I study how the tumor microenvironment restrains optimal antigen processing and presentation by cancer cells thereby limiting adaptive anti-tumor immunity. 

Publications

Silva, E. E., Moioffer, S. J., Hassert, M., Berton, R. R., Smith, M. G., van de Wall, S., Meyerholz, D. K., Griffith, T. S., Harty, J. T., & Badovinac, V. P. (2024). Defining Parameters That Modulate Susceptibility and Protection to Respiratory Murine Coronavirus MHV1 Infection. Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950), 212(4), 563–575. https://doi.org/10.4049/jimmunol.2300434

Bi, J., Witt, E., Voltarelli, V. A., Feig, V. R., Venkatachalam, V., Boyce, H., McGovern, M., Gutierrez, W. R., Rytlewski, J. D., Bowman, K. R., Rhodes, A. C., Cook, A. N., Muller, B. N., Smith, M. G., Ramos, A. R., Panchal, H., Dodd, R. D., Henry, M. D., Mailloux, A., Traverso, G., … Byrne, J. D. (2023). Low-Cost, High-Pressure-Synthesized Oxygen-Entrapping Materials to Improve Treatment of Solid Tumors. Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany), 10(10), e2205995. https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202205995

Awards and Honors

Immunology T-32 Pre-Doctoral Training Grant (2022-2024)