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immunology
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Cook Islands
Dr. Reese obtained her PhD from the University of California San Francisco where she studied in the lab of Dr. Richard Locksley. Her graduate work was focused on studying the molecules that drive inflammation. She made the observation that chitin, a ubiquitous biopolymer found in insects and plants, induces early inflammation of certain cell types associated with allergy and asthma.
For her postdoctoral fellowship, Dr. Reese went to Washington University in St. Louis and worked in the lab of Dr. Herbert "Skip" W. Virgin. There she investigated how the immune system regulates gamma-herpesvirus latency and reactivation. She made the important discovery that infection with a helminth parasite can induce herpesvirus reactivation, and that immune cytokines generated during a parasitic infection are capable of inducing herpesvirus reactivation.