Kendall Kearns

Kendall is a Ph.D. student in the Biomedical Sciences program at UCSD. She works in Bjoern Peters's lab at the La Jolla Institute for Immunology and is currently investigating the immune signatures of unconventional T cells in multiple diseases. She is using cell analysis techniques and bioinformatics to analyze the differences between T cell subsets and disease state and will also be using biochemical techniques to identify ligands of selected T cell receptors identified through computational analyses, which have the potential to educate the development of novel diagnostic and therapeutic methods. She is also interested in learning more about the evolution of immunology through comparing prehistoric hominid species and other organisms.