CORNELL UNIVERSITY

Bacterial Pathogenesis Research at Cornell is carried out by faculty in 9 Departments across the University. A diverse and innovative Faculty share a common goal of controlling and preventing disease and improving human, animal and plant health. Research interests include molecular basis of pathogenesis, host-pathogen interactions, immunopathology of infectious disease, molecular diagnosis, host defense mechanisms, comparative genomics, molecular evolution, food safety, quorum sensing, signal transduction, and biotechnology, design & engineering of new protein machinery... Within these broad interests, research is targeted to the study of numerous human, animal, and plant bacterial pathogens: Agrobacterium tumefaciens, Brachyspira, Chlamydia, Escherichia coli, Helicobacter, Leptospira, Listeria monocytogenes, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Pseudomonas syringae, Salmonella, Streptomyces, and Yersinia enterocolitica.