Genetics Gaucho/Viral Vaquero with Steve Elledge (Post-Doc)
Former Cytokine Cowboy with Chris Garcia (Grad)
Signaling aficionado but an absolute bozo otherwise
Despite their diverse routes to degradation, viral ubiquitin ligases convergently target key nodes in immune signaling like JAK1 and CUL1–β-TrCP underscoring the importance of these pathways in viral restriction.
We have a new paper online today at @ScienceMagazine! We applied our recently developed library of viral open reading frames to discover and characterize viral ubiquitin ligases. https://t.co/HNKjw5oDzd
We find that viruses exploit the modularity of the ubiquitin-proteasome system in unique ways, but these mechanisms often rhyme with the underlying logic used by the host.
An essay I wrote with @NikoMcCarty on the upcoming age of AI x Bio.
"The next century of biology will be a coordinated, whole-field effort to divide biology into a series of prediction tasks and then solve those tasks, one-by-one."
A ubiquitin-independent pathway for protein degradation with important implications for signaling. Congrats @ChrisNardone95 and @XinGu0317! It's been fun watching y'all figure this out. https://t.co/6bmBcvZrcV
Next week I'll be starting my own lab at UCSF @UCSFUrology! We’ll be using synthetic biology and functional genetic screens to understand antigen presentation and T-cell recognition in cancer and other diseases. We’d love for you to join us! More info at https://t.co/90yf61qNRx
Excited to share my first paper from my PhD research in Chris Garcia's lab! We determined structures of the IL-21 receptor complex and engineered IL-21 variants that enhanced vaccine responses in tonsil organoids with reduced autoantibody induction. (1/9)
https://t.co/5fg5oGVBtn
Thank you, Leslie and everyone at HHMI. I can’t express how grateful I am to be part of this outstanding group of scientists. With the support of HHMI, we can focus on our science but also make an impact in mentoring to lift us all up. Congrats to all the FHScholars!
Congrats to Dr. @amycfanphd for successfully defending her PhD thesis on “Genetic blood disorders and inflammation: Characterizing cell autonomous & non-autonomous contributions of RUNX1 loss in hematopoiesis and leukemogenesis” 👏🎉!! #StanfordImmuno#thesisdefense#PhD
Congratulations to @CalebGlassman for being the 2022 Stanford Immunology McDevitt Award winner for his dissertation on Structure-Based Cytokine Engineering. I don't have a photo of Caleb, so I am using the photo from his hybrid defense.