MICROBIOLOGY

• Gram-positive (MRSA) and Gram-negative (Neisseria) cocci, Mycoplasma, Chlamydia and Brucella
• Intestinal bacteria and gastrointestinal infection, food microbiology, probiotics and their roles in human health, bacteriophages and their importance compared to antibiotics and pathogenic bacteria
• Molecular epidemiology, pathogenesis and mechanisms of antibiotic resistance in anaerobic bacteria, including Clostridium difficile, Bacteroides fragilis group, Provetella; Acinetobacter baumannii complex, Stenotrophomonas maltophilia and Pseudomonas aeruginosa; Bordetella pertussis, Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex and Legionella pneumophila
• Infectious diseases, molecular microbiology, microbial genetics, microbiome, bacteriophages, antimicrobial resistance
• Microbiome, oral microbiology, environmental microbiology, vaccine, biomaterial pathogenesis, epidemiology and mechanisms of antibiotic resistance in gastrointestinal bacteria (Helicobacter, Campylobacter, Vibrio, Aeromonas, Plesiomonas), anaerobic non-spore-forming Gram-positive bacteria (Propionibacterium, Bifidiobacterium, Mobiluncus, Eubacterium), Lactobacillus, Haemophilus, Gardnerella vaginalis
• Food microbiology

IMMUNOLOGY                                       

• Reproductive immunology, cancer immunology/immunotherapy
• Tumor immunology, immunology of infectious diseases, structure and function of antibodies
  Production, characterization and epitope mapping of monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) and use of MAbs for diagnosis and therapy; immune nutrition and nutrigenomics: study on the impacts of micronutrients on the immune system and relevant genes expression
• Allergy, allergen purification, paraclinical tests in allergy including skin prick test and spirometry; immunological disorders (diagnosis)
• Immune pathogenesis and virus-host interactions, immune response to HBV, monoclonal and recombinant antibodies
• Antigen antibody engineering, production of recombinant chimeric and humanized monoclonal antibodies