Super-Resolution Microscopy Reveals that Caveolin-1 is Critical for Effective Immune Response to Viral Infection

Dr. Kim is a Professor of Microbiology and the Director of the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at the University of Maine. She received Bachelor of Arts degrees in Philosophy and Biological Chemistry from Wellesley College and her doctoral degree from Cornell University in Microbiology.  She trained as a postdoctoral associate at Molecular Probes, Inc./Invitrogen Corp in Eugene, Oregon, and as a postdoctoral fellow at Oregon State University, where she studied viral diseases of rainbow trout and salmon. Dr. Kim has developed an internationally recognized research program focusing on the innate immune response to bacterial and viral infection, using the zebrafish as a model system. Her research program also involves investigation of the role that environmental toxicants, such as arsenic, play in modulating the host's ability to resist infection.  Dr. Kim is currently developing a zebrafish model to elucidate the role of the innate immune system during bacterial infection in cystic fibrosis disease.  Her work has been funded continuously by research grants from the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and the United States Department of Agriculture.

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