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Paul Fidel, PhD
School of Dentistry
Oral and Craniofacial Biology / Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology
Grant Review Committees Served on: NIH Other Committees

Primary Research / Clinical / Teaching Interests:
	Candidiasis Immunity Infectious Disease Medicine Microbiome in HIV disease
Secondary Research / Clinical / Teaching Interests:
	Polymicrobial infections

Unique Techniques Used or Developed:
	Animal models of Candida infection - vaginal - intra-abdominal - oral - intravenous
Unique Equipment Used:
	Confocal microscopy
Keywords Associated with Work:
	Adaptive Immunity Candidiasis, Oral Candidiasis, Vulvovaginal Fungal biofilms Immunity, Innate Oral Microbiome

Last Updated: 02/08/2019

Timothy Foster, PhD
School of Medicine
Microbiology, Immunology, and Parasitology / Gene Therapy Program

Primary Research / Clinical / Teaching Interests:
	Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing Eye Infections Eye Infections, Viral Herpes Simplex Immune Evasion Virus Diseases
Secondary Research / Clinical / Teaching Interests:
	Cellular and Molecular Biology

Unique Techniques Used or Developed:
	Adenoviral Vector Systems Creation of Stable and Inducible miRNA knockdown Cell Lines Fluorescent tagging systems Indicator systems for quantifying Innate immune induction Lentiviral Vector Systems Mammalian Two Hybrid Protein-Protein Interaction Promoter Reporter Assay systems Specialized protein expression systems Yeast two hybrid screening
Unique Equipment Used:
	Deconvolution fluorescent microscopy Microscopy, Confocal Pachymeter Slit Lamp
Keywords Associated with Work:
	Biological Therapy DNA Viruses Eye Infections Herpes Genitalis Herpes Labialis Herpes Zoster Ophthalmicus Immunity, Innate

Last Updated: 10/25/2018

Guoshun Wang, PhD
School of Medicine
Microbiology, Immunology, and Parasitology / Gene Therapy Program
Grant Review Committees Served on: NIH Other Committees

Primary Research / Clinical / Teaching Interests:
	Immunity, Innate
Secondary Research / Clinical / Teaching Interests:
	Ethanol Reactive oxygen species; Chronic inflammation and Cancer development

Unique Techniques Used or Developed:
	Techniques related to neutrophil research, hematopoietic stem cell isolation and gene editing
Unique Equipment Used:
	Neon Transfection System and Gene Editing System
Keywords Associated with Work:
	Cystic Fibrosis Cystic Fibrosis; Gene Therapy and Stem Cell Therapy; Neutrophil Biology; Innate Immunity; Genome Editing and gene repair

Last Updated: 04/02/2024