| Graduate Faculty |
Research Focus |
John Barnett,
Ph.D.,
Professor and
Chair
|
Consequences to the immune system
of exposure to xenobiotic compounds. |
Nyles Charon,
Ph.D.,
Professor
|
Understanding spirochete motility
and how this attribute allows the organisms to invade host tissue.
|
Christopher
Cuff, Ph.D.,
Professor
|
Cellular and molecular events
that result in the development of antigen-specific immune responses in the
gastrointestinal tract.
|
Thomas Elliott,
Ph.D.,
Professor
|
Novel mechanisms controlling gene
expression in the enteric bacteria Salmonella typhimurium and Escherichia coli.
|
Solveig Ericson,
M.D., Ph.D.,
Assoc.
Professor
|
Functional recovery of myeloid
cells following bone marrow transplantation and means of enhancing
their cytotoxic and phagocytic abilities.
|
Daniel Flynn,
Ph.D.,
Professor
|
Signal transduction by Src and
Yes non-receptor tyrosine kinases.
|
Laura Gibson,
Ph.D.,
Assoc.
Professor
|
Effects of dose-intensive
chemotherapy on the bone marrow microenvironment and the subsequent effect
on hematopoietic recovery.
|
Bing-Hua Jiang,
Ph.D.,
Asst.
Professor
|
Role of PI
3-kinase in cell growth and tumorigenesis and potentially new functions of
the pathway.
|
Kenneth
Landreth, Ph.D.,
Professor
|
Mechanism regulating the
production of immunocompetent lymphocytes in primary lymphoid tissues.
|
Slawomir Lukomski,
Ph.D.,
Assoc. Professor
|
Role of growth and
proinflammatory cytokines in toxic damage and repair.
|
Jia Luo, Ph.D.,
Asst.
Professor
|
Cell signaling during brain
development, teratogenic effects of ethanol on developing central
nervous systems, ErbB protein-mediated signal transduction in breast cancer.
|
Michael Luster, Ph.D.,
Adjunct
Professor (NIOSH)
|
Role of growth and proinflammatory cytokines in toxic damage and repair.
|
Rajesh Naz, Ph.D.,
Professor
|
Peptide and DNA vaccines for contraception; mechanisms of immune infertility.
|
Joan Olson,
Ph.D.
Assoc. Professor
|
Oregon Health Sciences U. Microbial pathogenesis and
microbial-host interactions.
|
|
Viral respiratory infections; neuroimmunomodulation; asthma pathogenesis; lung development; airway neurobiology; cystic fibrosis.
|
Rosana Schafer,
Ph.D.,
Assoc.
Professor
|
Effects of in vivo exposure to commonly used herbicides on the immune system, specifically on
the response to a bacterial infection.
|
James Sheil,
Ph.D.,
Assoc.
Professor
|
Structure-function relationships
involved in the cell-mediated immune mechanisms underlying disease
pathogenesis.
|
Christian Stehlik, Ph.D.,
Research Asst. Professor |
Death domain folds in cancer; inflammation and immunity. The PYRIN connection: novel players in innate immunity and inflammation. Journal of Experimental Medicine 200: 551-8, 2004.
|
Uma Sundaram,
M.D.,
Professor |
Immune regulation of electrolyte and nutrient transport in chronically inflamed intestine (Chrone's disease).
|
Weixin Wang,
Ph.D.,
Research Asst.
Professor
| DNA damage response, MAP kinase, apoptosis.
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