Current Immunology Grant Trainees
2025-2026 T32 Training Grant Recipients
Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology Graduate Student, 2023
Mentor: David Masopust
Research Interest: Investigating the crosstalk between lymph node resident memory T cells and other cells in secondary lymphoid organs to determine how LN TRM orchestrates a memory response.
Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology Graduate Student, 2023
Mentor: David Masopust
Research Interest: Exploring mechanisms dictating the establishment, maintenance, and trafficking of resident memory T cell populations, particularly in the context of aging.
Grant Hickock
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Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology Graduate Student, 2022
Mentor: Ingunn Stromnes
Research Interest: Investigating how TCR affinity shapes the function and responsiveness of stem-like CD8 T cells during immune checkpoint blockade in pancreatic cancer.
Sylvia Klein
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Microbiology & Immunology Graduate Student 2021
Mentor: Matt Aliota
Research Interest: How variations in the STING cleavage site sequence affect host susceptibility to dengue virus (DENV) infection, focusing on the role of the cGAS-STING pathway in the immune response. The goal is to create and validate a humanized STING transgenic mouse model that can serve as an immunocompetent model for DENV.
Charles Roll
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Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology Graduate Student, 2022
Mentor: Bryce Binstadt
Research Interest: Interested in studying mechanisms of undescribed primary immunodeficiencies.
Tailor Mathes
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Microbiology & Immunology Graduate Student 2020
Mentor: Tyler Bold
Research Interest: Investigating T cell-dependent and independent mechanisms by which diverse lung phagocytic cell types impact intracellular Mycobacterium tuberculosis.