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Wendy Roberts

Wendy K. Roberts, Ph.D.

Teaching Professor
School of Biological Sciences
College of Arts and Sciences

Location

Decary 213
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
  • Immunology
  • Tumor immunology

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.

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