1. Microbiology
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Laboratories

As a student in our Microbiology training area, you will devote a significant portion of your time to research. Explore our laboratories and learn about our investigators.

Meet the Co-Directors

Explore Our Labs

Bajic Lab
Studying both the host cell receptors and their complexes with viral glycoproteins by using integrative structural biology approaches—cryo-EM and X-ray crystallography—combined with biochemistry, immunology and virology techniques.

Basler Lab
Focusing on four general areas related to virus-host interactions.

Bogunovic Lab
Focusing on the study of innate and adaptive immune systems using human forward immunogenetics.

Bouvier Lab
Studying host and viral factors that affect the respiratory transmission of influenza viruses.

Branch Lab
Conducting a wide variety of research on hepatitis C virus.

Chen Lab
Exploring the use of clinical genome informatics.

Coelho Lab
Assessing human B cell and antibody responses to newly developed vaccines targeting emerging and re-emerging pathogens by using modern technologies to analyze antigen-specific B cells at the cellular, gene, and serological levels.

Duty Lab
Designing and developing therapeutic monoclonal antibodies targeting infectious diseases, cancer, and neurological disorders.

Evans Lab
Investigating how hosts and viruses interact, with a focus on the hepatitis C virus.

Fernandez-Sesma Lab
Researching the interactions of important human pathogens with primary human immune cells.

Garcia-Sastre Lab
Focusing on viral pathogens, host-pathogen interactions, and vaccine and anti-viral drug development.

Hioe Lab
Investigating HIV envelope-mediated immunity and pathogenesis to design more effective preventive and therapeutic measures against HIV.

Hook Lab
Gaining new understanding of lung biology to develop new therapies for lung infections, a major cause of death for people of all ages around the world.

Johnson Lab
Applying quantitative, unbiased technologies – especially mass spectrometry-based proteomics and CRISPR-Cas9 genetic screening – to study how pathogens remodel their host environments.

Krammer Lab
Studying cross-reactive antibody responses to the surface glycoproteins of antigenically variable RNA viruses.

Lee Lab
Exploring how viruses co-opt basic cell biological processes and the myriad strategies used by viruses to propagate themselves.

Lim Lab
Studying leukocyte trafficking events at the molecular and cellular level as they relate to host defense mechanisms and genetic susceptibility; developing new models to evaluate West Nile virus and other flavivirus infections.

Palacios Lab
Understanding and combatting emerging infectious diseases, from early pathogen detection and surveillance to in-depth studies of host-pathogen interactions and strategies for intervention.

Palese Lab
Focusing on genetic make-up and biology of viruses, as well as virus-host interactions.

Pawlica Lab
Seeks to answer fundamental questions regarding the functions of small non-coding RNAs in viral infection in order to understand viral diseases, as well as to gain insights into the cellular machineries exploited by viruses.

Rosenberg Lab
Studies host response to viral infection using genomics technologies.

Schotsaert Lab
The Schotsaert Lab focuses on host immune responses to vaccination and virus infection to explore the fascinating interplay between innate and adaptive immunity in preclinical animal models. We hereby focus on immunological processes underlying protection and disease that can be used to inform future vaccine development.

Simon Lab
Investigating virus-host interactions using retroviruses including HIV, simian immunodeficiency virus, human T-cell lymphotropic virus and human endogenous retroviruses.

Swartz Lab
Investigating how purinergic receptor signaling is activated by HIV infection and regulates pro-inflammatory cytokine production.

Sun Lab
Focusing on designing and testing viral vaccines in preclinical animal models to study vaccine-induced immune responses against influenza virus, SARS-CoV-2 and others viral pathogens.

Tortorella Lab
Examining how viruses evade immune detection.

White Lab
Performing research that furthers the public’s understanding of common disease-causing pathogens and allows for better determination on the effectiveness of prospective therapies.

Zolla-Pazner Lab
Developing and testing rationally-designed vaccines to prevent HIV infection, and also using the HIV envelope epitopes bound by human monoclonal antibodies to guide our vaccine design and test the vaccines in rabbits and monkeys to screen which vaccines are most immunogenic and should proceed to human trials.