Marion Pepper, PhD

The Department of Immunobiology presents: "TBD"

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Marion Pepper, PhD
Professor, Immunology
University of Washington

Dr. Pepper graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Biology and English from Williams College, then earned her Ph.D. in Immunology from the University of Pennsylvania. She completed postdoctoral training at the University of Minnesota and joined the Department of Immunology at University of Washington as in 2011. She was promoted to full Professor in 2023.The Pepper lab studies how cells of the adaptive immune system, called CD4+ T cells and B cells, form immunological memory by visualizing their differentiation, retention and function in both mice and humans. They accomplish this by using novel tetramer-based enrichment strategies to study small populations of antigen specific CD4+ T and B cells in both complex infectious diseases such as malaria as well as during allergic asthma using a house dust mite model. They additionally use transgenic mice with various genetic ablations to interrogate the underlying molecular mechanisms involved in memory cell development and function.  Read more