Integrative
Immunology
Laboratory

The immune system is a language we can spell but not read, and certainly not write. We know most of the words — the genes, the cell types — but not how they make sentences: how cells talk to one another, how organs coordinate, how the whole body stops a threat without turning on itself. This illiteracy is why we still can’t reliably mobilize immunity against our most stubborn diseases.

We’re after the grammar: the general rules, especially the ones that go beyond immunity. Those rules live across scales, from the whole organism down to molecules, and only surface if we can measure at all of them at once. Mostly we can’t, so we build the missing methods, instruments, and algorithms. They open up questions that couldn’t be asked before, and they lead us to new mechanisms and concepts in immunology and biology at large. We share what we build because a tool is only as good as the questions people bring to it.