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Theresa L. Hunter (Geiger), PhD

MSK Position: Graduate Student; Current Position: Senior Scientist at PACT Pharma, San Francisco, CA

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Theresa Hunter (Geiger)

Dissertation

Developmental Control of Innate Lymphoid Cells (2016)

Mentor

Joseph Sun, PhD

Start Year

2011

End Year

2016

Education

California Institute of Technology

Fellowships

Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral Individual National Research Service Award (NIH F31) (2014-2015)

Publications

O’Sullivan TE, Geary CD, Weizman OE, Geiger TL, Rapp M, Dorn GW, Overholtzer M, Sun JC. (2016) Atg5 Is Essential for the Development and Survival of Innate Lymphocytes. Cell Rep, 15, 1910-9. PMCID: PMC4889506.

Cortez VS, Cervantes-Barragan L, Robinette ML, Bando JK, Wang Y, Geiger TL, Gilfillan S, Fuchs A, Vivier E, Sun JC, Cella M, Colonna M. Transforming Growth Factor-β Signaling Guides the Differentiation of Innate Lymphoid Cells in Salivary Glands. (2016) Immunity, 44, 1127-39.

Geiger TL, Sun JC. (2016) Development and Maturation of Natural Killer Cells. Curr Opin Immunol., 39, 82-9. PMCID: PMC4801705.

Geiger TL, Abt MC, Gasteiger G, Firth MA, O’Connor MH, Geary CD, O’Sullivan TE, van den Brink MR, Pamer EG, Hanash AM, Sun JC. (2014) Nfil3 is crucial for development of innate lymphoid cells and host protection against intestinal pathogens. J Exp Med., 211, 1723-31. PMCID: PMC4144732.

Curran, M., Geiger, T., Montalvo, W., Kim, M., Reiner, S., Al-Shamkhani, A., Sun, J., and Allison, J. (2013) Systemic 4-1BB activation induces a novel T cell phenotype driven by high expression of Eomesodermin. J Exp Med, 210, 743-755. PMID: 23547098; PMCID: PMC3620352.