Haeree Park Lang, Ph.D.

Biography

 

Program: Comparative and Molecular Biosciences Graduate Student (DVM/PhD program)
Year Entered: 2018
Defense Year: 2024
Thesis Advisors: Steven Friedenberg and Marc Jenkins 
Dissertation Title: "Investigation of antigen-specific CD4+ T cells in dogs"

Haeree Park Lang

Kevin Osum, Ph.D.

Biography


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"

Kevin Osum

Katherine Ashby, Ph.D.

Biography


Program: Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology Graduate Student
Year Entered: 2018
Defense Year: 2024
Thesis Advisor: Kristin Hogquist
Dissertation Title: "Characterizing the role of thymic interferon in T cell development and selection"
 

Research: Negative selection of autoreactive T cells. List of publications

Katherine Ashby

Milcah Scott, Ph.D.

Biography


Program: Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology Graduate Student
Year Entered: 2017
Defense Year: 2024
Thesis Advisor: David Masopust (Lab website)
Dissertation Title: "Deep profiling deconstructs features associated with memory CD8 T cell tissue residence"

Milcah Scott

Noah Gavil, Ph.D.

Biography


Program: MICaB/MSTP
Year Entered: 2018
Defense Year: 2023
Advisor: David Masopust
Dissertation Title: "Characterizing the migration and therapeutic potential of CD8+ tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes"

Degrees received: 
BA, Bowdoin College, 2014
PhD, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, 2023

Noah Gavil

Michael T. Patterson, Ph.D.

Biography


Program: MICaB/MSTP
Year Entered: 2019 
Defense Year: 2024
Thesis Advisors: Ingunn Stromnes (lab website) and Jesse Williams (lab website)
Dissertation Title: "Trem2 regulates foamy macrophage function in atherosclerosis"

Michael T. Patterson

Hrishi Venkatesh, M.S.

Biography


Program: Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology Graduate Student
Year Entered: 2018
Defense Year: 2024
Thesis Advisor: Michael Farrar
Dissertation Title: "B Cell Leukemia Elicits a Suppressive CD4 T cell Response that is Reprogrammed with PDL1 Blockade"

Hrishi Venkatesh

Natalie David, Ph.D.

Biography


Program: MICaB/MSTP
Year Entered: 2017
Defense Year: 2023
Thesis Advisor: Mike Farrar
Dissertation Title: "Nuclear corepressors NCOR1 and NCOR2 in CD4 T cell development"

Graduate Research: Nuclear co-repressors in CD4 T cell development. List of Publications

Natalie David