Stephen Beverley, PhD – molecular genetics and viruses of protozoan parasites including Leishmania.
Douglas Chalker, PhD – genetic and epigenetic regulation of developmentally programmed DNA rearrangements of Tetrahymena thermophila.
Mary Dinauer, MD, PhD – role of leukocyte NADPH oxidase in immune response to Aspergillus fumigatus, inflammation, and autoimmunity.
Tamara Doering, MD, PhD – biology and pathogenesis of the pathogenic fungus Cryptococcus neoformans.
Peter Fischer, DSc – medical helminthology, especially filariasis and other neglected tropical diseases caused by parasitic worms.
Daniel Goldberg, MD, PhD – biochemistry of malaria.
Makedonka Mitreva, PhD – next-generation experimental, multi-omic and computational approaches to empower the study of infectious diseases and the human microbiome.
Slavica Pavlovic-Djuranovic, PhD – identifying new targets and possible therapies to treat malaria.
David Sibley, PhD – cellular and molecular basis of intracellular parasitism by protozoan parasites.
Joan Strassmann, PhD – social interactions and mutualism, using a microbial system to study cheating, conflict and cooperation, in particular in social amoebae and their farmed bacteria.
Heather True-Krob, PhD – epigenetic regulation of phenotypes by propagation of prions in yeast.
Steven Van Dyken, PhD – cytokine-mediated tissue feedback loops that maintain homeostasis, and environmental factors that instigate inflammation and fibrosis.
Gary J. Weil, MD – research is focused on filarial nematode parasites (translational research and biology).