Faculty at Asilomar (2014)
Meet the Immunology Faculty
For information on which faculty members are associated with the Molecular, Cellular, and Translational Immunology (MCTI) track and which faculty members are associated specifically with the Computational and Systems Immunology (CSI) track, please refer to the Immunology Graduate Handbook.
Systems Immunology and oncogenomics of B-Cell lymphomas
Pharmacogenomics, structural bioinformatics, natural language processing
Human hematopoietic and immune hierarchies in health and disease
NK cell biology, immunity to viruses
Immune regulation in injured and infected tissues
Understanding how Toxoplasma manipulates the host’s immune response and avoids clearance
Understand the lymphocyte genotype-phenotype relationships in healthy human immunity and immunological diseases
Studies of the mechanisms and regulation of leukocyte trafficking
Mechanobiology, atomic force microscopy, T cell activation
The role of gamma-delta T cells in maintaining host immune competence
DNA repair and V(D)J recombination
The role of oncoproteins in cancer and development; molecular and cellular biology of hematologic malignancies; targeted molecular therapies of cancer
Refining immunotherapy through imaging and combination biotherapies
The interface of signaling and chromatin in lymphocyte development and function | website
Molecular and cellular mechanisms of T lymphocyte recognition, human immunology, and effects of aging and disease on normal processes | website
Whole genome analysis of immune systems of human and Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Stress immunology neuroendocrine-immunology
Cellular immunology and immunotherapy
Studies on how oncogenes initiate and sustain tumorigenesis
Studies of the mechanisms by which cells and organisms respond to genetic change | website
Biology of mast cells and basophils, including their roles in inflammation, allergy, asthma, and host defense
Structural and functional basis of receptor/ligand interactions in systems relevant to human health and disease | website
Immunological defects that occur with immune aging; mechanisms of autoimmunity
Mechanism of leukocyte infiltration and immune responses in gastrointestinal dieases (pancreatitis and inflammatory bowel disease)
Autoimmune neuroinflammation
Fetal cells in maternal circulation and HIV research
Dendritic cells, immunobiology, and vaccine development
Structural biology of infection and immunity
Regulation of innate and adaptive immune responses
[coming soon]
Viral membrane fusion and its inhibition
Understanding RNA virus replication to thwart drug resistance and cancer
Analyzing plasma microRNAs from pediatric recipients of solid organ allografts to develop a non-invasive biomarker for post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder (PTLD, a serious EBV associated complication of transplant)
Understanding the initiation and progression of malignant lymphoma and tumors
Role of tetraspanin molecule CD81 in tumor metastasis
T-cell development and immunodeficiency; vaccine immunology
Calcium signaling in T cells
T cell responses to chronic pathogens and cancer using mass cytometry (CyTOF) and microfluidic qPCR; computational approaches to monitoring immunology data quality; HIMC Service Center; Collaborative projects in diverse areas of human immunology
Characterization and targeting of leukemia stem cells with novel immunotherapies
Systems models of maturation | website
Immunity to Epstein Barr virus and transplant immunology | website
Molecular mechanisms of antigen presentation by MHC class II molecules; novel interactions of HLA-DM with other proteins
Hematopoietic cell transplantation, immune genomics, T cell therapy
Studies in the molecular mechanisms that control the migration of lymphocytes into sites of autoimmune-mediated tissue damage
Human genetic, immunological, and microbiomic studies in sleep disorders, biomarkers for neuropsychiatric disorders
Alloimmunity, chronic GVHD and immune reconstitution
Genetic and molecular mechanisms of intracellular bacterial pathogenesis
Adult and pediatric asthma, allergy, and immunology
Rare immune effector cells in upper airway inflammation
Hematopoietic cell transplantation, cellular immunology
Lung immunology in pulmonary hypertension and transplantation
Signaling biology, immunology, retroviral design, bioinformatics, and genetics
Neuroimmune interactions
Polymorphism, function and evolution of Natural Killer cell receptors and MHC
High-throughput sequencing of antibody repertoires in infection and autoimmunity
Investigating the mechanisms underlying autoimmune diseases, developing diagnostics and therapeutics for autoimmune diseases, investigating the role of inflammation in osteoarthritis
Regulatory T cells and tolerance mechanisms in transplantation, allergy, and other conditions
Disease tolerance
Resistance to engraftment of allogeneic hematopoietic stem cells, hematopoietic cell transplantation for immune tolerance induction, developed clinical trials for the treatment of autoimmune disorders
Studies and analyses of transcriptomes, transcription factor binding networks, and integrated regulatory networks in human health and disease
Immunopathology and pathogenesis of MS and EAE
Pathogenesis of autoimmune diseases, particularly multiple sclerosis
Immune tolerance in transplantation and autoimmunity
Cancer immunology; cancer stem cells
Robert Tibshirani
PROFESSOR OF HELATH RESEARCH AND POLICY, AND STATISTICS
tibs@stanford.edu
Statistics, biostatistics, computer-intensive methods for medical diagnosis | website
Development of proteomics technologies application to immunologic diseases; development of new computational algorithms for analyzing large datasets | website
Phylogeny and developmental biology of the cells that make up the bloodforming and immune systems; study of genes and proteins involved in cell adhesion in the context of lymphocyte homing | website
Vascular inflammation; impact of DNA and telomere damage on immune function; Metabolic reprogramming of pro-inflammatory T cells | website
Studies of the tumorigenicity, immunogenicity, and differentiation of embryonic stem cells (ESC) | website
Bone marrow B lymphocyte niche
Role of immune and injury responses in neurodegeneration and Alzheimer’s disease | website
Immuno Faculty Stats
- 72 total faculty members
- 26 different departments
- 11 National Academy of the Sciences members
- 1 Nobel Laureate
Guess Who?
This faculty member studies hematopoiesis, cancer and leukemia, autoimmunity and inflammation, and develops computational approaches for network and systems immunology. He is most well known for developing a mass spectrometry-flow cytometry hybrid device known as the CyTOF.
Garry Nolan.
We are working to enable a deeper understanding not only of normal immune function, but also detailed substructures of leukemias and solid cancers as well as autoimmunity and pathogen effects upon the immune system. Our laboratory has already begun a large scale mapping of the hematopoietic hierarchy in healthy human bone marrow at an unprecedented level of detail.
For more information on the Nolan lab, visit their lab webpage.