The Molecular Pharmaceutics & Drug Delivery Seminar Series Presents:
Dr. Jin Huk Choi, Asst. Prof., Center for Genetics of Host Defense, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Forward Genetic Analysis of Adaptive Immunity
Thursday, November 16, 2023
1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
PHR 4.114
In-Person/Hybrid
I did my graduate studies in the lab of Maria Croyle with research focused on the development of vaccination strategy that has potential to bypass pre-existing immunity to adenoviral vector. With my graduate work, I received the Research Excellence Award in Pharmacy Research Day, AAPS Graduate Student Symposium Award, and Editor's Choice Award from the American Chemical Society. After graduation, I did post-doctoral training with Bruce Beutler M.D. (Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, 2011) at UT Southwestern Medical Center to identify novel genes that control adaptive immunity using unbiased mouse forward genetics. In 2019, I was appointed as a tenure-track assistant professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center, Center for the Genetics of Host Defense/Department of Immunology. My lab focuses on mechanistic understanding of immune cell development to gain novel insights into the regulation of adaptive immunity. In 2020, I received the Distinguished Researcher Awards by the UT Southwestern President’s Research Council designed to honor and help further the work of early career researchers.