Molecular Recognition in Biological Systems and Bioinformatics

Bacterial pathogenesis; Vaccine antigens; Bacterial virulence factors; Lipooligosaccharides; Mechanisms iron acquisition and utilization

Immunology; Molecular Biology; Cancer research; Transgenic and Knockout Mice.

Staphylococcus aureus; infectious disease; comparative microbial genomics; human microbiome; bioinformatics; DNA sequencing (Next generation sequencing); microarray (spotted and Affymetrix); metagenomics; oral streptococci.

Virus mimicry, protein engineering, membrane protein structure, liposomal protein reconstitution, liposomal targeting for drug delivery, gene therapy and in vivo imaging

Immune cell function in cancer; cytokine therapy of tumors; cancer stem cells; flow cytometry.

Mechanisms of DNA replication; DNA damage regulation of DNA replication; Papillomavirus; Enzymology; Biochemistry.

mRNA synthesis and processing

Mucosal immunology; immune response; vaccines; adjuvants; oral microbiology.

Regulation of gene expression and protein biochemistry in particular relative to ATP synthase and RNA processing.