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Lynn Hannum
Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor of Biology
Biology

Phone: 207-859-5741
Fax: 859-5705
Email: lghannum@colby.edu

Mailing Address:
5741 Mayflower Hill
Waterville, Maine 04901-8857

Semester Schedule

Education

Ph.D. Immunobiology, Yale University 1999
B.S. Biology, Bates College 1987

Areas of Expertise:

Immunology

Other Courses Taught

Course	Course Title
BI 163	The Cellular Basis of Life
BI 198	Disease and Defense
BI 225	Immunology
BI 325	Advanced Immunology

Publications

Wong, S.F., Wen, L., Tang, M., Ramanathan, M., Visintin, I., Daugherty, J., Hannum, L.G., Janeway, C.A., and M.J. Shlomchik. 2004. Investigation of the role of B cells in type 1 diabetes in the NOD mouse. Diabetes 53: 2581-2587.

Harris, D.E., Hannum, L. and Gupta, S. 2004. Contributing factors to student success in Anatomy and Physiology. American Biology Teacher 66:168-175.

Hannum, L.G. and Harris, D. E. 2003. Age is no barrier to success in a computer-intensive human biology course. Journal of College Science Teaching 33:14-17.

Matthews, A. E., Weiss,S. R., Shlomchik,M. J., Hannum, L. G., Gombold, J. L., and Patterson, Y. 2001. Antibody is required for clearance of infectious murine hepatitis virus A59 from the central nervous system, but not the liver. J. Immunology 167: 5254-5263.

Hannum, L. G., Haberman, A. M., Anderson, S. A., and Shlomchik, M. J. 2000. Germinal center initiation, variable gene region hypermutation, and mutant B cell selection without detectable immune complexes on follicular dendritic cells. J. Exp. Med. 192: 931-942.

Levine, M. H., Haberman, A. M., Sant�Angelo, D. B., Hannum, L. G., Cancro, M. P., Janeway, C. A. Jr., Shlomchik, M. J. 2000. A B cell receptor-specific selection step governs immature to mature B cell differentiation. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA. 97:2743-2748.

Kima, P. E., Constant, S. L., Hannum, L. G., Colmenares, M., Lee,K. S., Haberman, A. M., Shlomchik, M. J., McMahon-Pratt, D. 2000. Internalization of Leishmania mexicana complex amastigotes via the Fc receptor is required to sustain infection in murine cutaneous leishmaniasis. J. Exp. Med. 191: 1063-1068.

Golovkina, T. V., Shlomchik, M., Hannum, L.G., and A. Chervonsky. 1999. Organogenic role of B lymphocytes in mucosal immunity. Science 286: 1965-68.

Chan, O. T. M, Hannum,L. G., Haberman, A. M., Madaio, M. P., and Shlomchik, M. J. 1999. A novel mouse with B cells but lacking serum antibody reveals an antibody-independent role for B cells in murine lupus. J. Exp. Med. 189: 1639-48

Hannum, L. G., Ni,D., Haberman, A. M., Weigert, M. G., and Shlomchik, M. J. 1996. A disease-related rheumatoid factor autoantibody is not tolerized in a normal mouse: implications for the origins of autoantibodies in autoimmune disease. J. Exp. Med. 184:1269-78.

Shannon M. Anderson, Lynn G. Hannum, and Mark J. Shlomchik. 2006. Memory B Cell Survival and Function in the Absence of Secreted Antibody and Immune Complexes on Follicular Dendritic Cells. Journal of Immunology 176(8): 4515-4519.