We foster a diverse and supportive research environment comprising computational biologists, physician scientists, experimental biologists, hybrid scientists (both computational and experimental), and quantitative modelers with cross-disciplinary expertise and backgrounds.
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
Leon Bichmann, PhD
Computational Biologist (Associate Research Scientist)Systems immunology of immune development; immune variation of the maternal-infant dyad; database infrastructure in research
Can Liu, PhD
Postdoctoral FellowSystems immunology of the maternal-infant dyad; tissue trafficking and immune cell homeostasis in tissues
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
Richard Apps, PhD (Staff scientist, CHI)
Current: Staff scientist, CHI
Rohit Farmer, PhD (Staff computational biologist, CHI)
Current, Comptuational biologist, Vaccine Research Center, NIH
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