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Develop more effective biomarkers and therapeutic approaches for chronic inflammatory disorders

Interactions of autophagy, mucosal innate immunity in GI system

Bone metabolism, obesity and osteoporosis

Intravital multi-photon imaging of cells of the immune system and the CNS

Pathogen recognition and immune evasion mechanisms

Immune cell regulation of metabolism and mitochondria biology

Genomics, ecology, synthetic/systems biology of microbial communities

Innate immunity during autoimmune disease and microbial pathogenesis

Develops and evaluates novel biomarkers and diagnostic methods that span basic, translational and clinical research

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Gut microbiome in malnutrition and obesity

DNA repair mechanisms and signaling in cancer

Genomics and epigenetics of hematopoietic cells in cancer

Machine learning and decision theory in drug metabolism/discovery

Pathogen discovery and infectious disease genomics

Molecular diagnostics and cancer genomics

Host-microbiome-environment interactions at the skin surface

Immunometabolism, cancer immunology and aging

Understanding the role of T cells in ALS-4

Regulation of cell lineage differentiation

Innate immunity in neurodegeneration and autoimmunity

Lymphocyte gene regulatory networks

B-cell response to viral infection and vaccination

Host-mediated immunity

We study how microglia and brain macrophages affect neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative disorders through epigenetics and transcriptomics

We study complex interactions between the immune and nervous systems

Dendritic cell response and immunity

Dendritic cells control adaptive immunity

Trafficking of cellular and molecular cargo out of tissues

Engulfment of apoptotic cells

Cytokine receptor signaling and cancer immunotherapy

Immune system integration

Distinct glial cell populations instruct nervous system development and disease

Neurobiology and genomics of vision and cognition

Biomarkers of neurodegenerative diseases

Biomarkers of neurodegenerative diseases