Innate immunity in the respiratory tract is exquisitely complex and tightly regulated, surveying 10,000 liters of air a day. While canonical pattern-...

The CBDM lab has varied interests, generally organized around the genomic control of immunological tolerance and autoimmune diseases in T lymphocytes. We...

Mucosal Immunobiology

The mucosal barriers of the body facilitate the arduous task of promoting symbiosis with the resident microbiota while...

Inflammation and Memory as Drivers of Barrier Tissue Ecology

Our goal is to understand the principles of how inflammation drives memory...

The Smillie Lab uses systems approaches to understand the mechanisms of host-microbiome interactions. Our research interests are broad, spanning mucosal...

Our group is devoted to investigating the way in which the functional, chemical and structural plasticity of neurons contributes both to the normal...