Faculty

Kimberly Davis, PhD, MSc, studies how members of a bacterial population change during infection, to identify strategies to more effectively combat infections.

Krithika Rajaram, PhD, builds and implements genetic tools to study the biology of a unique organelle in human malaria parasites called the apicoplast.

Maggie Wear, PhD, MS, studies fungal polysaccharides and catalytic antibodies in the lab and teaches critical thinking and social justice in science.

Monica Mugnier, PhD, studies how African trypanosomes, which cause African sleeping sickness, evade the immune system.

Nicole Baumgarth, DVM, PhD, leads efforts of the BSPH to eliminate threats from tickborne diseases, such as Lyme, and studies why some immune responses to infections are successful and others are not.

Prakash Srinivasan, PhD, studies how malaria parasites enter host cells and applies findings to develop vaccines that will prevent them from causing disease.

Radamés J.B. Cordero, PhD, MS, studies how melanin protects against hazardous radiation and thermal stress.

Sabra Klein, PhD '98, studies sex differences and the effects of pregnancy on immune responses to viruses, including influenza viruses and SARS-Cov-2, and vaccines.

Sean Prigge, PhD, is a structural biologist and parasitologist who studies essential nutrients and metabolic pathways in malaria parasites.

Shahbaz Khan, PhD, MVSc, studies lipid storage and metabolism pathways in human and veterinary parasites to develop effective therapeutics and prophylactics for parasitic infections.