Principal Faculty

Robert C. Alaniz, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
Pathogen-specific T-cell Development during Mucosal Salmonella infection

Helene Andrews-Polymenis, D.V.M., Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Characterization of Salmonella enterica virulence genes.

Lydia Bogomolnaya, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
Identification of genes that are important for motility of Salmonella

Jeffrey D. Cirillo, Ph. D.

Professor
Molecular genetic analysis of bacterial respiratory pathogens.

Laura Hendrix, Ph.D.

David P. Huston, M.D.

Professor and Vice Dean - Houston campus
Immunobiology of Allergic Inflammation

Jenny Hyde, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Amminikutty Jeevan, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
Investigate whether ultraviolet radiation alters BCG vaccination-induced host resistance in the well-established guinea pig model of low dose pulmonary tuberculosis 

Ying Kong, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Julian Leibowitz, M.D., Ph.D.

Professor
Coronavirus replication and gene expression and the molecular basis of coronavirus pathogenesis

Lan Ly, Ph. D.

Assistant Professor
Vaccine-induced resistance in the guinea pig model of tuberculosis

Margarita Martinez-Moczygemba, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
Mechanisms controlling interleukin-5 receptor endocytosis and signal termination

Roderick McCallum, Ph.D.

Vice President of Academic Affairs
Community outreach programs to increase childhood vaccination rates

David McMurray, Ph. D.

Regents Professor
Regulation of infectious disease resistance by vaccination and diet 

John Quarles, Ph.D.

James Samuel, Ph.D.

Professor and Chair
Molecular pathogenesis and vaccine development for Q fever

Veronica Sanchez, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
Pathways of human cytomegalovirus assembly and interactions with host cell cycle machinery

Jon Skare, Ph.D.

Vernon Tesh, Ph.D.

Professor

Pathogenic mechanisms of Shiga toxins

Van Wilson, Ph.D.

Professor
Molecular biology of papillomaviruses

Joint/Adjunct Appointment Faculty

M. Gabriela Bowden, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
Bacterial virulence factors, adhesins and toxins, protein structure and function, protein expression and regulation.

Zhilei Chen, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Paul de Figueiredo, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Magnus Höök, Ph.D.

Director, Center for Infectious and Inflammatory Diseases
Interaction of pathogens with components of the extracellular matrix

Katja Mertens, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
Molecular mechanisms employed by the obligate intracellular bacterium Coxiella burnetii for evasion of host defenses

Yi Xu, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
Bacteria and host interactions; bacterial pathogenesis; bacterial activation of the actin cytoskeleton; bacterial breaching of the mucosal barrier

Dekai Zhang, M.D., Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
Molecular mechanisms of innate immune recognition