Our Faculty

The faculty members in the Microbiology and Immunology PhD Program belong to the outstanding community of scientists that includes Stony Brook University and nearby Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Faculty Research interests span a wide range of topics and experimental approaches. To find out more about the faculty and their research interests, search by research area or use the alphabetical list for a comprehensive list of program faculty.

 

Carol Carter and Sumita Bhaduri-McIntosh  Paul Freimuth and Nick Carpino

Primary Faculty

Partha Biswas
Renal Immunology

Nicholas Carpino
Regulation of host responses to pathogen infection

Carol Carter
Retroviral assembly and post-assembly

Maurizio Del Poeta
Fungal pathogenesis

Priyadharshini Devarajan
Respiratory immune responses, immune responses in the elderly

Bruce Futcher
Cancer, cell cycle, microarrays, computational biology, yeast genetics

Ketaki Ganti
Influenza A virus (IAV) infections

Galadriel Hovel-Miner
Drug resistance and functional biology in trypanasomatid parasites

Hwan Kim
Tick-borne diseases

James Konopka
Signal transduction, morphogenesis and genetics of pathogenic fungi

Pawan Kumar
IL-17 signaling in human health and disease

Janet Leatherwood
Cell cycle control of DNA replication, cell cycle transcription, meiotic RNA processing

Erich Mackow
Determinants of viral pathogenesis, hantaviruses, rotaviruses, Dengue viruses, influenza viruses, coronaviruses

Nancy Reich Marshall
Signaling switches in gene expression by hormones and viral infection

Daniel Salamango
Virus subversion of host antiviral responses, HIV-1, influenza viruses, SARS-CoV-2

Brian Sheridan
T cell memory and mucosal immunity, cancer vaccines

David Thanassi
Bacterial virulence factor secretion, E. coli pilus biogenesis, F. tularensis virulence mechanisms

Adrianus van der Velden
Host interactions with Salmonella

 

Training Faculty – Alphabetical List

Partha Biswas Renal immunology
Elizabeth Boon Prokaryotic nitric oxide biology, biofilm formation and dispersal
Nicholas Carpino Regulation of host responses to pathogen infection
Carol Carter Retroviral assembly and post-assembly
Maurizio Del Poeta Fungal pathogenesis and antifungal drug development
Priyadharshini Devarajan Respiratory immunology, immune responses in the elderly
Josh Dubnau Retrotransposons and neurological disease
Bettina Fries Pathogenesis of Cryptococcus neoformans chronic infections; staphylococcal enterotoxin B
Bruce Futcher Cancer; cell cycle; microarrays; computational biology; yeast genetics
Ketaki Ganti Influenza virus spread; impact of host immunity on influenza virus transmission and genetic variation
Yusuf Hannun Lipid mediators of cancer cell signaling
Galadriel Hovel-Miner Drug resistance and functional biology in trypanasomatid parasites
A. Wali Karzai Structure and function of RNA-binding proteins; SmpB¥SsrA quality control system
Hwan Kim Tick-borne diseases
James Konopka Signal transduction, morphogenesis and genetics of pathogenic fungi
Adrian Krainer Posttranscriptional gene regulation by pre-mRNA splicing; RNA splicing in cancer and genetic diseases
Pawan Kumar IL-17 signaling in human health and disease
Janet Leatherwood Cell cycle control of DNA replication; cell cycle transcription; meiotic RNA processing
Erwin London Membrane protein structure and function; cholesterol-rich membrane domains
Erich Mackow Determinants of viral pathogenesis; Hantaviruses, Rotaviruses, Dengue viruses, influenza viruses
Ute Moll Role of the p53/p73/p63 gene family in human cancer; transcription-independent mitochondrial apoptosis program of p53
David Montrose Understanding and modulating host intrinsic and extrinsic factors in the GI tract to prevent and treat colorectal cancer and inflammatory bowel disease
Aaron Neiman Molecular mechanism of spore formation
Nancy Reich Marshall Signaling switches in gene expression by hormones or viral infection
Daniel Salamango Virus subversion of host antiviral responses; HIV-1, influenza viruses, SARS-CoV-2
Jessica Seeliger Synthesis and assembly of cell membranes in Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Brian Sheridan T cell memory and mucosal immunology
Bruce Stillman Mechanism and control of eukaryotic DNA replication
David Thanassi Bacterial virulence factor secretion, E. coli pilus biogenesis, F. tularensis virulence mechanisms
Peter Tonge Enzyme mechanisms and rational drug design
Christopher Vakoc Chromatin regulatory pathways in the pathogenesis of cancer
Adrianus van der Velden Host interactions with Salmonella
Charles Vorkas Innate lymphocyte biology of infections and cancer
Michael Wigler Molecular basis of cancer

 

Professors Emeriti

Several of our retired professors in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology have been honored with the emeritus title for their distinguished service and contributions to research, education and the academic community. Though retired, they often remain engaged in scholarly activities, mentoring and departmental events for the department and the Renaissance School of Medicine.

Jorge Benach
Pathogenesis of spirochetal infections and host responses

James Bliska
Molecular mechanisms of microbial pathogenesis

Nicholas Delihas
Control of gene expression, noncoding RNAs

Michael Hayman
Signal transduction in cell growth, differentiation and cancer, nuclear and membrane oncoproteins

Janet Hearing
SARS-CoV-2 antiviral drug development

Patrick Hearing
Adenovirus-host cell interactions; viral vectors for human gene therapy

Eugene Katz
Dictyostelium discoideum developmental biology

Eckard Wimmer
Molecular biology of poliovirus replication, picornavirus pathogenesis