Our Faculty
WMBB Faculty
Associate Professor, Pediatrics
612-626-4598
binstadt@umn.edu
Research Interests: Understanding the pathogenesis of autoimmune diseases with particular emphasis on immune-mediated cardiovascular disease.
Assistant Professor, Medicine
612-625-6911
tbold@umn.edu
Research Interests: The Bold lab will focus on using advanced genetic tools in Mycobacterium tuberculosis to understand the targets and mechanisms of protective immunity in tuberculosis, as well as novel methods by which the bacteria evade immune destruction.
Professor and Virginia and David C. Utz Land Grant Chair in Fundamental Immunobiology, Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
612-625-0401
farra005@umn.edu
Research Interests: How cytokines and cytokine-dependent signal transduction pathways control regulatory T cell development and B cell leukemia
Associate Professor, Medicine
612-624-2417
bfife@umn.edu
Research Interests: The PD-1 negative regulatory pathway in T cells and its role in controlling autoimmunity and preventing transplant rejection, tumor immunology, immunological tolerance, intravital 2 photon imaging
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Assistant Professor, Pharmacology
612-301-8313
tfreedma@umn.edu
Research Interests: Regulation of membrane-proximal signaling in hematopoietic cells, macrophage response due to inflammation, including the tumor microenvironment in breast cancer; the regulation of proto-oncogenic signaling proteins like the Src family kinases
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Assistant Professor, Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
612-625-1626
hamil062@umn.edu
Research Interests: Manipulating CD8 T cells to elicit optimal response to pathogen infection, as well as CD8 T cell activation, T cell memory generation and maintenance, enhancing protective immunity, and inhibiting T cell pathology
Associate Director, Center for Immunology; David M. Brown Professor, Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
612-625-1616
hogqu001@umn.edu
Research Interests: Molecular mechanisms of T cells in the thymus; gene expression profiling, and RNAi "knock-down" analysis; immune response to the Epstein Barr Virus - a chronic viral infection associated with cancer and autoimmunity in humans
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Chairman's Fund Professor in Experimental Pathology, Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
612-625-1496
james024@umn.edu
Research Interests: Mechanisms that regulate the development and trafficking of T cells & their role in protective immunity against pathogens; T cell homeostasis in response to lymphopenia, increasing the function of residual T cells in lymphodepleted individuals, including cancer patients receiving radio/chemotherapy
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Director, Center for Immunology;Regents and Distinguished McKnight University Professor, Microbiology and Immunology
612-626-2715
jenki002@umn.edu
CD4 helper T and B cell activation by directly tracking Agn-specific cells, with the goal of achieving an understanding of lymphocyte signal transduction, proliferation, and differentiation processes to improve vaccines and prevent autoimmunity
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Professor, Medicine
612-624-2101
khoru001@umn.edu
Research Interests: Mechanisms of colon cancer pathogenesis in patients with cystic fibrosis, which has become recognized as a genetic colon cancer syndrome; role of gut microbiota and inflammatory pathways in the colon mucosa
Professor, Microbiology and Immunology
612-625-4666
masopust@umn.edu
Research Interests: Resident memory T cells, cytotoxic T cell migration, differentiation and function within tissues, and CD8 T cell vaccines and memory development in response to infections
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Director of Rheumatic and Autoimmune Diseases; Professor, Medicine
612-625-8477
muell002@umn.edu
Research Interests: Biological and biochemical nature of immune self-tolerance and application to the treatment of autoimmune diseases, specifically the breakdown of B cell tolerance during disease development. T cell clonal expansion, allograft rejection, and immunotherapy of cancer
Professor and Tulloch Chair in Genetics, Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
612-625-3647
orrxx002@umn.edu
Associate Director, UMN Dept. of Medicine Physician Scientist Training Program; Associate Professor, Medicine
612-625-5634
peter899@umn.edu
Research Interests: The role of adaptor proteins in T cell development, regulation of T cell-dependent autoimmunity, and immune cell transduction
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Assistant Professor, Pediatrics
612-626-4598
schu1048@umn.edu
Research Interests: Investigating the mechanisms behind breakdowns in immune tolerance that lead to autoimmune disease.
Distinguished University Teaching Professor and Harry Kay Chair, Laboratory Medicine and Pathology; Director, Medical Scientist Training Program (MD/PhD); Assistant Dean for Graduate Education
612-626-6849
shimi002@umn.edu
Research Interests: Intracellular signal transduction events that regulate adhesion interactions critical for effective agn-specific immune responses & cell trafficking
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Assistant Professor, Medicine
612-624-6149
span0005@umn.edu
Research Interests: Generating new MHCII tetramer reagents and monoclonal antibodies to understand antigen specific responses in both people and mice with type 1 diabetes and cancer associate autoimmunity.
Assistant Professor, Microbiology and Immunology
612-626-7771
ingunn@umn.edu
Research Interests: developing and testing novel strategies to engineer T lymphocytes to safely eliminate recalcitrant cancers.
Associate Professor, Microbiology and Immunology
612-625-4650
vvezys@umn.edu
Research Interests: Investigation of how T cell tolerance to self-antigens, tumor antigens, and proteins from chronic infections is induced and maintained; development of methods for reversing established tolerance to these types of proteins and their translation to the clinic
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Assistant Professor, Integrative Biology & Physiology
Research Interests: The Williams lab is working on elucidating mechanisms that regulate the recruitment and differentiation of innate immune cells in atherosclerotic plaque. Cutting edge approaches such as single-cell RNA sequencing and intravital imaging are used to make innovative observations that will expand our understanding of immunity in cardiovascular disease.
Bio Discovery District (BDD) Faculty
Associate Professor, Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
612-625-7138
penne001@umn.edu
Assistant Professor, Integrative Biology and Physiology
612-621-7688
xrevelo@umn.edu
Associate Professor, Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
612-626-9419
schwe251@umn.edu
U of MN Medical Center (UMMC) Faculty
Professor, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biophysics
612-626-3418
dhkim@umn.edu
Assistant Professor, Computer Science and BioTechnology Institute
612-564-2762
dknights@umn.edu
St. Paul and Off Campus Faculty
Assistant Professor of Biology, Division of Science and Mathematics, University of Minnesota, Morris
320-589-6326
rmjohns@morris.umn.edu
