Larner College of Medicine

MMG Faculty Researchers and Laboratories

MMG faculty, with graduate and undergraduate students, address fundamental biomedical research questions using molecular biology, genetics, biochemistry, structural biology and bioinformatics. MMG is home to the Vaccine Testing Center (VTC) and the Translational Global Infectious Diseases Research Center (TGIR)

Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

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Dani Brasino

Assistant Professor, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics

danielle.brasino@med.uvm.edu
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Emily Bruce

Assistant Professor, Microbiology & Molecular Genetics

emily.bruce@med.uvm.edu
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Jean Celli

Professor, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics

jean.celli@med.uvm.edu
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Bruno Martorelli Di Genova

Assistant Professor, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics • Undergraduate Advisor

bruno.mdigenova@med.uvm.edu
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Leigh Knodler

Associate Professor, Microbiology & Molecular Genetics • Advisor, Accelerated Master's Program • Adviser, Master's of Science

leigh.knodler@med.uvm.edu
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Menelaos "Mel" Symeonides

Assistant Professor, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics

menelaos.symeonides@med.uvm.edu
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Markus Thali

Professor, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics

markus.thali@med.uvm.edu
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Gary Ward

Professor, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics • Director, Vermont Immunobiology and Infectious Disease Training Program

gary.ward@med.uvm.edu
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Matthew "Matt" J. Wargo

Professor, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics • Director, Cellular, Molecular, and Biomedical Sciences PhD Program

mwargo@uvm.edu

Molecular Biology and DNA Repair

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Nimrat Chatterjee

Assistant Professor • Co-Chair, Mutagenesis Mechanisms and Assessments • Co-Chair, Membership and Professional Development, Environmental Mutagenesis and Genomics Society

nimrat.chatterjee@med.uvm.edu
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Sylvie Doublié

Green and Gold Professor, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics

sylvie.doublie@med.uvm.edu
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Brian Eckenroth

Faculty Scientist

brian.eckenroth@med.uvm.edu
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Tony Mertz

Assistant Professor, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics

tony.mertz@med.uvm.edu
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Steven Roberts

Professor • Program Co-Leader, Cancer Cell Program

srober23@med.uvm.edu

Immunology and Vaccinology

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Sean A Diehl

Associate Professor, Microbiology & Molecular Genetics

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Beth Kirkpatrick

Professor, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics • Department Chair, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics

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Mary Claire Walsh

Director, Vaccine Testing Center

Genetics and Bioinformatics

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Julie Dragon

Associate Professor • Director, Bioinformatics Core • Director, Vermont Biomedical Research Network - Data Science Core

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Princess Rodriguez

Assistant Professor, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics • Undergraduate Advisor

Research Centers

Our department also hosts two special research teams, the UVM Vaccine Testing Center (VTC) and the UVM Translational Global Infectious Diseases Research (TGIR) Center. The VTC performs human research to help develop novel candidate vaccines to prevent infectious diseases throughout the world, as well as advanced research on the human immune response to infection and vaccines.

The TGIR is a NIH-funded Center of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) award which supports the development of new research faculty in this field and strengthens the institutional support of research into globally-important infectious diseases.