As a professor at University of Massachusetts Medical School, she was elected the 95th president of the American Association of Immunologists for a one-year term from 2011 to 2012.
Berg’s research focuses on understanding the signal transduction pathways—the succession of reactions inside the cell as it changes one kind of stimulus, or signal, into another—important for T-cell development and activation, and the generation of protective immunity to infections.
[2] During her tenure, her research focuses on understanding the signal transduction pathways—the succession of reactions inside the cell as it changes one kind of stimulus, or signal, into another—important for T-cell development and activation, and the generation of protective immunity to infections.
In 2011, Berg was elected the 95th president of the American Association of Immunologists (AAI) for a one-year term from 2011 to 2012.
[2] She continued to serve as the co-editor-in-chief of ImmunoHorizons during that year and was later elected a Distinguished Fellow of AAI in 2020.