The Department of Microbiology and Immunology, in the School of Medicine, offers a program of study leading to the degree of Master of Science. The M.S. program includes training in a broad range of research areas using state-of-the-art immunological, microbiological, and molecular technologies.

• A completed application form and $60 application fee
• Official scores of the General Test Section of the Graduate Record Examination and the TOEFL (when applicable)
• Three letters of recommendation
• A brief statement of purpose describing interests and career goals
• A current resume or curriculum vitae
• A letter of scientific support from a Department of Microbiology and Immunology faculty member(faculty agreement to mentor student in lab)
• Official transcripts of all undergraduate and graduate course work(mailed to Graduate Admissions)

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 undergraduate courses prior to admission to the graduate program: 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 admissions committee and departmental faculty as part of the application process.

 Required Courses:

Electives:

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. 

Primary Faculty

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 M. Kosiewicz
Associate Professor

Matthew Lawrenz
Assistant Professor

Richard D. Miller
Associate Professor

Thomas C. Mitchell
Associate Professor

Haval Shirwan
Professor 

Robert D. Stout
Professor

Uldis N. Streips
Professor

Jill Suttles
Professor

Jonathan Warawa
Assistant Professor

Esma Yolcu
Assistant Professor

Huang-Ge Zhang
Professor 

School of Dentistry

G. Rafael Fernandez-Botran
Associate Professor Of Pathology And Laboratory Medicine

Henry Kaplan
Professor
Chairman, Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences

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

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
Associate 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