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- Managing the day to day activities to keep the MD/PhD program running smoothly- Acting as the liaison between our students and the medical school and graduate school and helping the students through the transitions between the two schools- Plan events for the MD/PhD program to maintain a sense of community - Managing our T32 grant and budget- Working with our students and faculty to schedule the weekly MD/PhD seminar series- Working with our students to plan mentoring and outreach events- Working with undergraduate students and applicants during the interview and admissions process - Attending conferences and symposia for recruitment of future applicants and students- Working with alumni of our program to keep them engaged with our current students and to keep up with their career progress

- Managing the day to day activities to keep the MD/PhD program running smoothly - Managing our T32 grant and budget- Working with our students and faculty to schedule the weekly MD/PhD seminar series- Working with our students to plan mentoring and outreach events- Working with undergraduate students and applicants during the interview and admissions process - Working with alumni of our program to keep them engaged with our current students and to keep up with their career progress

• Laboratory Manager: maintaining and ordering supplies; maintaining equipment; managing the mouse colony and keeping track of our transgenic mice on a spreadsheet• My abstract was chosen for an oral presentation four times at our biannual international meetings• Established an aerosol infection model in mice using Mycobacterium avium and characterized the importance of C5a and C3a in this infection using our C5aR1-/- mice and C3aR-/- mice.• Established a sepsis model in mice using Listeria monocytogenes and demonstrated the importance of complement components C3a and C5a and their receptors, C3aR and C5aR1 and C5aR2, respectively. • Supervised a M.D./ Ph.D. student with his Ph.D. project and have mentored and supervised a postdoctoral fellow, a junior scientist, and undergraduate summer students with their projects

• My abstract was chosen for an oral presentation two times at our biannual international meetings• Generated a knockout mouse with a deletion in the carboxypeptidase N gene and characterized the effect of this gene deletion in various inflammatory models; crossed these mice with our C3aR and C5aR knockout mice and demonstrated that C5a, but not C3a, caused shock in these mice that was due to excessive histamine release• Supervised a student with his Master’s project; created a mouse model of Moraxella catarrhalis and worked with him in the characterization of a new knockout mouse (C4 binding protein knockout mouse)• Mentored undergraduate students during short summer projects and supervised a research assistant to maintain the smooth daily and long term operation of the laboratory

• My abstract was chosen for an oral presentation two times at our biannual international meetings• Established a pneumonia model in mice using Pseudomonas aeruginosa and demonstrated that complement component C3 and the alternative pathway of complement activation are necessary for mouse survival and bacterial clearance (used C3-/- mice, C4-/- mice, and Factor B-/- mice) • Demonstrated that C3aR plays a pro-inflammatory role in this model of pneumonia using C3aR-/- mice • Supervised a M.D./ Ph.D. student with his Ph.D. project; created a bacteremia model in mice using heat-killed E. coli and worked with him in the characterization of the C5aR-/- mouse that he created