Infectious Diseases

The Infectious Disease Group includes faculty who work on human pathogens and their arthropod vectors. Some are members of the Eck Institute for Global Health, which currently includes faculty from the Departments of Biological Science and Chemistry/Biochemistry. The Department's focus on infectious diseases is due in large part to the more than 30 years of program building in this area, but also to a major phase of hiring that has added seven new faculty to the group in the past five years.

Areas of Specialty

Eck Institute for Global Health

	Host/Pathogen Interactions Using state-of-the-art molecular and cell biology techniques to study the interaction between intracellular pathogens and their host cell
	Arthropod Vectors Understanding complex interactions between mosquitoes and the pathogens they transmit to vertebrates
	Immunology Immunobiology of Leishmaniasis, Malaria and Tuberculosis
	Bioinformatics & Genomics Investigating pathogens & vectors at the genome level
	Population & Evolutionary Genetics Understanding the many ways organisms evolve
	Disease Ecology Uncovering the dynamics of vector-borne illness