Innate Immunity

BIOGRAPHY

Michael Freeman is an Associate Faculty Member who works with Booki Min to evaluate the literature relevant to their research interests.

CURRENT POSITION:
Research Associate, Min Lab

EDUCATION AND TRAINING:
In 2002, Mike Freeman earned his BS in Microbiology from Clemson University. During a summer research internship in Dr Stephen Dewhurst's lab at the University of Rochester in 2001, Mike decided to pusue a career in research. After graduation, he enrolled in graduate school at the University of Pittsburgh. While at Pitt, Mike worked in the lab of Dr Robert Hendricks, researching the role of virus-specific immunity in controlling latent herpes simplex virus infections. He found that psychological stress could induce HSV reactivation by disrupting immune function at the site of latency. He earned his PhDin molecular virology and microbiology in 2007.

Mike joined Trudeau Institute in 2008 as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the laboratories of Drs David Woodland and Marcy Blackman. He is currently examining the role of latent virus antigen on virus-specific CD8+ and CD4+ T cells, using murine gammaherpesvirus-68 – a mouse model of the human pathogens EBV and KSHV.