Catherine O’Connell, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: Natural immunity to chlamydial genital tract infection in women Pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) continues to pose great risk to the reproductive health of women worldwide. Its potentially devastatin … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Microbiology & Immunology, Pediatrics |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Bacteriology, Immunology, Microbiology, Molecular Biology, Systems Biology |
David B. Peden, MD, MS |
| Clinical / Research Focus: Translational and clinical research in environmental lung disease.,Translational and clinical research in environmental lung disease. |
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AFFILIATIONS: Center for Environmental Medicine, Asthma & Lung Biology (CEMALB), Microbiology & Immunology, Pediatrics, Toxicology |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Toxicology |
Raymond J. Pickles, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: My laboratory, located in the Cystic Fibrosis/Pulmonary Research and Treatment Center in the Thurston-Bowles building at UNC, is interested in how respiratory viruses infect the airway epithelium of t … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Marsico Lung Institute, Microbiology & Immunology |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Immunology, Pathogenesis & Infection, Physiology, Virology |
Yuliya Pylayeva-Gupta, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: My research focuses on understanding the mechanisms by which tumors co-opt the immune system to facilitate emergence and progression of cancer. I am particularly interested in biology of pancreatic ca … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Genetics, Lineberger Cancer Center, Microbiology & Immunology |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Cancer Biology, Cell Biology, Cell Signaling, Gastrointestinal Biology, Genetics, Immunology, Translational Medicine |
Nancy Raab-Traub |
| Clinical / Research Focus: Our laboratory investigates the role of the Epstein-Barr virus in the etiology of human disease. EBV is a ubiquitous infectious agent, which is associated with specific malignancies including Burkitt’ … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Lineberger Cancer Center, Microbiology & Immunology |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Cancer Biology, Pathogenesis & Infection, Virology |
Matt Redinbo, |
| Clinical / Research Focus: The Redinbo Laboratory examines dynamic cellular processes using structural, chemical, molecular and cell biology. Our goals are to discover new drugs and to elucidate molecular pathways essential to … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Biochemistry & Biophysics, Bioinformatics & Computational Biology, Chemistry, Microbiology & Immunology |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Biochemistry, Chemical Biology, Drug Discovery, Molecular Medicine, Structural Biology |
Adam Rosenthal, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: During infection individual cells of a bacterial pathogen can co-occur in distinct physiological states. Such phenotypic heterogeneity has been recently reported in landmark virulence processes … Read more |
| Mentors: | Undergraduate Students, Medical Students, Graduate Students |
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AFFILIATIONS: Microbiology & Immunology |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Evolutionary Biology, Microbiology, Molecular Biology |
R. Balfour Sartor, MD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: I am a physician scientist, board-certified gastroenterologist with expertise in managing difficult-to-treat patients with inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) and a mucosal immunologist/microbiologist w … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: (DOM) Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Center for GI Biology and Disease (CGIBD), Department of Medicine (DOM), Lineberger Cancer Center, Marsico Lung Institute, Microbiology & Immunology |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Gastrointestinal Biology, Immunology, Microbiology |
Jonathan Serody, MD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: Our laboratory is involved in studies to determine the mechanisms and proteins involved in the migration of alloreactive and regulatory T cells to organs involved in graft-versus-host disease after st … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Department of Medicine (DOM), Lineberger Cancer Center, Microbiology & Immunology |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Cancer Biology, Immunology, Pathology, Physiology |
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AFFILIATIONS: Biology, Center for GI Biology and Disease (CGIBD), Lineberger Cancer Center, Microbiology & Immunology, Neuroscience Center |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Bioinformatics, Cell Biology, Developmental Biology, Gastrointestinal Biology, Genetics, Genomics, Immunology, Microscopy, Molecular Biology, Quantitative Biology |
Ron Swanstrom, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: Our group uses the tools of molecular biology to study HIV pathogenesis and latency. We have specific interests in how the virus evolves to infect a new cell type, usually in the brain, to cause a dis … Read more |
Rita Tamayo, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: We use genetic and biochemical approaches and animal models of disease to study how the intestinal pathogen Clostridioides difficile (C. diff) colonizes the intestinal tract and causes disease. We are … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Center for GI Biology and Disease (CGIBD), Microbiology & Immunology |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Bacteriology, Gastrointestinal Biology, Genetics, Microbiology, Molecular Biology, Pathogenesis & Infection |





