A major area of our interest is how eukaryotic cells sense and respond to stress in the form of damage to their genetic material. When cells incur DNA damage, they induce the transcription of genes involved in cell cycle arrest and repair of the damage...
Autoimmune Disease Deconstruction:
We have implemented a disease deconstruction pipeline using single cell and spatial technologies applied to inflamed tissues in humans to discover new cell types, cell states and pathways that mediate autoimmune disease...
Our lab works in the broad fields of T cell differentiation, immunological tolerance, autoimmunity and inflammation, translating mechanistic studies on mouse models to normal and diseased humans. Studies on T cell differentiation focus on maturation and...
Antigen-Specific Basis of Autoimmunity and Cancer
The Kohlgruber lab investigates the antigen-specific basis of human diseases and applies high-throughput molecular, genetic, and immunological assays to decipher immune system specificities and...
The human intestine is exposed to a vast array of molecules from the microbiome, diet, and pathogens. The Nagashima lab focuses on three branches of research topics, all of which attempt to understand the gut immune system at the level of molecular...
Research in the Sage Lab focuses on understanding how the immune system regulates B cell responses and antibody production. Antibodies clear harmful pathogens and mediate protection elicited by vaccination. However, dysregulation of antibody responses can...
Our group studies how cell migration organizes the communication between the innate and the adaptive immune systems. Specifically, we are interested in understanding how T lymphocytes traffic between lymphoid and non-lymphoid tissues and position...
Dr. Gaurav D. Gaiha, MD, DPhil, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Attending Physician in the Division of Gastroenterology at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). Dr. Gaiha’s lab focuses on understanding the T cell...
Rapid advances in gene engineering make the previously unimaginable rapidly accessible. The Smith Lab for Genetic and Cellular Engineering uses synthetic biology to address our missions of: (1) answering pressing questions around the biology of...
