Carina Dagotto
I am a senior at Duke University and am currently applying to graduate programs with an interest in immunology/pathology. I have been working in the Hartman lab since 2021 under the guidance of Postdoctoral scholar Timothy Trotter. I have been researching dormant cancer cells and what mechanisms they use to avoid the adaptive immune system. We recently identified Wnt signaling inhibitor DKK3 as a candidate capable of regulating Tregs in the microenvironment. I am now evaluating the ability of Sox9 to regulate the hybrid E/M phenotype that dormant cells tend to show.