Post Doctoral Fellows
Fatemeh (Leila) Vahedi

Ph.D. Students
Ana Portillo
Emily Feng
Liz Balint

MSc. Students
Misaal Mehboob
Alexa Mansour
Adnan Moinuddin

Undergraduate Students
Amelia Montemarano
Arman Pandher
Bashar Alobeid
Shina Namakian
Talha Yuksel
MJ Adaimy
Julia Burlaca

Past Lab Members

 

Julia Burlaca 

 

Undergraduate Student, Level IV

    

Julia is a fourth-year Honours Health Sciences student at McMaster University. Her interest in immunology began after taking an introductory immunology course in second year and seeing how complex and influential the immune system truly is. She became especially fascinated by NK cells and the role that they could play in cancer treatment after being introduced to this topic through a cancer immunotherapy course in her third year.

 

Currently, Julia is working with Tyrah to investigate the role that expression of CD56 and CD16 plays in determining NK cell function by comparing the phenotype, metabolism, and function of regulatory uterine NK cells and peripheral blood NK cells pre- and post-expansion.

 

Email: burlacaj@mcmaster.ca

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