Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Sciences
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Rob Peters, PhD, completed his bachelor's degree at Central Michigan University as a Centralis Scholar. He received his doctoral training in Immunology at University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and subsequently spent one year as a visiting assistant professor at Eastern Oregon University. He then served as an assistant, and later associate, professor of biology at Aquinas College in Grand Rapids, MI where he taught a variety of classes, including principles of biology, microbiology, immunology and human biology. Dr. Peters also regularly mentored students in his research lab with a focus on cloning and characterizing innate immune receptors in zebrafish and the model anemone Aiptasia.
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Education and Training
- PhD 2011, University of Michigan
- BS 2005, Central Michigan University
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Research
- molecular immunology
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Publications
Raghavan M., Wijeyesakere S.J., Peters L.R., Del Cid N. Calreticulin in the immune system: Ins and outs Trends in Immunology. 2013;34(1):13-21.
Jeffery E., Peters L.R., Raghavan M. The polypeptide binding conformation of calreticulin facilitates its cell-surface expression under conditions of endoplasmic reticulum stress Journal of Biological Chemistry. 2011;286(4):2402-2415.
Peters L., Raghavan M. Endoplasmic reticulum calcium depletion impacts chaperone secretion, innate immunity, and phagocytic uptake of cells Journal of Immunology. 2011;187(2):919-931.
Del Cid N., Jeffery E., Rizvi S.M., Stamper E., Peters L.R., Brown W.C., Provoda C., Raghavan M. Modes of calreticulin recruitment to the major histocompatibility complex class I assembly pathway Journal of Biological Chemistry. 2010;285(7):4520-4535.
Raghavan M., Del Cid N., Rizvi S.M., Peters L.R. MHC class I assembly: out and about Trends in Immunology. 2008;29(9):436-443.
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Presentations
- Calreticulinâs translocation to the surface of apoptotic cells. Peters, Larry Robert, International Calreticulin Workshop, Vina del Mar, Chile, 01/2009
- Assembly, stability and intracellular trafficking of HLA-B allotypes in the presence and absence of tapasin. Peters, Larry Robert, Autumn Immunology Conference, Chicago, IL, 11/2006
- Evaluation of an assumption of the M-ratio bottleneck test. PETERS,LARRY;Clay,Matt; Swanson,BradleyJ., Society for Conservation Biologyâs Annual Meeting, Brasilia, Brazil, 07/2005