Leadership Team
CIHMID Director
Brian P. Lazzaro
Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor of Entomology and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
CIHMID Executive Committee
![Avery August](https://cihmid.cornell.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/4-august-avery_orig.jpg)
Avery August, Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Vice Provost for Academic Affairs
![Nicholas Buchon](https://cihmid.cornell.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/8-buchon-nicolas-e1563809507412.jpeg)
Nicholas Buchon, Associate Professor of Entomology
![David Russell, Microbiology and Immunology](https://cihmid.cornell.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/37-russell-david_orig.png)
David Russell, William Kaplan Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
![Christine Smart, Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology](https://cihmid.cornell.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/40-smart-chris-e1563812803383.jpg)
Christine Smart, Professor and Director of School of Integrated Plant Sciences
![Gary Whittaker](https://cihmid.cornell.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/45-whittaker-gary-e1563807369124-150x150.jpg)
Gary Whittaker, Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
Postdoctoral Training Program Leadership
![Brian P. Lazzaro](https://cihmid.cornell.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Lazzaro.jpg)
Brian Lazzaro, Professor of Entomology and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
![Maria J. Harrison](https://cihmid.cornell.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Harrison_Maria-1.jpg)
Maria J. Harrison, Professor, Boyce Thompson Institute
![John Parker, Microbiology and Immunology](https://cihmid.cornell.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/33-parker-john_1_orig-150x150.jpeg)
John Parker, Associate Professor of Virology
![Luis Schang, Microbiology and Immunology](https://cihmid.cornell.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/38-schang-cropped-e1563808389509-150x150.jpg)
Luis Schang, Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
Undergraduate Research Experience for Cornell Students (URE)
![Tory Hendry, Microbiology](https://cihmid.cornell.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/23-hendry-tory_1_orig-150x150.jpg)
Tory Hendry, Assistant Professor of Microbiology
Microbial Friends and Foes (MFF) Research Experience for Non-Cornell Undergraduates
![Teresa Pawlowska, Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology](https://cihmid.cornell.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Pawlowska_Teresa-150x150.jpg)
Teresa Pawlowska, Associate Professor of Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology
![Tory Hendry, Microbiology](https://cihmid.cornell.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/23-hendry-tory_1_orig-150x150.jpg)
Tory Hendry, Assistant Professor of Microbiology
![Esther Angert](https://cihmid.cornell.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/esther-angert_headshot-edit-150x150.jpg)
Esther Angert, Professor of Microbiology and CALS Sr. Associate Dean
CIHMID Postdoc Association
![Melanie Smee](https://cihmid.cornell.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Smee_Melanie-150x150.jpg)
Melanie Smee, Microbiology
CIHMID Program Manager
![Railey Savage](https://cihmid.cornell.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Savage_Railey-150x150.jpg)
Railey Savage, CIHMID Program Manager