Microbiology and Immunology Labs
Abu-Kwaik Lab
The Abu-Kwaik Lab studies host-microbe interactions, focusing on how Legionella manipulates host cell biology and evades innate immunity.
Bhutiani Lab
The Bhutiani Lab studies the interplay between the local and systemic immune system, microbes, metabolites, and tumor cells in colon and rectal cancer to identify strategies to improve response to current therapy.
Collins Lab
The Collins Lab studies how diet shapes the gut microbiota and hospital-associated pathogens like C. difficile and VRE, with the goal of reducing infection and virulence.
Doster Lab
The Doster Lab studies how Group B Streptococcus colonizes the vagina and causes pregnancy-related infections, focusing on host-pathogen interactions and metabolic risk factors.
Haribabu Bodduluri Lab
The Haribabu Bodduluri Lab studies how leukotriene B4 and its receptors BLT1/BLT2 regulate leukocyte migration, inflammation, cancer, and anti-tumor immunity using mouse models.
Kosiewicz Lab
The Kosiewicz Lab studies T cells, APCs, and macrophages in autoimmune disease, focusing on immunoregulation, tolerance, sex differences, and gut microbiota influences.
Lawrenz Lab
The Lawrenz Lab studies how bacteria evade immunity, acquire metals, and resist drugs, aiming to uncover virulence mechanisms and develop new therapies.
Ramsey Lab
The Ramsey Lab studies bacterial gene regulation to understand pathogenicity and identify pathways for novel antimicrobials against antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
Sokoloski Lab
The Sokoloski Lab studies RNA virus-host interactions, probing viral RNA biology and protein networks to uncover alphavirus pathogenesis in vivo systems.
TMitchell Lab
The TMitchell Lab studies immune self/non-self balance, T cell fate, and designs safer, next-gen vaccine antigens and adjuvants for protection.
Venkatakrishna Rao JALA Lab
The Jala Lab studies gut barrier regulation, microbiota, and metabolites in IBD, ALD, and cancer, targeting toxins and ICI-driven colitis.