Research in my lab focuses on elucidating mechanisms regulating tissue homeostasis and inflammation. Mammalian tissues are ecological communities of diverse cell types, including immune cells, stromal cells, neurons, endothelial cells and tissue...
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...
Research in the laboratory is focused on the immunobiology of eosinophils. As cells of the innate immune system eosinophils are notable for their content of a single type of intracellular granule. These granules in human eosinophils contain four...
This laboratory's area of research involves studies of autoimmunity in models of experimental allergic encephalomyelitis, arthritis and diabetes in the NOD mouse. We are also investigating immune mechanisms in atherosclerosis, models of Alzheimer's...
The broad interest of the WAGERS LAB is to identify and analyze tissue-specific stem cell populations in adult animals. This work focuses on understanding the factors controlling the migration and expansion of bone marrow-derived and blood-forming...
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...
Our interests focus on the adaptive immune response with respect to those multiple subunit plasma membrane receptors, namely T cell receptors (TCRs) and preTCRs, that recognize peptides bound to MHC molecules (pMHCs). abTCRs specifically bind to "foreign"...
The Cardiothoracic Transplantation Laboratory in the Center for Transplantation Sciences (CTS) at Massachusetts General Hospital is dedicated to:
· Improving the survival of recipients of heart and lung transplant allografts by eliminating the need for...
My laboratory focuses on the molecular mechanisms of innate immunity and inflammation leading to tissue destruction. More specifically, we are investigating the attack mechanisms instrumental in targeted tissues for autoimmune destruction. Conversely, we...
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)...
