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Laura Garcia-Lopez

Person: Ph.D. Graduate student [5th year]

Laura Garcia-Lopez has joined the lab as a first year graduate student in our QSB graduate program. She comes from the University of Quindio, Columbia where she obtained her masters degree in Jorge Gomez-Marin's lab researching human immune correlates of occular toxoplasmosis. We are thrilled to...

Tina Truong

Person: ’15-’16, UC Davis Graduate School

Tina served as a technician for a year as she applied to Ph.D. graduate schools. She is currently at UC Davis finishing up her Ph.D.

Naive CD8 T cell IFNγ responses to a vacuolar antigen are regulated by an inflammasome-independent NLRP3 pathway and Toxoplasma gondii ROP5.

Publication: Journal Article

Kongsomboonvech, Angel K., Felipe Rodriguez, Anh L. Diep, Brandon M. Justice, Brayan E. Castallanos, Ana Camejo, Debanjan Mukhopadhyay, et al. 2020. “Naive CD8 T Cell IFNγ Responses to a Vacuolar Antigen Are Regulated by an Inflammasome-Independent NLRP3 Pathway and Toxoplasma Gondii ROP5.”. PLOS Pathogens 16(8): e1008327.

Transcriptional and Linkage Analyses Identify Loci that Mediate the Differential Macrophage Response to Inflammatory Stimuli and Infection.

Publication: Journal Article

Hassan, Musa A., Kirk D. Jensen, Vincent Butty, Kenneth Hu, Erwan Boedec, Pjotr Prins, and Jeroen P.J. Saeij. 2015. “Transcriptional and Linkage Analyses Identify Loci That Mediate the Differential Macrophage Response to Inflammatory Stimuli and Infection.”. PLOS Genetics, no. 1(10):e1005619.

Toxoplasma Polymorphic Effectors Determine Macrophage Polarization and Intestinal Inflammation.

Publication: Journal Article

Jensen, Kirk D. C., Yiding Wang, Elia D. Tait Wojno, Anjali J. Shastri, Kenneth Hu, Lara Cornel, Erwan Boedec, et al. 2011. “Toxoplasma Polymorphic Effectors Determine Macrophage Polarization and Intestinal Inflammation.”. Cell Host & Microbe, no. 9(6): 472-83.

Altered peptide ligands can modify the Th2 T cell response to the immunodominant 161-175 peptide of LACK (Leishmania homolog for the receptor of activated C kinase).

Publication: Journal Article

Jensen, Kirk D. C., Eli Sercarz, and Cluadia Raja-Gabaglia. 2009. “Altered Peptide Ligands Can Modify the Th2 T Cell Response to the Immunodominant 161-175 Peptide of LACK (Leishmania Homolog for the Receptor of Activated C Kinase).”. Molecular Immunology, no. 46(3): 366-74.

Mary (Mindy) Fernandez

Person: '20-'22, Ph.D. Graduate School UC Davis

Undergraduate researcher, and UC LEADS scholar. Mindy is interested in immunology and parasites, and is currently a Ph.D. student at UC Davis!

Rachel Szymanski

Person: '21-'23 Undergaduate researcher, Research Associate I, Metagenomi

With ambitions to enter industry, Rachel probed the humoral response to GPI anchored proteins on the parasite.

Jessica Wilson

Person: ’17-’19 Masters

Congratulations to Julia who won 2nd best talk at WHIP and a Best Poster Award at Toxoplasma 16 meeting!

News: May 25, 2022

Julia gave an oral presentation at the 2022 WHIP meeting in Woods hole, MA and a poster at the 16th International meeting on Toxoplasmosis and Toxoplasma meeting, Riverside CA. She won 2nd best talk at WHIP and best poster for her work on the GPI anchor of T. gondii. Pictured below are the awardees...