Lab Phone
646-888-2344
Dissertation
Plastic Transformation of Developing B Lymphocytes
Mentor
Start Year
2016
End Year
2025
Education
BS, University of California, Los Angeles
Publications
Chowdhury, P., Belcheva, K. T., Smolkin, R. M., Cols, M., Fontenot, J. D., Yewdell, W. T., & Chaudhuri, J. (2025). IL-2Rα is dispensable for murine B cell development and humoral response. Journal of Immunology, 214(4), 694–702. https://doi.org/10.1093/jimmun/vkae045
Sharma, R., Smolkin, R. M., Chowdhury, P., Fernandez, K. C., Kim, Y., Cols, M., Alread, W., Yen, W.-F., Hu, W., Wang, Z.-M., Violante, S., Chaligné, R., Li, M. O., Cross, J. R., & Chaudhuri, J. (2023). Distinct metabolic requirements regulate B cell activation and germinal center responses. Nature Immunology, 24(8), 1358–1369. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41590-023-01540-y
Fernandez, K. C., Feeney, L., Smolkin, R. M., Yen, W.-F., Matthews, A. J., Alread, W., Petrini, J. H. J., & Chaudhuri, J. (2022). The structure-selective endonucleases GEN1 and MUS81 mediate complementary functions in safeguarding the genome of proliferating B lymphocytes. eLife, 11, e77073. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.77073
Yewdell, W. T., Smolkin, R. M., Belcheva, K. T., Mendoza, A., Michaels, A. J., Cols, M., Angeletti, D., Yewdell, J. W., & Chaudhuri, J. (2021). Temporal dynamics of persistent germinal centers and memory B cell differentiation following respiratory virus infection. Cell Reports, 37(6), 109961. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2021.109961
Yewdell, W. T., Kim, Y., Chowdhury, P., Lau, C. M., Smolkin, R. M., Belcheva, K. T., Fernandez, K. C., Cols, M., Yen, W.-F., Vaidyanathan, B., Angeletti, D., McDermott, A. B., Yewdell, J. W., Sun, J. C., & Chaudhuri, J. (2020). A Hyper-IgM Syndrome Mutation in Activation-Induced Cytidine Deaminase Disrupts G-Quadruplex Binding and Genome-wide Chromatin Localization. Immunity, 53(5), 952-970.e11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.immuni.2020.10.003
Nicolas, L., Cols, M., Smolkin, R., Fernandez, K. C., Yewdell, W. T., Yen, W.-F., Zha, S., Vuong, B. Q., & Chaudhuri, J. (2019). Cutting Edge: ATM Influences Germinal Center Integrity. Journal of Immunology (Baltimore, Md.: 1950), 202(11), 3137–3142. https://doi.org/10.4049/jimmunol.1801033