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Researchers

Name & Affiliation Scientific Interest WWW
Dr. Enrique Amaya
The Healing Foundation Centre
Manchester, UK
Functional genomics, molecular and cellular basis of tissue repair and regeneration Web link Icon
Dr. Chris Amemiya
Virginia Mason Research Center
Genome evolution  
Dr. V. Gregory Chinchar
Univ. of Mississippi Medical Center
Comparative studies of virus/host interactions in lower vertebrates  
Dr. James Collins
Chair, Dept. Biology
University of Arizona
Ecology; amphibian declines  
Dr. Max Cooper
Howard Hughes Medical Institute University of Alabama
Phylogenetic Origin of Specific Adaptive Immunity Web link Icon
Dr. Igor Dawid
NIH, Bethesda
Early development, embryogenesis  
Dr. Brian Dixon Ecology; amphibian declines  
Dr. Louis Du Pasquier
Basel University
President of the ISDCI
Evolution of the lymphocyte receptors  
Ben Evans
McMaster University
Hamilton, CA
Speciation and Evolutionary genetics of duplicate genes Web link Icon
Dr. Todd Evans
Albert Einstein College of Medicine NY
Development of hematopoietic cells and the cardiovascular system.
Matthew Fisher
Imperial College Faculty of Medicine London, UK
Evolution of infectious Web link Icon
Dr. Martin Flajnik
University of Maryland
Evolution of MHC Web link Icon
Jean-Pol Frippiat
Université Henri Poincaré
Nancy, France
Comparative Immunology  
Dr. John Horton
University of Durham U.K
Developmental immunology. Thymus differentiation, NK ontogeny  
Dr. Ellen Hsu
SUNY Downstate
Brooklyn, NY
Ontogeny and evolution of Ig gene rearrangement  
Dr. Yumi Izutsu
Niigata University, Japan
Metamorphosis and immunity  
Dr. Chiaki Katagiri
Hokkaido Univ.
Sapporo, Japan
T cell development and differentiation  
Kevin S. Kinney
De Pauw University
Greencastle, IN
Neural-immune interactions in Xenopus  
Dr. Raymond E. Kuhn
Wake Forest University, NC
Amphibian responses to Chytrid  
Dr. Gary W. Litman
Director, Molecular Genetics
All Children's Hospital
Univ. South Florida
Molecular and genomic evolution of lymphocyte receptors  
Dr. Brad G. Magor
University. of Alberta
Edmonton, Canada
Comparative study of mechanisms preventing autoimmunity Web link Icon
Paul Mead
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Memphis, TN
Hematopoiesis by transgenesis and mutagenesis in Xenopus Web link Icon
Dr. Barbara Nikolajczyk
Boston University School of Medicine
Lymphopoiesis, B cell development
Dr. Gregory D. Maniero
Stonehill College
Easton MA
Amphibian anti-viral response  
Pawell Michalak
Biology Department
University of Texas at Arlington
comparative genomics, taxonomy Web link Icon
Dr Yuko Ohta
University of Maryland
Evolution of Immune Genes  
Dr Donald B. Palmer
Royal Veterinary College, London, UK
Thymic neuropeptide expression  
Dr. David Papermaster
Univ. Connecticut Health Science Center
Protein expression and trafficking in photoreceptors, retinal disintegration using X. laevis transgenic model
Nicolas Pollet
Laboratoire Développement et Evolution
CNRS UMR 8080 Université Paris-Sud Orsay, France
Transgenesis and Amphibian Genetics
Dr. Elizabeth.Repasky
Roswell Park Memorial Cancer Institute
Cancer Immunotherapy by hyperthermia  
Dr. Louise Rollins-Smith
Vanderbilt Univ. Med Center
Ontogeny of the immune system, amphibian decline, skin peptides  
Dr. Ellen Rothenberg
Cal Tech
T cell lineage analysis  
David Shechter
The Rockefeller University, NY
Function of histone proteins Web link Icon
Dr. Andrew Storfer
Washington State University
Pullman, WA
amphibian declines Web link Icon
Dr. Lisa Steiner
MIT
Evolution of Ig gene recombination, Rag genes in fish and Xenopus  
Dr. Alexander Taranin
Inst. Cytology & Genetics
Novosibirsk, Russia
Evolution of Fc and NK receptors families  
Dr. Bruce Waldman
Univ. Canterbury, New Zealand
Co-evolution of social behavior and immunity  

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