News
December 2023
Our latest work led by Chris Hanson investigating the pathways regulating memory B cell heterogeneity is published in Cell Reports!
https://www.cell.com/cell-reports/fulltext/S2211-1247(23)01554-1
June 2023
Lizzette Perez officially joins the lab as a gradate student!
March 2023
The lab welcomes Pradhnesh Andhare to the lab as Visiting Researcher!
February 2023
The lab publishes a new review led by Brittany Henry assessing the heterogeneity of the memory B cell response. Congrats Brittany!
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0952791522001285?via%3Dihub
January 2023
Anupam Kumari joins the lab as a postdoctoral researcher! Anupam received her Ph.D from Panjab University Chandigarh India studying on insulin delivery and the immunobiology of Type-1 diabetes.
December 2022
Our work evaluating the B and T cell response in patients with primary antibody antibody deficiencies is published in Frontiers in Immunology!
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2022.1033770/full
October 2022
Our latest work discussing the development and function of memory B cells in mucosal tissues is published in Advances in Immunology!
https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1fvwh_1U-SydND
July 2022
Our preprint evaluating the B and T cell response in patients with primary antibody antibody deficiencies is published online! Congrats to Frank Lin for his hard work leading this project!
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.07.14.22276948v1
June 2022
Congrats to Changfeng for passing his qualifying exam!
January 2022
Changfeng Chen officially joins the lab as a gradate student!
December 2021
Our latest work reviewing the B cell cell response to SARS-COV-2 is published in Nature Reviews Immunology!
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41577-021-00657-1
October 2021
Very excited to announce that the lab was awarded the NIH DP2 New Innovator Award! This is a 5 year, 1.5 million dollar award that will allow us to study the development and function of memory B cells in mucosal tissues.
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10236833
September 2021
Collaborative work with the Cyster lab describing a role for follicular dendritic cells in promoting memory B cell development is published in Immunity!
https://www.cell.com/immunity/fulltext/S1074-7613(21)00362-9#articleInformation
July 2021
We had our first joint Laidlaw-Parker lab picnic with Haley emerging as the inaugural lab cornhole champion!
January 2021
The Laidlaw Lab is excited to welcome Chris Hanson to the lab! Tom recently graduated from Tulane University with a degree in Cell and Molecular Biology.
October 2020
Our review describing the transcriptional regulation of memory B cell development is published in Nature Reviews Immunology!
September 2020
The Laidlaw Lab is excited to welcome Tom Liu to the lab! Tom recently graduated from Case Western with a degree in Biochemistry.
July 2020
Dr. Laidlaw starts at WashU!
The Laidlaw lab is awarded an NIAID Career Transition Award (K22) to study memory B cell development following influenza viirus infection!
June 2020
Our work identifying Hhex and Tle3 as important regulators of memory B cell development is published in Nature Immunology!