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Honored to recieve the School of Natural Sciences Faculty Award for Undergraduate Research Mentoring

News: September 16, 2022

Thrilled to be recognized by the School of Natural Sciences and receive the Faculty Award for Undergraduate Research Mentoring! I am fortunate to have had very talented undergraduate researchers join the lab who have gone on from UC Merced to do amazing things in graduate school and industry. A big...

Kirk Jensen

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In the Jensen laboratory, we study the immunology and pathogenesis of the obligate intracellular parasite Toxoplasma gondii, the causative agent of human toxoplasmosis. Toxoplasma has been dubbed the “ubiquitous” parasite because it infects all species of mammals, a variety of birds and a third of...

Nfkbid is required for immunity and antibody responses to Toxoplasma gondii

Publication: Journal Article

Souza, Scott P., Samantha D. Splitt, Juan C Sanchez-Arcila, Julia A. Alvarez, Safuwra Wizzard, Jessica N. Wilson, Zheng Luo, Nicole Baumgarth, and Kirk D. C. Jensen. 2021. “Nfkbid is required for immunity and antibody responses to Toxoplasma gondii”. PLOS Pathogens.

Evidence for a functional sidedness to the αβTCR.

Publication: Journal Article

Kuhns, Michael S., Andrew T. Girvin, Lawrence O. Klein, Rebecca Chen, Kirk D. C. Jensen, Evan W. Newell, Johannes B. Huppa, et al. 2010. “Evidence for a Functional Sidedness to the αβTCR”. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, no. 107(11): 5094-99.

Bryan Castellanos

Person: ’15-’17 Cell Biologist, Thermo Fisher Scientific

Bryan was one of my first undergraduates to join the lab. He is now in industry!

Gabriela Ceron

Person: 21'-23' Undergaduate researcher

Gabriela, a UC LEADS scholar, and worked to understand the humoral response to the GPI sidechain of T. gondii.

Anh Diep

Person: ’15-’17, California Council on Science and Technology (CCST) Policy Fellow

As an undergraduate researcher, Anh probed the function of T. gondii ASP5 in relation to CD8 T cell activation to the parasite.

Ferdinand Njume

Person: 20'-23', Postdoctoral Scholar

Ferdinand Njume former postdoctoral scholar in the Jensen lab. He performed his Ph.D. work at the University of Belgium where he researched surface proteins of the filarial nematode, Onchocerca volvulus. His current work involves the surface proteins of T. gondii and search for a suitable parasite...

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.