User:Melanie L Conrad


 * I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Professor Harald Renz's lab at Phillips University in Marburg, Germany


 * My PhD work was done in the Koop lab at the Centre for Biomedical Research at University of Victoria.

Education

 * PhD, Department of Biology, University of Victoria
 * BSc, Biology, University College of the Cariboo

Research interests

 * 1) Asthma and the hygiene hypothesis
 * 2) Adjuvant free murine asthma models
 * 3) Immunological aspects of prenatal transfer of allergy protection from mother to child

Publications

 * 1) Paper1 Conrad ML, Renz H, Blaser K. Immunological approaches for tolerance induction in allergy. Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology: Vaccination against allergy. Edited by R. Valenta 	and R.Coffman. Invited review. In press.
 * 2) Paper2 Sonar SS, Schwinge D, Kilic A, Yildirim AO, Conrad ML, Seidler K, Müller B, Renz H, Nockher 	WA. Nerve growth factor enhances Clara cell proliferation after lung injury. Eur Respir J. Accepted, In press.
 * 3) Paper3 pmid=19995952
 * 4) Paper4 pmid=19438585
 * 5) Paper5 pmid=17604101
 * 6) Paper6 pmid=17654651
 * 7) Paper7 pmid=17141331
 * 8) Paper8 pmid=12072270

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