Current postdoctoral fellows affiliated with the Immunology Program are listed below. Please click on their names to view more infromation about them.
| Name | Mentor | Projects |
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| Kelsi Anderson | Mary O'Riordan | Define the role of chloride flux on the vacuole environment and escape of L. monocytogenes; |
kelsiand@umich.edu |
| Megan Ballinger | Theodore Standiford | Examining the role of cAMP compartmentalization in host defense functions of alveolar macrophages; Examining the increased susceptibility to bacterial infections of the lung in newborn compared to adult rats | mnhender@umich.edu |
| William F. Carson | Steven Kunkel | Sepsis; CD4+ T cells; Lymphocyte/Monocyte Precursors & Progenitors; Granulomatous Lung Inflammation |
wfcarson@umich.edu |
| Karen Angelica Cavassani | Steven Kunkel | Role of Tregs in the immunossupression observed in post-septic immune system/ | kcavassa@umich.edu |
| JiHoon Chang | Cheong-Hee Chang | Cytokine(IL-10 and IL-23) regulation in dendritic cells | jihoonc@umich.edu |
| Mary Pat Craver | Gary Huffnagle | Determination of the kinetics of the immune response during an allergic bronchopulmonary mycosis mouse model; Analysis of the effect of gut microflora on the development of an allergic bronchopulmonary immune response to C. neoformans; Construction of a transgenic mouse to express a C. neoformans antigen specific T cell receptor |
marycrav@umich.edu |
| Vladislav Dolgachev | Nicholas Lukacs & |
A Role of Stem Cell Factor (SCF) in Chronic Asthma, Bone marrow progenitor cells in lung fibrosis | vdolgach@umich.edu |
| Tatjana Eigenbrod |
Gabriel Nunez | Recognition of necrotic cell death by the innate immune system |
tatjanae@umich.edu |
| Luigi Franchi | Gabriel Nunez | Role of the NLR protein in innate immunity and host response |
luigif@umich.edu |
| Christine Freeman |
Jeffrey Curtis | Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, lung, T cells, Toll-like receptors |
cmfreema@umich.edu |
| Toshihiro Ito |
Steven Kunkel | The role of Notch system during pulmonary granuloma formation (BCG/Schistosoma mansoni egg; Th1/Th2 granuloma) |
toshihir@umich.edu |
| Nicholas Lukacs |
Roles of dendritic cells and notch signaling in RSV and allergy mouse model. |
sihyug@umich.edu | |
| Deanna Kulpa | Kathleen Collins | MHC-I trafficking in marophages |
kulpadea@umich.edu |
| Philip Lapinski | Philip King | Function of RASA1 in T cell development and function, as well as in maintenance of lymphatic channels |
philipel@umich.edu |
| Dennis M. Lindell | Nicholas Lukacs | Chemokine-directed trafficking and function of inflammatory and regulatory cells during pulmonary diseases. Respiratory syncytial virus vaccine development. B cell antigen presentation in lung disease. Immune dysfunction following bone marrow transplant. T cell responses during chronic/recurrent lung disease. |
denmklin@umich.edu |
| Yu Liu | Pan Zheng/ Yang Liu |
Role of thymus epithelial cells in thymus aging |
yulz@umich.edu |
| Cory Hogaboam | The involvement of TLR6 during Aspergillus fumigatus-induced asthma; Role of Serum amyloid P in macrophages activating events in chronic fungal asthma. |
anapaula@umich.edu | |
| Sumanta Mukherjee | Nicholas Lukacs | Real Time PCR (Taqman and Sybr Green), Cytokine Multiplex, Co-Immunoprecipitation, Westerns, Immunocytochemistry and Intracellular cytokine staining |
sumanta@umich.edu |
| Thornik Reimer | Gabriel Nunez | Plasmodium and Nod-like receptors; Autophagy |
thornik@umich.edu |
| Julie Rumble | Benjamin Segal | EAE and cytokines |
jrumble@umich.edu |
| Matthew Schaller | Steven Kunkel | Role of Notch in antigen driven chronic lung inflammation; Impact of immunological signals on adult stem cells |
mschalle@umich.edu |
| Michael Shaw | Gabriel Nunez | NLR's role in adaptive immunity |
mhshaw@umich.edu |
| M. Hanief Sofi | Cheong-Hee Chang |
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mhanief@umich.edu |
| Tomomi Toubai | Pavan Reddy | The pathophysiology of graft-versus host disease and graft-versus-leukemia effect in allogeneic hematopoetic stem cell transplantation,GVHD, GVL, antigenpresenting cells, DC vaccine, cross presentation, CD94+T cells, MSC |
tomomit@umich.edu |
| Kevin Vannella | Bethany Moore | Pathogenesis of fibrotic lung disease | kvannell@umich.edu |
| Karthik Venkatesh | Benjamin Segal | Traumatic Brain Injury |
karvenka@umich.edu |
| Shanshan Wan | Weiping Zou and Theodore Welling | Tumor immunology, HCC cancer stem cell, Inhibitory B7 family members, APC, Effector T cells and Regulatory T cells | shawan@umich.edu |
| Neil Warner | Gabriel Nunez | Nod2, innate immune response, protein-protein interactions, post translation modifications |
neilwarn@umich.edu |
| Lingqiao Zhu | Cheong-Hee Chang | Role of RasGRP1 and Notch in thymocyte-selected CD4+ T cell development |
zhulin@umich.edu |
