Way Lab

Publications

Stevens, J; Culberson, E; Kinder, J; Ramiriqui, A; Gray, J; Bonfield, M; Shao, TY; Al Gharaibeh, F; Peterson, L; Steinmeyer, S; Sengupta, S; Alenghat, T; Way, SS; Deshmukh, H. Microbiota-derived inosine programs protective CD8+ T cell responses against influenza in newborns. Cell. 2025; 188:S0092-8674(25)00563-X.

Miller-Handley, H; Harper, G; Pham, G; Turner, LH; Shao, TY; Russi, AE; Erickson, JJ; Ford, ML; Araki, K; Way, SS. Immune suppression sustained allograft acceptance requires PD1 inhibition of CD8+ T cells. Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950). 2025; 214:192-198.

Pham, G; Diep, RE; Turner, LH; Haslam, DB; Way, SS. Complement-producing maternal microchimeric cells override infection susceptibility in complement-deficient murine offspring. The Journal of Clinical Investigation. 2025; 135:e187001.

Deshmukh, H; Whitsett, J; Zacharias, W; Way, SS; Martinez, FD; Mizgerd, J; Pryhuber, G; Ambalavanan, N; Bacharier, L; Natarajan, A; Kiley, J; Kim, S; Lachowicz-Scroggins, M; Maholmes, V. Impact of Viral Lower Respiratory Tract Infection (LRTI) in Early Childhood (0-2 Years) on Lung Growth and Development and Lifelong Trajectories of Pulmonary Health: A National Institutes of Health (NIH) Workshop Summary. Pediatric Pulmonology. 2025; 60:e27357.

Koleva, P; He, J; Dunsmore, G; Bozorgmehr, N; Lu, J; Huynh, M; Tollenaar, S; Huang, V; Walter, J; Way, SS; Elahi, S. CD71 + erythroid cells promote intestinal symbiotic microbial communities in pregnancy and neonatal period. Microbiome. 2024; 12:142.

Pham, G; Shao, TY; Kinder, JM; Peng, Y; Turner, LH; Way, SS. Pregnancy induced displacement of preexisting microchimeric cells in the absence of maternal B and T cells. Frontiers in Immunology. 2024; 15:1478465.

DeTomaso, A; Kim, H; Shauh, J; Adulla, A; Zigo, S; Ghoul, M; Presicce, P; Kallapur, SG; Goodman, W; Tilburgs, T; Way, SS; Hackney, D; Moore, J; Mesiano, S. Progesterone inactivation in decidual stromal cells: A mechanism for inflammation-induced parturition. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA. 2024; 121:e2400601121.

Russi, A; Shao, T; Nguyen, A; Way, SS. 912 MICROBIOTA DRIVEN INTESTINAL INFLAMMATION AVERTED BY IL10 PRODUCING KRUPPEL-LIKE FACTOR 2 CD4+ T CELLS. Gastroenterology. 2024; 166:s-221-s-222.

Wu, Q; Zhang, J; Kumar, S; Shen, S; Kincaid, M; Johnson, CB; Zhang, YS; Turcotte, R; Alt, C; Ito, K; Ito, K; Way, SS; Kofron, JM; Lucas, D. Resilient anatomy and local plasticity of naive and stress haematopoiesis. Nature. 2024; 627:839-846.

Abu-Raya, B; Esser, MJ; Nakabembe, E; Reiné, J; Amaral, K; Diks, AM; Imede, E; Way, SS; Harandi, AM; Gorringe, A; Le Doare, K; Halperin, SA; Berkowska, MA; Sadarangani, M. Antibody and B-cell Immune Responses Against Bordetella Pertussis Following Infection and Immunization. Journal of Molecular Biology. 2023; 435:168344.

Shao, TY; Jiang, TT; Stevens, J; Russi, AE; Troutman, TD; Bernieh, A; Pham, G; Erickson, JJ; Eshleman, EM; Alenghat, T; Weaver, CT; Haslam, DB; Deshmukh, H; Way, SS. Kruppel-like factor 2+ CD4 T cells avert microbiota-induced intestinal inflammation. Cell Reports. 2023; 42:113323.

Shao, TY; Kinder, JM; Harper, G; Pham, G; Peng, Y; Liu, J; Gregory, EJ; Sherman, BE; Wu, Y; Iten, AE; Hu, YC; Russi, AE; Erickson, JJ; Miller-Handley, H; Way, SS. Reproductive outcomes after pregnancy-induced displacement of preexisting microchimeric cells. Science. 2023; 381:1324-1330.

Giles, ML; Way, SS; Marchant, A; Aghaepour, N; James, T; Schaltz-Buchholzer, F; Zazara, D; Arck, P; Kollmann, TR. Maternal Vaccination to Prevent Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes: An Underutilized Molecular Immunological Intervention?. Journal of Molecular Biology. 2023; 435:168097.

Eshleman, EM; Shao, TY; Woo, V; Rice, T; Engleman, L; Didriksen, BJ; Whitt, J; Haslam, DB; Way, SS; Alenghat, T. Intestinal epithelial HDAC3 and MHC class II coordinate microbiota-specific immunity. The Journal of Clinical Investigation. 2023; 133:e162190.

Shao, TY; Haslam, DB; Bennett, RJ; Way, SS. Friendly fungi: symbiosis with commensal Candida albicans. Trends in Immunology. 2022; 43:706-717.

Erickson, JJ; Archer-Hartmann, S; Yarawsky, AE; Miller, JL C; Seveau, S; Shao, TY; Severance, AL; Miller-Handley, H; Wu, Y; Pham, G; Lau, JT Y; Azadi, P; Herr, AB; Way, SS. Pregnancy enables antibody protection against intracellular infection. Nature. 2022; 606:769-775.

Severance, AL; Kinder, JM; Xin, L; Burg, AR; Shao, TY; Pham, G; Tilburgs, T; Goodman, WA; Mesiano, S; Way, SS. Maternal-fetal conflict averted by progesterone- induced FOXP3+ regulatory T cells. iScience. 2022; 25:104400.

Shao, TY; Kakade, P; Witchley, JN; Frazer, C; Murray, KL; Ene, IV; Haslam, DB; Hagan, T; Noble, SM; Bennett, RJ; Way, SS. Candida albicans oscillating UME6 expression during intestinal colonization primes systemic Th17 protective immunity. Cell Reports. 2022; 39:110837.

Eshleman, EM; Shao, T; Woo, V; Rice, T; Whitt, J; Engleman, L; Way, SS; Alenghat, T. Epithelial MHC class II directs microbiota-specific intestinal immune homeostasis. Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950). 2022; 208:115.03.

McDaniel, MM; Chawla, AS; Jain, A; Meibers, HE; Saha, I; Gao, Y; Jain, V; Roskin, K; Way, SS; Pasare, C. Effector memory CD4+ T cells induce damaging innate inflammation and autoimmune pathology by engaging CD40 and TNFR on myeloid cells. Science immunology. 2022; 7:eabk0182.

Alarcon, PC; Damen, MS M A; Madan, R; Deepe, GS; Spearman, P; Way, SS; Divanovic, S. Adipocyte inflammation and pathogenesis of viral pneumonias: an overlooked contribution. Mucosal Immunology. 2021; 14:1224-1234.

Chen, D; Burford, WB; Pham, G; Zhang, L; Alto, LT; Ertelt, JM; Winter, MG; Winter, SE; Way, SS; Alto, NM. Systematic reconstruction of an effector-gene network reveals determinants of Salmonella cellular and tissue tropism. Cell Host and Microbe. 2021; 29:1531-1544.e9.

Cappelletti, M; Presicce, P; Feiyang, M; Senthamaraikannan, P; Miller, LA; Pellegrini, M; Sim, MS; Jobe, AH; Divanovic, S; Way, SS; Chougnet, CA; Kallapur, SG. The induction of preterm labor in rhesus macaques is determined by the  strength of immune response to intrauterine infection. Editor, Smith GC. PLoS Biology. 2021; 19:e3001385.

Miller-Handley, H; Erickson, JJ; Gregory, EJ; Prasanphanich, NS; Shao, TY; Way, SS. Tacrolimus exposure windows responsible for Listeria monocytogenes infection susceptibility. Transplant Infectious Disease. 2021; 23:e13655.

Gregory, EJ; Liu, J; Miller-Handley, H; Kinder, JM; Way, SS. Epidemiology of Pregnancy Complications Through the Lens of Immunological Memory. Frontiers in Immunology. 2021; 12:693189.

Brophy-Williams, S; Fidanza, M; Marchant, A; Way, S; Kollmann, TR. One vaccine for life: Lessons from immune ontogeny. Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health. 2021; 57:782-785.

Prasanphanich, NS; Gregory, EJ; Erickson, JJ; Miller-Handley, H; Kinder, JM; Way, SS. Preconceptual Priming Overrides Susceptibility to Escherichia coli Systemic Infection during Pregnancy. Editor, Freitag NE. mBio. 2021; 12:e00002-e00021.

Zhang, J; Wu, Q; Johnson, CB; Pham, G; Kinder, JM; Olsson, A; Slaughter, A; May, M; Weinhaus, B; D’Alessandro, A; Way, SS; Salomonis, N; Grimes, HL; Lucas, D. In situ mapping identifies distinct vascular niches for myelopoiesis. Nature. 2021; 590:457-462.

Bianchi, DW; Khosrotehrani, K; Way, SS; MacKenzie, TC; Bajema, I; O'Donoghue, K. Forever Connected: The Lifelong Biological Consequences of Fetomaternal and Maternofetal Microchimerism. Clinical Chemistry (Washington, DC): international journal of molecular diagnostics and laboratory medicine. 2021; 67:351-362.