- Affiliate Assistant Professor
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
1100 Fairview Ave N, Mail Stop A2-025
Seattle, WA 98109-1024
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Biography
Dr. Koch earned a B.S. in Cell & Developmental Biology from the University of California – Santa Barbara in 2004 and a PhD in Immunology from the University of Washington (UW) in 2010. She did her postdoctoral training with Dr. Gregory Barton at the University of California, Berkeley. In 2018 Dr. Koch was recruited back to Seattle to join the Basic Sciences Division at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. She became a participating faculty member in the Molecular and Cellular Biology Graduate Program in 2018 and joined the UW Department of Immunology as Affiliate Assistant Professor in 2019.
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Publications
- Koch MA, Reiner GL, Lugo KA, Kreuk LS, Stanbery AG, Ansaldo E, Seher TD, Ludington WB, Barton GM. Maternal IgG and IgA Antibodies Dampen Mucosal T Helper Cell Responses in Early Life. Cell. 2016 May 5;165(4):827-41. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2016.04.055. PubMed PMID: 27153495; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4866587.
- Srivastava S, Koch MA, Pepper M, Campbell DJ. Type I interferons directly inhibit regulatory T cells to allow optimal antiviral T cell responses during acute LCMV infection. J Exp Med. 2014 May 5;211(5):961-74. doi: 10.1084/jem.20131556. Epub 2014 Apr 7. PubMed PMID: 24711580; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4010906.
- Koch MA, Thomas KR, Perdue NR, Smigiel KS, Srivastava S, Campbell DJ. T-bet(+) Treg cells undergo abortive Th1 cell differentiation due to impaired expression of IL-12 receptor β2. Immunity. 2012 Sep 21;37(3):501-10. doi: 10.1016/j.immuni.2012.05.031. Epub 2012 Sep 6. PubMed PMID: 22960221; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3501343.
- Campbell DJ, Koch MA. Phenotypical and functional specialization of FOXP3+ regulatory T cells. Nat Rev Immunol. 2011 Feb;11(2):119-30. doi: 10.1038/nri2916. Review. PubMed PMID: 21267013; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3289970.
- Koch MA, Tucker-Heard G, Perdue NR, Killebrew JR, Urdahl KB, Campbell DJ. The transcription factor T-bet controls regulatory T cell homeostasis and function during type 1 inflammation. Nat Immunol. 2009 Jun;10(6):595-602. doi: 10.1038/ni.1731. Epub 2009 May 3. PubMed PMID: 19412181; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2712126.