Current Immunology Grant Trainees
2020-2021 T32 Training Grant Recipients
Katherine (Maude) Ashby
ashby037@umn.edu
Microbiology & Immunology Graduate Student 2018
Mentor: Kristin Hogquist
Research Interest: Negative selection of autoreactive T cells
Alexander Dwyer
dwyer171@umn.edu
Medical Scientist Training Program (MD./PhD), 2016
Microbiology & Immunology Graduate Student 2018
Mentor: Brian Fife
Research Interest: Pathogenic hybrid peptide-specific CD4+ T cells as a therapeutic target in Type 1 Diabetes
Alexis Elfstrum
elfst022@umn.edu
Microbiology & Immunology Graduate Student 2019
Mentor: Kaylee Schwertfeger
Research Interest: The role of Lyve-1+ macrophages in breast cancer using mouse models and in vitro modeling experiments.
Microbiology & Immunology Graduate Student 2017
Mentor: Marc Jenkins
Research Interest: Generation and maintenance of memory CD4+ T cells.
Fathima Mohamed
moham551@umn.edu
Medical Scientist Training Program (MD./PhD), 2017
Microbiology & Immunology Graduate Student 2019
Mentor: Bruce Blazar
Research Interest: Investigating therapeutic targets for Chronic Graft Versus Host Disease
Meagan Rollins
rolli080@umn.edu
Microbiology & Immunology Graduate Student 2018
Mentor: Ingunn Stromnes
Research Interest: Understanding mechanisms of T cell exhaustion; engineered T cell immunotherapy for the treatment of pancreatic cancer