shelly_kalaora
hms.harvard.edu
hms.harvard.eduShelly is a co-mentored postdoctoral fellow in the laboratories of Drs. Marcia Haigis and Steve Gygi. She completed her MSc at the Technion - Israel of Technology, under the supervision of Dr. Arie Admon, where she focused on immunopepetidomics, a method to identify antigens presented by the Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA) complex using Mass Spectrometry. She then pursued her PhD at the Weizmann Institute of Science under the supervision of Dr. Yardena Samuels, studying antigens presented by melanoma tumors and the associated immune response. During her PhD, she identified various types of antigens, including mutated antigens (neoantigens) and antigens derived from intratumoral bacteria.
In her postdoctoral research, Shelly is interested in utilizing different proteomic approaches to study immunity. She employs a chemoproteomic apoproach to investiagte the redox state of immune-related proteins and uses small cysteine-covalent molecules to modulate their function. Shelly is the Merck Fellow of the Helen Hay Whitney Foundation and has received the Gene Lay Institute Fellowship Award.
Hobbies: Traveling and going to the arcade