Noah V. Gavil

UMN MSTP student Noah Gavil

Email: gavil014@umn.edu

Entering Class: 2016

Education:
Bowdoin College
Biochemistry major, Music minor
B.A., 2014

Honors and Awards   

  • Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award for Predoctoral MD/PhD Fellows, National Cancer Institute, 2020-2024

MSTP Student Governance:

  • Student Advisory Committee 2018-2020 (co-chair 2018-2019; chair 2019-2020)

Thesis Advisor: David Masopust, Ph.D.

Thesis Research

Adaptive immunity, expanding our understanding and potential utilization of tissue-resident memory T-cells in multiple contexts from infectious disease to cancer.

Publications (pubmed)

Wang H, Gavil NV, Koewler N, Masopust D, Jameson SC. Parabiosis in Mice to Study Tissue Residency of Immune Cells. Curr Protoc. 2022 May;2(5):e446.

Ning J, Gavil NV, Wu S, Wijeyesinghe S, Weyu E, Ma J, Li M, Grigore FN, Dhawan S, Skorput AGJ, Musial SC, Chen CC, Masopust D, Rosato PC. Correction to: Functional virus specific memory T cells survey glioblastoma. Cancer Immunol Immunother. 2022 Feb 18.

Ning J, Gavil NV, Wu S, Wijeyesinghe S, Weyu E, Ma J, Li M, Grigore FN, Dhawan S, Skorput AGJ, Musial SC, Chen CC, Masopust D, Rosato PC. Functional virus-specific memory T cells survey glioblastoma. Cancer Immunol Immunother. 2022 Jan 10.

Joag V, Wijeyesinghe S, Stolley JM, Quarnstrom CF, Dileepan T, Soerens AG, Sangala JA, O'Flanagan SD, Gavil NV, Hong SW, Bhela S, Gangadhara S, Weyu E, Matchett WE, Thiede J, Krishna V, Cheeran MC, Bold TD, Amara R, Southern P, Hart GT, Schifanella L, Vezys V, Jenkins MK, Langlois RA, Masopust D. Cutting Edge: Mouse SARS-CoV-2 Epitope Reveals Infection and Vaccine-Elicited CD8 T Cell Responses. J Immunol. 2021 Mar 1;206(5):931-935. PMCID: PMC8136468

Work prior to the UMN MSTP:
Stetler-Stevenson WG, Gavil NV. Normalization of the tumor microenvironment: evidence for tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinase-2 as a cancer therapeutic. Connect Tissue Res. 2014 Jan-Feb;55(1):13-9. Review.

Bourboulia D, Han H, Jensen-Taubman S, Gavil N, Isaac B, Wei B, Neckers L, Stetler-Stevenson WG. TIMP-2 modulates cancer cell transcriptional profile and enhances E-cadherin/beta-catenin complex expression in A549 lung cancer cells. Oncotarget. 2013 Jan 27;4(1):163-73. PMCID: PMC3702216