Summary: Our work investigates the host/pathogen interactions that mediate rapidly progressive, life-threatening necrotizing infections caused by Gram positive bacteria, including group A [...]
Summary: Many of our nation’s veterans suffer the life-altering complications of diabetes including peripheral vascular disease. Diabetes-associated vascular compromise predisposes the individual [...]
Summary: Our group is primarily interested in the effects of antibiotics on growth, sporulation, and virulence factor expression and production by Clostridium difficile, an anaerobic pathogen [...]
Summary: Research in my laboratory focuses on the study of bacterial pathogenesis, investigating the host response to infection and understanding the role of potent bacterial toxins in disease. I [...]