Emeriti Faculty

Research Interests: 1) Determining the role of monocyte/macrophages in the pathogenesis of infectious diseases, chronic inflammation and aging; 2) Examining the immunology of aging, and; 3) Assessing the roles of macrophages in the pathogenesis of TB using the macaque model of TB/SIV.

Research Interests: Type III protein secretion in Yersinia

Research Interests: Vaccine development in AIDS and smallpox

Research Interests: Immunopathogenesis of infectious diseases in ruminant, equine and marine mammals

Research Interests: Retroviral pathogenesis and vaccine development; AIDS vaccine development; Tumor immunology

Research Interests: Uses One Health approaches to investigate the epidemiology and transmission dynamics of zoonotic pathogens locally in California as well as internationally at multiple project sites in Africa and Asia.

Research Interests: Function, design and evolution of gene circuitry

Research Interests: Origin of mutations during selection in Salmonella

Research Interests: Immunopathogenesis of feline retroviruses

Research Interests: Bacterial degradation of environmental pollutants