Our group develops and applies advances in synthetic biology to better understand biological systems and then to re-engineer these systems to tackle disease.
We develop new approaches to decipher communication between the brain and immune system. We study what these messages mean, how they’re regulated, and how they impact brain health.
We use synthetic biology and high-throughput functional genetic screens to understand antigen presentation and T-cell recognition in the context of cancer and other diseases.
Mentorship Development:
10-11/2023 - UCSF Inclusive Mentor/Manager Training
11/2024 - The 4 Touchstones of a High-Functioning Mentoring Relationship
Mechanisms underlying transcriptional dysregulation, DNA damage responses, inflammation and resistance. Design theranostics targeting the cancer surface proteome and define synthetic lethal interactions.
Elucidating the impact of the human gut microbiome on the treatment of autoimmune disease. Microbiology, translational studies with human samples, metagenomics, gnotobiotics, metabolomics, immunology.
Mentorship Development:
2017 - Scientific Leadership and Laboratory Management Course, UCSF
1/2022 - DEI Champion Training
10/2022 - UCSF-TRAIN-UP program (now called Inclusive Research Mentor/Manager Training)
2/2022 - Raising a Resilient Researcher (NIH-OITE)
