Research Areas within the Medical College of Wisconsin Center for Infectious Disease Research
Project areas include the study of botulinum toxin, mechanisms of epithelial barrier maintenance and repair, mechanisms of endothelial disruption and traversal by bacterial pathogens, biophysics of bacterial membrane biology, cytokine and chemokine modulation of the intestinal mucosa, opportunistic infections, the emergence of multidrug resistant bacteria, antibody therapeutics, gene regulation of bacterial pathogens, the generation and decay of memory T cells, diagnostics for category A agents and pandemic influenza, drug discovery for unique parasitic aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases, characterization of antimicrobial defensins, the role of endogenous microbiota in human health and disease, mucocutaneous infections, behavioral interventions to prevent infectious diseases, epidemiology of C. difficile infection in the Froedtert Hospital enterprise system, and the mechanisms of replication and latency of intracellular pathogens.
Research Areas and Collaboration Experts
Bacterial Infection
Fungal and Parasitic Infection
Global Health
Immunology
Microbiome
Vector-Borne Infection
Viral Infectious Disease