My personal research remains in the steady pursuit to understand Th and Treg cell function, differentiation and trafficking during over-active immune responses: allergic asthma, lupus, colitis, and EAE. Most recently, my interests are pursuing the delineation of Th cell function while applying a stressor, such as exercise. I hope to extend our current knowledge of psycho-neuroimmunolgy by elucidating the intracellular modifications that result in altered Th and Treg cell activation/differentiation thresholds along with differences in T regulatory cell population numbers and potency during chronic activation of adrenergic receptors.
Most recently, I have expanded my studies to include the role of stress and/or exercise in Th and Treg cell migration patterns within the pancreatic adenocarcinoma tumor microenvironment.
