Team
We foster a diverse and supportive research environment comprising computational biologists, experimental scientists, hybrid scientists (both computational and experimental), and quantitative modelers with cross-disciplinary expertise and backgrounds.
Research Team
John Tsang, PhD
Principal InvestigatorProfessor of Immunobiology and Biomedical Engineering
Director, Yale Center for Systems and Engineering Immunology (CSEI)
Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Investigator
Systems immunology; computational biology; design principles of biological systems
Shubham Tripathi, PhD
Bollinger Ingelheim Data Science Postdoc FellowMulticale modeling and design principles of immune memory
Andrew Johnston, MD/PhD
Dermatology and Immunobiology FellowSkin-blood interface; tissue organization and dermatological disorders
Can Liu, PhD
Postdoctoral FellowSystems immunology of the maternal-infant dyad; tissue trafficking and immune cell homeostasis in tissues
Leon Bichmann, PhD
Computational Biologist (Associate Research Scientist)Systems immunology of immune development; immune variation of the maternal-infant dyad; database infrastructure in research
Yona Lei, BS
MSTP MD/PhD studentSystems immunology of unconventional immune memory; early tumor-immune interactions; influenza infection and vaccination
Anis Barmada, MPhil
MSTP MD/PhD student (co-mentor with Carrie Lucas)Dirty mice; bystander immune activation
Ao Huang, BS
Yale Computational Biology PhD studentIntegrating machine learning and dynamical modeling to dissect immune response dynamics
Shoham Benmelech, BS
Yale Biomedical Engineering PhD student; NSF Graduate FellowMechanosensing signature of T cells; maternal-infant systems immunology
Christine Dien, BS
Yale Computational Biology PhD studentTissue systems immunology; systems immunology of allergy
Loïc De Doncker, MD
Visiting Fellow from the European Plotkin Institute for VaccinologyMaternal-infant systems immunology
Rebecca Santano, PhD
Visiting Fellow from the Barcelona Institute for Global HealthSystems immunology of malaria vaccination and infection
Meirav Sela, MS
Lab Manager/Research AssociateHuman subject study coordination; human immune profiling and immune stimulation assays; lab management practices
Program & Administration Team
Allysia Matthews, PhD
CSEI Scientific Program ManagerCross-center project development; program project and center grant development; training grants; grant support
Elizabeth Ferris, BS
CSEI CoordinatorSenior Administrative AssistantProcess automation; project management
Alumni
Alumni (incomplete list):
Andrew Martins, PhD (Postdoc and then Staff Scientist)
Current: Assistant Professor of Immunobiology (CSEI), Yale University; Dr. Martins continues to be a partner and long-term collaborator of the lab.
Rachel Sparks, MD/MPH (Clinical Research Fellow)
Current: Assistant Clinical Investigator, NIAID, NIH
John Jung-Hwan Kim, PhD (Postdoc)
Current: Senior Scientist, AstraZeneca
Pedro Milanez-Almeida, PhD (Postdoc)
Current: Senior Data Scientist, Novartis Institute for Biomedical Research
Harikesh Wong, PhD (Postdoc in Ronald Germain Lab; co-mentorship in systems immunology and quantitative modeling)
Current: Assistant Professor of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Kyemyung Park, MD/PhD (Biophysics PhD student, NIH/Univ. of Maryland, College Park)
Current: Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, UNIST (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology), South Korea
Nicholas Rachmaninoff, PhD (Computational Biology PhD student, NIH/Univ. of Maryland, College Park)
Current: Computational Biologist, GSK
Matthew Mulé, PhD (MSTP, NIH-Oxford-Cambridge PhD student)
Current: MSTP MD training, Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; PhD University of Cambridge completed (joint mentorship with Ken Smith, Cambridge).
Can Liu, PhD (Computational and Experimental Immunology PhD student, NIH/Univ. of Maryland, College Park)
Current: Postdoc, Yale University
William Lau, PhD (Computational Biology PhD student, NIH/George Mason University)
Current: Staff Computational Biologist, NIH
Manikandan Narayanan, PhD (Staff computational biologist)
Current: Associate Professor, Computational Biology, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
Zhi Xie, MD/PhD (Staff computational biologist, CHI)
Current: Professor, Sun Yat-sen University, China
Foo Cheung, PhD (Staff computational biologist, CHI)
Current: Staff Scientist, Center for Human Immunology, NIH
Angelique Biancotto, PhD (Staff scientist, CHI)
Current: Group Leader, Sanofi Pasteur
Yuri Kotliarov, PhD (Staff computational biologist, CHI)
Current: Computational Biologist, NCI
Yong Lu, PhD (Staff computational biologist)
Current: Software Engineer, Google
Naisha Shah, PhD (Postdoc)
Current: VP, Data Science, BioAge Labs
Bethany Fixsen, MD/PhD (Postbac --> MSTP MD/PhD UCSD)
Current: Medical Resident, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Candace Liu (Postbac)
Current: PhD student, Computational Immunology, Stanford University
Dylan Hirsch (Postbac)
Current: PhD student, Bioengineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Darius Mostaghimi (Postbac)
Current: MD student, Yale University
Milann Cox (Postbac)
Current: MD student, Pennsylvania State University
Kiera Vrindten (Postbac)
Current: MD student, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Rutgers University