Many bacteria take up environmental DNA in a process known as genetic transformation, which enables the cells to incorporate fitness-enhancing genes and mediates the spread of antibiotic resistance and virulence
Dr. Ellner is Professor of Medicine at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School. His research interest is the natural history and immunopathogenesis of TB and related host biomarkers. He has been
Dr. Fitzgerald-Bocarsly received her undergraduate degree from UCLA, her PhD from Boston University and her post-doctoral training at the Sloan Kettering Institute for Cancer Research. She is Vice Chair for
The Freundlich group is located at Rutgers University in the Department of Pharmacology, Physiology and Neuroscience and the Department of Medicine (Division of Infectious Diseases, Center for Emerging & Re-emerging
Current research in my laboratory is to understand how human commensal and pathogenic microbes communicate with intestinal mucosal cells, how environmental stressors alter such microbe-host interactions, and how altered microbe-host
Our laboratory studies mechanisms of adaptation expressed by the bacterium and by the host macrophage during infection, with the goal of finding targets for therapeutic intervention. We also develop tools
Dr. Jack Chun-Chieh Hsu received his Ph.D. from the Department of Biochemistry at Duke University. His research focused on elucidating the complex life of RNA in RNA localization and translational
Chronic pain is a debilitating condition and represents a clinical challenge for the practicing physician. The long-term goal of my research is to understand the mechanisms underlying the development of
Dr. Johnson is a Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, and the Director of the Center for Data Science at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School. The Johnson Lab has
Dr. Priyadarshini Kachroo received her Ph.D. in Natural Sciences at the University of Kiel, Germany (2016). As a postdoctoral fellow and Instructor at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard