    • RNA Viruses
    • Virology
    • Coronavirus
    • Norovirus
    • Immune Evasion
    • COVID-19