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Positions

Graduate Student

Cancer and Cell Biology
Baylor College of Medicine

Education

BS from University of Texas at Dallas

05/2019 - Dallas, Texas

Biology

Honors & Awards

Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral Individual National Research Service Award

Predoctoral Fellowship funded by the National Institute of Health to study the inflammation-induced epigenetic changes that occur within hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells. Fellowship ID: 1F31HL164287

National Heart Lung Blood Institute (08/2022 - 08/2025)

Selected Publications

• Marcus A. Florez*, Brandon T. Tran*, Trisha K. Wathan, James DeGregori, Eric M. Pietras, Katherine Y. King. " Clonal hematopoiesis: Mutation-specific adaptation to environmental change " 2022 Jun 2;
  Pubmed PMID: 35659875.
• Duy T. Le, Marcus A. Florez, Pawel Kus, Brandon T. Tran, Bailee Kain, Yingmin Zhu, Kurt Christensen, Antrix Jain, Anna Malovannaya, and Katherine Y. King*. " BATF2 promotes HSC myeloid differentiation by amplifying IFN response mediators during chronic infection " iScience. 2022 ;
  Pubmed PMID: 36824275.
• Bailee N. Kain, Brandon T. Tran, Pamela N. Luna, Ruoqiong Cao, Duy T. Le, Marcus A. Florez, Laure Maneix, Jack D. Toups, Daniel E. Morales-Mantilla, Scott Koh, Hyojeon Han, Roman Jaksik, Yun Huang, Andre Catic, Chad A. Shaw, and Katherine Y. King. " Hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells confer cross-protective trained immunity in mouse models " iScience. 2023 ;
  Pubmed PMID: 37664586.