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Sam receives an honorable mention

News: March 29, 2016

Sam receives an honorable mention on her NSF predoctoral fellowship proposal. Very difficult to do, so great job Sam!

Neel Kaushik

Person: 22' - '24 Undergaduate researcher, applying to medical school

Neel performed editing Toxoplasma genes and infecting wild-derived mice as he studied host-pathogen interactions. Neel is aiming for a future career in medicine.

Laura Garcia-Lopez

Person: Ph.D. Graduate student [4th 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...

Arlon Wizzard

Person: 21'-23', Graduate School U Penn

Arlon worked on immune parameters discovered from the collaborative cross that may lead to better understanding of protective vaccines for parasites. Yes, this is the second Wizzard that has graced our lab and we love it!

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.