
After 18 wonderful years there, working on T-cell and Alfred Singer at the National Institutes of HealthĪnd was appointed to the faculty of Haverford College in 1996. She pursued her interest in T-cell development asĪ Damon Runyon-Walter Winchell Physician-Scientist fellow with Dr. School of Veterinary Medicine (V.M.D.) with a Ph.D. She was a combined degree student at the University of Pennsylvania, graduating summa cum laude from the from Bryn Mawr College, magna cum laude, with high honors in biology from HaverfordĬollege. Now with more higher order and data analysis questions per chapter. Giving instructors more options for lectures and assignments. In-Class Activities (downloadable Word files)ĭrawing on their own teaching experiences, the authors provide a brief (10-15 minute) activity for each chapter, on a topic that is typically troublesome for students.Cytokine and Chemokine Receptors and Signaling) T and B Cell Receptors and Signaling, and 4. Recognition and Response streamlines the previous edition’s chapters 3. These chapters move away from extensive molecular detail to focus more on essential concepts:

Now in a thoroughly updated new edition, Kuby Immunology remains the only undergraduate introduction to immunology written by teachers of the course. In the Kuby tradition, authors Jenni Punt, Sharon Stranford, Patricia Jones, and Judy Owen present the most current topics in an experimental context, conveying the excitement of scientific discovery, and highlight important advances, but do so with the focus on the big picture of the study of immune response, enhanced by unsurpassed pedagogical support for the first-time learner. Like no other text, it combined an experimental emphasis with extensive pedagogical features to help students grasp basic concepts. Janis Kuby’s groundbreaking introduction to immunology was the first textbook for the course actually written to be a textbook.
