Immunology & Infectious Disease

Graduate work in immunology and infectious disease can be done under the auspices of any of several graduate programs in the biological sciences, including Microbiology, Molecular and Cell Biology, and Veterinary and Animal Sciences.

Undergraduate training is available in several biological science major programs, including as independent study research projects. For more information on graduate programs and majors, see Biological Sciences and the UMass Course Catalog. Most of the courses concerning immunology or infectous disease are in the Departments of Microbiology or Veterinary and Animal Sciences.

Kuby Immunology is one of the leading textbooks of immunology. Two of its three authors are in Amherst MA (Goldsby and Osborne).

• Immunology & Infectious Disease Faculty and Research Programs
  • In Veterinary and Animal Sciences:
    • Baldwin, Cynthia L. (Brucella, gd T cells)
    • Black, Samuel J. (Innate defenses to Trypanosoma, parasitology)
    • Goldsby, Richard A. (Somatic Hypermutation of Immunoglobulin Genes; Immunoglobulin Diversification in Cattle)
    • Osborne, Barbara (Genes and signal pathways for lymphocyte apoptosis; immunoglobulin gene diversification)
    • Telfer, Janice C. (The Role of RUNX Family Transcription Factors in Immune System Development)

  • In Microbiology:
    • Cooley, Daniel R. (Plant pathogen ecology and development of environmentally sound plant disease management practices, including integrated pest managment and sustainable agricultural systems)
    • Klingbeil, Michele M. (Parasitology, the replication and repair of mitochondrial DNA (kinetoplast DNA network) in African trypanosomes.)
    • Norkin, Leonard C. (Virology: Analysis of the Interaction of DNA Tumor Virus SV40 with Permissive and Semipermissive cells.)
    • Stuart, Elizabeth S. (Microbial inclusions, Chlamydia, mechanisms of infection and the generation of protective immunity)
    • Webley, Wilmore C. (Entry, survival, and host range of the obligate intracellular pathogens, Chlamydiaceae)
    • Wick, Robert L. (Bacterial and fungal diseases of vegetable and greenhouse crops; nematode diseases of turf; plant disease diagnostics)

• International Veterinary Immunology Email List founded by Cynthia Baldwin. To subscribe, send "subscribe vetimm your name" to listproc@lists.umass.edu.

• General molecular visualization resources including antibody:antigen complexes, major histocompatibility molecules, etc.