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FACULTY
MARCIA A. BLACKMAN, PH.D.
Research Interests:
1. Immunity to persistent infections.
2. Immunity and Aging.
 
ANDREA COOPER, PH.D.
Research Interests:
1. Initiation of cellular responses in the lung.
2. Control of inflammatory responses in the lung.
3. Chronic infection in the elderly.
 
LAURA HAYNES, PH.D.
Research Interests:
1. The Effect of Age on Cognate Helper Function.
2. The Effect of Chronological Age on CD4 T Cell Response to Antigen.
 
LAWRENCE L. JOHNSON, PH.D.
Research Interests:
1. Innate and acquired immunity to infection.
 
ELIZABETH LEADBETTER, PH.D.
Research Interests:
1. Cooperation of NKT cells and B cells in response to lipid antigens
2. Lipid-based vaccine strategies
 
MARKUS MOHRS, PH.D.
Research Interests:
1. Cellular and molecular mechanisms regulating type 1 immunity.
2. Cellular and molecular mechanisms regulating type 2 immunity.
 
ROBERT NORTH, PH.D.
Research Interests:
1. Innate and Acquired Mechanisms of Immunity to Tuberculosis and Other Bacterial Infections.
 
ED PEARCE, PH.D.
Research Interests:
1. Immune responses during chronic helminth infections
2. Dendritic cell biology
3. The molecular cell biology of schistosomes
 
ERIKA PEARCE, PH.D.
Research Interests:
1. CD8 T cell memory development after infection.
2. Metabolism in lymphocyte differentiation.
 
STEVE SMILEY, PH.D.
Research Interests:
1. Roles for blood clotting pathways during infection and immunity.
2. Immune defense against pneumonic plague.
 
DAVID WOODLAND, PH.D.
Research Interests:
1. What are the mechanics of a CD8+ T cell recall response to secondary virus?
2. How is antigen handled during pulmonary infections?
3. How does age impact established CD8+ T cell memory?
4. How does the immune response deal with persistent pathogens?
 
ADJUNCT FACULTY
RICHARD W. DUTTON, PH.D.
Research Interests:
1. The role of CD8 T cells in the response to tumors.
2. Investigating the role of CD8 T cells in the response to influenza virus.
3. Immunological Memory.
4. Homeostatic control of lymphocyte populations.
5. The role of Tc17 effector and memory cells in influenza infection and tumor rejection.
 
FRANCES E. LUND, PH.D.
Research Interests:
 
TROY D. RANDALL, PH.D.
Research Interests:
 
SUSAN L. SWAIN, PH.D.
Research Interests:
1. Our major interest is in defining the pathways of T cell and B cell differentiation and identifying factors that regulate such development.
 
GARY WINSLOW, PH.D.
Research Interests:
 
RESEARCH ASSISTANT FACULTY
DAWN JELLEY-GIBBS, PH.D.
Research Interests:
1. Discovering the immune cells responsible for initiating and maintaining T cell responses following flu infection.
2. Determining if/how immune cells generated during previous infections can alter T cell responses to new flu infections.
 
JAKE KOHLMEIER, PH.D.
Research Interests:
1. How are T cells recruited to the lung during primary and secondary respiratory virus infections?
2. How do innate cytokines produced during the early stages of an infection impact memory T cell generation and recall?
 
GEORGIA PERONA-WRIGHT, PH.D.
Research Interests:
 


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MARCIA A. BLACKMAN, PH.D. SUSAN L. SWAIN, PH.D. ROBERT NORTH, PH.D. RICHARD W. DUTTON, PH.D. DAVID WOODLAND, PH.D. LAWRENCE L. JOHNSON, PH.D. FRANCES E. LUND, PH.D. TROY D. RANDALL, PH.D. ANDREA COOPER, PH.D. STEVE SMILEY, PH.D.LAURA HAYNES, PH.D. MARKUS MOHRS, PH.D. GARY WINSLOW, PH.D. ELIZABETH LEADBETTER, PH.D. ERIKA PEARCE, PH.D. ED PEARCE, PH.D.