Shelly Krebs

Dr. Shelly Krebs received her Ph.D. from Dartmouth Medical School within the department of Microbiology and Immunology studying virulence factors of Vibrio cholerae. She transitioned to studying HIV when she was awarded an Emerging Infectious Disease Fellowship from the CDC and APHL as a postdoctoral fellow. With interests in HIV vaccination, she performed a second postdoctoral fellowship at the Oregon National Primate Research Center using protein scaffolds to display conserved HIV epitopes as a novel vaccine strategy. She joined MHRP in 2012 to study the development of HIV-specific B cell responses resulting from different vaccination strategies. Using similar techniques, her work as expanded beyond HIV, and into studying B cell responses resulting from infection and vaccination to other emerging pathogens such as Zika, dengue, and now SARS-CoV-2.