| Jorge Benach* | Pathogenesis of spirochetal infections and host responses |
| Elizabeth Boon | Prokaryotic nitric oxide biology |
| Nicholas Carpino | Positive and negative regulation of T cell receptor signaling |
| Carol Carter | Retroviral assembly and post-assembly |
| Maurizio Del Poeta | Fungal pathogenesis and antifungal drug development |
| Bettina Fries | Pathogenesis of Cryptococcus neoformans chronic infections; staphylococcal enterotoxin B |
| Bruce Futcher | Cancer; cell cycle; microarrays; computational biology; yeast genetics |
| Yusuf Hannun | Lipid mediators of cancer cell signaling |
| Michael Hayman* | Signal transduction in cell growth, differentiation and cancer; nuclear and membrane oncoproteins |
| Janet Hearing* | Influenza viruses and antiviral drug development |
| Patrick Hearing | Adenovirus-host cell interactions; viral vectors for human gene therapy |
| A. Wali Karzai | Structure and function of RNA-binding proteins; SmpB¥SsrA quality control system |
| Richard Kew* | Leukocyte chemotaxis; inflammation |
| Hwan Kim | Rickettsia pathogenesis |
| 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 |
| Laurie Krug* | Virus-host interactions during chronic gammaherpesvirus infection |
| Pawan Kumar | IL-17 signaling in human health and disease |
| Janet Leatherwood | Cell cycle control of DNA replication; cell cycle transcription; meiotic RNA processing |
| Ellen Li | Gut microbiota and human disease |
| 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 |
| Eckard Wimmer* | Molecular biology of poliovirus replication; picornaviral pathogenesis |
| *Not currently accepting graduate students |
