Scott Weber

Research Interests

T cells play a critical role in protection from infectious disease, cancer, Alzheimer's disease, and asthma. Helper T cells coordinate the adaptive and innate immune responses and deliver essential survival signals for the generation of cytotoxic memory T cells, antibody responses, and protective immunity. A better understanding of T cell activation and memory formation may enable improvement of infectious disease vaccines, help with the discovery of cancer treatments, and decrease Alzheimer's disease and asthma development.

The main areas of research in the Weber Lab are: 1) Understanding the molecular basis of T cell activation and improving the T cell memory response to infectious disease 2) Engineering improved immunological proteins to combat cancer 3) Determining the involvement of the immune system in Alzheimer's disease and 4) Understanding how environmental exposures influences asthma development.

Teaching Interests

Immunology, Molecular Biology, and Flow Cytometry

Education

• Ph.D., Cell and Structural Biology , Molecular Immunology, University of Illinois (2005)
• M.S., Zoology , Neuroendocrinology, Brigham Young University (2000)
• B.S., Zoology , Human Biology, Brigham Young University (1998)

Honors and Awards

• College of Life Sciences Distinguished Mentor Award, BYU College of Life Sciences (2022 - Present)
• Outstanding Teaching Award, BYU College of Life Sciences (2021 - Present)
• Outstanding Research Award, BYU College of Life Sciences (2019 - 2019)

Memberships

• BYU Sorensen Center for Moral and Ethical Leadership (2021 - Present)
• American Society for Microbiology (2018 - Present)
• BYU Gerontology Program (2018 - Present)
• American Association of Cancer Research (2015 - Present)
• BYU Simmons Cancer Research Center (2014 - Present)
• American Association for the Advancement of Science (2010 - Present)
• American Association of Immunologists (2005 - Present)

Professional Citizenship

• Committee/Council Chair, Autumn Immunology Conference (2019 - Present)
• Committee/Council Member, American Society of Microbiology Rocky Mountain Branch (2018 - 2019)
• Committee/Council Member, Autumn Immunology Conference (2018 - 2019)

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