Host-Microbial Interactions Core
Biological Sciences
Members of the Host-Microbial Interactions (HMI) Core within the Department of Biological Sciences (DBS) at Auburn University focus on the fields of microbial pathogenesis, immune responses to bacterial infection, and microbiomes associated with animal and plant species. It is synergistic with other DBS Core areas in functional (meta)genomics, ecology and/or evolutionary aspects of host-microbiome interactions. HMI research includes traditional studies of microbial physiology at the cellular and organismal level, detection and subtyping of pathogens, and molecular studies of host-microbe interactions using modern genomics, proteomics, and epigenetics approaches.
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Primary Members:

Adriana Avila Flores

Katherine Buckley

Paul Cobine

Mark Liles

Alexey Petrov

Elizabeth Schwartz

Chris Sundermann

Joanna Sztuba-Solinska

Jason Upton
Affiliated Members:

Geoff Hill

Wendy Hood

Anthony Moss