iMicro Faculty

Raul Andino, PhD

Professor
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
"Replication of RNA Viruses and Vaccine Development"

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Joseph Bondy-Denomy, PhD

Professor
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
"Bacterial immune systems and the fight against phage"

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Jon Budzik, PhD

Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine
"Innate immune response to mycobacterial infection. Non-tuberculous mycobacteria pathogenesis"

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Charles Chiu, PhD

Professor
Department of Laboratory Medicine
"Metagenomics-Based Technologies for Virus Detection and Discovery"

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Joseph DeRisi, PhD

Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
"Genomic Approaches To the Study Of Infectious Diseases"

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Joanne Engel, PhD

Professor, Department of Medicine
Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases
Co-director, Integrative Microbiology (iMicro) Program
"Bacterial-Host Cell Interactions"

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Joel Ernst, PhD

Professor
Chief of Experimental Medicine
"Tuberculosis immunity and pathogenesis"

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Babak Javid, MB BChir, PhD

Associate Professor
Division of Experimental Medicine and Wellcome Trust Investigator
"Tuberculosis Molecular Biology, Pathophysiology and Immunity"

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Sandy Johnson, PhD

Professor & Vice Chair, Dept. of Microbiology & Immunology
Professor, Dept of Biochemistry and Biophysics
"Fungal Pathogenesis and Evolution"

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Nevan Krogan, PhD

Professor, Dept. of Cellular & Molecular Pharmacology
Director, California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences
"From Systems to Structure: Bridging Networks and Mechanism"

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Chaz Langlier, MD, PhD

Associate Professor
Department of Medicine

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Susan Lynch, PhD

Professor, Department 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"

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Alex Marson, MD, PhD

Professor, Department of Medicine
"Engineering human T cell circuitry"

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Shaeri Mukherjee, PhD

Professor
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
G.W. Hooper Foundation
"Using Bacterial Pathogens as Cell Biology Tools"

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Suzanne Noble, MD, PhD

Professor
Department of Microbiology & Immunolgy
Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases
"Fungal-Mammalian Host Interactions In Health and Disease"

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Melanie Ott, MD, PhD

Professor, Department of Medicine
Senior Investigator, Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology

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Angela Phillips, PhD

Assistant Professor
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
"Molecular constraints on protein evolution at the host-virus interface"

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Philip Rosenthal, MD, PhD

Professor, Department of Medicine
Global Health Sciences Program
"Basic and Translational Studies Of Malaria"

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Tiffany Scharschimidt, MD, PhD

Professor
Department of Dermatology
"Host-microbe Immune Dialogue in Skin"

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Anita Sil, MD, PhD

Professor & Chair, Dept of Microbiology & 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
Department 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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Jeannette Tenthorey, PhD

Assistant Professor
Department of Cellular Molecular Pharmacology

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Peter Turnbaugh, PhD

Professor
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
G.W. Hooper Foundation
"Role of the human gut microbiome in nutrition and pharmacology"

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Allison Williams, PhD

Assistant Professor
Department of Cellular Molecular Pharmacology

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Soumaya Zlitni, PhD

Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine

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