Trainees

Research Interest: T cell metabolism in the tumor microenvironment

Research Interest: Role of Toll Like Receptors and Commensal Bacteria in Secondary Responses to T. gondii

Research Interest: Mechanisms of activation and migration of CD4+ T-cells within non-lymphoid tissues

Research Interest: Analysis of Human Memory B Cell Expansion After Influenza Vaccination: Assessing The Vaccine Efficacy of Licensed Flu Vaccines in the United States and the Influence of Original Antigenic Sin in Mounting Humoral Immunological Response

Research Interest: Characterizing effector T cell recruitment and retention at sites of inflammation

Research Interest: Identification of key factors for immune cell activity (ex. T cell migration and MDSC differentiation) using the CRISPR-CAS9 system

Research Interest: Role of the blood microbiota in systemic inflammation

Research Interest: Biological factors and genetic programs that drive differentiation and maintenance of Lung CD8+ Tissue Resident Memory cells

Research Interest: The effect of IFN-gamma on monocyte’s ability to eliminate Toxoplasma

Research Interest: Investigating the role of CXCR3 and CXCR4 ligands in spatio-temporal control of CD4+ T mediated immunity in the periphery

Research Interest: Exploring the importance of CD4+ T cells during the immune response and memory to influenza vaccine.

Research Interest: Investigating intranasal vaccination and its ability to potentiate influenza-specific lung-resident CD4 T cells

Research Interest: Interaction between pathogen and effector T cells in infected tissue

Research Interest: How does human confrontation with influenza virus throughout life shapes CD4 T cell phenotype, specificity and function

Research Interest: Gut microbiota, host defense and immunity: analysis with integrative omics approach

Research Interest: Using optogenetics to explore chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell effector function in solid tumors

Research Interest: To characterize long-term, post resolution polarized resident macrophage cell types and ascertain their phenotypic role in maintaining the tissue polarized state

Research Interest: Resident memory T cells, influenza immune response, influenza vaccine development, applied bioinformatic methods

Research Interest: Investigating the influence of intrinsic and extrinsic viral factors on the development of CD4 T cell mediated immune responses to infection