The lab studies how host tissues detect and respond to infection, and how these interactions set the stage for either resolution or persistent damage.
Research
Understanding how infection shapes disease
The lab investigates how innate immune pathways influence tissue injury, inflammatory decision-making, and longer-term disease outcomes after infection.
We are interested in the pathways that translate microbial sensing into inflammatory programs, tissue injury, and disease-relevant phenotypes.
A central goal is to understand how infection can initiate longer-lasting biological changes that persist after the acute phase has ended.
We use disease-relevant systems to connect mechanistic insight with questions that matter for human pathology and therapeutic thinking.