Disease and the immune response
Pathogenesis—literally how disease (pathos) begins (genesis) or develops—is a broad and important area of research.
Many diseases can arise from pathogens, but the immune system protects us through various lines of defense. If the immune system fails to function properly and becomes too weak or too strong, it can lead to disease states that include immunodeficiencies that lead to enhanced susceptibly to infections disease, autoimmune conditions, such as lupus and arthritis, and even cancer.

Director's statement
Our focus is on understanding the regulation and interplay of host immune responses and microbial pathogenesis. We study pathogen-host interactions, innate and humoral immunity, inflammation and T cell checkpoint regulation. A better understanding of these aspects of the immune system will provide novel therapeutic opportunities to address many unmet medical needs, including the treatment of endemic and pandemic infectious diseases, autoimmune disorders, cancer and inflammatory diseases.
– Jamey Marth, Ph.D., Program Director
Appointments
Program Director
Primary Appointments
Victoria Blaho, Ph.D.
Andrei Osterman, Ph.D.
Carl F. Ware, Ph.D.
Secondary Appointments
Linda Bradley, Ph.D.
Maximiliano D'Angelo, Ph.D.
Ze'ev Ronai, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professors
Research Associate Professors
Publications
Realigning the LIGHT signaling network to control dysregulated inflammation.
Ware CF, Croft M, Neil GA
J Exp Med 2022 Jul 4 ;219(7)
Shared and Unique Evolutionary Trajectories to Ciprofloxacin Resistance in Gram-Negative Bacterial Pathogens.
Zlamal JE, Leyn SA, Iyer M, Elane ML, Wong NA, Wamsley JW, Vercruysse M, Garcia-Alcalde F, Osterman AL
mBio 2021 Jun 29 ;12(3):e0098721
Sphingosine 1-phosphate escapes the Catch-22 of sepsis prevention and mitigation therapies.
Blaho VA
EBioMedicine 2020 Sep ;59:102952
Proteomic and genetic analyses of influenza A viruses identify pan-viral host targets.
Haas KM, McGregor MJ, Bouhaddou M, Polacco BJ, Kim EY, Nguyen TT, Newton BW, Urbanowski M, Kim H, Williams MAP, Rezelj VV, Hardy A, Fossati A, Stevenson EJ, Sukerman E, Kim T, Penugonda S, Moreno E, Braberg H, Zhou Y, Metreveli G, Harjai B, Tummino TA, Melnyk JE, Soucheray M, Batra J, Pache L, Martin-Sancho L, Carlson-Stevermer J, Jureka AS, Basler CF, Shokat KM, Shoichet BK, Shriver LP, Johnson JR, Shaw ML, Chanda SK, Roden DM, Carter TC, Kottyan LC, Chisholm RL, Pacheco JA, Smith ME, Schrodi SJ, Albrecht RA, Vignuzzi M, Zuliani-Alvarez L, Swaney DL, Eckhardt M, Wolinsky SM, White KM, Hultquist JF, Kaake RM, García-Sastre A, Krogan NJ
Nat Commun 2023 Sep 27 ;14(1):6030
PSGL-1 attenuates early TCR signaling to suppress CD8(+) T cell progenitor differentiation and elicit terminal CD8(+) T cell exhaustion.
Hope JL, Otero DC, Bae EA, Stairiker CJ, Palete AB, Faso HA, Lin M, Henriquez ML, Roy S, Seo H, Lei X, Wang ES, Chow S, Tinoco R, Daniels GA, Yip K, Campos AR, Yin J, Adams PD, Rao A, Bradley LM
Cell Rep 2023 May 30 ;42(5):112436
Addressing barriers in FAIR data practices for biomedical data.
Hughes LD, Tsueng G, DiGiovanna J, Horvath TD, Rasmussen LV, Savidge TC, Stoeger T, Turkarslan S, Wu Q, Wu C, Su AI, Pache L, NIAID Systems Biology Data Dissemination Working Group
Sci Data 2023 Feb 23 ;10(1):98
Developing a standardized but extendable framework to increase the findability of infectious disease datasets.
Tsueng G, Cano MAA, Bento J, Czech C, Kang M, Pache L, Rasmussen LV, Savidge TC, Starren J, Wu Q, Xin J, Yeaman MR, Zhou X, Su AI, Wu C, Brown L, Shabman RS, Hughes LD, NIAID Systems Biology Data Dissemination Working Group
Sci Data 2023 Feb 23 ;10(1):99
Identification of global inhibitors of cellular glycosylation.
Sørensen DM, Büll C, Madsen TD, Lira-Navarrete E, Clausen TM, Clark AE, Garretson AF, Karlsson R, Pijnenborg JFA, Yin X, Miller RL, Chanda SK, Boltje TJ, Schjoldager KT, Vakhrushev SY, Halim A, Esko JD, Carlin AF, Hurtado-Guerrero R, Weigert R, Clausen H, Narimatsu Y
Nat Commun 2023 Feb 20 ;14(1):948
Activation of the Interferon Pathway in Trophoblast Cells Productively Infected with SARS-CoV-2.
Kallol S, Martin-Sancho L, Morey R, Aisagbonhi O, Pizzo D, Meads M, Chanda SK, Soncin F
Stem Cells Dev 2023 May ;32(9-10):225-236