Lora V. Hooper, Ph.D.
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center-Dallas
Innate immune responses to commensal bacteria at gut epithelial surfaces

Eckhard Jankowsky, Ph.D.
Case Western Reserve University
Molecular mechanisms of pathogen identification by the pattern recognition receptors RIG-I and MDA5

Barbara I. Kazmierczak, M.D., Ph.D.
Yale University
The role of injury in Pseudomonas aeruginosa pulmonary infection

Manuel Llinas, Ph.D.
Princeton University
Global analysis of the Plasmodium falciparum metabolome

Harmit S. Malik, Ph.D.
University of Washington
Evolution-based identification and functional study of intracellular host-virus interactions

Dorian B. McGavern, Ph.D.
The Scripps Research Institute
Chemical and molecular approaches to probe viral pathogenesis in real time

Yorgo Modis, Ph.D.
Yale University
Cell entry and innate immune recognition of flaviviruses

Neal Silverman, Ph.D.
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Intracellular bacterial recognition in the Drosophila innate immune response

Raphael H. Valdivia, Ph.D.
Duke University Medical Center
The role of secreted bacterial proteases in chlamydial pathogenesis

Andres Vazquez-Torres, D.V.M., Ph.D.
University of Colorado-Denver and Health Sciences Center-Fitzsimons Campus
Effects of nitrosative stress on bacterial two component regulatory systems in innate host defense

Ning Zheng, Ph.D.
University of Washington
Viral hijacking of host ubiquitin ligase machinery