Amali E Samarasinghe
University of Tennessee Health Science Center,
USA
Biography
Amali E Samarasinghe completed her PhD in 2010 through a Presidential Fellowship from North Dakota State University in Molecular Pathogenesis under the tutelage of Dr. Jane Schuh. She completed a Postdoctoral fellowship in 2012 under the mentorship of Dr. Jonathan McCullers at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Infectious Diseases. She is now a faculty member in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis and her laboratory focuses on delineating immune pathways of respiratory infections in allergic hosts.
Abstract
Abstract : Acute allergic inflammation protects against influenza A virus induced morbidity in mice