My name is Matthew Slein and I am a PhD student in the Molecular and Cellular Biology Program at Dartmouth College. I graduated from Boston College in 2017 with a Bachelor of Science in Biology. At BC, I worked to understand the antibody response to SIV and the coupling of next-generation sequencing technologies with phage display to expedite the discovery of antigen-specific antibodies. After I graduated I worked for three years at the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, and Harvard in the lab of Dr. Galit Alter where I worked to study the antibody response to infectious diseases like Ebola virus, HIV, and SARS-CoV-2. In addition, I helped to develop and run an antibody engineering platform to dissect out humoral correlates of protection against infectious diseases. I am extremely fascinated by the immune response to infectious diseases and how we can use information from both natural infection and vaccination to generate more potent therapeutics and informed vaccine design.
My name is Nicole Kordana and I am a PhD student in the Molecular and Cellular Biology program at Dartmouth. I received my BSc in 2018 from Saint Michael’s College in Burlington, VT. After graduation I moved to Boston to complete research focusing on vaccine development and other therapeutic strategies for infectious diseases including: HIV, Zika, Influenza, Yellow Fever, and SARS-Cov-2. My main interest in research is on immunomodulation and immunoengineering to develop modern therapeutics for infectious diseases based on host-microbe interactions. When I am not in the lab, you can almost always find me outside: hiking, biking, paddleboarding, skiing, you name it! Feel free to ask me about the MCB first year experience, the Upper Valley, or vaccine development.
