Dr. Jacques Robert

Dr. Jacques Robert, PhD, is the Albert & Phyllis Ritterson Professor and Chair of Microbiology & Immunology, and of Environmental Medicine. He is also the director of the NIH/NIAID-funded Xenopus laevis research resource for Immunobiology, which is the world's most comprehensive facility specializing in the use of this species for fundamental and medical immunological research. Dr. Robert and his team use a comparative biology approach to advance developmental immunology, immunotoxicology, non-polymorphic MHC, and innate T cell biology. His team leverages the amphibian Xenopus as a reliable nonmammalian alternative experimental organism to study immunity against virus and mycobacteria pathogens, and immune alterations induced by developmental exposure to water pollutants across its lifespan.