The Wheeler Lab investigates how immune system interactions with the nervous system influence behavior, inflammation, and tissue plasticity in the brain and peripheral organs. Our research spans three major themes:
(1) Immune and nervous system...
The Xavier Laboratory, spanning the Department of Molecular Biology at Massachusetts General Hospital and the Broad Institute, focuses on systematic characterization of genetic variants to understand the regulation of innate and adaptive immunity...
I was born and raised in Southern California, attended UCLA with a major in Applied Math and Physical Chemistry and Harvard Medical School, with postdoctoral research training in the laboratory of David Livingston at Dana Farber Cancer Institute, as well...
The function of many proteins is regulated by post-translational modifications. One such modification is citrullination, which converts peptidylarginine to peptidylcitrulline. This process is catalyzed by the enzymes peptidylarginine deiminases (PADs)...
The major focus of my laboratory is to understand the role of the NF-κB family of transcription factors in regulating innate inflammatory responses. NF-κB is generally thought of as a pro-inflammatory agent. However, work from our laboratory has...
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...
Our lab has several interests, generally organized around the genetic and genomic control of immunological tolerance and autoimmune diseases. We study how T cells differentiate into different lineages in the thymus, and how the Aire transcription factor...
A major focus of our studies has been the elucidation of genetic pathways regulating tolerance and to identify human diseases resulting from defects along those pathways. We have approached this issue from the perspective of Mendelian traits associated...
The major scientific interest of the Butovsky lab is to understand the biology of resident microglia and peripheral innate immunity in brain homeostasis and neurodegenerative conditions. The ultimate goal is to identify microglia- and monocyte-based...
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...
