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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 this work have been submitted for publication. Current projects include working on making monoclonal antibodies useful for diagnosis of disease for Science With A Mission. I have also investigated the involvement of viruses in 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. I have recently been using student workers, and our LiCor DNA analyzer to classify parasitic worms and sequence the immunoglobulin genes of monoclonal antibodies. [Page Updated 8/14/08 - CMS] |
