Research support is extensive, including core facilities for confocal microscopy, flow cytometry, genomics, metagenomics, live cell imaging, animal housing with germ-free facilities, whole animal imaging, and one of the country's 11 regional biocontainment laboratories (equipped with BSL-3 and ABSL-3 facilities). The remaining 18 lead research programs on topics such as bacterial and viral pathogenesis, immunization and host defense, mucosal-epithelial immunology (inflammation, interactions with microbiota, tumorigenesis), neuropathogenesis (viral and sterile inflammation, resolution of inflammation), and tumor immunobiology.