Faculty Research Summaries
Click on the faculty member's name to learn about their current research
interests and selected recent publications. If you want to view faculty grouped
by their research interests, go to the Research page.
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Name |
Keywords |
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Bates, Paul |
Retrovirus entry and assembly; Ebola virus; hepatitis
C; SARS |
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Betts, Michael |
Human antiviral immunity; vaccines; HIV |
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Boettiger, David |
Regulation of cell adhesion and adhesion-mediated
signaling |
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Bushman, Frederic |
Retroviral replication; poxvirus replication; genomic
evolution |
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Cherry, Sara |
Host factors required for viral pathogenesis in Drosophila
and Mammals |
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Davies, Helen |
Medical Education |
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Doms, Robert W. |
HIV pathogenesis; flaviviruses; humoral immune response |
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Frankel, Fred R. |
Listeria monocytogenes; vaccines |
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Fraser, Nigel |
Herpes simplex virus latency; gene & cancer therapy |
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Goldfine, Howard |
Bacterial pathogenesis; cellular microbiology |
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Goodgal, Sol |
Professor Emeritus |
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Kaji, Akira |
Translation; ribosome recycling factor; antibacterial agents; antifungal
agents |
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Paterson, Yvonne |
Tumor immunology; Listeria monocytogenes; vaccines
against infectious and neoplastic disease |
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Robertson, Erle S. |
Tumor viruses; EBV associated lymphomas; gene regulation; cancer biology |
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Ross, Susan |
Virus/host interactions; MMTV; genetics of susceptibility
to virus infection |
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Shen, Hao |
Immunity to infection; bacterial pathogenesis; vaccines |
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Weiser, Jeffrey |
S. pneumoniae & H influenzae pathogenesis; airway
colonization; phase variation |
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Weiss, Susan |
Murine coronavirus CNS pathogenesis; coronavirus induced hepatitis;
SARS |
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You, Jianxin |
Human papillomaviruses; persistent latent infection;
episome maintenance; tumorigenesis |
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Zhu, Jun (Jay) |
Quorum sensing; bacterial pathogenesis; Vibrio cholerae
and virulence gene regulation; biofilms |
Other Penn Researchers in Microbiology, Virology and Parasitology:
| Name |
Keywords |
| Alwine,
Jim |
HCMV; SV40; viral transactivators; tumor
virology; RNA processing; metabolism |
| Artis,
David |
Immunology and cell biology of parasitic
helminth infections; regulation of innate and adaptive immunity in the
gut |
Bergelson,
Jeff
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Virus receptors; picornavirus entry;
adenovirus vectors |
| Binns,
Andy |
Agrobacterum tumefaciens; host-pathogen
interaction; type IV secretion |
| Brisson,
Dustin |
Disease ecology, molecular evolution,
microbial ecology/ evolution, host-pathogen interaction |
| Buxbaum,
Larry |
Immunology, immunoparasitology, Leishmania,
parasite, IL-10, Fcgamma R, cysteine proteinase |
| Chang,
Kyong-Mi |
Hepatitis C virus persistence and immune
response |
| Cohen,
Gary |
HSV-1
glycoproteins & receptors |
| Collman,
Ron |
HIV tropism |
| Daldal,
Fevzi |
Photosynthetic and respiratory electron
transfer pathways and structure, function and biogenesis of cytochrome
complexes |
| Debes,
Gudrun |
Leukocyte trafficking, chemokines, inflammation,
influenza virus infection |
| Eisenberg,
Roselyn |
HSV-1 glycoproteins & receptors |
| Ertl,
Hildegund |
Vaccines; rabies; HIV-1; HPV-16; poxvirus;
mechanisms of protection; T cell memory; maturation of dendritic cells |
| Farrell,
Jay |
Cellular immunology and immunopathology
of cutaneous and visceral leishmaniasis |
| Friedman,
Harvey |
HSV
pathogenesis; immune evasion; HSV vaccines |
| Gaulton,
Glen |
HIV
and murine leukemia virus entry and pathogenesis |
| Goldschmidt,
Michael |
Experimental leishmaniasis |
| Gonzalez-Scarano,
Francisco |
HIV and SIV neuropathogenesis; bunyavirus
pathogenesis |
| Goulian,
Mark |
Bacterial
regulatory networks; two-component signaling; antimicrobial peptides |
| Greenbaum,
Doron |
Protease Function, P.falciparum (malaria),
Chemical biology, Proteomics |
| Greenberg,
Robert |
Parasites, tropical diseases, schistosoma,
schistosomiasis, Platyhelminthes, ion channels, calcium channels, multidrug
resistance proteins, molecular neurobiology, praziquantel |
| Harty,
Ron |
Ebola
virus; VSV; matrix proteins; budding; reverse-genetics; virus-host interactions |
| Hoxie,
Jim |
HIV
and SIV pathogenesis; viral entry; humoral immune response; chemokine
receptors |
| Hunter,
Christopher |
Immunity to Toxoplasma gondii, innate
immunity and immunopathology |
| Isaacs,
Stuart |
Vaccinia virus; recombinant vaccines;
poxviruses; counter-bioterrorism |
| Johnson,
Phil |
SIV; HIV; AAV; vaccine, gene transfer |
| Jordan-Sciutto,
Kelly |
Mechanisms of neuronal death; molecular
mechanisms underlying neuronal loss in neurodegenerative disorders; neuronal
responses in HIV encephalitis |
| June,
Carl |
HIV pathogenesis; HIV immunotherapy |
| Kolson,
Dennis |
HIV
neuropathogenesis; apoptosis; survival pathways |
| Krummenacher,
Claude |
HSV, glycoprotein and receptor interactions,
virus entry, cell adhesion |
| Lieberman,
Paul |
Gammaherpesvirus latency; plasmid maintenance;
chromatin structure; gene expression |
| Lok,
James |
Vector-associated parasitisms; experimental
filariasis and onchocerciasis |
| Mason,
William |
Hepatitis B and C viruses |
| Montaner,
Luis |
HIV
immunopathogenesis; innate immunity; cytokines |
| Murray,
John |
Molecular motors and mechanochemical
transduction |
| Nachamkin,
Irving |
Campylobacter
pathogenesis; molecular mimicry; diagnostic microbiology |
| Nolan,
Thomas |
Control of Strongyloides stercoralis autoinfection;
biology and immunology of helminth infections |
| O'Doherty,
Una |
HIV-1 latency; HIV-1 reservoirs, resting
T cells; dendritic cells |
| Offit,
Paul |
Rotavirus; vaccines; mucosal immunology;
intestinal immunology; microencapsulation |
| Oliver,
Paula |
Lymphocyte activation and tolerance;
T cell response to pathogen infection; HECT-type E3 ubiquitin ligases |
| Pearce,
Ed |
Schistosomiasis;
parasitic helminth; Th1/Th2 responses; dendritic cells |
| Plotkin,
Joshua |
Molecular population genetics; pathogen
evolution; mathematical modeling |
| Pohlschroder,
Mecky |
Protein
secretion; membrane protein insertion; archaea ffffcc |
| Rall,
Glenn |
Viral infection of the CNS |
| Reiner,
Steven |
Lymphocyte differentiation and the host
response to parasitic disease |
| Ricciardi,
Robert |
Adenovirus; Human Kaposi’s Sarcoma
Virus; immune escape |
| Riley,
Jim |
HIV pathogenesis; lentiviral vectors;
immune reconsititution |
| Roos,
David |
Molecular/cellular parasitology; toxoplasma;
plasmodium (malaria); genomics |
| Schad,
Gerhard |
Regulation of nematode growth and development;
nematode chemosensory and mechanosensory neurons |
| Schifferli,
Dieter |
Escherichia coli and Salmonella pathogenesis;
fimbriae; vaccines |
| Scott,
Phil |
T helper cell subsets; IL-12; T cell
memory; Leishmania |
| Sebert,
Michael |
Streptococcus, pneumoniae pathogenesis,
quorum sensing, two-component signaling |
| Seeger,
Christoph |
HBV, HCV, flaviviruses |
| Sigal,
Luis |
Mechanisms of cross presentation during
viral infections |
| Silvestri,
Guido |
HIV/SIV, T cells, Apoptosis, Non-human
primates, Cell cycle,
T cell homeostasis |
| Skalka,
Anna Marie |
Molecular aspects of retroviral replication |
| Smith,
Gary |
Mathematical modeling of parasite disease;
helminth parasites; lyme disease |
| Taylor,
John |
Human hepatitis delta virus |
| Weiner,
David |
HIV
vaccines; DNA vaccines; West Nile virus; cellular immune responses |
| Weissman,
Drew |
HIV; dendritic; mRNA; RNA interference;
siRNA; vaccine; HIV coreceptor |
| Wherry,
E. John |
Viral pathogenesis; chronic infections;
CD8 T Cell differentiation; therapeutic vaccination |
| Wilson,
James |
Ebola virus; viral vectors; primate
parvoviruses; SARS |
| Yuan,
Yan |
Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus;
virus-host interaction; the external guide sequence technique |
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