Alumni

Faculty

Maryam Afkarian, MD, PhD

  • Professor
  • Department of Internal Medicine, Nephrology
Research Interests: mechanistic understanding of inflammation in chronic diseases; specifically understanding the innate and adaptive immune response in diabetic kidney disease (DKD), and characterizing the role of the immune response on DKD pathogenesis. First group to identify an association between urine complement components and progression of diabetic kidney disease (DKD).
451 Health Sciences Drive (GBSF), Room 5404

Tom Ambrosi, PhD

  • Assistant Professor
  • Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
Research Interests: Our lab studies the interactions of skeletal and hematopoietic cellular lineages in postnatal bones of mice and humans using a stem cell-centric approach. Interrogating skeletal stem cell biology during development, aging and cancer/disease allows us to dissect the cellular niches and molecular signals maintaining hematopoietic stem cells and regulating immune cell output. Our long-term goal is to leverage our discoveries to develop strategies to prevent and target skeletal stem cell-based bone aging and hematopoietic malignancies.

Nicole Baumgarth, DVM, PhD

  • Professor
  • Center for Immunology and Infectious Diseases
Research Interests: The Baumgarth Lab investigates the signals that drive a protective B cell response to influenza infection and how these responses might be derailed during infection with Borrelia burgdorferi, the Lyme Disease agent. We are interested also in understanding the development, role, and function of B-1 cells in infectious immunity and how natural IgM regulates the adaptive immune response.
Center for Immunology and Infectious Diseases

Charles Bevins, MD, PhD

  • Professor and Chair of the Immunology Graduate Group
  • Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Research Interests: My group is interested in defining mechanisms that mediate homeostasis between host and microbes at mucosal surfaces. With a main focus on the gastrointestinal tract, our research seeks to provide a better understanding of numerous human diseases, including inflammatory bowel disease, infectious enteritis, necrotizing enterocolitis and others.
Room 5515, Genome and Biomedical Sciences Facility (GBSF)

Terza Brostoff, DVM, PhD, DACVM

  • Assistant Professor
  • Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology
Research Interests: Dr. Brostoff's research focuses on host-pathogen interactions and studying the immune response to viral disease and vaccination, primarily for feline coronavirus. She is interested in understanding the immune response to natural disease and finding ways to leverage this to improve the safety and efficacy of vaccines. She is additionally developing novel point of care diagnostic tests for both infectious disease and cancer.
5329 VM3A