Fellowship dates: 2002-2007

Fellowship dates: 2010-2016
Advisor: Kris Hogquist
Research Emphasis:  Looked at the lineage differentiation model of iNKT cell development, in which each subset has a unique tissue localization and cytokine profile in efforts to analyze the developmental requirements of these subsets to make them applicable for human diseases.

Program: MICaB
Defense Year: 2010
Advisor: Kristin Hogquist
Dissertation Title: "The Kruppel, the Like, the Factor, the 2 and the Ology."

Program: CMB
Defense Year: 2014
Advisor: Kristin Hogquist
Dissertation Title: "How lipid specific T cells become effectors"

Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Xavier Revelo lab, Integrative Biology and Physiology (IBP) Department, University of Minnesota, MN
Contact Info: [email protected]

Program: MICaB
Defense Year: 1999
Advisor: Kristin Hogquist
Dissertation Title: "Testing the Role of Peptide in Positive Selection of T Cells."

Program: MCDB&G
Defense Year: 2004
Advisor: Kristin Hogquist
Dissertation Title: "Regulation of T Cell Sensitivity."

Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Minnesota
Contact Info: [email protected] 

Program: MICaB
Defense Year: 2000
Advisor: Kristin Hogquist
Dissertation Title: "Antigen Presentation in a CD8 T Cell-Mediated Autoimmune Disease"

Current Position: Attorney and Founder of Parke PLLC, Washington D.C.
Contact Info: [email protected] 

Program: MICaB
Defense Year: 2011
Advisor: Kristin Hogquist
Dissertation Title: "Prospective Analysis of the Primary Immune Response During Natural Epstein-Barr Virus Infection in Humans."

Current Position: Staff Physician, Division of Medical Critical Care Clinical Fellow in Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School/Boston Children's Hospital
Contact Info: [email protected]

Program: MICaB
Defense Year: 2011
Advisor: Kristin Hogquist
Dissertation Title: "Revisiting the Role of Antigen Receptor Signal Strength in Lymphocyte Development."

Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, OHSU, Portland, OR
Contact Info:[email protected]

Program: MICaB
Defense Year: 2006
Advisor: Kristin Hogquist
Dissertation Title: "The Molecular Events of T Cell Positive Selection in the Thymus."

Contact Info: [email protected]