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Laurent Boyer Research Fellow
Education Ph.D., University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis, France
Interests Innate immunity, host-pathogen interactions
My research aims at understanding the role of Rho GTPases in innate immunity. To this end, I am using Drosophila melanogaster as a model to study Staphylococcus aureus infection. When I am not in the lab, I am doing scuba diving around the world.
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Guillaume Charrier Research Fellow
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Shannon Fracchia Clinical Fellow
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Elizabeth Hennessy Research Associate
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Eddie Ip Research Fellow
Education B.Sc., Hong Kong U. of Science and Technology; M.Phil., Ph.D., University of Hong Kong
Interests Host-pathogen interactions and innate immunity
My research focuses on the molecular mechanisms that underlie innate immune sensing to bacterial infection. My initial work in the lab has demonstrated a novel mechanism that mannose-binding lectin, a soluble pattern-recognition receptor, cooperates with toll-like receptors 2 and 6 in regulating the host response to S. aureus infection. I am currently investigating the role of phagocytosis in sensing and initiating inflammatory response to bacteria such as E. coli and S. aureus by using macrophages as a cell model. |
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