Fellowship dates: 2005-2006
Research Emphasis: T cell development, trafficking, and homeostasis
Current Position: Staff Development Scientist, ManagerStaff Development Scientist, Manager Beckman Coulter, Minneapolis, MN
Fellowship dates: 2007-2010
Research Emphasis: Kruppel-like factor 2 is required for trafficking but not quiescence in postactivated T cells., Naive T cell homeostasis: from awareness of space to a sense of place, Self-class I MHC molecules support survival of naive CD8 T cells, but depress their functional sensitivity through regulation of CD8 expression levels.
Fellowship dates: 1996-2000
Research Emphasis: The impact of duration versus extent of TCR occupancy on T cell activation: a revision of the kinetic proofreading model.
Fellowship dates: 2014-2018
Research Emphasis: Studied the killer cells of the adaptive immune system: CD8 T cells to understand how we can tweak the CD8 T cell response in order to generate the most potent, effective, and long-lasting immune responses against infections and cancer.
Fellowship dates: 2009-13
Research Emphasis: Keeping STATs on memory CD8+ T cells., and Effector-like CD8⁺ T cells in the memory population mediate potent protective immunity.
Fellowship dates: 2003-2008
Advisor: Stephen Jameson
Fellowship dates: 2008-2011
Research Emphasis: Evaluated the role of lymphopenia on memory CD8 T cell generation and function. Acute ablation of Langerhans cells enhances skin immune responses. and Cholera toxin activates nonconventional adjuvant pathways that induce protective CD8 T-cell responses after epicutaneous vaccination.
Fellowship dates: 2010-2014
Research Emphasis: Studied the role of T cell homeostasis in generating effective immune responses to pathogens
Current Position: Senior Director, Immunology at Akagera Medicines, Inc, Cambridge, MA
Contact Info: [email protected]
Fellowship dates: 2014-2018
Research Emphasis: Investigated the pathogenesis of malaria and identified a therapy that prevents the fatal pathogenesis of cerebral malaria in mice by altering the pathogenic immune response.
Current Position: Investigator, Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute; Assistant Professor at University of Minnesota, Minneapolis MN
Contact Info:[email protected]
Fellowship dates: 2015-2020
Research Emphasis: Dr. Borges da Silva made fundamental discoveries that showed a crucial role for the eATP purinergic receptor P2RX7 in the establishment of CD8-positive T cell memory.
Current Position: Senior Associate Consultant/Assistant Professor, Mayo Clinic Dept. of Immunology (AZ)
Contact Info: [email protected]
