Editorial Board Member - JIID
Jana Barlic-Dicen
Assistant ProfessorDepartment of Cell Biology
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
United States
BIOGRAPHY:
Dr. Barlic-Dicen is an Assistant Professor at Department of Cell Biology, University of Oklahoma. She had an adjunct appointment at the Department of Cell Biology. Her primary appointment is as the Assistant Member at Cardiovascular Biology Research Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation.She obtained her B.S. in 1995 from University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. She pursued her graduate studies at the University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada and obtained Ph.D. from Microbiology and Immunology in 2001. As a post-doctoral fellow at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health (2001-2007), she investigated how the chemokine system regulates development of atherosclerotic plaques. She joined the Cardiovascular Biology Research Program at Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation as an Assistant Member in 2008.
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
- Identify mechanisms that support atherosclerotic plaque regression
- Determine how the chemokine system regulates energy expenditure, inflammatory responses and homeostasis of adipose tissue
Other Editorial Board Members - JIID
Wen-Quan Zou
Departments of Pathology and Neurology
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
United States
Frank Portugal
Department of Biology
The Catholic University of America
United States
PAULA M. CHILTON
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
University of Louisville
United States
Esma S. Yolcu
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
University of Louisville
United States
Parameswaran Ramakrishnan
Experimental Pathology
Case Western Reserve University
United States
Subash Sad
Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology
University of Ottawa
Canada
