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Shirley Luckhart Receives Outstanding Mentor Award
Congratulations to UC Davis molecular biologist Shirley Luckhart, professor of Medical Microbiology and Immunology (MMI) and a graduate student advisor with the UC Davis Department of Entomology! She’s just received a 2012 Outstanding Mentor Award from the UC Davis Consortium for Women and Research. Luckhart, an international authority on malaria, was nominated through a joint effort of her 15-member lab, and supported by former students, postdocs and faculty colleagues. Writing letters of support were doctoral candidates Anna Drexler and Elizabeth Glennon; postdoctoral scholar Nazzy Pakpour; and MMI associate professor Maria Mudryj. Read what her lab members said about her here.
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Departmental Mission Our Mission is to develop new approaches for the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases and immunologic disorders. Department programs are integral to the School's new Initiative on Infectious Diseases. Researchers use state-of-the-art technologies of genomics, proteomics and imaging to study the genes and proteins of the pathogens and their hosts to identify novel targets for prevention and therapy.
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Barbara Shacklett's research highlighted in Science Daily |
 Dr. Barbara Shacklett
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Dr. Shacklett’s paper titled "Myeloid dendritic cells isolated from tissues of SIV-infected Rhesus macaques promote the induction of regulatory T cells" is higlighted in the February 14th edition of Science Daily. The paper was published in the January 28, 2012 issue of AIDS. A link to Dr. Shacklett's paper can be found here. SIV Infection May Lead to Increase in Immune-Suppressive Treg Cells
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