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Dr. Juan Carlos
Zuñiga-Pflücker


Principal investigator

 
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Dr. Mahmood Mohtashami
Lab Manager |

Research Associate

My work revolves around thymic regeneration and aging.

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Dr. jason Han
Research associate

Currently, I study thymic stroma but easily distracted by any interesting scientific questions. ANY.

 
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Dr. Siamak Heddadi
PostDoctoral Fellow

I am currently investigating the role of Notch signalling in the generation of memory CD8 T cells.

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Dr. Vinothkumar (VINo) Rajan
Postdoctoral Fellow

I am using a single-cell lineage tracing approach to study the genetic decisions that help the progenitor cells reach a T-cell fate.

 
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Ashton Trotman-Grant
Graduate Student

I study human T cell development and develop clinically-relevant technologies to recapitulate that process from multiple stem cell sources. I also develop gene editing strategies to study and control the ontogeny of PSC-derived T cells. Check out my twitter! @ATrotmanGrant

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Helen Wang
Graduate student

In a developing thymus, the majority of double positive T cells will not make it to the periphery. Thymus macrophages play an important role in the phagocytosis of these self-reactive T cells. I aim to define the developmental pathways of these macrophage and their role in thymus reparation after irradiation therapy.

 
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Julius Landas
Graduate Student

I am currently working on generating CD4+ T regulatory cells in vitro to be used in the context of Type I diabetes model.

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Yue ru (ruth) Li
Graduate student

Aged individuals are more susceptible to cancer while also showing exacerbated delay in T cell recovery. I’m interested in the critical molecular and cellular interactions between progenitor T cells and the thymus that are differentiated between young and aged mice.

 
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Dylan Lee‏‏‎‏‏‎‏‏‎‏‏‎‏‏‏
Research Technician

My work revolves around the production and quality control of recombinant Notch ligands for use in a cell-free co-culture system.

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Christina Lee
Research technician