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Dr. Hironori Matsushima, left, and Dr. Akira Takashima look at a culture dish to see if the antimicrobial proteins can kill bacteria. The researchers plan to incorporate those proteins into a powdered milk that would help solve the problem of chronic diarrhea in children of developing countries. |
Other Links:
- January 6, 2010...ribbon cutting story in UTNEWS re: our new labs
- 2010 Workshop: Immunity & Infection Oct 16, 2010
- UT COM Research Day, March 27, 2010
- Toledo! 3rd in Global Award and, "100 Best Communities for Young People"
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The UT Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology is honoring Dr. Earl Freimer, the first chairman of the department, with an award and scholarship in his name. Please see the link below: |
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Welcome! to Dr. Takashi Okamoto. Takashi has joined Dr. Akira Takashima's lab as a postdoctoral fellow. He joins the department
from the University of Yamanashi, in Yamanashi, Japan. |
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Congratulations! Dr. Jason Huntley was just awarded his first NIH R01 grant entitled, "Preclinical Development of a Tularemia Vaccine." Please read about Jason's grant in the UT NEWS article dated June 6, 2011. ...A great accomplishment and justly deserved! |
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Welcome! to Dr. Ronghai Deng who has joined Dr. Stepkowski's lab as a Research Scholar. Ronghai joins us from 1st Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University (SYSU), China. |
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Congratulations! to Amber Young, M.D. On June 2, 2011, Dr. Young received the department's Medical Microbiology & Immunology Award for Outstanding Academic Accomplishment in Block 6, Immunity and Infection, for AY2008-2009. Dr. Mark Wooten presented the check and certificate at the College of Medicine 2011 Graduation Awards Ceremony. |
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Congratulations! to Yutein (Andy) Chung, Ph.D., IIT track, Biomedical Sciences, concentration in infection, immunity and transplantation. Andy successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis, "Identification of signaling pathways important for Borrelia burgdorferi-elicited IL-10 production by macrophages and their effects on suppressing antigen presenting cell immune responses," on Monday, May 9, 2011. (mentor: R. Mark Wooten, Ph.D.). |
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Congratulations! to William E. Grose, Ph.D., IIT track, Biomedical Sciences, concentration in infection, immunity and transplantation. Billy
successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis, "Characterization of a genetic locus in Burkholderia pseudomallei encoding a putative biofilm-associated protein," on Monday, March 28, 2011. (mentor: Eric LaFontaine, Ph.D.).
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Congratulations! Xiaodong Cheng and R.M. Blumenthal... see UT News article Dr. Akira Takashima, Professor and Chairman, Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine, congratulates Xiaodong Cheng and R.M. Blumenthal on their publication, “Coordinated Chromatin Control: Structural and Functional Linkage of DNA and Histone Methylation,” distinguished as one of the 10 most accessed articles of 2010 in the journal Biochemistry. |
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Congratulations! to Hironori Matsushima, Ph.D., Assistant Professor. Dr. Takashima "congratulates Hironori for receiving the Bill Gates Grant!!! He is one of the 74 or so winners selected from 2700 applications." The topic of the grant is: Create New Ways to Protect Against Infectious Disease. Please note the UTNews article at this link | ||
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Congratulations! to Robert Blumenthal, Ph.D. for being selected as one of four UT recipients to receive an Outstanding Researcher Award on April 13, 2010. Please go to this link to read the UTNews article: Outstanding Teaching, Research, Outreach awards |
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Welcome! to Rudel Saunders, Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences. Rudel is a postdoctoral fellow in Dr. R. Mark Wooten's lab and joins us from The University of Toledo, health science campus, Department of Physio Pharm Meta Cardio, Toledo, Ohio. | ||
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Congratulations! to Dorothea L. Sawicki, Ph.D. In August 2009, Thea was appointed as the Associate Dean, College of Graduate Studies at UTHSC by Dr. Patricia Komuniecki, Vice Provost for Graduate Affairs and Dean, College of Graduate Studies. | ||
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Welcome! to Viviana Ferreira, DVM, Ph.D. Viviana joined the department as an Assistant Professor in July 2009. She comes to us from The University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler, Texas, | ||
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Welcome! to Claudio Cortes, DVM, Ph.D. Claudio joined the department as an Assistant Professor in July 2009. He comes to us from The University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler, Texas, Department of Biochemistry. | ||
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Graduate Student Defenses in 2010: |
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Congratulations! to Shuo Geng, Ph.D., IIT track, Biomedical Sciences, concentration in infection, immunity & transplantation. Shuo successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis, "Discovery of a new dendritic cell subset derived from immature granulocytes," on Thursday, December 16, 2010. (mentor: Akira Takashima, M.D., Ph.D.). | ||
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Congratulations! to Benjamin Hart, Ph.D., IIT track, Biomedical Sciences. Randy successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis, "Expanded functionality of the bacterial global regulator Lrp," on Friday, July 16, 2010. (mentor: Robert M. Blumenthal). Randy is attending medical school at The University of Toledo. | ||
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Congratulations! to Joshua Vieth, Ph.D., IIT track, Biomedical Sciences. Josh successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis, "The role of membrane lipid microdomains (Rafts) in FcgammaRIIA effector functions," on Thursday, April 1, 2010. (mentor: Randall G. Worth). | ||
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Congratulations! to Sara Campbell, Ph.D., IIT track, in Biomedical Sciences. Sara successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis, "Mechanisms of Moraxella catarrhalis induced immune signaling in the pulmonary epithelium," on Monday, January 4, 2010. (mentor: Z. Kevin Pan). | ||
| Complete list of former graduates: Graduates: 1972 to Present | |||
