Kafatos:Michel, Kristin

I was a research associate in the Kafatos/Christophides Lab from 2002 to 2007 at EMBL, Heidelberg and Imperial College, London. I am now assistant professor in the Division of Biology at Kansas State University. KSU

Research Interests
My research interests are directed primarily toward the role of the innate immune system in the insect vector during host-parasite interactions in a variety of interrelated areas:

Other areas of interest include:
 * Regulation of humoral innate immune responses in the insect vector by serine protease inhibitors
 * The role of immune responsive organs, especially the insect blood cells (hemocytes), in the recognition, modulation and initiation of effector systems
 * The interplay of immune responsive organs (midgut, fat body, and hemocytes) and the potential role of cytokines in this interplay
 * Hematopoiesis in insects
 * Evolution of immunity genes

Education
2002 PhD in Entomology, University of California Riverside, CA, USA 1995 MSc in Biology, Christian-Albrechts-University, Kiel, Germany

Publications

 * 1) Cohuet2006 pmid=17099691
 * 2) Michel2006 pmid=17065316
 * 3) Abraham2005 pmid=16260729
 * 4) Michel2005 pmid=16113656
 * 5) Moita2005 pmid=16039580
 * 6) Michel2005a pmid=15894185
 * 7) Michel2003 pmid=14505689
 * 8) Michel2003a pmid=12858343
 * 9) Christophides2002 pmid=12364793
 * 10) Michel2002 pmid=12426102
 * 11) Atkinson2002 pmid=11835673
 * 12) Michel2001 pmid=11422511
 * 13) Pinkerton2000 pmid=10672065
 * 14) Michel1998 pmid=9620332
 * 15) Roth1998 pmid=9537440
 * 16) Gong1998 pmid=9453497