The division's research activities are conducted by faculty with primary appointments in the Division of Infectious Diseases, as well as faculty in the Departments of Medical and Molecular Parasitology, Microbiology, and Pathology.

Division of Infectious Diseases Core Faculty Investigators

• Judith Aberg, M.D.: HIV clinical investigation

• Martin J. Blaser, M.D.: Helicobacter pylori, human microbiome

• Donald Chen, M.D.: Genetic diversity in Plasmodium falciparum
  



• Demetre Daskalakis, M.D.: HIV detection and prevention

• Bouke de Jong, M.D. Ph.D.: Molecular epidemiology of tuberculosis; biology of Mycobacterium africanum
  
  
• Joel D. Ernst, M.D.: Biology of tuberculosis
  
  
• Jennifer Philips, M.D., Ph.D.: Molecular pathogenesis of mycobacterial infection
  
  
• Michael Phillips, M.D.: Epidemiology of Carbapenemase-producing Klebsiella; prevention of healthcare-associated infections
  
  
• Bo Shopsin, M.D., Ph.D.: Molecular pathogenesis of Staphylococcus aureus infections


• Sumathi Sivapalasingam, M.D.: HIV care and antiretroviral delivery in the developing world
• Fred Valentine, M.D: HIV primary infection

Division of Infectious Diseases Affiliated Investigators

• Nina Bhardwaj, M.D., Ph.D.: Dendritic cell-based immunity and vaccines

• Page Caufield, D.D.S., Ph.D.: The oral microbiome

• Andrew Darwin, Ph.D.: The phage-shock response in Yersinia and Pseudomonas

• K. Heran Darwin, Ph.D.: The structure and function of the mycobacterial proteasome

• Karen Day, Ph.D.: Genetic epidemiology of malaria

• Michael Dustin, Ph.D.: Cell trafficking in immunity; structure and function of the immunological synapse
  
  
• Adrian Erlebacher, M.D., Ph.D.: Immune tolerance
  
  
• Stefan Feske, Ph.D.: Calcium signalling in T lymphocyte activation; primary immunodeficiency
  
  
• Daniel Eichinger, Ph.D.: Trophozoite-cyst differentiation in Entamoeba histolytica


• Nathaniel Landau, Ph.D.: Molecular pathogenesis of HIV
  
  
• David Levy, Ph.D. : Innate immunity to viral infections; mechanisms of type I interferon induction and signalling
  
  
• Dan Littman, M.D., Ph.D.: Differentiation of T lymphocytes; regulation of T cell immunity
  
  
• Richard Novick, M.D.: Molecular pathogenesis of staphylococcal infections; molecular genetics of Staphylococcus
  
  
  
• Ana Rodriguez, Ph.D.: Evasion of immunity by malaria parasites
  
  
• Susan Schwab, Ph.D.: Sphingosine phosphate receptors in lymphocyte trafficking
  
  
• Photini Sinnis, M.D.: Mechanisms of malaria sporozoite cell invasion and trafficking
  
  
• Derya Unutmaz, M.D.: HIV interactions with CD4+ T lymphocytes