Jeremy McAleer

BIOGRAPHY

Jeremy McAleer is an Associate Faculty Member who works with Faculty Member Jay Kolls to recommend the scientific literature in their field.

Jeremy McAleer also has responsibility for checking the contents of the following journals to ensure that the highest quality research relevant to their own interests within these publications is comprehensively and systematically evaluated for F1000:

-Science
-Nature Immunology

CURRENT POSITION:
Postdoc

EDUCATION:
• PhD, Department of Immunology, The University of Connecticut Health Center, 2009. Thesis: Investigating the adjuvant effects of lipopolysaccharide on T cells in mice. Thesis advisor: Dr Anthony T Vella, PhD
• Bachelor of Science, Microbiology, The University of Iowa, 2003. Honors Thesis: Antibody repertoire in mesenteric lymph nodes and thymus of newborn, germfree and colonized pigs. Thesis advisor: Dr John E Butler, PhD

WORK EXPERIENCE:
Phlebotomy, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Iowa City, IA, April 2001-July 2002

TRAINING GRANTS/FELLOWSHIPS/AWARDS:
• Henderson Memorial Award for the Outstanding PhD Thesis, Awarded by The University of Connecticut Health Center, 2010
• National Institutes of Health, NIAID, Principal investigator: Leo Lefrancois, Basic Immunology and Immunologic Cell Injury, T32-AI07080, The University of Connecticut Health Center, August 2008-July 2009
• Internal Funding Initiatives Undergraduate Research Scholarship, The University of Iowa, January 2003
• Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship, The University of Iowa, June-July 2002