Steven Geary

Job Description

Studying comparative genomic and transcriptomic analyses of pathogenic Mycoplasmas, Cytadherence molecules and host cell receptors, as well as analysis of variably expressed surface lipoproteins and their roles in immune evasion, vaccine development and immunologic and genetic means of detection (DIVA tests) of these pathogens.

Host cell signatures that integrate into, or remain tightly associated with, Vaccinia virus (as a model for Variola, smallpox), and how they may be useful for attribution purposes in the event of a release of smallpox as a bioweapon.