Innate immunity in the respiratory tract is exquisitely complex and tightly regulated, surveying 10,000 liters of air a day. While canonical pattern-...
Assistant Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases
Our body is colonized by a robust and diverse ecosystem - the commensal microbiome. When mucosal pathogens infect us, they first encounter our commensals... Read more about Smita Gopinath
The Smillie Lab uses systems approaches to understand the mechanisms of host-microbiome interactions. Our research interests are broad, spanning mucosal...
The overall mission of this laboratory is to determine the mechanism of “crosstalk” between colonizing bacteria and the developing human intestine immune...
