Antonio Pagan, Ph.D.

Biography

Program: MICaB
Defense Year: 2012
Advisor: Marc Jenkins
Dissertation Title: "Roles of CD28, Inducible Costimulator, and the Interleukin-2 Receptor in Helper T Cell Memory Formation. "

Current Position: Postdoctoral fellow, University of Cambridge (Lalita Ramakrishnan lab), Cambridge, UK
Contact Info: [email protected]

Antonio Pagan, Ph.D.

Ryan Nelson, M.D., Ph.D.

Biography

Program: MICaB
Defense Year: 2014
Advisor: Marc Jenkins
Dissertation Title: "The Origin and Function of a Large Naive CD4+ T Cell Population. "

B.A., Washington University, St. Louis, MO, 2007
Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 2014
M.D., University of Minnesota, 2016

Current Position: Instructor in Pediatrics, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA
Contact Info: [email protected]

Ryan Nelson, M.D., Ph.D.

Rebecca Merica, Ph.D.

Biography

Program: Microbiology
Defense Year: 1999
Advisor: Marc Jenkins
Dissertation Title: "Study of an Antigen-Specific CD4 Memory T Cell Response inVivo. "

Current Position: Microbiology laboratory​​​ manager and R&D of new products, ​​​​Suidae Health and Production 

Rebecca Merica, Ph.D.

Jonathan Linehan, Ph.D.

Biography

Program: MICaB
Defense Year: 2012
Advisor: Marc Jenkins
Dissertation Title: "The Generation and Maintenance of TH17 Cells in Response to Bacterial Infection. "

Current Position:  Group Leader/Principal Scientist, Department of Cancer Immunology, Genentech, South San Francisco, CA
Contact Info: [email protected] 

Linehan, Ph.D.

Jessica Kotov, PhD

Biography

Program: MICaB
Defense Year: 2019
Advisor: Marc Jenkins
Dissertation Title: "CD4+ T cell differentiation and help to B cells."

Current Position: Senior Scientist I, Senior Scientist IArsenalBio, San Francisco, CA
Contact Info: [email protected]

Jessica Kotov, PhD

Dmitri Kotov, PhD

Biography

Program: MICaB
Defense Year: 2019
Advisor: Marc Jenkins
Dissertation Title: "The role of T cell receptor affinity in CD4+ T cell differentation. "

Current Position: Postdoctoral fellow (Russell Vance lab), University of California, Berkeley
Contact Info[email protected]

Dmitri Kotov, PhD

Elizabeth Kearney, M.D., Ph.D

Biography

Program: Microbiology
Defense Year: 1995
Advisor: Marc Jenkins
Dissertation Title: "Visualization of Antigen-Specific CD4+ T cell Responses inVivo. "

Current Position:  Internal Medicine, Abbot Northwestern Hospital, Minneapolis MN
Contact Info: [email protected]

Elizabeth Kearney, M.D., Ph.D

Stephen Huddleston, M.D, Ph.D.

Biography

Program: Surgery
Defense Year: 2009
Advisor: Marc Jenkins
Dissertation Title: "Graft Antigen Specific CD4+ T Cells Require CD154 Expression to Clonally Expand and Differentiate to the TH1 Phenotype and Initiate mTOR Dependant Intimal Hyperplasia in Cardiac Allografts. "

Stephen Huddleston, M.D, Ph.D.

Jason Hataye, M.D., Ph.D.

Biography

Program: MICaB
Defense Year: 2006
Advisor: Marc Jenkins
Dissertation Title: "Cell Competition for Survival and Proliferation Resources Defines the CD4+ T Cell Niche. "

Current Position:  Infectious diseases physician-scientist at the National Institutes of Health (Richard Koup lab), Bethesda, MD
Contact Info[email protected]

Jason Hataye, M.D., Ph.D.

Dimuthu Renuka Desilva, Ph.D.

Biography

Program: Microbiology
Defense Year: 1995
Advisor: Marc Jenkins
Dissertation Title: "The Induction and Maintenance of Unresponsiveness in Interleukin-2 Producing T-lymphocytes"

Dimuthu Renuka Desilva, Ph.D.