Faculty and Staff

Villalta, Fernando

Fernando Villalta, Ph.D.

Chair and Professor
Microbiology and Immunology
School: Medicine

Phone: 615.327.6667
Email: fvillalta@mmc.edu

gaudam-chaudhuri

Gautam Chaudhuri, Ph.D.

Professor
Microbiology and Immunology
School: Medicine

Phone: 615.327.6499
Email: gchaudhuri@mmc.edu

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Minu Chaudhuri, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Microbiology and Immunology
School: Medicine

Phone: 615.327.5726
Email: mchaudhuri@mmc.edu

Holt, Robert

Robert Holt, Ph.D.

Professor
Microbiology and Immunology
School: Medicine

Phone: 615.327.6673
Email: rholt@mmc.edu

Nde, Pius

Pius N. Nde, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
Microbiology and Immunology
School: Medicine

Phone: 615.327.6175
Email: pnde@mmc.edu

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Stella Nowicki, D.D.S.

Professor
Microbiology and Immunology
School: Medicine

Phone: 615.6689
Email: snowicki@mmc.edu

Ramasamy, Raju

Raju Ramasamy, Ph.D.

Professor
Microbiology and Immunology
School: Medicine

Phone: 615.327.6687
Email: rramasamy@mmc.edu

donald-alcendor

Donald Alcendor, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
Health Disparities and HIV
School: Medicine

Phone: 615.327.6449
Email:dalcendor@mmc.edu

xinhong-dong

Xinhong Dong, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
Health Disparities and HIV
School: Medicine

Phone: 615.327.6464
Email: xdong@mmc.edu

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Bindong Liu, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Health Disparities and HIV
School: Medicine

Phone: 615.327.6877
Email: bindong@mmc.edu

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Etheleen Hill, Ph.D.

Professor-Associate Dean for Curriculum
Microbiology and Immunology
School: Medicine

Phone: 615.327.6956
Email: ehill@mmc.edu

 

Faculty with secondary appointments:

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Hua Xie, D.D.S., M.S., Ph.D.

Professor .
Oral Biology & Research
School: Dentistry

Phone: 615.327.5981
Email: hxie@mmc.edu

vladimir_berthaud

Vladimir Berthaud, M.D., MPH.

Professor
Internal Medicine
School: Medicine

Office Phone: 615.327.5753

Appointments: 615.327.6348
Email: vberthaud@mmc.edu

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Waldemar Popik, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Health Disparities and HIV
School: Medicine

Phone: 615.327.6734
Email: wpopik@mmc.edu

Adjunct Faculty
Terrence S. Dermody, M.D.
Adjunct Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Meharry Medical College

Dorothy Overall Well Professor of Pediatrics
Director, Medical Scientist Training Program
Director, Pediatric Infectious Diseases Division
Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine

Postdoctoral Fellows and Research Associates
Girish Rachakonda, Ph.D.
Research Associate

Mukul Mittal, Ph.D.
Research Associate

Ujjal Singah, Ph.D.
Research Associate

Marjorie Fullerton, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow

Michael Izban, Ph.D.
Research Associate

Tanu Rana, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow

Karen D. Sloan-Brown, Ed.D.
Molecular Biology Core Facility Coordinator

Yi Luo,Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow

Yudi Wang
Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Facilities
Siddharth Pratap, Ph.D.
Director of Bioinformatics and Proteomics

Jianan Dong, Ph.D.
Manager/Director of Proteomics Core

Robert Holt, Ph.D.
Director, Molecular Biology Core Facility

Bindong Liu
Director of Flow Cytometry Core
Director of BSL-3 Facility (CAHDR)

Xinhong Dong, Ph.D.
Director of the BSL-3 Facility (Microbiology and Immunology Department)

Staff
Emma J. Rivers
Administrative Assistant, Senior

Distinguished Scholars
Fred Jones, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus

Mark Levitch, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus