Collaborators
Dr. Deborah Burshtyn
Associate Professor
Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology
6-59A Heritage Medical Research Centre
University of Alberta
PROJECT: Development and expression of chimeric constructs to examine the signaling potential of inhibitory catfish leukocyte immune-type receptors encoding immunoreceptor tyrosine-based inhibitory motifs (ITIMs)
Dr. James Carlyle
Assistant Professor
Department of Immunology
Sunnybrook Research Institute
University of Toronto
PROJECT: Together with Dr. Carlyle we are taking advantage of the BWZ reporter assay for the identification of cellular ligands that interact with the extracellular domains of selected catfish leukocyte immune-type receptors (IpLITRs). Identification of IpLITR ligands will be a major advancement in our present understanding of this large polymorphic family of innate immunoregulatory receptors belonging to the IgSF.
Dr. Jeffrey A. Yoder
Principle Investigator
Department of Molecular Biomedical Sciences
College of Veterinary Medicine
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC, USA
PROJECT: This research project involves the identification and characterizatino of zebrafish leukocyte immune-type receptors.
THE CATFISH GROUP
University of Mississippi Medical Center
Department of Microbiology
Jackson, MS, USA
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