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Andrea Graham is a Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University. Her research focuses on the processes driving heterogeneity in hosts, parasites, and diseases. In her lab, she and her students aim to understand how natural selection shapes the strategies that hosts use for defense against parasite transmission, with a particular interest in uncovering the heterogeneous immune responsiveness of hosts. She employs a variety of laboratory methods and is familiar with the questions drawn from evolutionary ecology. Her work examines the myriad molecules that power the mammalian immune system, particularly cytokines and antibodies. Cytokines are intercellular signaling molecules that determine the type and magnitude of parasite-killing mechanisms, while antibodies provide potent specific defenses. With the help of excellent recent graduate students, her lab studies the defense mechanisms in insect hosts and assesses how strong immune responses affect host-parasite fitness and the selection pressures that shape the speed and specificity of these immune responses.
GRE scores are not accepted. Ph.D. is the primary degree; students are not required to hold an M.S.E. prior to admission.