Chimezie is interested in how highly regenerative species like salamanders modulate their immune system to promote regeneration. As a graduate student, his projects entail to understand how salamander immune system affects its limb regeneration and it will employ amongst others, CRISPR screens for various immune cells genes; develop novel salamander-specific antibodies for detection and localisation of regeneration associated proteins; and apply computational based approaches to singularise functions and interactions of salamander immune cells in terms of limb regeneration.

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