Inaia Rochelle Phoenix
Graduate Assistant, Pathology Education
Office: (409) 747-8156
inphoeni@utmb.edu
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Professional Education
| Degree |
Institution |
Field of Study |
Graduation Year |
| B.S. |
Southeastern Oklahoma University, Durant, OK |
Biology / Zoology |
2007 |
Honors
| 2007 |
Graduated Cum Laude |
| 2007 |
Honors Program Graduate |
| 2006 |
Clifford L. Stevens Scholarship |
| 2006 |
Cardinal Key National Honor Society Nominee |
| 2005 |
Alpha Chi National College Honor Scholarship Society |
| 2005 |
Dean's Honor Roll |
| 2005 |
The National Dean's List |
| 2005 |
Emerging Scholars Tuition Waiver |
| 2005 |
Citizen Potawatomi Nation Tribal Rolls Scholarship |
| 2005 |
Personal Commendation Letter – Professor Lusk, English Dept |
| 2004 |
Top Ten Freshman Nominee |
| 2003, 2004, 2006 |
President's Honor Roll |
| 2003-2007 |
Presidential Honors Scholarship |
Research Interests
I started my Ph.D. study on Rift Valley fever virus (RVFV) in particular for the vaccine development. The overall aim of my Ph.D. study is to develop highly safe candidate vaccine which specifically target DC, and the spread is restricted after infection.
Selected Publications
A. ARTICLES IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS:
- Indran, S.V., Lihoradova, O., Phoenix I., Kalveram, B., Lokugamage, N., Gong B., Tigabu, B., Juelich, T.L., Freiberg, A.N., and Ikegami, T. "Immunogenicity and efficacy of Rift Valley fever virus MP-12 vaccine encoding Toscana virus NSs genes." (manuscript in preparation)
B. PRESENTATIONS:
- Immunogenicity and Efficacy of MP-12 Vaccine Encoding Toscana virus NSs or its Mutants. Sabarish V.Indran, Olga Lihoradova, Inaia Phoenix, Nandadeva Lokugamage, Bin Gong, Terry L.Juelich, Alexander N.Freiberg and Tetsuro Ikegami. Poster presented at the 2012 IIHI/McLaughlin Annual Colloquium on Infectious Diseases and Immunity, April 13, 2012, held at UTMB, Galveston, Texas, U.S.A.
- Characterization of MP-12 Vaccine Encoding Toscana virus NSs or its Mutants. Sabarish V.Indran, Olga Lihoradova, Inaia Phoenix, Nandadeva Lokugamage, Bin Gong, Terry L.Juelich, Alexander N.Freiberg and Tetsuro Ikegami. Poster presented at the 15th Annual Conference on Vaccine Research, National Foundation for Infectious Diseases, May 7-9, 2012, Baltimore, MD
- Characterization of RVFV MP-12 Vaccine Encoding Toscana virus NSs or its Mutants. Sabarish V.Indran, Olga Lihoradova, Inaia Phoenix, Nandadeva Lokugamage, Terry L.Juelich, Alexander N.Freiberg and Tetsuro Ikegami. Oral presentation at the 31st Annual Meeting of American Society for Virology, July 21-25, 2012, Madison, WI.
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