Overview:
Our studies seek to leverage new tools capable of defining the dynamic nature of cell surface glycans on immune cells and microbes. This approach has provided insight into the role of glycans in immune cell development and differentiation, in...
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...
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...
Research focus of my lab is to use novel synthetic biology approaches to manipulate conventional and memory-like Natural Killer (NK) cells to enhance their anti-tumor function. Using advanced CRISPR and non-CRISPR based gene editing approaches we are...
Inflammation is a protective response to noxious stimuli that originate from infections and injured tissues. The inflammatory process triggered in response to microbial infections is instigated by pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs), while the...
The focus of the Kwon lab is the application of new technologies to the study of immune responses against HIV at mucosal surfaces.
Mucosal surfaces represent the primary site of HIV transmission and the largest reservoir of viral replication. Despite this...
Research Interests
Our lab’s major focus is on the mechanisms by which both immune and non-hematopoietic (tissue resident) cells maintain immune quiescence in both alloimmunity and autoimmunity. Our work has been instrumental in determining the cytokine...
The Cantor lab studies the development and function of T-cell subsets. Early studies indicated that the thymus gave rise to two major lineages of T cells that recognized the MHC class II and class I molecules and were equipped to mediate distinct...
