Area of general research interest:

Mechanisms of SNARE protein function.

Professional education and positions held:

2007-present	Graduate Student, Molecular, Cellular, Developmental Biology Department - University of California, Santa Barbara
2005-2006	Graduate Student, Biology Department - California State University, Northridge
2002-2004	Staff Research Associate I, Division of Neurosurgery - University of California, Los Angeles
2001	Environmental Microbiology Technician - Baxter Bioscience
2000	Bachelor's of Science in Natural Science - Loyola Marymount University

Honors, Awards, Fellowships

Shipp Family Fellowship 2008
Carbon-Clarke Fellowship, 2007-2008

Publications

Yang I, Kremen TJ, Giovannone AJ, Paik E, Odesa SK, Prins RM, Liau LM. (2004). "Modulation of major histocompatibility complex Class I molecules and major histocompatibility complex-bound immunogenic peptides induced by interferon-alpha and interferon-gamma treatment of human glioblastoma multiforme." J Neurosurg 100(2): 310-9.

Liau LM, Prins RM, Kiertscher SM, Odesa SK, Kremen TJ, Giovannone AJ, Lin JW, Chute DJ, Mischel PS, Cloughesy TF, Roth MD. (2005). "Dendritic cell vaccination in glioblastoma patients induces systemic and intracranial T-cell responses modulated by the local central nervous system tumor microenvironment." Clin Cancer Res 11(15): 5515-25.