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 Kathleen Kennedy
Kathleen Kennedy

Susan Lindquest

Kathleen A. Kennedy

Area of Expertise
Microbiology
Molecular Biology

Current Position
Senior Research Scientist

Degree
Ph.D., Microbiology, University of Washington, 1999

Research Interests
Dr. Kennedy is using various high throughput methods, including deep sequencing techniques, to understand the transcriptional networks underlying the responses of macrophages to pathogens.

Selected Publications

Litvak V, Ramsey SA, Rust AG, Zak DE, Kennedy KA, Lampano AE, Nykter M, Shmulevich I, Aderem A. Function of C/EBPdelta in a regulatory circuit that discriminates between transient and persistent TLR4-induced signals. Nat Immunol. 2009 Apr;10(4):437-43.

Hemmi H, Idoyaga J, Suda K, Suda N, Kennedy K, Noda M, Aderem A, Steinman RM. A new triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells (Trem) family member, Trem-like 4, binds to dead cells and is a DNAX activation protein 12-linked marker for subsets of mouse macrophages and dendritic cells. J Immunol. 2009 Feb 1;182(3):1278-86.

Querec TD, Akondy RS, Lee EK, Cao W, Nakaya HI, Teuwen D, Pirani A, Gernert K, Deng J, Marzolf B, Kennedy K, Wu H, Bennouna S, Oluoch H, Miller J, Vencio RZ, Mulligan M, Aderem A, Ahmed R, Pulendran B. Systems biology approach predicts immunogenicity of the yellow fever vaccine in humans. Nat Immunol. 2009 Jan;10(1):116-25.

Wilson J, Huynh C, Kennedy KA, Ward DM, Kaplan J, Aderem A, Andrews NW. Control of parasitophorous vacuole expansion by LYST/Beige restricts the intracellular growth of Leishmania amazonensis. PLoS Pathog. 2008 Oct;4(10):e1000179.

Ramsey SA, Klemm SL, Zak DE, Kennedy KA, Thorsson V, Li B, Gilchrist M, Gold ES, Johnson CD, Litvak V, Navarro G, Roach JC, Rosenberger CM, Rust AG, Yudkovsky N, Aderem A, Shmulevich I. Uncovering a macrophage transcriptional program by integrating evidence from motif scanning and expression dynamics. PLoS Comput Biol. 2008 Mar 21;4(3):e1000021.




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