{"id":2003,"date":"2013-12-02T10:15:13","date_gmt":"2013-12-02T15:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/immunology\/?page_id=2003"},"modified":"2019-02-20T12:01:06","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T17:01:06","slug":"kristie-hilliard","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/immunology\/trainees\/predoc\/kristie-hilliard\/","title":{"rendered":"Kristie Hilliard"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Microbiology<\/h2>\n<p>BS &#8211; Juniata College, 2010<\/p>\n<p>Quinton Laboratory<\/p>\n<p>I work in Dr. Lee Quinton\u2019s laboratory, which is part of the Pneumonia Biology group.\u00a0 As a group, we focus on understanding the innate immune signals that perpetuate the balance between clearing microbes and avoiding lung injury.\u00a0 My project focuses on the role of the lung-liver axis, and the acute phase response (APR) specifically, in host defense during <i>E. coli<\/i> pneumonia.\u00a0 We use a novel mouse model in which transcription factors STAT3 and RelA are selectively deleted from hepatocytes to effectively create an APR-null mouse.\u00a0 By using this mouse model we can better understand what functional role the APR plays in a localized lung infection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microbiology BS &#8211; Juniata College, 2010 Quinton Laboratory I work in Dr. Lee Quinton\u2019s laboratory, which is part of the Pneumonia Biology group.\u00a0 As a group, we focus on understanding the innate immune signals that perpetuate the balance between clearing microbes and avoiding lung injury.\u00a0 My project focuses on the role of the lung-liver axis, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6648,"featured_media":0,"parent":2457,"menu_order":15,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/immunology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2003"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/immunology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/immunology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/immunology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6648"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/immunology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2003"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/immunology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3034,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/immunology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2003\/revisions\/3034"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/immunology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/immunology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}