Verity Mick, Ph.D.

Biography

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]

Verity Mick, Ph.D.

Maureen McGargill, Ph.D.

Biography

Program: MCDB&G
Defense Year:2000
Advisor: Kristin Hogquist
Dissertation Title: "Antigen-driven Events During T Cell Development."

Current PositionAssociate Professor, St. Jude Children's Hospital, Memphis, TN
Contact Info[email protected] 

 Maureen McGargill, Ph.D.

Thomas McCaughtry, Ph.D.

Biography

Program: MCDB&G
Defense Year: 2008
Advisor: Kristin Hogquist
Dissertation Title: "T Cell Development: The Generation of Functional and Self-Tolerant T Cells via Positive Selection and Negative Selection and their Export for Immunological Surveillance."

Thomas McCaughtry, Ph.D.

Dita Mayerova, M.D., Ph.D.

Biography

Program: MICaB
Defense Year: 2004
Advisor: Kristin Hogquist
Dissertation Title: "Mouse Model of Autoimmune Skin Disease."

Current Position: Associate Professor,Cardiac Anesthesiology, Tufts University, Medford, MA
Contact Info[email protected]

Dita Mayerova, M.D., Ph.D.

Seungeun "Thera" Lee, Ph.D.

Biography

Program: MICaB
Defense Year:2020
Advisor: Kristin Hogquist
Dissertation Title: "Defining the distinct functional roles of hematopoietic and stromal antigen-presenting cells in the thymus"

Current Position: Technical Advisor, Ropes & Gray LLP, Boston, MA
Contact Info[email protected]
 

Thera Lee, Ph.D.

Keli Holzapfel, J.D., Ph.D.

Biography

Program: MCDB&G
Defense Year:2014
Advisor: Kristin Hogquist
Dissertation Title: "The Role of Antigen Receptor Signaling in Activation and Development of Invariant Natural Killer T Cells."

Current Position: Senior Director, Intellectual Property at Shape Therapeutics Inc., Seattle, WA
Contact Info[email protected]

Keli Holzapfel, J.D., Ph.D.

Samantha Dunmire, Ph.D.

Biography

Program: MICaB
Defense Year: 2015
Advisor: Kristin Hogquist
Dissertation Title: "Immunological Responses During the Incubation Period and Acute Phase of Naturally Acquired Primary Epstein-Barr Virus Infection."

Current Position: Scientist, Luminary Therapeutics, Inc, Minneapolis, MN
Contact Info[email protected] 
 

Samantha Dunmire, Ph.D.

Laura Ackerman Bursch, Ph.D.

Biography

Program: MICaB
Defense Year:2008
Advisor: Kristin Hogquist
Dissertation Title: "Immunity and Tolerance at the Barrier Surfaces."

Current Position: Biology instructor, Minneapolis Community and Technical College, Minneapolis, MN
Contact Info[email protected] 
 

Laura Ackerman Bursch, Ph.D.

Elise Breed, M.D., Ph.D.

Biography

Program: Medical Scientist Training Program (MD/PhD)
Year Entered: 2013
Defense Year:2019
Advisor: Kristin Hogquist
Dissertation Title: "Evaluating thymocyte negative selection within the polyclonal population"

Degrees received: 
BA, Colby College, 2010
PhD, University of Minnesota-TC, 2019
MD, University of Minnesota-TC, 2021

Elise Breed, M.D., Ph.D.

Oscar Salgado Barrero, Ph.D.

Biography

Program: MICaB
Defense Year:2021
Advisor: Kristin Hogquist
Dissertation Title: "Constitutive type I/III interferon production in the thymus changes thymic self-antigen presentation"

Current Position: Medical Science Liaison at The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson, New Jersey
Contact Info[email protected] 

Oscar Salgado Barrero, Ph.D.