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Research Areas within the 91ɫƵ 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

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Bacterial Infection

Joseph T. Barbieri, PhD
Microbiology & Immunology
jtb01@mcw.edu
Specialty: Bacterial toxins and pathogenesis

Kenneth L. Brockman, PhD
Microbiology & Immunology
kbrockman@mcw.edu

Jenifer Coburn, PhD
Medicine, Infectious Diseases Division
jcoburn@mcw.edu
Specialty: Leptospirosis, Borrelia, Integrin receptors

Dara W. Frank, PhD
Microbiology & Immunology
frankd@mcw.edu
Specialty: Pseudomonas and Francisella pathogenesis

Jessica Kelliher, PhD
Microbiology & Immunology
jlkelliher@mcw.edu

Joseph E. Kerschner, MD
Pediatric Otolaryngology
jkerschner@mcw.edu
Specialty: Pediatric Otolaryngology

Christopher Kristich, PhD
Microbiology & Immunology
ckristich@mcw.edu
Specialty: Mechanisms of antibiotic resistance, Enterococcal genetics

Matthew C. Surdel, PhD
Center for Infectious Disease Research
msurdel@mcw.edu

Nita Salzman, MD, PhD
Pediatrics
nsalzman@mcw.edu
Specialty: Salmonella pathogenesis, human and mouse defensins, microbiomics

Fungal and Parasitic Infection

Anna R. Huppler, MD
Department of Pediatrics - Infectious Disease
ahuppler@mcw.edu

Michael Kron, MD
Medicine, Infectious Diseases Division
mkron@mcw.edu
Specialty: Structure and function of parasite aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases (Filaria and other nematodes, schistosomes and other trematodes)

Jonathan S. Marchant, MA, PhD
Cell Biology, Neurobiology and Anatomy
jmarchant@mcw.edu

Global Health

Jenifer Coburn, PhD
Medicine, Infectious Diseases Division
jcoburn@mcw.edu
Specialty: Leptospirosis, Borrelia, Integrin receptors

Michael Kron, MD
Medicine, Infectious Diseases Division
mkron@mcw.edu
Specialty: Structure and function of parasite aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases (Filaria and other nematodes, schistosomes and other trematodes)

Jonathan S. Marchant, MA, PhD
Cell Biology, Neurobiology and Anatomy
jmarchant@mcw.edu

Michelle Riehle, PhD
Microbiology & Immunology
mriehle@mcw.edu

Matthew C. Surdel, PhD
Center for Infectious Disease Research
msurdel@mcw.edu

Immunology

Bonnie Dittel, PhD
Versiti Blood Research Institute
bonnie.dittel@bcw.edu
Specialty: Neuroimmunology, autoimmunity, B cells, T cells, microglial cells

William Drobyski, MD
Medicine
wdrobysk@mcw.edu
Specialty: Transplantation immunology

Michael Dwinell, PhD
Microbiology & Immunology
mdwinell@mcw.edu
Specialty: Innate immunity, chemokine regulation of inflammation, cancer

Amy Hudson, PhD
Microbiology & Immunology
ahudson@mcw.edu
Specialty: MHC assembly and trafficking

Rob Lochhead, PhD
Microbiology & Immunology
rlochhead@mcw.edu

Subramaniam Malarkannan, PhD
Medicine, Versiti Blood Research Institute
Subramaniam.Malarkannan@bcw.edu
Specialty: Molecular mechanisms of Natural killer cell activation, Natural killer cell-mediated immune responses during influenza infections

David Margolis, MD
Pediatrics
dmargoli@mcw.edu
Specialty: Graft versus host/Graft versus leukemia/immune compromised host

Nita Salzman, MD, PhD
Pediatrics
nsalzman@mcw.edu
Specialty: Innate Mucosal Immunity, Paneth cells, Antimicrobial Peptides, Pathogen-Microbiome-Host interactions

Eillen Tecle, PhD
Microbiology & Immunology
etecle@mcw.edu

James Verbsky, MD, PhD
Pediatrics
jverbsky@mcw.edu
Specialty: Immune regulation, Autoinflammatory disorders/fever syndromes, T regulatory cells, Autoimmunity

Demin Wang, PhD
Versiti Blood Research Institute
demin.wang@bcw.edu
Specialty: Signal transduction pathways regulating B-cell development, function, autoimmunity, and lymphoma, Hematopoietic stem cells

Renren Wen, PhD
Versiti Blood Research Institute
renren.wen@bcw.edu
Specialty: Signal transduction in T cell development, activation, and function

Calvin Williams, MD, PhD
Pediatrics
cbwillia@mcw.edu
Specialty: Autoimmunity, T cell development, T cell tolerance, regulatory T cell biology

Microbiome

Bonnie N. Dittel, PhD
Versiti Blood Research Institute
bdittel@versiti.org
Specialty: Neuroimmunology, autoimmunity, B cells, T cells, microglial cells

Martin J. Hessner, PhD
Pediatrics (Endocrinology)
mhessner@mcw.edu

John R. Kirby, PhD
Microbiology & Immunology
jkirby@mcw.edu

Christopher Kristich, PhD
Microbiology & Immunology
ckristich@mcw.edu
Specialty: Mechanisms of antibiotic resistance, Enterococcal genetics

Nita Salzman, MD, PhD
Pediatrics
nsalzman@mcw.edu
Specialty: Salmonella pathogenesis, human and mouse defensins, microbiomics

Vector-Borne Infection

Jenifer Coburn, PhD
Medicine, Infectious Diseases Division
jcoburn@mcw.edu
Specialty: Leptospirosis, Borrelia, Integrin receptors

Dara W. Frank, PhD
Microbiology & Immunology
frankd@mcw.edu
Specialty: Pseudomonas and Francisella pathogenesis

Michael Kron, MD
Medicine, Infectious Diseases Division
mkron@mcw.edu
Specialty: Structure and function of parasite aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases (Filaria and other nematodes, schistosomes and other trematodes)

Robert Lochhead, PhD
Microbiology & Immunology
rlochhead@mcw.edu

Michelle Riehle, PhD
Microbiology & Immunology
mriehle@mcw.edu

Matthew C. Surdel, PhD
Center for Infectious Disease Research
msurdel@mcw.edu

Viral Infectious Disease

Ravit Boger, MD
Pediatrics Infectious Diseases

Leslie Cockerham, MD
Medicine
lcockerham@mcw.edu
Specialty: Infectious Disease

Kelly Henrickson, MD
Pediatrics
khenrick@mcw.edu
Specialty: Influenza & respiratory syncytial virus

Amy Hudson, PhD
Microbiology & Immunology
ahudson@mcw.edu
Specialty: Human herpesviruses 6 & 7

William O'Brien, PhD
Ophthalmology, Microbiology & Immunology, Eye Institute
wjob@mcw.edu
Specialty: Herpes simplex virus

Andrew E. Petroll, MD, MS
Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine and of Medicine (Infectious Diseases)
apetroll@mcw.edu
Specialty: Herpes simplex virus

Andrey Sorokin, PhD
Medicine, Microbiology & Immunology
sorokin@mcw.edu
Specialty: BK virus

Vera Tarakanova, PhD
Microbiology & Immunology
vtarakan@mcw.edu
Specialty: Oncogenic herpesvirus

Scott Terhune, PhD
Microbiology & Immunology
sterhune@mcw.edu
Specialty: Cytomegalovirus

Rodney Willoughby, MD
Pediatrics
rewillou@mcw.edu
Specialty: Rabies virus