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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...

Forward Genetics in Apicomplexa Biology: The Host Side of the Story

Publication: Journal Article

Sanchez-Arcila, Juan C, and Kirk D. C. Jensen. 2022. “Forward Genetics in Apicomplexa Biology: The Host Side of the Story”. Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology 12 (878475).

Training the Fetal Immune System Through Maternal Inflammation—A Layered Hygiene Hypothesis.

Publication: Journal Article

Apostol, April C., Kirk D. C. Jensen, and Anna E. Beaudin. 2020. “Training the Fetal Immune System Through Maternal Inflammation—A Layered Hygiene Hypothesis.”. Frontiers in Immunology 11 (123).

Thymic Selection Determines γδ T Cell Effector Fate: Antigen-Naive Cells Make Interleukin-17 and Antigen-Experienced Cells Make Interferon γ

Publication: Journal Article

Jensen, Kirk D. C., Xiaoqin Su, Sunny Shin, Luke Li, Sawsan Youssef, Sho Yamasaki, Lawrence Steinman, et al. 2008. “Thymic Selection Determines γδ T Cell Effector Fate: Antigen-Naive Cells Make Interleukin-17 and Antigen-Experienced Cells Make Interferon γ”. Immunity, no. 29(1): 90-100.

Ahmadzakaria Arjmand

Person: 22'-23', Undergaduate researcher

Ahmadzakaria is interested in CD8 T cell responses to T. gondii infection.

Andrew Curd

Person: ’16-’17 Research Associate, Vera Therapeutics, Inc

Litzy Lemus

Person: 22'-23' Undergaduate researcher

Litzy, a CAMP scholar, worked on the role of T cell help in the antibody response to Toxoplasma gondii.

Felipe Rodriguez

Person: '17-'20 UC Davis Graduate School

Felipe was a UC Leads scholar, former undergraduate researcher in my lab and went on to work in my lab for an additional year as a mentored research associate (via an NIH supplemental request to promote diveristy in biomedical science) as he applied to graduate schools. He is currently obtaining his...