People Type: Past Trainee

Biography Research Focus: Evolutionary ecology of microbial symbiosis

Biography Research Focus: Pathogenesis and management of hepatitis C

Biography Research Focus: The role of calcium-dependent signaling in Blastomyces dermatitidis temperature-induced phase transition.

Biography Research Focus: Characterization of Xenorhabdus nematophila factors necessary for colonization of Steinernema carpocapsae.

Biography Research Focus: Listeria monocytogenes is a deadly food-borne pathogen. The ability of L. monocytogenes to cause disease depends on it’s ability to replicate and survive in the cytosol of host cells such as macrophages, hepatocytes, and epithelial cells. Unfortunately, not much is known about the strategies L. monocytogenes uses to survive in the host cytosol. …

Biography Research Focus: Two microbe-host colonization systems: Pseudomonas aeruginosa in the mammalian lung (particularly cystic fibrosis patients) and Vibrio fischeri in the squid light organ.

Biography Advisor: Marulasiddappa Suresh Traineeship: 2017-2018 Metastatic melanoma is a formidable disease with traditional treatments such as surgery and radiation having limited success of improving overall patient survival. The goal of my research is to optimize melanoma adoptive immunotherapy utilizing a combination of effector and memory CD8+ T cells and elucidating the FoxO1/p16INK4a pathway to …

Biography Research Focus: Assessing the mechanisms and outcomes of sterile inflammation induced by iNKT cell-APC interaction