Faculty members who may serve as major advisors or members of student advisory committees:
Robert Blumenthal
Bioinformatics of gene expression and control in bacterial pathogens
Genetics of multidrug resistant Staphlococcus aureus (MRSA)
Role of restriction-modification systems in controlling gene exchange
Isabel Novella
Adaptability and robustness, properties and viral vaccine implications
Viruses and cancer
Evolution of positive strand (Dengue) and negative strand (VSV) RNA viruses
Kevin Pan
Innate immune control of adaptive responses in allergic diseases
Synergistic regulation of inflammation
Microbial biofilms and periodontitis
Michael Rees
Transplantation biology and immunology
Dorothea Sawicki
Replication of RNA viruses (alphaviruses and coronaviruses)
Virus-host cell interactions in alphavirus infections.
Stanislaw Stepkowski
Mechanisms of tolerance and transplantation rejection
Design of novel immunosuppressive drugs
Akira Takashima
Differentiation of skin Langerhan and dendritic cells
Live cell imaging
M. Julie Westerink
Pathogenesis of group A streptococci
Vaccine responses in young and aged populations
R. Mark Wooten
Borrelia (Lyme disease) immunobiology
Role of IL-10 in control of microbial pathogenesis and disease
Mechanisms of immune evasion by pathogenic Burkholderia species
Novel approaches to bone regeneration: mesenchymal cells & macrophages
Randall Worth
Mechanism of antibody based clearance of microbes by macrophages
Role of Fc receptors and platelets in autoimmune diseases and thrombosis
Faculty members who may serve as advisory committee members for Ph.D. students or primary advisors for Master's Students:
Wenhao Chen: Transplantation immunology
Nancy Collins: Transplantation and stem cells
Paul Lehmann: Immune response to skin infections
Bashar Kahaleh: Antioxidant stress and fibrosis
Hironori Matsushima: Novel dendritic cell precursors
Deepa Mukundan: Pediatric infectious diseases
Thomas Papadimos: Translational analysis of trauma and immune reactions
Anthony Quinn: Immunity of chronic diseases
Hermann Von Grafenstein: Novel drug design
Please mail questions, comments, and suggestions to Kevin.Pan@uToledo.edu
