Our Research Interests

T Cell Tuning

How do individual T cells calibrate their sensitivity to antigen ?

We think ...

T Cell Memory

How do CD4 T cells remember all the infections they encountered ?

We think ...

Innate Coding

How do innate cells convey tissue-specific information to T cells ?

We think ...

From Our Blog ...

The 2025-26 Lab T Shirt

The 2025-26 Lab T Shirt Fernanda in the new iteration of the Lab T shirt. Design inspired by Budha's UMAP from a recently submitted paper and the idea that early T cell...Read More

Lab axe-throwing outing

Lab axe-throwing outing Some of us headed out to Urban Axes for an afternoon of axe-throwing. It's been a while - but our last trip was in the "pre-COVID era". See those...Read More

A Professional (SOM) Photoshoot in the lab

A Professional (SOM) Photoshoot in the lab We 3D-print a new Zach every day ... Not really; The lab had a photoshoot for the updated SOM website. The pictures from the day are now featured on...Read More

Congrats to Chris, Budha & team on the countASAP paper.

Congrats to Chris, Budha & team on the countASAP paper. Congrats : After a long round of reviews, the python package Chris developed is finally published (link to paper) . And kudos to everyone who helped...Read More

The last supper ... or the end-of-summer-lunch !

The last supper ... or the end-of-summer-lunch ! The last day of summer training for our interns ! a slight variation on our typical lab party seating :-) The traditional summer lab picture:

Summer Poster Day

Summer Poster Day Nicole's poster at the OSR symposium Discussion around Max's poster Michelle's poster and audience Charlotte's presentation at the...Read More

Welcome to Max Heath, our 2025 SUMMIR intern !

Welcome to Max Heath, our 2025 SUMMIR intern ! We welcome Maxwell Heath to the lab as part of the brand new summer internship program in microbiology and immunology (Supporting Underrepresented...Read More

Welcome to Nicole Brown, our ACS-IMPACT Summer intern !

Welcome to Nicole Brown, our ACS-IMPACT Summer intern ! We welcome Nicole Brown to the lab as part of the ACS summer internship program (IMPACT) at the UMGCCC, directed by Dr. Tonya Webb. Nicole is a...Read More

Welcome to Michelle Radov, 2025 NSIP intern !

Welcome to Michelle Radov, 2025 NSIP intern ! Michelle joins the lab for the summer from the University of Maryland College Park (UMCP) where she is a Banneker/Key Scholar, majoring in Cell...Read More

Welcome to Charlotte Noyes - 2025 UM Scholar !

Charlotte is a Sophomore at the University of Maryland at College Park, majoring in Cellular & Molecular Biology and is part of the UM Scholar...Read More