Karls, Russell
Harvill, Eric T.
Eric T. Harvill
Professor
Infectious Diseases
Interactions between microbial pathogens and host immunity in the mouse model using bacteria that naturally infect mice and closely related strains that are important human pathogens.
Kyle, Dennis
Dennis Kyle
Professor
GRA Eminent Scholar Chair in Antiparasitic Drug Discovery
Cellular Biology; Infectious Diseases
The discovery and development of new drugs to prevent or treat malaria and diseases caused by brain-eating amoebae. Elucidating mechanism(s) of resistance and discovering new drug treatment regimens, combinations, or strategies to overcome resistance.
Tripp, Ralph A.
Ralph A. Tripp
Professor and Georgia Research Alliance Chair in Vaccine and Therapeutic Studies
Infectious Diseases; Toxicology
Disease intervention strategies for important human pathogens and emerging infectious diseases of zoonotic origin; mechanisms of immunity; virus-host interface.
Trent, M. Stephen
M. Stephen Trent
UGA Foundation Distinguished Professor
Infectious Diseases
Characterizing the assembly of bacterial surface structures, development of vaccines for viral and bacterial pathogens, systems approaches to understanding microbial diseases
Rohani, Pejman
Pejman Rohani
Regents’ Professor
Infectious Diseases
The ecology and evolution of infectious diseases, including measles, pertussis, avian influenza, dengue and polio using computational modeling.
Brindley, Melinda
Melinda Brindley
Associate Professor
Infectious Diseases
Arenavirus glycoprotein structure and function; virus entry and membrane fusion; emerging virus-host interactions. Functional characterization of viral glycoproteins and host interactions.
Sanchez, Susan
Susan Sanchez
Professor
Infectious Diseases
Veterinary diagnostics; emerging clinical problems; antibiotic resistance;
epidemiology of diseases with special emphasis in zoonoses.
Rada, Balazs
Balazs Rada
Professor
Infectious Diseases
Role of reactive oxygen species in host-microbe interactions of the respiratory mucosa, neutrophil biology, pathomechanism of Pseudomonas infection in cystic fibrosis.
Peterson, David
David Peterson
Professor
Infectious Diseases
Characterization of adhesion proteins which mediate host-parasite interactions in Plasmodium falciparum.