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Health Professions students please visit the Health Professions web pages for the answers to most of your questions. My research interests have centered around immunology and molecular biology. In graduate school at Brandeis University, I cloned and studied the transporter protein, called FcRn, that carries IgG antibodies across the human placenta under Dr. Neil E. Simister. My postdoctoral work was under Dr. Hidde L. Ploegh at MIT and Harvard Medical School. Dr. Ploegh is currently at the Whitehead Institute back at MIT. I rejoinined research group for my Fall '06 Sabbatical. The lab continues to study aspects of immune function from a molecular and biochemical approach. During this sabbatical I worked closely with Dr. J. Christopher Love, helping to optimize a new system for analyzing the secretions of individual cells within a diverse population. Results of my work on the microengraving system with the Ploegh and Love labs were published in PNAS, Nature Protocols, and Journal of Immunological Methods. As of Fall 2011, I am working in Love's new lab in the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT. Current projects include working on making monoclonal antibodies useful for diagnosis of disease for Science With A Mission. I am also interested in the cellular events that lead to the rare tropical disease podoconiosis. I am currently setting up a microengraving facility in KOSC, which will enable us to do interesting experiments studying poplulations of cells secreting proteins of interest. [Page Updated 11/9/11- CMS] |
