Email: [email protected]
Current:
Fellowship dates: 2023-present
Mentor: Vaiva Vezys
Research Emphasis/Publications: "Understanding mechanisms of peripheral immune tolerance in autoimmunity" Full list of Publications
Program: MICaB
Defense Year: 2022
Advisor: Mike Farrar
Dissertation Title: "Influenza infection recruits distinct waves of regulatory T cells to the lung that limit lung resident IgA+ B cells."
Graduate Program: MICaB
Defense Year: 2022
Advisor: Daniel Mueller
Dissertation Title: "Epigenetic regulation of T cell peripheral tolerance by a BATF-BIM axis"
Program: MICaB
Defense Year: 2017
Advisor: Vaiva Vezys
Dissertation Title: "Visualizing CD8+ T cell responses to foreign and self-antigen"
Current Position: Associate Director, T Cell Biology, Kelonia Therapeutics, Cambridge, MA
Contact Info: [email protected]
Program: MICaB
Defense Year: 2018
Advisor: Vaiva Vezys
Dissertation Title: "Function and utility of self-specific CD8 T cells."
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Contact Info:[email protected]
Program: MICaB
Defense Year: 2013
Advisor: Yoji Shimizu
Dissertation Title: "The Role of ICAM-1 Mediated T cell: T Cell Interactions on CD8+ T Cell Effector Function and Differentiation."
Current Position: Teaching Faculty, Genetics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
Contact Info: [email protected]
Program: MCDBG
Defense Year: 2005
Advisor: Yoji Shimizu
Dissertation Title: "Regulation of T Cell Receptor Induced Signaling to Integrins."
Current Position: ParaProfessional, Orono Public Schools, Long Lake, MN
Program: MICaB
Defense Year: 2003
Advisor: Yoji Shimizu
Dissertation Title: "Molecular Mechanisms for the Recruitment and Retention of Leukocytes in Lymph Nodes."
Current Position: Pediatric Ophthalmologist, Park Nicollet/Methodist Hospital, St. Louis Park, MN
Program: MICaB
Defense Year: 2006
Advisor: Yoji Shimizu
Dissertation Title: "Regulation of Antigen-Dependent T Cell Interactions with Antigen Presenting Cells and T Cell Activation by the Adapter Protein, ADAP."
Current Position: VP, Autoimmune Arthritis Research, Arthritis Foundation, Washington D.C
Contact Info: [email protected]
Program: MICaB
Defense Year: 2007
Advisor: Yoji Shimizu
Dissertation Title: "Regulation of T Cell Migration and the Immune Response by Phosphoinositide 3-Kinase Gamma."
Current Position: Associate Scientific Director, Medical Expressions (subsidiary of Nucleus Global), Chicago, IL
