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The Vardhana Lab studies how nutrient availability, uptake and metabolism regulates host immune responses during cancer development and immunotherapy.

… The Vardhana lab explores how metabolites regulate immune cell homeostasis, particularly within tumors.  We use a combination of traditional immunology, synthetic biology, metabolomics, and bioinformatics to answer fundamental biological questions about the regulation of immune responses with the goal

The Lareau Lab synthesizes computational and experimental genomics methods to study how immune cells in our bodies adapt, expand, differentiate, and evolve over an individual’s lifetime.

… The focus of the Lareau Lab is to understand how cells in our bodies adapt, expand, and evolve during the course of our lives, particularly in the immune system. The theme of our lab’s research is Computational and Translational Immunology, which is purposefully broad but grounds our research program

Developmental biologist Luis F. Parada uses genetically engineered mouse models to study neurofibromatosis, brain tumors, cancer stem cells, and tumor progression.

… The Parada lab uses genetically engineered mouse models to recapitulate and study human disease. These mouse strains are used to understand the natural history of tumors of the nervous system, including glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors (MPNST), neurofibromas, and

Cancer biologist Nikolaus Schultz uses computational tools to study the diversity of genomic alterations underlying different cancer types.

… The Schultz lab focuses on identifying the genomic alterations that underlie different types of cancer. By applying existing and novel computational methods to large scale cancer genomics data sets, the lab aims to better understand the complex mechanisms at the gene and at the pathway level that drive

The Taylor laboratory studies the influence of the nervous system on pediatric and young adult cancers.

… Our laboratory studies neuron-cancer interactions, with a focus on developmental malignancies. Using a multi-disciplinary approach within the emerging field of cancer neuroscience, we leverage neuroscience tools and techniques to interrogate the microenvironmental influence of neural circuitry on pediatric

… The Joe Chan Lab combines machine learning with disruptive single-cell sequencing and multiplex spatial imaging to study lineage plasticity in cancer, with a particular focus on histological transformation, as a mechanism of acquired resistance, immune escape, and metastasis. The lab has a special interest

Xinbo Yang’s lab applies structural biology and protein engineering to decode T cell receptor specificity in cancer and autoimmune disease.

… The Xinbo Yang lab is interested in studying the T cell receptor (TCR) specificity in cancer and autoimmune disease. The patrolling T cells constantly scan host tissues to eliminate infected or malignant cells. Failure to recognize such cells leads to pathogen evasion or cancer. Whereas mis-recognizing

Immunologist Joseph Sun investigates the natural killer cell response against infection and cancer.

… The immune system responds to viral infections by introducing a complex interplay of immune cells and factors, whose goal is to eliminate the intruding pathogen. One such effector cell in the antiviral response is the Natural Killer (NK) cell, which secretes inflammatory cytokines and directly kills

Immunologist Justin Perry investigates homeostatic apoptotic cell clearance and how this process is exploited during cancer development and progression.

… The human body is estimated to remove 1% of its body mass, likely more than 200 billion cells, every day. To achieve this, we rely on a highly evolutionarily conserved process: apoptotic cell clearance or ‘efferocytosis’. Efferocytosis is essential for normal development and tissue homeostasis, but also

The Gladkova lab studies the mechanisms and signals that reshape cellular organelle architecture in response to physiological stimuli.

… The Gladkova lab aims to uncover the principles that govern the shape, distribution and movement of organelles, with the ultimate goal of understanding how organelle architecture supports cellular function. This is essential, because defects in organelle maintenance cause neurodegeneration, and altered