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I have been at La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology since 2006 as a Senior Curator, responsible for compiling immunology data from the scientific literature with specific emphasis on extracting information about B and T cell epitopes into an NIAID-funded database, the Immune Epitope Database (IEDB). I graduated from UCLA with a B.S. in Biochemistry, and then from UC Berkeley with a Ph.D. in Microbiology and Immunology. I did postdoctoral fellowships at UCLA and at Scripps Clinic, and then worked at Scripps as an Assistant Member in the Department of Immunology. Subsequently, I worked at Pfizer for a number of years in the Pharmacology and Virology Departments on drug development of anti-rhinoviral compounds. In addition, I have initiated an effort to submit data derived from our lab into ImmPort, a biomedical research data site also funded by NIAID.

I am a Senior Curator with the Immune Epitope Database (IEDB) at the La Jolla Institute, responsible for compiling immunology data from the scientific literature with specific emphasis on structural data about B and T cell epitopes and their receptors. I graduated from the University of California at San Diego with a B.A. in Chemistry (Biochemistry), and then from Harvard University with a Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. I did a postdoctoral fellowship at The Salk Institute in the Department of Cancer Biology. Subsequently, I worked at UCSD in the Department of Neurosciences on biochemical analyses of Alzheimer’s disease and acute CNS injury in animal models of stroke.