![Christina Baer](/contentassets/cf9e16f43d224525ac044fe6e213a09e/baer-img_1203-edits.jpg) |
Academic Role: Associate Professor Focus: Director of the Sanderson Center for Optics Experimentation (SCOPE)
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![Sam Samuel Behar, MD, PhD](/contentassets/cf9e16f43d224525ac044fe6e213a09e/behar_img_0916-edits2.jpg) |
Academic Role: Professor Focus: We seek to understand how the causative agent of tuberculosis, namely the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis evades host immunity, and how different components of the immune response work together to contain infection. Our ultimate goal is to inform vaccine development and the design of host directed therapy.
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Academic Role: Associate Professor Focus: Host-Microbiome Interaction, Computational Biology, Synthetic Biology
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Academic Role: Assistant Professor Focus: Machine Learning, Digital Epidemiology, Mobile Health, and data visualization
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![Natasha Durham](/globalassets/maps/maps-new/images/faculty-photos/durham-img_1176-edits.jpg) |
Academic Role: Instructor Focus: Viral Entry, Antibodies & Vaccines, Single Molecule Techniques
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![Silvia Galvan Pena](/contentassets/cf9e16f43d224525ac044fe6e213a09e/silvia-galvan-pena.jpg) |
Academic Role: Assistant Professor Focus:
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Academic Role: Professor Focus: Adeno-associated virus vector mediated gene transfer for gene therapy, gene therapy of inherited neurodegenerative Canavan Disease
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![Rachel Gerstein, PhD Rachel Gerstein](/contentassets/cf9e16f43d224525ac044fe6e213a09e/gerstein-img_1038-edits.jpg) |
Academic Role: Associate Professor Focus: Developmental regulation of V(D)J recombination and B cell development.
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![Feng He](/contentassets/cf9e16f43d224525ac044fe6e213a09e/he-img_1101edits.jpg) |
Academic Role: Associate Professor Focus: Post-transcriptional gene regulation in eukaryotes
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Academic Role: Associate Professor Focus: Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis; Mucosal Innate Immunity; Staphylococcus aureus; Transcriptional Regulation of Host Defense; Autophagy; SARS-CoV-2 Interactions with Human Lung Cells
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Academic Role: Gerald L. Haidak, MD, and Zelda S. Haidak Professor of Cell Biology Professor Focus: Cytoplasmic aspects of post-transcriptional regulation in eukaryotes
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Academic Role: Professor Focus: Cellular and organismal studies of viral infections
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Academic Role: Instructor Focus: Molecular Biology, Bioengineering
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Academic Role: Assistant Professor Focus: Gastrointestinal Microbiome, Diet-Microbiome Interaction
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Academic Role: Associate Professor Focus: Mitochondria and the endoplasmic reticulum
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Academic Role: Professor and Chair; Founder and Director, Program in Microbiome Dynamics Focus: Mucosal inflammation, host: pathogen interactions, and cancer biology
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Academic Role: Professor Focus: Paramyxovirus Membrane Fusion, Assembly of Paramyxoviruses, Virus Vaccines
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![James Munro](/contentassets/cf9e16f43d224525ac044fe6e213a09e/munro_img_0890-edits.jpg) |
Academic Role: Associate Professor Focus: The Munro laboratory develops and applies quantitative biophysical approaches to visualize virus replication, and probe the functions of the proteins and RNAs involved.
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![Kenan Murphy, PhD Kenan Murphy, PhD](/contentassets/cf9e16f43d224525ac044fe6e213a09e/murphy-img_1184-edits.jpg) |
Academic Role: Assistant Professor Focus: Double-stranded DNA break repair in Escherichia coli, Recombineering technology for gene replacement in bacterial pathogens
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![Kadamba Papavinasasundaram, PhD Kadamba Papavinasasundaram, PhD](/globalassets/maps/maps-new/images/faculty-photos/sundaram-img_1312-1-edits.jpg) |
Academic Role: Assistant Professor Focus: Mycobacterial cell wall synthesis, Mycobacterial genetic manipulation
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Academic Role: Associate Professor Focus: Calcium Channels and Neuronal Plasticity
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![Christopher Sassetti, PhD Christopher Sassetti, PhD](/globalassets/maps/maps-new/images/faculty-photos/sassetti-edits.jpg) |
Academic Role: Professor and Vice Chair Focus: Pathogenesis of tuberculosis
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Academic Role: Associate Professor Focus: Director of Flow Cytometry Core
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Academic Role: Assistant Professor Focus: Virology and vectorology of adeno-associated viruses
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Academic Role: Associate Professor, Director of Operations, Center for Microbiome Research Focus: Microbiome, Bacterial Genomics
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Academic Role: Associate Professor Focus: AAV vector technology and AAV-mediated miRNA therapeutics
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Academic Role: Professor Focus: The ZhuGe lab studies the molecular mechanisms by which Ca2+ signals and ion channels control neurotransmitter release and smooth muscle contractility. We also exploit new physiological functions of bitter taste receptors in extra-oral tissues and organs. We aim to find novel molecular targets for new therapies to manage asthma, fecal incontinence, preterm labor and adenomyosis.
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Faculty Emeriti
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Michael Bratt, PhD James Dobson, PhD H. Maurice Goodman, PhD Peter Grigg, PhD Julie Jonassen, PhD José Lemos, PhD Joshua Singer, PhD Janet Stavnezer, PhD Donald Tipper, PhD Michael Volkert, PhD Robert Woodland, PhD
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Affiliated Faculty
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Raffi Van Aroian, PhD (Professor∆) Evan Bradley, MD, PhD (Assistant Professor¶) Robert Brewster, PhD (Associate Professor**) Sylvain Cecchini, PhD (Associate Professor*) Jennifer Daly, MD (Professor§) Richard Ellison, MD (Professor§) Terence Flotte, MD (Professorz) Douglas Golenbock, MD (Professor§) John Haran, MD, PhD (Professor¶) Michelle Kelliher, PhD (Professor§) Robert Kotin, PhD (Professor*) Stuart Levitz, MD (Professor§) Egil Lien, PhD (Professor§) Scott Loiler, PhD (Adjunct Assistant Professor*#) John Mark Madison, MD (Professor§) Manish Muhuri, PhD (Instructor*) Peter Newburger, MD (Professorz) Ann Rothstein, PhD (Professor§) David Sela, PhD (Adjunct Assistant Professor****) Elizabeth Shank, PhD (Associate Professor**) Neal Silverman, PhD (Professor§) Marc Uknis, MD (Adjunct Assistant Professorx) Maria Zapp, PhD (Assistant Professor∆)
Primary Affiliations
*UMMS Horae Gene Therapy Center https://www.umassmed.edu/gtc/; **UMMS Department of Systems Biology https://www.umassmed.edu/DSB/; #Voyager Therapeutics Inc. https://www.voyagertherapeutics.com/; ****UMass/Amherst https://www.umass.edu/foodsci/faculty/david-sela; ∆UMMS Program in Molecular Medicine https://www.umassmed.edu/pmm/; §UMMS Department of Medicine https://www.umassmed.edu/medicine/; zUMMS Department of Pediatrics https://www.umassmed.edu/pediatrics/; ¶UMMS Department of Emergency Medicine https://www.umassmed.edu/emed/; &UMMS Department of Molecular, Cell and Cancer Biology https://www.umassmed.edu/mccb/; xGemini Therapeutics Inc. https://geminitherapeutics.com/
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