Immunologists in the department study basic mechanisms of immune development, homeostasis and effector function in health and infectious and autoimmune disease.  Studies on T cell development (Rudd) and function (Rudd, Fowell, McGeachy, August) focus on in situ effector programs that regulate tissue immunity with a view to improving vaccines and immuno-therapeutics. Innate immune interests span myeloid cell responses to infectious challenge (Russell, Leifer, VanderVen), stromal responses to inflammatory cues (McGeachy) and early events at the epithelium to changes in the gut microbiome (Chang).  Linking innate and adaptive arms, the Lau lab uses single cell ‘omics’ tools to understand common and distinct programs that shape NK and CD8 T cell memory.  Viral immunologists seek to enhance the efficacy of the antibody response to viral infection during early life (Caddy) and develop strategies to enhance broadly neutralizing antibody responses (Flyak).

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	Avery August, PhD Professor of Immunology and Vice Provost for Academic Affairs Immune cell activation and signaling in development, response to infection and respiratory inflammation
	Sarah Caddy, MA VetMB PhD DACVM FRCVS Assistant Professor at Baker Institute for Animal Health
	Pamela Chang, PhD  Associate Professor of Immunology Identification of metabolites produced by the gut microbiota that regulate the host immune system and the development of chemical tools to modulate the immune response
	Anushka Dongre, PhD Adjunct Assistant Professor
	Andrew Flyak, PhD Assistant Professor
	Deborah Fowell, PhD Department Chair, Professor Regulation of immunity at tissues sites of infection and inflammation, immune imaging, intravital multiphoton microscopy
	Colleen M. Lau, PhD Assistant Professor
	Gary Koretzky, MD, PhD Professor of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College
	Cynthia Leifer, PhD Professor of Immunology Understanding innate immunity from the inside out: Toll-like receptors, signaling, dendritic cells, and controlling microbial infection
	Mandy McGeachy, PhD Professor of Immunology
	Brian Rudd, MPH, PhD Professor of Immunology Developmental immunology; host response to infection
	David Russell, PhD William Kaplan Professor of Infection Biology The biology of intracellular infection, with emphasis on Mycobacteria
	Brian VanderVen, PhD Associate Professor of Bacteriology Physiology of the intracellular pathogen M. tuberculosis