We study immunity in the epithelial tissues that line our body to understand how environmental stimuli collaborate with genetic factors to influence health and drive disease at these interfaces. Our work centers on four major areas of research:

Host-microbe interactions

Immune-tissue crosstalk

Inflammatory memory

Translational research

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Metabolic coordination between skin epithelium and type 17 immunity sustains chronic skin inflammation

Inflammatory epithelial diseases are spurred by the concomitant dysregulation of immune and epithelial cells. How these two dysregulated cellular compartments simultaneously sustain their heightened metabolic demands is unclear. [...]

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