Faculty

Raul Andino, PhD
Professor, Dept. of Microbiology and Immunology
"Replication of RNA Viruses and Vaccine Development"
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Joseph Bondy-Denomy, PhD
Associate Professor, Dept. of Microbiology and Immunology
"Bacterial immune systems and the fight against phage"
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Jon Budzik, PhD
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Medicine
"Innate immune response to mycobacterial infection. Non-tuberculous mycobacteria pathogenesis"
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Charles Chiu, MD, PhD
Professor, Dept. of Laboratory Medicine
"Metagenomics-Based Technologies for Virus Detection and Discovery"
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Charles Craik, PhD

Professor, Dept. of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
"Chemical Biology Approaches to Understanding Host-Pathogen interactions in Viral Disease"
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Joseph DeRisi, PhD
Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
"Genomic Approaches To the Study Of Infectious Diseases"
Lab Website | BMS Graduate Program | Tetrad Graduate Program | Biomedical Informatics | Chemistry and Chemical Biology | UCSF Profile | iPQB | Bioengineering



Joanne Engel, MD, PhD

Professor, Depts. of Medicine, Microbiology and Immunology
Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases
Co-director, Integrative Microbiology (iMicro) Program
"Bacterial-Host Cell Interactions"
BMS Graduate Program | Tetrad Graduate Program | UCSF Profile



Joel Ernst
Professor, and Chief of Experimental Medicine
"Tuberculosis immunity and pathogenesis"
Lab Website | BMS Graduate Program


Alan Frankel, PhD
Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics
"Assembly Of RNA-Protein Complexes"
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Carol Gross, PhD
Professor, Dept. of Cell and Tissue Biology
"Regulation of Gene Expression"
BMS Graduate Program | Tetrad Graduate Program | UCSF Profile



Babak Javid, MB BChir, PhD
Associate Professor, Division of Experimental Medicine and Wellcome Trust Investigator
"Tuberculosis Molecular Biology, Pathophysiology and Immunity"
Lab Website | Wellcome TrustUCSF Profile



Alexander Johnson, PhD

Professor Dept. of Microbiology and Immunology, Biochemistry and Biophysics
Vice Chair, Dept. of Microbiology and Immunology
"Fungal Pathogenesis and Evolution"
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Nevan Krogan, PhD
Professor, Dept. of Cellular & Molecular Pharmacology, Director, California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3@UCSF)
"From Systems to Structure: Bridging Networks and Mechanism"
Lab Website | GIVI Gladstone Institute Virology and Immunology | GICD Gladstone Institute Cardiovascular Disease | QB3@UCSF | Tetrad Graduate Program


Chaz Langlier, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Dept. of Medicine
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Richard Locksley, MD
Professor, Dept. of Medicine
Director of the Sandler Asthma Basic Research Center
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
"Deconstructing Allergic Immunity"
Lab Website | HHMI | SABRE | BMS Graduate Program | UCSF Profile


 


Susan Lynch, PhD

Professor, Dept. of Medicine
Director, Benioff Center for Microbiome Medicine
Division of Gastroenterology
"Human Microbiome Research"
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Hiten Madhani, MD, PhD
Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics
Member, California Institute of Quantitative Biosciences
"Control Of Fungal Virulence"
Lab Website | Integrative Program in Quantitative Biology (iPQB) | Tetrad Graduate Program | BMS Graduate Program | UCSF Profile


Alex Marson, MD, PhD
Professor, Dept. of Medicine
"Engineering human T cell circuitry"
Microbiology and Immunology | Lab Website | BMS Graduate Program | UCSF Profile



Shaeri Mukherjee, PhD

Associate Professor, Dept. of Microbiology and Immunology
"Using Bacterial Pathogens as Cell Biology Tools"
Lab Website | Microbiology and Immunology | Tetrad Graduate Program | UCSF Profile | BMS Graduate Program | QBI COVID Research Group


Suzanne Noble, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Depts. of Microbiology and Immunology, Medicine
Division of Infectious Diseasess
"Fungal-Mammalian Host Interactions In Health and Disease"
BMS Graduate Program | Tetrad Graduate Program | Microbiology and Immunology | Infectious Disease | UCSF Profile


Melanie Ott, MD, PhD
Professor, Dept. of Medicine
Senior Investigator, Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology
Lab Website | BMS Graduate Program | ImmunoX | UCSF Profile



Angela Phillips, PhD

Assistant Professor, Dept. of Microbiology and Immunology
"Molecular constraints on protein evolution at the host-virus interface"
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Philip Rosenthal, MD

Professor, Dept. of Medicine
Global Health Sciences Program
"Basic and Translational Studies Of Malaria"
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Tiffany Scharschmidt, MD

Associate Professor, Dept. of Dermatology
"Host-microbe Immune Dialogue in Skin"
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Anita Sil, PhD, MD

Professor, Dept. of Microbiology and Immunology
Co-director, Integrative Microbiology (iMicro) Program
“Fungal development, pathogenesis, and manipulation of the innate immune response”
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Sara Suliman, PhD, MPH

Assistant Professor, Dept. of Medicine
"The focus of the Suliman laboratory is to generate hypotheses from systems biology approaches, such as genome-wide association studies, transcriptional and metabolomic profiling, and expression quantitative trait loci, to identify candidate TB risk pathways and functionally evaluate their roles in TB progression"
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Peter Turnbaugh, PhD

Associate Professor, Dept. of Microbiology and Immunology, G.W. Hooper Foundation
"Role of the human gut microbiome in nutrition and pharmacology"
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Allison Williams, PhD

Assistant Professor, Dept. of Cellular Molecular Pharmacology
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