Meeting+with+Stephen+12-14-12

Told him about the DNA vaccine conference like suppressing the immune response with coimmunization and producing antibodies from plasmid. He said he had observed that the immune response was suppressed when they targeted more towards keratinocytes rather than dendritic cells. He said he and Chris were thinking about making a plasmid that would produce a synbody before.

We then talked about my committee meeting.

He thought the "extra" work from my PhD should go in the appendices rather than be separate chapters. He was interested in seeing whether the SMC BLAST hits from the PQRE and HEE motifs were the SMCfs. He wants me to check before the committee meeting. He was interested in verifying whether my tumor protein targets were real or not with other methods such as determining whether the antibodies would bind to the peptides.

He didn't seem to have any major problems with me presenting my dissertation outline at the committee meeting or trying to graduate in May.