Meet the McSorley Lab!

I’m very lucky to have such a great team – I try to help them out, give advice, and lend a hand in the lab when things get really bad. I’m interested in how worms interact with the immune system – how they affect host immune responses, and how the immune system responds to them.

The mast cell enthusiast of the lab – I look at how mast cells in the gut may be modulated by H. polygyrus, and the importance of mast cells in the anti-helminth immune response.

I work on helminth immunomodulators and am currently screening nanobody libraries, monoclonal antibodies and performing vaccination studies in order to understand what blocking some of these parasite molecules means to the worm’s survival in its host.

As the lab's technician, I do anything and everything needed to help keep the lab running smoothly on a day-to-day basis.