Keith Garrison  |  Interests  |  Scholarship  |  Service  

Education:

• Ph.D. Genetics, University of California at Davis, June 2004
  Disseration: Nucleotide Sequence Polymorphism in Ancient Cultivars of Grape (Vitis vinifera L.)
• B.A. Molecular and Cell Biology, U.C. Berkeley, August 1995

Research Experience:

• Post-doctoral fellow - University of California San Francisco and Gladstone Institutes (January 2005 - July 2008)
  HIV Immunology and Virology

Teaching Experience:

• Assistant Professor - Saint Mary's College of California (August 01, 2008 - Present)
• Lecturer-Introductory Biology - University of San Francisco (January 2008 - May 2008)

Professional Experience:

• Technical Support and Training Scientist - Hitachi Genetic Systems (December 1997 - June 1999)
• Researcher and Criminalist - California Department of Justice DNA Laboratory (October 1994 - December 1997)

Presentations:

Selected Presentations

• Reciprocal cross heterologous immunity between HERVs and HIV-1 provides a novel HIV-1 vaccine strategy.. Garrison, Keith (primary presenter, poster)
  Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections, Los Angeles, California and updated at Keystone Symposium on HIV Vaccines, Whistler, Canada
  (2007)
• Use of retroelement sequences as markers for intracultivar diversity in grape (Vitis vinifera). Garrison, Keith (primary presenter, poster)
  International Society of Plant Molecular Biology
  (June 2003)

Publications:

• SenGupta, D, Tandon, R, Viera, RG, Ndhlovu, LC, Lown-Hecht, R, Ormsby, CE, Loh, J, Jones, RB, Garrison, KE, Martin, JN, York , VA, Spotts, G, Reyes-Teran, G, Ostrowski, MA, Hecht, FM, Deeks, SG and Nixon, DF. July 2011. Strong human endogenous retrovirus-specific T cell responses are associated with control of HIV-1 in chronic infection. , Journal of Virology, vol. 85, issue 14, pg.6977-85
• Jha, AR, Nixon, DF, Rosenberg, MG, Martin, JN, Deeks, SG, Hudson, RR, Garrison, KE and Pillai, SK. May 25, 2011. Human endogenous retrovirus K106 (HERV-K106) was infectious after the emergence of anatomically modern humans., PLoS One, vol. 6, issue 5, pg.e20234
• Willberg, CB, Garrison, KE, Jones, RB, Meiklejohn, DJ and Spotts, G. 2010. Rapid Progressing Allele HLA-B35 Px Restricted Anti-HIV-1 CD8+ T Cells Recognize Vestigial CTL Epitopes, PLoS One, vol. 5, issue 4, pg.e10249
• Willberg, CB, Garrison, KE, Jones, RB, Meiklejohn, DJ, Spotts, G and et, al. 2010. Rapid Progressing Allele HLA-B35 Px Restricted Anti-HIV-1 CD8+ T Cells Recognize Vestigial CTL Epitopes, PLoS One, vol. 5, issue 4, pg.e10249
• Jha, AR, Pillai, SK, York, VA, Sharp, ER, Storm, EC, Wachter, DJ, Martin, JN, Deeks, SG, Rosenberg, MG, Nixon, DF and Garrison, KE. November 2009. Cross-sectional dating of novel haplotypes of HERV-K 113 and HERV-K 115 indicate these proviruses originated in Africa before Homo sapiens, Molecular Biology and Evolution, vol. 26, issue 11, pg.2617-26
• Garrison, KE, Champiat, S, York, VA, Agrawal, AT, Kallas, EG, Martin, JN, Hecht, FM, Deeks, SG and Nixon, DF. September 2009. Transcriptional errors in human immunodeficiency virus type 1 generate targets for T-cell responses., Clinical and Vaccine Immunology, vol. 16, issue 9, pg.1369-71
• Garrison, Keith E, Jones, R Brad, Meiklejon, Duncan A, Agrawal, Ashish, Anwar, Naveed, Spotts, Gerald, Hecht, Fredrick M, Rakoff-Nahoum, Seth, Lenz, Jack, Ostrowski, Mario A and Nixon, Douglas F. "T cell responses to human endogenous retroviruses in HIV-1 infection.." PLoS Pathogens 3.11 (2008): e165
• Moisy, Cedric, Garrison, Keith E, Meredith, Carole P, Merdinoglu, Didier and Pelsy, Frederique. "Characterization of ten novel Ty1 copia-like retrotransposon families of the grapevine genome.." BMC Genomics 9 (2008): 469
• Jones, RB, Garrison, KE, Wong, JC, Duan, EH, Nixon, DF and Ostrowski, MA. 2008. Nucleoside Analogue Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors Differentially Inhibit Human LINE-1 Retrotransposition, PLoS One, vol. 3, issue 2, pg.e1547
• Barbour, J, Sauer, MM, Sharp, EL, Garrison, KE, Long, BR, Tomiyama, H, Bassichetto, KC, Oliviera, SM, Abbate, MC, Nixon, DF and Kallas, EG. 2007. HIV-1/HSV-2 Co-Infected Adults in Early HIV-1 Infection Have Elevated CD4+ T Cell Counts. , PLoS One, vol. 2, issue 10, pg.e1080
• Riaz, Summaira, Garrison, Keith E, Dangl, Gerald S, Boursiquot, Jean-Michel and Meredith, Carole P. "Genetic divergence and chimerism within ancient asexually propagated winegrape cultivars.." Journal of the American Society of Horticultural Science 127 (2002): 508