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Sam Nalle, Ph.D.
CBC Scholar: Class of 2010
Department of Pathology (BSD), UChicago, advisor: Jerrold Turner
TURNER LAB WEBPAGE
Current position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Genentech
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EDUCATION:
University of Chicago
Ph.D., Molecular Pathogenesis and Molecular Medicine
2006 – 2011
Macalester College
B.A., Biology
2002 – 2005
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Transplantation, alloreactivity, graft-versus-host disease, antigen presentation, epithelial cell biology, mucosal immunology.
PUBLICATIONS:
Nalle SC, Turner JR. Menetrier's disease therapy: Rebooting mucosal signaling. Science Translational Medicine 2009;1:8-10. (Sci Transl Med)
Nalle SC, Turner JR. Epithelium, tear down this wall! Cell Host Microbe 2009;5:1-2. (PubMed)
Su L, Shen L, Clayburgh DR, Nalle SC, Sullivan EA, Meddings JB, Abraham C, Turner JR. Targeted epithelial tight junction dysfunction causes immune activation and contributes to development of experimental colitis. Gastroenterology 2009;136:551-63. (PubMed)
Weber CR, Nalle SC*, Tretiakova M, Rubin DT, Turner JR. Claudin-1 and claudin-2 expression is elevated in inflammatory bowel disease and may contribute to early neoplastic transformation. Lab Invest 2008;88:1110-20. *co-first author (PubMed)
Nalle SC. ROCKing the matrix. Laboratory Investigation. 2007. 87:1068-1069. (Laboratory Investigation)
HONORS AND AWARDS:
Best Dissertation Award – Molecular Pathogenesis and Molecular Medicine Graduate Program. 2011.
Takeda Travel Award for Experimental Biology 2011 – based on competitive ranking of submitted abstracts. Washington, D.C. 2011.
Travel Award for American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting – based on competitive ranking of submitted abstracts. Orlando, FL. 2010.
Chicago Biomedical Consortium Scholar. 2010-2011.
Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America Travel Scholarship – to finance attendance at the Microbes and Mucosal Immunity Course at the University of Virginia. June, 2008.
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