Tina Truong
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.
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28th Woods Hole Immuno-parasitology meeting - a success!
I was honored to be the lead organizer of the Woods hole Immuno-parasitology ( WHIP) meeting that I co-organized with Tajie Harris (University of Virginia) April 13-16, 2025. We had ground breaking trainee talks, and wonderful key note addresses from P'ng Loke (NIH), Jenny Ting (University of North...
Naive CD8 T cell IFNγ responses to a vacuolar antigen are regulated by an inflammasome-independent NLRP3 pathway and Toxoplasma gondii ROP5.
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.
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.
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).
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
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
With ambitions to enter industry, Rachel probed the humoral response to GPI anchored proteins on the parasite.
Jessica Wilson
Congratulations to Julia who won 2nd best talk at WHIP and a Best Poster Award at Toxoplasma 16 meeting!
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...