Deborah Shackelford, Ph.D.

Senior Scientific Curator

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.