Mueller Lab Graduate Student Alumni
Graduate Students
Jody Bonnevier, Ph.D.
Program: MICaB
Defense Year: 2003
Advisor: Dan Mueller
Dissertation Title: "Regulation of Primary CD4 T Cell Cycle Progression."
Current Position: Scientist, R & D Systems, Minneapolis, MN
ContactJody.Bonnevier@bio-techne.com
Lokeshchandra Kaleker, Ph.D.
Program: MICaB
Defense Year: 2016
Advisor: Dan Mueller
Dissertation Title: "The Role of Anergy in Peripheral Tolerance."
Current Position: Post Doctoral Fellow, University of California, San Francisco
Contact InfoLokeshchandra.Kalekar@ucsf.edu
Erika Nell Malvey-Dorn, M.D., Ph.D.
Program: Microbiology
Defense Year: 1998
Advisor: Dan Mueller
Dissertation Title: "The Functional Consequences of T Cell Tolerance Induction In Vivo."
Current Position: Pediatrician, President and CEO, All About Children Pediatrics, Minneapolis, MN
Contact Infomalve001@umn.edu
David Richards, Ph.D.
Program: MICaB
Defense Year: 2004
Advisor: Dan Mueller
Dissertation Title: "Examining the Role of Foreign-mHAg-Specific CD4(+)T Cells and Foreign-MHC-Specific CD8(+) T cells in the Development of Obliterative Airways Disease Following Transplantation."
Current Position: Head of Immunology, Immunology Department, Apogenix GmbH, Im Neuenheimer Feld 584, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
Stacy Dalheimer Sandquist, M.S.
Program:
Defense Year: 2006
Advisor: Dan Mueller
Dissertation Title: "Sharing of Class I MHC Molecules between Donor and Host Promotes the Infiltration of Allografts by mHAg-reactive CD8 T Cells."
Current Position: Scientist, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
Contact:
Shirdi Schmiel, Ph.D.
Program: MICaB
Defense Year: 2017
Advisor: Dan Mueller
Dissertation Title: "Analysis of Adenosine 2a Receptors During the Immune Recognition of Foreign and Self-Antigens"
Current Position: Post Doctoral Fellow, Linda Sherman Lab, The Scripps Research Inst., San Diego, CA
Contact Infoletr0003@gmail.com
David Telander, M.D., Ph.D.
Program: MIMP
Defense Year: 1998
Advisor: Dan Mueller
Dissertation Title: "Clonal Anergy: Its Biochemical Basis and Functional Consequences."
Current Position: Surgeon at Retinal Consultants Medical Group, Inc., Sacramento, CA
Contact Info:telanderd@retinalmd.com
Tracy Vanasek, Ph.D.
Program: MICaB
Defense Year: 2004
Advisor: Dan Mueller
Dissertation Title: "Cell Cycle Progression Regulates in vivo Clonal Anergy Induction."
Current Position: Regulatory and Technical Director at RES Specialty Pyrotechnics, Minneapolis, MN
Contacttracy.vanasek@respyro.com
Cory Yarke, M.D., Ph.D.
Program: MICaB
Defense Year: 2007
Advisor: Dan Mueller
Dissertation Title: "Regulation of CD4+ T Cell Clonal Expansion by TCR and CD28 Signaling"
Current Position: Internal Medicine Specialist, St Cloud Hospital, St Cloud, Minnesota
Contactcoryyarke@gmail.com
Ruan Zhang, Ph.D.
Program: MICaB
Defense Year: 2007
Advisor: Dan Mueller
Dissertation Title: "Regulation of CD4+ T Cell Activation, Proliferation and Anergy Induction by the E3 Ligase Cbl-b."
Current Position: Scientist II at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA
Contactzhangruan@hotmail.com