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Wendy Roberts

Wendy K. Roberts, Ph.D.

Associate Teaching Professor

Location

Decary 315
Biddeford Campus

Courses recently taught include:  BIO442 Cancer Biology, BIO370 Cell and Molecular Biology, BIO440 Autoimmune Disease, BIO306 Virology, BIO365 Immunology, BIO106 Bio II: Cell and Molecular, and BIO208/209 Intro to Anatomy and Physiology.

Credentials

Education

B.A. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Clark University
Ph.D. Pharmacology
Cornell University Weill Graduate School of Medical Sciences

Expertise

Autoimmunity
Cancer biology
Vaccines

Post-Doctoral Training

Post-Doctoral Training, Laboratory of Molecular Neuro-oncology (Dr. Robert Darnell)
The Rockefeller University (New York, New York)

Research

Selected publications

Roberts, WK, Blachere, NE, Frank, MO Dousmanis, A, Ransohoff, RM, Darnell, RB.  A destructive feedback loop mediated by CXCL10 in central nervous system inflammatory disease.  Annals of Neurology 2015  78:619-29.

Roberts, WK, Deluca, IJ, Thomas, A, Fak, J, Williams, T, Buckley, N, Dousmanis, AG, Posner, JB, Darnell, RB.  Patients with lung cancer and paraneoplastic Hu syndrome harbor HuD-specific type 2 CD8+ T cells. Journal of Clinical Investigation  2009, 119:2042-51.

Santomasso, BD, Roberts, WK, Thomas, A, Williams, T, Blachere, NE, Dudley, ME, Houghton, AN, Posner, JB, Darnell, RB.   A T cell receptor associated with naturally occurring human tumor immunity.  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 2007, 104:19073-8.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=roberts+wk