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Groups in the Microbiology and Virology track investigate microbe-host and microbe-environment interactions. This includes symbiotic and pathogenic interactions, antibiotic/antiviral resistance, microbe evolution, inflammatory diseases, and pathogen-induced cancer.

Frank Aylward

Assistant Professor
Department of Biological Sciences

Giant DNA viruses and genomics of microbial groups

Clay Caswell

Associate Professor
Department of Biomedical Sciences & Pathobiology

Molecular biology of Brucella infection

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Nisha Duggal

Assistant Professor
Department of Biomedical Sciences & Pathobiology

Co-evolution of mosquito-borne viruses and hosts

Michael Fox

Professor
Fralin Biomedical Research Institute

Cellular and molecular mechanisms of synaptogenesis

Raj Gaji

Assistant Professor
Department of Biomedical Sciences & Pathobiology

Protein kinases in Toxoplasma gondii

Bryan Hsu

Assistant Professor
Department of Biological Sciences

Understanding and remodeling the gut microbiota

Brandon Jutras

Assistant Professor
Department of Biochemistry

Basic biology of the causal agent of Lyme disease

Kylene Kehn-Hall

Professor
Department of Biomedical Sciences & Pathobiology

RNA viruses – mechanisms, diagnostics, and therapeutics

Stephen Melville

Associate Professor
Department of Biological Sciences

Pili in Clostridium perfringens

David Popham

Professor
Department of Biological Sciences

Endospore formation in gram-positive bacteria

Birgit Scharf

Professor
Department of Biological Sciences

Mechanisms and consequences of bacterial motility

James Smyth

Associate Professor
Fralin Biomedical Research Institute

Cellular junctions in health and disease

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James Weger-Lucarelli

Research Assistant Professor
Department of Biomedical Sciences & Pathobiology

Biology of arthropod-borne viruses

Zhaomin Yang

Associate Professor
Department of Biological Sciences

Function and regulation of bacterial pili