Category Archives: Immunology
Infection, Immunity, and Surface Properties in the nematode C. elegans – Jonathon Hodgkin (1/17/12)
This work focuses on studying the innate immune system using the nematode C. elegans . This model organism is useful in that it is well characterized and is a simple system to use for forward and reverse genetic screens. Additionally, studying an invertebrate such as the nematode allows for the isolation of the innate immune […]
Amazing breakthrough in Epidemiology – using Social Data to track Illness/Disease Outbreaks
Sickweather Says Its Illness Detection Based on Social Data Is Working – Liz Gannes – News – AllThingsD: ‘via Blog this’
Discrete Logic Models Discriminate Between Mechanisms of HIV Protein-Induced Dysregulation of the T Cell Signaling Network
R. Amezquita (1), Q. Xue (2), and K. Miller-Jensen (2)(1) University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, (2) Yale University, New Haven, CT The need for systems-level approaches towards the discovery of fundamental mechanisms of viral pathogenesis is pressing for the 33 million people worldwide infected with human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV). For example, many […]
HIV in a Systems Biology Context – Using Logic Based Models to Analyze Systems-Emergent Properties
My current topic of research here at Yale. If you’re interested in the work I’ve done thus far or have any questions or even just want to discuss any topic of interest to you, please feel free to drop me a line. I’d be more than happy to talk about anything ranging from HIV prevention […]
The Big Picture On Vaccines
Everyday on the news, there is talk of new diseases, infections, and all sorts of frightening things that have the potential to make us sick. But have you ever wondered how it is that we get sick exactly? You might hear talk of our “immune system”, but have you ever wondered how it really works? […]
The Teeter And Totter Of Your Immune System
Your body is waging a constant war with the world around it. Microbes are constantly breaching your defenses and starting up battles against your immune system. Your immune system is immensely complex, but it has only one goal – to protect the host (that is you). So let’s start our exploration of the body’s army […]
