Postgraduate Researcher (w/ Karin Lab)
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Anjuli Timmer, Ph.D. Postgraduate Researcher (w/ Karin Lab) |
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Anjuli Minocha Timmer grew up in
Durham, New Hampshire and received her
undergraduate education the University of New Hampshire where she
majored in Biology. While at UNH she completed an undergraduate
research project in the laboratory of Dr. Thomas Foxall on COX1 and
COX2 expression and its role in the pathogenesis of
atherosclerosis. After graduation, Anjuli came west to San Diego
and worked as an Associate Scientist in the Protein Bioscience Group at
Applied Molecular Evolution, a drug discovery subsidiary of Eli Lilly
Corp. She then joined the Molecular Pathology Ph.D. program and
UCSD conducted her doctoral research in our laboratory on mechanisms of
GAS, including the role of serum opacity factor protein in epithelial
cell invasion and accelerated macrophage apoptosis caused by the
pore-forming cytolysin, streptolysin O. |
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graduation in 2008, Anjuli received a prestigious A.P. Giannini Foundation
Postdoctoral Fellowship for Medical Research, and joined the
laboratory of Prof.
Michael Karin in the UCSD Department of Pharmacology. Her
ongoing studies, which maintain a collaboration with the Nizet
Lab, explore inflammasome function in macrophages and its role
innate host defense against invasive bacteria and bacterial toxins. |
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