Kafatos:Michel, Kristin

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Kristin Michel Division of Cell & Molecular Biology South Kensington Campus, SAF London, SW72AZ UK k.michel@imperial.ac.uk

I am a research associate in the Kafatos/Christophides Lab at Imperial College, London
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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:

• 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
  

Other areas of interest include:

• 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

My publication

In this journal... in 2004...

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1. John Smith. The art of saying nothing. Verbose Editions 1999.

2. Ministerial Meeting on Population of the Non-Aligned Movement (1993: Bali). Denpasar Declaration on Population and Development. Integration. 1994 Jun(40):27-9. DOI:10.1234/2013/999990 |