Our microbiologists and immunologists study the life cycles of bacteria and viruses, how they become pathogenic and how our immune systems combat infection. They develop new strategies to prevent and treat infectious disease, and their work has deepened our insight into how human immune systems distinguish self from non-self and how pathogenic microbes cause diseases.
Jeffrey E. Barrick
- Associate Professor
- Molecular Biosciences
Ethel Bayer-Santos
- Assistant Professor
- Molecular Biosciences
The EBSlab is focused on (micro)biological conflicts and the weapons used by bacteria to target competitors. The group uses Salmonella and a specialized contractile nanoweapon called T6SS to understand how enteric pathogens overcome colonization resistance imposed by members of the microbiota and establish an infection. The effectors secreted by the T6SS comprise a pool of proteins with interesting new biochemical activities, providing opportunities for several interdisciplinary projects encompassing microbiology, cell biology, biochemistry, structural biology and bioinformatic.
Bryan W. Davies
- Associate Professor
- Molecular Biosciences
Jaquelin P. Dudley
- Professor
- Associate Director, LaMontagne Center for Infectious Disease
- Professor of Oncology
- Molecular Biosciences
Lauren I. Ehrlich
- Professor
- Associate Professor of Oncology
- Lorene Morrow Kelley Endowed Faculty Fellowship Fund
- L. Leon Campbell, Ph.D. Distinguished Professorship in Microbiology
- Molecular Biosciences
George Georgiou
- Professor
- Dula D. Cockrell Centennial Chair in Engineering #2
- Molecular Biosciences
Gregory C. Ippolito
- Research Associate Professor
- Associate Professor of Oncology
- Molecular Biosciences
Zunlong Ke
- Assistant Professor
- Molecular Biosciences
The Ke Lab started in February 2024 and is actively recruiting:
- graduate students
- postdoctoral fellows
- research scientists
Alan Lambowitz
- Professor
- Professor of Oncology
- Mr. and Mrs. A. Frank Smith, Jr. Regents Chair in Molecular Biology
- Molecular Biosciences
Despoina Mavridou
- Assistant Professor
- Molecular Biosciences
Jason McLellan
- Professor
- Robert A. Welch Chair in Chemistry
- Molecular Biosciences
Ian J. Molineux
- Professor
- Molecular Biosciences
Shelley M. Payne
- Professor
- Director, LaMontagne Center for Infectious Disease
- Marie Betzner Morrow Centennial Chair
- Distinguished Teaching Professor
- Molecular Biosciences
Christopher S. Sullivan
- Professor
- Molecular Biosciences