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 |
| Rafael Contreras-Galindo | David Markovitz | Endogenous retrovirus, HERV-K, breast cancer and lymphoma, replication of endogenous retroviruses, association of HERV-K to breast cancer and lymphoma |
rafaelc@med.umich.edu |
| Jamison Grailer | Peter Ward | Cell culture, ELISA, mouse models, in vitro assays, flow cytometry, immunofluorescence, confocal microscopy, RT-PCR, Western blot |
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| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Shanshan Wan | Weiping Zou & 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 |
| Zbigniew Zaslona | Peters-Golden | Regulation of macrophage alternative regulation by eicosanoids |
zaslona@umich.edu |
| Ende Zhao | Weiping Zou | Bone marrow and Treg cells; Homeostasis of human T cells; Senescence of human T cells; Th17 cells and immunity | endezhao@umich.edu |
| Lingqiao Zhu | Cheong-Hee Chang | Role of RasGRP1 and Notch in thymocyte-selected CD4+ T cell development |
zhulin@umich.edu |
