Since awarding its first advanced degree in Classics in 1885, the graduate school at Dartmouth has grown, matured, and diversified into a range of graduate programs and degrees, with professors, postdocs, and students having built a significant foundation for higher-level scientific research.
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In the Green Lab, Megan O’Connor studies the immune response to LP-BM5, a retrovirus which causes severe immunodeficiency in mice i.e. mouse AIDS (MAIDS). The LP-BM5 infection model is used to further understand the immune response against retroviral infection and also as a model system to study HIV infection. Mice infected with LP-BM5 have a weakened immune response and O’Connor’s project involves looking at what cell type(s) may be contributing to the immunosuppressive environment.
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