Welcome to Microbiology and Immunology
Our Mission is:
- To train graduate students in how to perform independent research, to interpret and communicate scientific findings, and to prepare grant proposals and scientific manuscripts.
- To educate future physicians in the disciplines of Microbiology and Immunology so that they can be prepared to provide excellent care to patients.
- To discover and publicize new knowledge in the fields of Microbiology and Immunology.
- To provide service to our institution, profession, and community.
Our faculty members maintain NIH-funded research programs directed at understanding important issues related to viruses, bacteria, and the immune system. We are experiencing an unprecedented expansion, including the addition of new faculty members, the doubling of our postdoctoral program, the award of more than $22.9 million by an NIH grant to establish and maintain the Center for Molecular and Tumor Virology, and the growth of our nationally recognized training program for graduate students.
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Spanish Students Experience High-Level Microbiology and Immunology Research at LSU Health Shreveport
Summer is not always a time to stay home and slow down. Students in Spain can spend nine weeks of their summer break working alongside research scientists at LSU Health Shreveport.
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How does the immune system recognize a virus before it gains the upper hand? That question drives the research of Hongyan Guo, PhD, whose laboratory studies the body’s earliest defenses against HSV-1.
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Sadiya Parveen-Nesson, PhD received a five-year, DP2 $2.2 million award from the NIH National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
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Monica Gestal, PhD, Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, was awarded a five-year $2.57 million R01 grant from the NIH National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).
Sadiya Parveen Nesson, PhD, Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, was awarded a three-year, $766,500 COBRE grant from the Center for Lung Biology and Disease (CLBD) at LSU Baton Rouge.
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Yoshikazu Tsukasaki, PhD was awarded a three-year, $1.1 million R01 transfer grant from the NIH National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for the remaining three years of his project.
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