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Marie True’s last day with the Jensen lab

News: July 10, 2016

Marie True’s last day with the Jensen lab. She is entering a Master’s program at UC Irvine. Good luck, and excellent job starting the lab!

Research is featured in Merced’s

News: February 24, 2015

Research is featured in Merced’s Sun Star, the Modesto Bee, the Fresno Bee, the Central Valley Business Times and by UC Merced.

Welcome new undergraduate and high school researchers!

News: June 06, 2022

The Jensen lab welcomes 4 new undergraduate researchers and a high school student in the lab. Undergrads Gabriela Ceron UC LEADs scholar, Litzy Lemus CAMP scholar, Sahil Malhi and Ahmadzakaria Arjmand are each budding young scientists. Essey Afewerki is a high school student researcher from Merced...

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...

Angel Kongsomboonvech

Person: Ph.D. '15-'20 Postdoc Stanford University

Angel obtianed her Ph.D. in my lab stydying how T. gondii virulence factors manipulate CD8 T cell responses.She graduated from UCLA with a B.S. and received her Master’s degree from Quinnipiac University. Angel is interested in all things parasites, and is currently doing her Postdoc at Stanford...

Juan Sanchez-Arcila

Person: Postdoctoral Scholar / Project Scientist

Graduated with his doctoral degree from FIOCRUZ, Rio De Janeiro. Juan has a wealth of experience in the immunology of human infectious diseases, and is interested in finding a vaccine for parasites using the Collaborative Cross. Picture of me and Juan at the Paramo, outside Bogata.

Marie True

Person: ’14-’15, Laboratory Director, FESA Labs

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.