The following are faculty members who research Microbiology at NYU Grossman School of Medicine’s Vilcek Institute of Graduate Biomedical Sciences. View a list of all mentoring faculty at Vilcek Institute of Graduate Biomedical Sciences.

Joel G. Belasco, PhD
Professor, Department of Microbiology
Research interests: RNA biology and post-transcriptional mechanisms of gene regulation

Andrew J. Darwin, PhD
Professor, Department of Microbiology
Research interest: cell envelope functions in bacterial pathogens

Heran Darwin, PhD
Professor, Department of Microbiology
Research interests: Mycobacterium tuberculosis proteasomes and pathogenesis

Edward A. Fisher, MD, MPH, PhD
The Leon H. Charney Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine
Professor, Departments of Cell Biology, Microbiology, and Pediatrics
Research interests: immune mechanisms in atherosclerosis, nanotherapy of cardiovascular disease, and cell biology of lipoprotein formation

Michael J. Garabedian, PhD
Professor, Departments of Microbiology and Urology
Research interests: molecular regulation by nuclear receptors of prostate cancer, cardiovascular disease, and neuronal function

Ramin Herati, MD
Assistant Professor, Departments of Medicine and Microbiology
Research interests: germinal centers, vaccine responses, T follicular helper CD4 cells, rational vaccines, and aging

Kamal M. Khanna, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology
Research interests: macrophages, CD8 T cells, infections, and tumor immunology

Nathaniel R. Landau, PhD
Professor, Department of Microbiology
Research interests: HIV accessory proteins and host restriction factors

David E. Levy, PhD
The Dr. Louis A. Schneider Professor of Molecular Pathology, Department of Pathology Professor, Department of Microbiology
Associate Dean for Collaborative Science
Research interest: regulation of the innate antiviral immune response through the IFN-JAK-STAT pathway

Dan R. Littman, MD, PhD
The Helen L. and Martin S. Kimmel Professor of Molecular Immunology, Department of Pathology
Professor, Department of Microbiology
Research interests: T-cell development, mechanisms of inflammation, and AIDS pathogenesis

Ian J. Mohr, PhD
Professor, Department of Microbiology
Research interests: virus-host interactions regulating messenger RNA translation, innate immune responses and latency, and oncolytic virus immunotherapy

Mark J. Mulligan, MD
The Thomas S. Murphy Sr. Professor, Department of Medicine
Professor, Department of Microbiology
Research interests: immune responses to vaccines against SARS-CoV-2, influenza, and other human pathogens

Lama Nazzal, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine
Research interests: computational biology, metabolism, microbiology, microbiome, systems biology

Evgeny A. Nudler, PhD
The Julie Wilson Anderson Professor of Biochemistry, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
Research interest: antibiotics and antimicrobials: discovery, sustainability and potentiation, and mechanisms of bacterial adaptation to antibiotic and metabolic stress

Mila B. Ortigoza, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Departments of Medicine and Microbiology
Research interest: infectious diseases, immunology 

Alejandro Pironti, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology
Research interests: microbial comparative genomics and antimicrobial resistance

Adam J. Ratner, MD
Associate Professor, Departments of Microbiology and Pediatrics
Research interests: pathogenesis of congenital and perinatal infections and genomic approaches to vaccine design

Ana M. Rodriguez Fernandez, PhD
Professor, Department of Microbiology
Research interest: inflammation in malaria

Jonas Schluter, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology
Research interests: gut microbiome, massive clinical data sets and the hospitalome, microbial ecology and warfare, evolutionary theory, quorum sensing, and machine learning and Bayesian time series analysis

Bo Shopsin, MD, PhD
The Saul J. Farber Associate Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine
Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology
Research interest: adaptive changes during Staphylococcus aureus infection

Kenneth A. Stapleford, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology
Research interests: arbovirus transmission and pathogenesis

Benjamin tenOever, PhD
Chair, Department of Microbiology
Research interests: molecular biology of RNA viruses, the host response to virus infections, synthetic biology, and the evolution of antiviral systems

Jeffrey N. Weiser, MD
Jan T. Vilcek Professor of Molecular Pathogenesis
Research interests: pathogenesis of respiratory tract infection and bacterial transmission

Angus C. Wilson, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology
Research interest: molecular determinants of herpes virus latency and reactivation