The Department of Microbiology and Immunology, in the School of Medicine, offers programs of study leading to the degrees of Doctor of Philosophy and Master of Science. For admission to the Ph.D. or M.S. program, the applicant must have attained the B.S or B.A. degree with a minimum grade-point average of 3.0 (on a 4.0 point scale). In addition to the completed application form and $50 application fee, the scores of the General Test Section of the Graduate Record Examination and the TOEFL (when applicable), official transcripts of all undergraduate and graduate course work, three letters of recommendation, and a short biographical sketch are required. The applicant must meet the other general requirements of the School of Interdisciplinary and Graduate Studies as outlined in the General Information section of this catalog.  The application deadline is March 1st each year. Submission prior to March 1 is strongly encouraged in order to ensure that all required materials (especially letters of reference) are received by the deadline.  The applicant is expected to have completed the following: One year of introductory biology, one year of organic chemistry, one year of physics, one semester (or equivalent ) of introductory calculus, and one semester of biochemistry.

Prospective students may be invited for a personal interview with members of the department.

 Required Courses:

Electives:

If the student has satisfactorily completed the required courses and total credit hour requirements with an overall and program GPA of 3.0, then the student may register as an M.S. candidate.

Program of Study
Students admitted to the M.S. Degree Program should select a research advisor, form a thesis committee, and decide upon an area of research in the first semester. The student and advisor should form a committee of three (3), composed of the advisor, one other graduate faculty member of the department, and a third member with graduate faculty status in another department. The second committee member will serve as co-advisor if the advisor does not have primary appointment in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology. The department chair may serve as an ex-officio member of the thesis committees.

Students in the M.S. program are required to submit and defend a thesis. The thesis must conform to the School of Interdisciplinary and Graduate Studies' guidelines. Students, with the consent of the departmental graduate faculty committee, may elect to substitute a written research proposal instead of a traditional thesis, based on laboratory research performed by the student, describing successive research to be pursued. The final oral defense will be preceded by a research seminar open to everyone. The oral examination will be administered by the thesis committee, and will be open to any other interested graduate faculty members. Evaluation of student competence and thesis acceptability, together with departmental recommendations for graduation, will be forwarded to the Dean of the School of Interdisciplinary and Graduate Studies. 

Robert D. Stout
Professor and Chair
Yousef Abu Kwaik
Professor
Pascale Alard
Associate Professor
Haribabu Bodduluri
Professor
Paula Chilton
Assistant Professor
Dong Hoon Chung
Assistant Professor
James E. Graham
Associate Professor
Lawrence A. Hunt
Associate Professor
Venkatakrishna R. Jala
Assistant Professor
Colleen Johnson
Professor
Michele Kosiewicz
Associate Professor
Matthew Lawrenz
Assistant Professor
Bing Li
Assistant Professor
Richard D. Miller
Associate Professor
Thomas C. Mitchell
Associate Professor
Haval Shirwan
Professor 
Uldis N. Streips
Professor
Jill Suttles
Professor
Jonathan Warawa
Assistant Professor
Esma Yolcu
Assistant Professor
Huang-Ge Zhang
Professor

Joint Faculty
 
Donald R. Demuth
Professor
Periodontal, Endodontal & Dental Hygiene
School of Dentistry
G. Rafael Fernandez-Botran
Associate Professor Of Pathology And Laboratory Medicine
George Hajishengallis
Associate Professor
Dept. of Periodontics & Endodontics
School of Dentistry
Henry Kaplan
Professor
Chairman, Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences
Richard J. Lamont
Professor
Periodontics, Endodontics, and Dental Hygiene
School of Dentistry
Mariusz Ratajczak
Professor
Dept. Of Medicine
Hui Shao
Joint Faculty Assistant Professor
Dept. of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
Robert H. Staat
Professor of Biological and Biophysical Sciences
School of Dentistry
Douglas D. Taylor
Professor
Dept. of Obstetrics and Gynecology
 
Associate Faculty
 
William G. Cheadle
Professor
Dept. of Surgery
Suzanne Ildstad
Professor of Surgery
Director, Institute of Cellular Therapeutics
Gary S. Marshall
Professor
Dept. of Pediatrics
Kenneth McLeish
Professor
Dept. of Medicine
Kidney Disease Program
Susanna K. Remold
Associate Faculty
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biology
David Scott
Associate Professor of Endodontics & Dental Hygiene
School of Dentistry
James W. Snyder
Professor
Clinical Services, Dept. of Pathology
Matthew Spite
Assistant Professor of Medicine
James T. Summersgill
Professor
Div. of Infectious Diseases
Dept. of Medicine
Silvia M. Uriarte
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Kidney Disease Program

Micah Worley
Assistant Professor
Dept. Of Biology
Jun Yan
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Medicine
James Graham Brown Cancer Center
 
Adjunct Faculty

Carl Bruder
Karolinska Institute
Stockholm, Sweden
Karen Cost
Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
Director, Clinical Immunology Laboratory
Nejat Egilmez
Associate Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
School of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences
State University of New York(SUNY)
Anthony J. Janckila
Associate Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
Technical Director, Special Hematology Laboratory
Department of Veteran’s Affairs Medical Center
Gerald Sonnenfeld
Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
Binghamton University
Dennis Taub
Director, Clinical Core Laboratory
Laboratory of Immunology
National Institute of Aging, NIH
 
Emeritus Faculty
 
Pinghui Liu
Professor