• Research

  Thymic tumorigenesis and thymocyte differentiation
• Heat shock proteins and tumor immunity
• CD8+ NK/T cells and the phylogeny of cellular immunity
• Molecular evolution of leukocyte Fc and natural killer cell receptors
• Immunology applied to worldwide amphibian decline
• Currently available Xenopus-specific strains and reagents

• Lab Photos

• ISDCI 2006 Photos
• SURF 2006 Photos

• Useful Links

• Xenopus Molecular Marker Resource
• Xenbase: A Xenopus Web Resource
• IRCEB (Global Amphibian Decline)
• International Society for Developmental and Comparative Immunology
• Cell Stress Society International
• Developmental and Comparative Immunology

• Links to Selected Journal Articles

• Development and characterization of a model system to study amphibian immune responses to iridoviruses
• Evolution of heat shock protein and immunity
• Identification and characterization of Xenopus CD8 T cells expressing an NK cell-associated molecule
• Phylogenetic Conservation of the Molecular and Immunological Properties of the Chaperones gp96 and hsp70
• Minor Histocompatability Antigen-Specific MHC-Restricted CD8 T Cell Responses Elicited by Heat Shock Proteins
• MHC-Restricted and -Unrestricted CD8 T Cells: An Evolutionary Perspective

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