Joel Graff - Department of Biological Sciences
Assistant Professor
CBB 212
Phone: 406-496-4538
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Joel Graff's Full CV
Non-Research Academic Interests
- Project-based laboratory curriculum development
- Science outreach
https://lifeandbiology.com/audio-and-video/
Biomedical & Health
Experimental
Selected Honors and Awards
- Innate Immunology
- Antiviral defense
- Protein function
- Human virus replication
- Bacteriophages (bacterial viruses)
- https://lifeandbiology.com/graff-lab-research
Career In Brief
- Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, Montana Tech, 2016 - Present
- Research Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa, 2014 - 2015
- Research Scientist of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa, 2010 - 2014
- Postdoctoral Fellow (T32 Parasitology Training Grant), University of Iowa, 2008 - 2010
- Research Health Science Specialist, Iowa City VA Medical Center, 2008 - 2015
- Graduate student in Virology, Montana State University, 2004 - 2008
- Research Technician, Montana State University, 2001 - 2004
- Undergraduate Researcher 1999 - 2001
Courses Taught
- BIOB 102: Discover Biology Laboratory
- BIOB 160: Principles of Living Systems (POLS)
- BIOB 161: POLS Laboratory
- BIOB 294: Sophomore Seminar
- BIOB 274: Introduction to Evolution
- BIOB 410/510: Immunology
- BIOM 435/535: Virology
- BIOB 491/591: Biotechnology: Techniques and Data Analysis
- https://lifeandbiology.com/courses/
Selected Publications
- Sudan B, Wacker MA, Wilson ME, Graff JW. A systematic approach to identify markers of distinctly activated human macrophages. 2015. Front Immunol. 6(Article 253):1-18. PMID 26074920.
- Eigsti RL, Sudan B, Wilson ME, Graff JW. Regulation of activation-associated microRNA accumulation rates during monocyte-to-macrophage differentiation. 2014. J Biol Chem. 289(41):28433-47. PMID 25148686
- Graff JW, Ettayebi K, Hardy ME. Rotavirus NSP1 inhibits NF-κB activation by inducing proteasome-dependent degradation of β-TrCP: A novel mechanism of IFN antagonism. PLoS Pathogens. 2009. 5:e1000280. PMID 19180189.
- Graff JW, Dickson AM, Clay G, McCaffrey AP, Wilson ME. Identifying functional microRNAs in macrophages with polarized phenotypes. J Biol Chem. 2012 Jun 22; 287(26):21816-25. PMID 22549758.