Virology and Microbiology

   
Mair E. A. Churchill, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Pharmacology

  • Ribosomal DNA transcription
  • Gram negative bacterial quorum sensing
  • Transcriptional co-activation
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    Robert L. Garcea, M.D.
    Professor of Pediatrics
    Professor of Cell and Structural Biology
    Professor of Microbiology

  • Virus structure determination
  • Anti-virus vaccines using recombinant capsid proteins
  • Virus assembly mechanisms
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    Robert S. Hodges, Ph.D., F.R.S.C.
    Professor, Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics
    Director, Program in Biomolecular Structure
    John Stewart Endowed Chair, Peptide Chemistry

  • Development of antimicrobial peptides with broad spectrum activity
  • Development of synthetic peptide vaccines and antibody therapeutics to pseudomonas aeruginosa
  • Peptide/peptidomimetic therapeutics to pseudomonas aeruginosa
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    Jeffrey S. Kieft, Ph.D.
    Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics

  • Initiation of translation by viral IRESes
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