Immunobiology
Meet the Team

Meet the Immunobiology Team

Director

Research Interests
Innate immunity; toll-like receptor signaling; dendritic cell biology; innate control of adaptive immunity; regulation of inflammation

Faculty

Koichi Araki, DVM, PhD

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Cytokine and antibody roles in disease and host protection.

H. Leighton "Lee" Grimes, PhD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Acute myelogenous leukemia; T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia; severe congenital neutropenia; hematopoiesis; myelopoiesis; lineage decision;...

Andrew B. Herr, PhD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Structural biology and biophysics of antibodies; immune receptors; bacterial surface proteins

David A. Hildeman, PhD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Molecular factors that control the decision between tolerance and immunity within T lymphocytes; staphylococcal enterotoxins, recombinant vaccinia...

Michael B. Jordan, MD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Better understanding histiocytic disorders and developing novel therapies for them; regulation of the immune response; immunotherapy of cancer

Jonathan D. Katz, PhD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Immunology; autoimmunity; type 1 diabetes

Emily R. Miraldi, PhD

Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Systems biology; computational immunology; immuno-engineering; network inference

Krishna M. Roskin, PhD

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Computational immunology: antibody and TCR sequence analysis Bioinformatics: large-scale biological data systems; reproducible science.

Tamara Tilburgs, PhD

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Mechanisms of maternal-fetal immune tolerance and placental immunity in human pregnancy