Ellen Braun-Howland
Occurrence and control of pathogens in the environment; molecular detection of environmentally significant organisms. more info
bhowland@wadsworth.org

April Burch
Virus assembly and the host-pathogen interface. more info
aburch@wadsworth.org

Sudha Chaturvedi
Fungal and parasite pathogeneses, protein transport and secretion mechanisms. more info
schaturv@wadsworth.org

Vishnu Chaturvedi
Fungal pathogenesis, diagnostics, antifungals and molecular epidemiology. more info
vishnu.chaturvedi@wadsworth.org

Jan Conn
Evolutionary genetics of mosquitoes that transmit infectious diseases. more info
jconn@wadsworth.org

Christina Egan, Ph.D., Albany Medical College, 1997.
Diagnostic assay development for the detection of biothreat agents. more info
cte01@health.state.ny.us

Jan Keithly
Drug discovery against parasites; biochemistry and molecular biology of parasite metabolic pathways. more info
keithly@wadsworth.org

Jeffrey S. Kennedy
Clinical and Experimental Endocrinology and Immunology. more info
jsk07@health.state.ny.us

Laura D. Kramer
Epidemiology, ecology and evolution of arthropod-borne viruses. more info
kramer@wadsworth.org

David A. Lawrence
Biochemistry of lymphocyte activation; differential sensitivities of lymphoid subsets; immunotoxicological effects of environmental factors. more info
lawrencd@wadsworth.org

William T. Lee
T-cell development; phenotypic, developmental, and functional characterization of differences between virgin and memory T-helper cells. more info
leew@wadsworth.org

Susan Madison Antenucci
Molecular Biology of Parasites, RNA editing in Pathogenic Parasites. more info
susanma@wadsworth.org

Nicholas Mantis
Mucosal immunity and vaccine development to enteropathogenic bacteria and toxins. more info
nmantis@wadsworth.org

Kathleen McDonough
Microbial pathogenesis; host parasite interactions; TB and plague. more info
mcdonoug@wadsworth.org

James McSharry, Ph.D., 1970.
Pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics of antiviral compounds.
mcsharj@mail.amc.edu

* Donal Murphy
Expression and function of major histocompatibility (MHC) genes in the immune system. more info
murphy@wadsworth.org

* Kimberlee Musser
Molecular Analysis of Bacterial Agents; Bioterrorism Preparedness. more info
musser@wadsworth.org

* Harry Taber
Molecular expression of genes controlling membrane functions in simple systems of microbial differentiation. more info
taber@wadsworth.org

David Wentworth
Molecular determinants of interspecies transmission and pathogenesis of influenza and corona viruses. more info
dwentwor@wadsworth.org

Gary Winslow
Immunity to intracellular bacteria. more info
winslow@wadsworth.org

* Susan Wong
Infectious disease immunology; development of diagnostic assays for tickbome pathogens. more info
sjw03@health.state.ny.us

Faculty with Secondary Appointments in IID:

Marlene Belfort
Dynamics of mobile, self-splicing introns at the level of DNA, RNA and protein accessories. more info
marlene.belfort@wadsworth.org

Robert L. Glaser
Chromatin structure and function in Drosophila; palmitoyl-protein thioesterases and Batten Disease.more info
glaser@wadsworth.org

Haydeh Payami
Genetics of aging and neurodegenerative diseases. more info
hpayami@wadsworth.org

Joachim Jaeger
Structure/function studies of viral replication complexes using X-ray crystallography, solution scattering, imaging techniques, mutagenesis and kinetics. more info
jjaeger@wadsworth.org

Hongmin Li
Crystal structure of macromolecular complesxes in bacterial or viral infection and host response. more info
lih@wadsworth.org

Paul S. Masters
Molecular virology of coronaviruses; structure and function of viral ribonucleo-proteins. more info
masters@wadsworth.org

Joseph T. Wade
Regulation of gene expression in bacteria more info
jwade@wadsworth.org

Adjunct Faculty:

Kristen Bernard
Pathogenesis of arboviruses.

Ronald Limberger
Genetics, structure and pathogenesis of spirochetes; regulation of bacterial/motility genes. more info
limberg@wadsworth.org

Rama Ramani
Fungal diagnosis and taxonomy, antifungals, development of rapid and new techniques for fungal diagnosis and antifungal studies.
rxr15@health.state.ny.us

Ira F. Salkin
Fungal taxonomy; applied techniques for identification of medical mycoses; fungal pathogenesis; clinical laboratory evaluation and administration.
irasalkin@aol.com

Linda Styer
Development of molecular diagnostic assays for blood-borne viruses.
lms24@health.state.ny.us

Robert Webster
Immunopathology of acute lung injury; Inflammatory responses involving acute phase proteins, neutrophils and complement.
rwebster@uamail.albany.edu

* William Wolfgang
Identification of new bacterial species associated with human disease. more info
wwolfgan@wadsworth.org

David Woodland
T cell immunity to pathogens that infect the respiratory tract.
dwoodland@trudeauinstitute.org

Additional information on faculty research interests and publications can be found at: http://www.wadsworth.org/resnres/bios/pifacframe.htm