Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

• Newborn Medicine

Education

• B.S., St. Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Mo., 1973
• M.S., St. Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Mo., 1976
• Ph.D., St. Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Mo., 1981
• M.D., St. Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Mo., 1991

Training

• Pediatric Resident, St. Louis Children's Hospital, St. Louis, Mo., 1991-1994
• Fellow, Division of Newborn Medicine, St. Louis Children's Hospital, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Mo., 1994-1997

Licensure and Board Certification

• Missouri Medical License
• Pediatric Board Certified

Honors

• "Class I Assembly in the ER", 2/98-1/01, $259,054
• Co-Investigator, "MHC-I Regulation by Herpes Virus", 4/02-3/07, $1,732,500

Selected Publications

1. Harris Michael R, Yu YYL, Kindle CS, Hansen TH, Solheim JC: Calreticulin and calnexin interact with different protin and glycan determinants during the assembly of MHC class I. J Immunol 1998; 160:5404-5409.

2. Yu YYL, Myers NB, Hilbert CM, Harris Michael R, Balendiran GK, Hansen TH: Definition and transfer of an epitope specific for peptide empty forms of MHC class I. Internat Immunol 1999; 11(12):1897-1905.

3. Myers NB*,Harris Michael R*, Connolly JM, Lybarger L, Yu YY, Hansen TH: Kb, Kd, and LD molecules share common tapasin dependencies as determined using a novel epitope tag. J Immunol 2000; 165:5656-5663. (*contributed equally)

4. Harris Michael R, Lybarger L, Yu YYL, Meyers NB, Hansen TH: Association of Erp57 with mouse MIIC class I molecules is tapasin dependent and mimics that of calreticulin and not calnexin. J Immunol 2001; 166:6686-6692.

5. Harris Michael R, Lybarger L, Myers NB, Hilbert C, Solheim JC, Hansen TH, Yu YYL: Interactions of HLA-B27 with the peptide loading complex as revealed by heavy chain mutations. Intern Immunol 2001; 13:1275-1282.

6. Yu YY Lawrence*, Harris Michael R*, Lybarger L*, Kimpler Lisa A, Myers Nancy B, Virgin Herbert W, and Hansen Ted H: Physical association of the K3 protein of gamma-2 herpesvirus 68 with the major histocompatibility complex class I molecules with impaired peptide and b2-microglobulin assembly. J Virology 2002; 76(6):2796-2803. (*contributed equally)