Biological Sciences Research Area: Infectious Diseases

Faculty Members


Dr. Andre Buret
Pathophysiology of microbial-host interactions, with emphasis on how these may lead to inflammatory complications.
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Dr. Constance Finney
Improving our understanding of how the immune system copes with multiple infections at the same time, known as co-infection. Host-pathogen interactions.
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Dr. Ann Gregory
Viromics; viral ecology & evolution; viral discovery; synthetic ecology.
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Dr. Joe Harrison
Microbial population biology; biofilm microbiology; bacterial genetics and genomics; cyclic-di-GMP signalling; antibiotic and metal resistance; chronic infectious disease.
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Dr. Ian Lewis
Developing new diagnostic approaches for pathogen identification, specifically for hospital acquired infections, and for identifying drug resistant pathogens; investigating the connection between metabolic adaptation and virulence of human pathogens; mass spectrometry and nuclear magnetic resonance imaging.
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Dr. Doug Morck
Veterinary medicine; ruminant infectious diseases; biofilms.
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