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Liisa Selin, M.D., Ph.D.
Academic Role: Professor
Faculty Appointment(s) In:
Pathology
Other Affiliation(s):
Center for AIDS Research
Program in Immunology and Virology
Academic Background
Dr. Liisa K. Selin received her B.Sc. degree (Biology and Psychology) in 1974 and M.D. degree in 1979, both from Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia. She is Board Certified in Internal Medicine (1984, in Canada ), with fellowship training in infectious diseases. She also completed her PhD training in microbiology and immunology at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba (Canada) in 1993 followed by 2 years of postdoctoral training at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA. She joined the faculty in the Dept. of Pathology at the University of Massachusetts Medical School as an Instructor in 1994 and was promoted to her present position as Associate Professor in 2001. Dr. Selin has studied the role of T cells in response to viral infections; specifically, initially identifying and focusing on the phenomenon of heterologous immunity, whereby memory T cell responses to pathogens can influence the outcome to subsequent infection with unrelated pathogens. The effects of heterologous immunity are now known, at least in part, to be mediated by cross-reactive T cell responses and mediate both protective effects, immune enhancement and can induce immunopathology. In the past decade she has published and spoken on numerous aspects of the heterologous immunity and CD8 T cell cross-reactivity.
Office: S2-238
Phone: 508-856-3039
Fax: 508-856-5780
E-mail: Liisa.Selin@umassmed.edu
Keywords:
Immunology,
T lymphocytes,
Viral Pathogenesis,
Heterologous,
Viral Infections and Immunity
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