Chair: Thomas F. Tedder, Ph.D. The Department of Immunology is committed to creating a strong academic environment where graduate students and postdoctoral fellows can experience basic research, developing into independent investigators. The Department recognizes the importance of early laboratory experience in helping students define a major area of interest. The focus of Duke's Department of Immunology is to understand the biology of leukocytes, their development, and their products that amplify molecular and cellular mechanisms of antigen elimination, pathogen or tumor. Visualization of the antigen-specific T cell response in the draining lymph node. The laser-scanning confocal images display a germinal center reaction at day 8 of the primary immune response to the pigeon cytochrome C model antigen.  The section was stained with fluorophore-labeled antibodies to IgD (red), L-selectin (green), and the v-beta-3 chain of the T cell receptor (blue). The photograph in the lower left is an enlargement of a portion of the photograph in the upper right.   For further information, contact: Director of Graduate Studies Department of Immunology email: dgs-immunology@duke.edu Duke University Medical Center DUMC 3010 Durham, NC 27710 919-613-7815

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