Shimizu Lab Graduate Student Alumni
Graduate Students
Christopher DeNucci, M.D., Ph.D.
Program: MICaB
Defense Year: 2010
Advisor: Yoji Shimizu
Dissertation Title: "The Role of beta1 Integrin on CD4 T Cells."
Current Position: Resident, Diagnostic Radiology, Stanford University
Contact Info: (650) 723-7816
Jennifer Epler, M.S.
Program: MICaB
Defense Year: 2000
Advisor: Yoji Shimizu
Dissertation Title: "Requirement for ZAP-70 in Regulating beta-1 Integrin-Mediated Adhesion in T Cells."
Current Position: Senior Scientific Researcher, Genentech, South San Francisco, CA
Contact Info: epler.jennifer@gene.com 
Jessica Fiege, Ph.D.
Program: MCDBG
Defense Year: 2014
Advisor: Yoji Shimizu
Dissertation Title: "Regulation of CD8 T-Cell Memory by ADAP."
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Minnesota (Ryan Langlois lab), Minneapolis, MN
Contact: fiege018@umn.edu
Anne Hunter Novak, Ph.D.
Program: Pathobiology
Defense Year: 1999
Advisor: Yoji Shimizu
Dissertation Title: "Integrin Mediated Signal Transduction in Human T Cells."
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Hematology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester MN
Contact Info: Novak.Anne@mayo.edu
Sirid Kellermann, Ph.D., M.B.A.
Program: Cell and Developmental Biology
Defense Year: 1998
Advisor: Yoji Shimizu
Dissertation Title: "T Cell Receptor Regulation of Integrin Expression and Function."
Current Position: President, 4th & Aspen Life Sciences Consulting LLC
Contact Info: sirid_k@yahoo.com
Amanda Martin, Ph.D.
Program: MICaB
Defense Year: 2007
Advisor: Yoji Shimizu
Dissertation Title: "Regulation of T Cell Migration and the Immune Response by Phosphoinositide 3-Kinase Gamma."
Current Position: Senior Medical Writer, Medical Expressions (subsidiary of Nucleus Global), Chicago, IL
Kristen Mueller, Ph.D.
Program: MICaB
Defense Year: 2006
Advisor: Yoji Shimizu
Dissertation Title: "Regulation of Antigen-Dependent T Cell Interactions with Antigen Presenting Cells and T Cell Activation by the Adapter Protein, ADAP."
Current Position: Scientific Program Director, Melanoma Research Alliance, Washington D.C
Contact Info: kmueller@curemelanoma.org
Jonathan Pribila, M.D., Ph.D.
Program: MICaB
Defense Year: 2003
Advisor: Yoji Shimizu
Dissertation Title: "Molecular Mechanisms for the Recruitment and Retention of Leukocytes in Lymph Nodes."
Current Position: Pediatric Ophthalmologist, Park Nicollet/Methodist Hospital, St. Louis Park, MN
Angela Williams Quale, Ph.D.
Program: MCDBG
Defense Year: 2005
Advisor: Yoji Shimizu
Dissertation Title: "Regulation of T Cell Receptor Induced Signaling to Integrins."
Current Position: ParaProfessional, Orono Public Schools, Long Lake, MN
Nicholas Zumwalde, Ph.D.
Program: MICaB
Defense Year: 2013
Advisor: Yoji Shimizu
Dissertation Title: "The Role of ICAM-1 Mediated T cell: T Cell Interactions on CD8+ T Cell Effector Function and Differentiation."
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Wisconsin (Jenny Gumperz/Michael Gould labs), Madison, WI
Contact Info: nazumwalde@wisc.edu