Education:
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Molecular Biology major
B.S., 2017
Dalton is currently completing his thesis through the NIH Oxford-Cambridge Scholars program.
Publications (pubmed)
Ramirez-Valdez RA, Baharom F, Khalilnezhad A, Fussell SC, Hermans DJ, Schrager AM, Tobin KKS, Lynn GM, Khalilnezhad S, Ginhoux F, Van den Eynde BJ, Leung CSK, Ishizuka AS, Seder RA. Intravenous heterologous prime-boost vaccination activates innate and adaptive immunity to promote tumor regression. Cell Rep. 2023 Jun 27;42(6):112599. PMCID: PMC10592466
Baharom F, Ramirez-Valdez RA, Khalilnezhad A, Khalilnezhad S, Dillon M, Hermans D, Fussell S, Tobin KKS, Dutertre CA, Lynn GM, Müller S, Ginhoux F, Ishizuka AS, Seder RA. Systemic vaccination induces CD8+ T cells and remodels the tumor microenvironment. Cell. 2022 Nov 10;185(23):4317-4332.e15. PMCID: PMC9669246
Work prior to the UMN MSTP:
Mo F, Yu Z, Li P, Oh J, Spolski R, Zhao L, Glassman CR, Yamamoto TN, Chen Y, Golebiowski FM, Hermans D, Majri-Morrison S, Picton LK, Liao W, Ren M, Zhuang X, Mitra S, Lin JX, Gattinoni L, Powell JD, Restifo NP, Garcia KC, Leonard WJ. An engineered IL-2 partial agonist promotes CD8+ T cell stemness. Nature. 2021 Sep;597(7877):544-548.
Hermans D, Gautam S, García-Cañaveras JC, Gromer D, Mitra S, Spolski R, Li P, Christensen S, Nguyen R, Lin JX, Oh J, Du N, Veenbergen S, Fioravanti J, Ebina-Shibuya R, Bleck C, Neckers LM, Rabinowitz JD, Gattinoni L, Leonard WJ. Lactate dehydrogenase inhibition synergizes with IL-21 to promote CD8+ T cell stemness and antitumor immunity. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2020 Mar 17;117(11):6047-6055. PMCID: PMC7084161
Shahi PK, Hermans D, Sinha D, Brar S, Moulton H, Stulo S, Borys KD, Capowski E, Pillers DM, Gamm DM, Pattnaik BR. Gene Augmentation and Readthrough Rescue Channelopathy in an iPSC-RPE Model of Congenital Blindness. Am J Hum Genet. 2019 Feb 7;104(2):310-318. PMCID: PMC6369573
Hermans D, Webby RJ, Wong SS. Atypical antibody responses to influenza. J Thorac Dis. 2018 Jul;10(Suppl 19):S2238-S2247. PMCID: PMC6072921