How do bacteria evade innate immunity and cause disease? And, how can we repurpose this foundational knowledge to broadly fight human diseases like cancer? Our lab is investigating how pathogens subvert immune defenses and we are translating these findings to target innate immunity for cancer immunotherapy.
Joining the lab
Interested postdocs, UCI undergraduate students, and summer internship students (SURF, MARC, etc), please contact Dr. Burke about available research opportunities.
Graduate students can only join the lab after acceptance to the UCI CMB graduate program. After joining CMB, please email Dr. Burke to learn about rotating.
The Lab
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Welcome to Orange County, California
About UC Irvine: The city of Irvine is situated in Orange County, 40 minutes south of Los Angeles and an hour North of San Diego. The UC Irvine campus is just a 10 minute drive to the coast, where you can find Laguna beach, Newport beach and Crystal Cove State Park. The OC is a fantastic area for biking, hiking, surfing, sailing, and for year-round outdoor running or exercising. The OC has an amazing food scene and Irvine is very family-friendly. Read more about UC Irvine here!
Department
We are part of the Microbiology and Molecular Genetics Department in the School of Medicine. Learn more about the exciting research, seminars, and events on our departmental website: https://sites.uci.edu/microbiology/.
Inclusive and dynamic research environment
