6/17/2025
The Cowardin laboratory, located within the Child Health Research Center at the University of Virginia, focuses on understanding how the gut microbiota during pregnancy and early postnatal life set the…
6/17/2025
Our laboratory studies N. gonorrhoeae, an obligate human bacterial pathogen that causes the sexually transmitted infection gonorrhea. Gonorrhea has existed within the human population for all of recorded history and…
6/17/2025
The central objective of my lab is to understand how the host immune response is reprogrammed by tumors to promote growth and metastasis. Specifically, we focus on the role of…
6/17/2025
*Our perspective*: It is generally known that electrical signals lie at the very core of our beating hearts and thinking brains. It may however surprise you to know that the…
6/17/2025
Research in the Dolatshahi lab combines multiplex experimental measurements with computational methods (including statistical machine learning, network inference, information theory, signal processing and kinetic-dynamic modeling) to solve problems in the…
6/17/2025
The work of my laboratory over the last 40 years has been broadly concerned with the recognition of antigens by CD8 T cells. In the last 20 years, that work…
6/17/2025
CURRENT PROJECTS: - Using mouse genetics to identify the susceptibility factors that control B cell tolerance, differentiation and survival, leading to autoantibody production. - Defining the mechanisms by which autoimmune susceptibility elicits…
6/17/2025
OVERVIEW: How does the body recognize an infectious organism? During infection, how does it determine when to escalate inflammation for pathogen clearance versus dampen inflammation to prevent damage to self? What…
6/17/2025
Our interests focus on developing gene therapy for treating and preventing cardio-vascular disease. An interdisciplinary approach is used to integrate recent technical advances with gene therapy research. In particular, cutting-edge…
6/17/2025
Ongoing work in my laboratory focuses on the role of an alternative splicing factor, the RNA helicase DDX39B, known to immunologists as BAT1, on immunity and autoimmunity. The connection to…
