Natasha Del Cid
e-mail address: ndelcid@umich.edu

Mentor: Malini Raghavan, PhD

Research Description

Professional antigen presenting cells are capable of presenting exogenously acquired antigens on MHC I molecules. This process of cross presentation (which is crucial for viral and tumor immunity) is thought to be greatly enhanced when antigens are in complex with various heat shock proteins, including calreticulin. My research focuses on the intracellular pathway calreticulin utilizes to enhance the cross presentation of soluble antigens.

Publications

Malini Raghavan, Natasha Del Cid, Syed Monem Rizvi and Larry Robert Peters. 2008. MHC class I assembly: out and about. Trends in Immunology. Accepted for publication.

G. R. Kolluru, N. C. Ruiz, N. Del Cid , E. Dunlop and G. F. Grether. 2006. The effects of carotenoid and food intake on caudal fin regeneration in male guppies. Journal of Fish Biology, Volume 68, Issue 4:1002-1012.

Abstracts

Del Cid, N., Raghavan, M. Antigen Cross-Presentation: Gordon Research Conference, September 2007.

Awards

Rackham Merit Fellowship
CBTP training grant fellowship