Microbiology Faculty & Research Areas
We study bacteria, viruses, parasites, and the human immune response.
Faculty at NYU Langone’s Department of Microbiology engage in a wide variety of research endeavors centered around two thematic areas. The first area concerns the many and varied interactions between humans and pathogenic organisms such as bacteria, viruses, protozoans, and multicellular parasites. We study the ways in which these organisms replicate within the host and ensure transmission to new hosts. We also examine how the host responds to microbial and parasitic infections through innate and acquired immunity. The second area concerns our understanding of the molecular processes that give rise to human disease, with a special focus on cancer, development of the skeleton, stem cell biology, and neurological diseases. To find a research collaborator, sort our faculty by research interest.
Research Faculty
Ralf Duerr, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor (Research), Departments of Medicine and MicrobiologyResearch Keywords
HIV diversity, Superinfection, Immune Responses, Antibody neutralization and binding, Drug Resistance Mutations, HIV Recombinant Forms, HIV infection in Cameroon / West-Central Africa, New emerging strains, Pathogenic CXCR4 tropic HIV-1,
Edward A. Fisher, MD, MPH, PhD
Professor, Departments of Medicine, Pediatrics, Cell Biology, and Microbiology
Raquel Ordonez Ciriza, PhD
Research Assistant Professor, Department of PathologyResearch Keywords
Synthetic regulatory genomics, genome engineering, systems biology, sequencing technologies
Mila B. Ortigoza, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine
Alejandro Pironti, PhD
Director, Microbial Computational Genomic Core Lab
Jonas Schluter, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of MicrobiologyResearch Keywords
gut microbiome, massive clinical data sets and the hospitalome, microbial ecology and warfare, evolutionary theory, quorum sensing, machine-learning and Bayesian time series analysis, microbiota, cancer, immunity, immunology
Liat Shenhav, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of MicrobiologyResearch Keywords
Computational biology, Mathematical models, Artificial intelligence (AI) , Women and children’s health, Multi-omics, Human microbiome, Human milk, Pregnancy, Lactation, Breastfeeding
Benjamin tenOever, PhD
Director, NYU Langone Virology InstituteC. Theresa Vincent, PhD
Research Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology
Weimin Zhang, PhD
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular PharmacologyResearch Keywords
Synthetic genomes, Disease modeling in mouse, COVID-19, Cancer