AAI Announces Recipients of
2018 Careers in Immunology Fellowships
AAI congratulates 29 members selected to receive AAI Careers in Immunology Fellowships in 2018. The program, launched in 2014, provides independent research scientists with fellowships supporting one year of salary for a trainee (predoctoral or postdoctoral) in their labs.
Details about this program may be found here.
The investigators selected for the 2018 Careers in Immunology Fellowships are:
| Michele K. Anderson, Ph.D. (AAI ’03), Associate Professor Johanna S. Selvaratnam, Ph.D. (AAI ’18), Postdoctoral Fellow Sunnybrook Research Institute Project: Understanding the HEB-directed mechanism by which T cells adopt a gamma-delta T17 lineage |
| Timothy P. Bender, Ph.D. (AAI ’89), Professor Andrea Daamen (AAI ’14), Graduate Student University of Virginia Project: Developing the network of c-Myb-regulated genes in pre-B cell development |
| Diane Bimczok, D.V.M., Ph.D. (AAI ’14), Associate Professor Mandi M. Roe (AAI ’16), Graduate Student Montana State University Project: Retinoic acid-dependent expression of human dendritic cell CD103 is mediated through p38 MAPK signaling |
| Jeffrey L. Browning, Ph.D. (AAI ’95), Professor Alexander M. Barron (AAI ’16), Graduate Student Boston University School of Medicine Project: Fibroblast activation foretells leukocyte infiltration and autoimmune attack on non-lymphoid organs |
| Kim Good-Jacobson, Ph.D. (AAI ’15), Laboratory Head Andrea Di Pietro, Ph.D. (AAI ’17), Postdoctoral Fellow Monash University Project: Epigenetic regulation of humoral immune responses |
| Kymberly M. Gowdy, Ph.D. (AAI ’14), Assistant Professor Christine Psaltis (AAI ’16), Graduate Student East Carolina University Project: The novel role for Prohibitin-1 and -2 in regulating myeloid cell-driven inflammatory response during sepsis |
| Sara Hamilton, Ph.D. (AAI ’12), Assistant Professor Matthew A. Huggins, Ph.D. (AAI ’18), Postdoctoral Fellow University of Minnesota Project: The impact of immune experience on T cell responses to infection and vaccination |
| Gianna Hammer, Ph.D. (AAI ’13), Assistant Professor Hsin-I Huang (AAI ’17), Graduate Student Duke University Project: Dendritic cell functions in colorectal cancer |
| Haitao Hu, M.D., Ph.D. (AAI ’15), Assistant Professor Sarah Auclair (AAI ’18), Graduate Student University of Texas Medical Branch Project: Characterize vaccine-induced T follicular helper CD4 T-cell response and its association with antibody response in HIV vaccination |
| Justin Kline, M.D. (AAI ’14), Assistant Professor Brendan MacNabb (AAI ’16), Graduate Student University of Chicago Project: Examining the role of tumor-derived MHC-I in antigen presentation by dendritic cells |
| Jill M. Kramer, D.D.S., Ph.D. (AAI ’13), Assistant Professor Jeremy Kiripolsky (AAI ’17), Graduate Student SUNY at Buffalo Project: Analysis of the role of LITAF in Sjögren’s Syndrome |
| Caroline Leeth, Ph.D. (AAI ’15), Assistant Professor Jing Zhu (AAI ’17), Graduate Student Virginia Tech Project: B cell subset contribution to the development of Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) |
| Marcela F. Lopes, Ph.D. (AAI ’05), Professor Natalia S. Vellozo, Ph.D. (AAI ’18), Postdoctoral Fellow Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Project: Targeting apoptosis of CD8 T cells and efferocytosis by TAM receptors in Chagas disease |
| Amanda L. Marzo, Ph.D. (AAI ’18), Assistant Professor Josef W. Goldufsky, Ph.D. (AAI ’18), Postdoctoral Fellow Rush University Medical Center Project: CD8 T cell metabolism and tumor immunity |
| Anuja Mathew, Ph.D. (AAI ’05), Associate Professor Awadalkareem Adam, Ph.D. (AAI ’18), Postdoctoral Fellow University of Rhode Island Project: Kinetics of memory B cell responses to flaviviruses |
| Katheryn D. Meek, Ph.D. (AAI ’05), Professor Christopher J. Buehl, Ph.D. (AAI ’18), Postdoctoral Fellow Michigan State University Project: Elucidating the mechanisms of ATM regulation of RAG2 in VDJ recombination |
| Shikhar Mehrotra, Ph.D. (AAI ’10), Associate Professor Paramita Chakraborty, Ph.D. (AAI ’17), Postdoctoral Fellow Medical University of South Carolina Project: S1P-PPARγ axis for immuno-metabolic modulation of anti-tumor T cells |
| Roza I. Nurieva, Ph.D. (AAI ’08), Associate Professor Bieerkehazhi Shayahati, Ph.D. (AAI ’18), Postdoctoral Fellow University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Project: Role of T follicular helper cells in anti-tumor immunity |
| Danyvid Olivares-Villagomez, Ph.D. (AAI ’14), Assistant Professor Ali Nazmi, Ph.D. (AAI ’17), Postdoctoral Fellow Vanderbilt University Medical Center Project: Control of intraepithelial lymphocyte homeostasis by iCD8alpha cells and osteopontin |
| Murugesan Rajaram, Ph.D. (AAI ’13), Assistant Professor Noushin Saljoughian, Pharm.D., Ph.D. (AAI ’18), Postdoctoral Fellow The Ohio State University Project: Role of macrophages in cardiac dysfunction during bacterial sepsis |
| Jeoung-Sook Shin, Ph.D. (AAI ’11), Associate Professor Carlos A. Castellanos (AAI ’18), Graduate Student University of California, San Francisco Project: The role of MARCH1 in DC function in Th2 cell development and allergic asthma |
| Nagendra Singh, Ph.D. (AAI ’09), Associate Professor Brinda Bhatt (AAI ’17), Graduate Student Augusta University Project: Gpr109a, oxidative phosphorylation, and anti-inflammatory colonic antigen presenting cells |
| Jill E. Slansky, Ph.D. (AAI ’03), Professor Michele M. Hoffmann, Ph.D. (AAI ’18), Postdoctoral Fellow University of Colorado Denver, School of Medicine Project: Functional activation of low-affinity T cells in the tumor |
| Lynn Soong, M.D., Ph.D. (AAI ’99), Professor Brandon J. Trent (AAI ’17), Graduate Student University of Texas Medical Branch Project: Endothelial dysregulation and neutrophil-mediated pathogenesis in scrub typhus |
| Naeha Subramanian, Ph.D. (AAI ’15), Assistant Professor Ajay S. Akhade, Ph.D. (AAI ’16), Postdoctoral Fellow Institute for Systems Biology Project: Can a modest change in regulation of NOD1 expression have a major consequence in cancer? |
| Dean R. Tantin, Ph.D. (AAI ’02), Associate Professor Heejoo Kim, D.V.M. (AAI ’18), Graduate Student University of Utah School of Medicine Project: OCA-B in the pathogenesis of T1D |
| Bolaji Thomas, Ph.D. (AAI ’08), Associate Professor Olanrewaju Morenikeji, Ph.D. (AAI ’18), Postdoctoral Fellow Rochester Institute of Technology Project: Adaptive evolution of the CD14 gene promoter in bovine trypanosomiasis |
| Randall G. Worth, Ph.D. (AAI ’15), Associate Professor Claire Meikle (AAI ’17), Graduate Student University of Toledo College of Medicine and Life Sciences Project: Effect of T cell-platelet aggregates on platelet and T cell activity in lung cancer patients |
| Jacob S. Yount, Ph.D. (AAI ’14), Assistant Professor Mahesh Chemudupati, Ph.D. (AAI ’17), Postdoctoral Fellow The Ohio State University Project: Modulation of the antiviral immune response by short chain fatty acids |
The American Association of Immunologists annually honors the research achievements and professional promise of over 1,000 scientists through fellowships, career awards, and travel grants. To learn about all AAI awards and grants, visit www.aai.org/Awards.
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