Program: Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology Graduate Student
Year Entered: 2017
Defense Year: 2024
Thesis Advisor: Marc Jenkins
Dissertation Title:  "A minority of Th1 and Tfh effector cells express survival genes shared by memory cell progeny and require IL-7 or TCR signaling to persist"

Research: 
My research is focused around the idea of anergy in CD4+ T cells. Anergy is a functional unresponsiveness that results from incomplete or altered activation signals. My goals are to find the peptides that are driving CD4+ T cells to become anergic, and characterize their role in infection and autoimmunity. List of Publications

Degrees received: 
B.S., University of Wisconsin, Stout-Menomonie, WI, 2013
Ph.D., University of Minnesota, TC,  2024

Current Position:  Postdoctoral fellow, NIH, Dan Barber's lab
Contact Info: [email protected]