Check out our new publication in Immunity on engineering force-resistant antibody-receptor interactions to enhance therapeutic antibody efficacy.
We are recruiting students at any level to expand on this finding by studying the biomechanics of interactions between antibodies and Fc-Receptors on immune cells – apply now!
Casey Kiyohara graduated recently with a Ph.D. from the Thomas lab, and just started a new position as a postdoctoral fellow at the FDA. She is in the Clinical Pharmacology of Therapeutic Biologics and Biosimilars Fellowship program, in the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER). Her project is focused on investigating the pharmicokinetic characteristics of therapeutic proteins.
This makes Casey the second Thomas Lab Alumnus to work at the FDA. Victoria Rodriguez, Ph.D. ’12 works in the Office of Cardiovascular Devices on sterilization, as one of the first Thomas lab members to merge interests in infection with cardiovascular disease.
Thomas lab alumni, Kayla Hogan and Sai Paul are first and co- authors of a new publication titled “Effect of Gravity on Bacterial Adhesion to Heterogeneous Surfaces.” This publication reports Kayla’s senior capstone project, Sai’s freshman project, and also includes contributions from co-authors who worked on a related Computational Bioengineering class project. In the paper, we use experiments and computational models to describe how bacterial adhesion to adhesion regions can reflect sedimentation and the geometry of fluidic channels as much as adhesivity.
At long last, the Thomas lab has an updated web site!