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Current Students

	Michael Bechill, B.S. IIT 2nd Year Ph.D. Student Vice President: Graduate Student Association. Hometown: Wauseon, OH Project: tba Advisor: Dr. R. Mark Wooten Email: michael.bechill@utoledo.edu
	Elizabeth Beil, B.S. IIT Third Year M.S. Student Fall 2009, Second year UT Medical School Hometown: Amherst, NH Project: "Fc receptor signal transduction" Advisor: Dr. Randall Worth Email: elizabeth.beil@utoledo.edu
	Sara Campbell, B.S. IIT Fifth Year Ph.D. Student - Defense on Monday, January 4, 2010; time & date TBA. Finalist! 2009 UT COM Graduate Student Research Forum Hometown: Hope, Indiana Project: "Studies on Moraxella catarrhalis induced host immune responses" Advisor: Dr. Kevin Pan Email: sara.campbell@utoledo.edu
	Miao Chen, M.Sc., B.S. IIT Fifth Year Ph.D. Student - Defense on Monday, November 23, 2009; 227 HEB at 2:00-3:00pm. Finalist! 2009 UT COM Graduate Student Research Forum Winner! UT 2008 Retiree's Scholarship in the IIT Track!! Hometown: Nanjing, China Project: "Moraxella catarrhalis induced innate immune responses in human pulmonary epithelial cells" Advisor: Dr. Kevin Pan Email: miao.chen@utoledo.edu
	Yutein (Andy) Chung, M.Sc., B.S. IIT Fourth Year Ph.D. Student 3rd Year Presentation August 5, 2009; Title: "Borrelia burgdorferi elicits dysregulated inflammatory responses from antigen presenting cells through enhancement of IL-10 production" Overall Winner! N. Paul Hudson Award for Research Excellence - Ohio 2009 ASM Third Place Winner! 2009 UT COM Graduate Student Research Forum Hometown: Ann Arbor, MI Project: "Identification of Antigen-Presenting Cell Functions Dysregulated by Borrelia burgdorferi-elicited IL-10: Implications for Lyme Disease" Advisor: Dr. Mark Wooten Email: yutein.chung@utoledo.edu
	Jason French, B.S. IIT Fourth Year M.S. Student Finalist! 2008 UT COM Gradute Research Forum Hometown: Snellville, GA Project: "Molecular analysis of mutation in sindbis virus resulting in a conversion mutant phenotype" Advisor: Dr. Dorothea Sawicki Email: jason.french2@utoledo.edu
	Shuo Geng, M.Sc., B.S. IIT Fourth Year Ph.D. Student 3rd Year Presentation, July 29, 2009 -- "Identification of a novel dendritic cell subset" Finalist! 2008 UT COM Graduate Research Forum Hometown: Shijiazhuang, China Project: "Characterization of a novel dendritic cell precursor" Advisor: Dr. Akira Takashima Email: shuo.geng@utoledo.edu
	Benjamin Hart, M.P.H. IIT Fifth Year Ph.D. Student Third Place winner! 2008 UT COM Graduate Research Forum Hometown: Pandora, OH Project: "The role of the amino terminus of the global regulatory protein Lrp in DNA recognition" Advisor: Dr. Robert Blumenthal Email: benjamin.hart@utoledo.edu
	Mithun Khattar, M.Phil., M.S., B.S. IIT Third Year Ph.D. Student Second Place Winner! 2009 UT Graduate Student Research Forum; 2009-2010 President of the Council of Biomedical Graduate Students. Publication: Expanding and converting regulatory T cells: a horizon for immunotherapy. Hometown: New Delhi, India Project: "The role of JAK3 and STAT5 signaling in T cell mediated transplant tolerance" Advisor: Dr. Stanislaw Stepkowski Email: mithun.khattar@utoledo.edu
	John-Paul Lavik, B.A. Biology & Chemistry IIT Fourth Year Student - M.D./Ph.D. Program; 2009-2010 Secretary* of the Council of Biomedical Graduate Students.* Hometown: Mentor, OH Project: Host/pathogen interactions in Lyme disease Advisor: Dr. R. Mark Wooten Email: john-paul.lavik@toledo.edu
	Ran Lu, M.S. in Cell Biology IIT Second Year Ph.D. Student Hometown: Shijiazhuang, Hebei province, China Project: tba Advisor: Dr. Akira Takashima Email: ran.lu@utoledo.edu
	Minal Mulye, M.S., B.S. IIT Second Year Ph.D. Student; 2009-2010 IIT Representative* of the Council of Biomedical Graduate Students.* Hometown: Mumbai, India Project: tba Advisor: Dr. R. Mark Wooten Email: minal.mulye@utoledo.edu
	Paul Schroder, B.S. IIT Fourth Year Student - M.D./Ph.D. Program Hometown: Strongsville, OH Project: tba Advisor: Dr. Kevin Pan Email: paul.schroder@utoledo.edu

	Jian Wu, M.S., Bachelor of Medicine in Preventative Medicine IIT Second Year Ph.D. Student; 2009-2010 Treasurer* of the Council of Biomedical Graduate Students.* Hometown: An Hui, China Project: "Regulatory T Cell" Advisor: Dr. Stanislaw Stepkowski Email: jian.wu@utoledo.edu
	Joshua Vieth, M.Sc., B.S. IIT Sixth Year Ph.D. Student Hometown: Oregon, OH Project: "Lipid raft involvement in phagolysome biogenesis" Advisor: Dr. Randall Worth Email: joshua.vieth@utoledo.edu

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