Immunology Program
The Jayanta Chaudhuri Lab
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Publications Highlights
Sharma, R., Smolkin, R. M., Chowdhury, P., Fernandez, K. C., Kim, Y., Cols, M., Alread, W., Yen, W.-F., Hu, W., Wang, Z.-M., Violante, S., Chaligné, R., Li, M. O., Cross, J. R., & Chaudhuri, J. (2023). Distinct metabolic requirements regulate B cell activation and germinal center responses. Nature Immunology, 24(8), 1358–1369. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41590-023-01540-y
Fernandez, K. C., Feeney, L., Smolkin, R. M., Yen, W.-F., Matthews, A. J., Alread, W., Petrini, J. H. J., & Chaudhuri, J. (2022). The structure-selective endonucleases GEN1 and MUS81 mediate complementary functions in safeguarding the genome of proliferating B lymphocytes. eLife, 11, e77073. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.77073
Maekawa, K., Yamada, S., Sharma, R., Chaudhuri, J., & Keeney, S. (2022). Triple-helix potential of the mouse genome. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 119(19), e2203967119. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2203967119
Yewdell, W. T., Smolkin, R. M., Belcheva, K. T., Mendoza, A., Michaels, A. J., Cols, M., Angeletti, D., Yewdell, J. W., & Chaudhuri, J. (2021). Temporal dynamics of persistent germinal centers and memory B cell differentiation following respiratory virus infection. Cell Reports, 37(6), 109961. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2021.109961
Mendoza, A., Yewdell, W. T., Hoyos, B., Schizas, M., Bou-Puerto, R., Michaels, A. J., Brown, C. C., Chaudhuri, J., & Rudensky, A. Y. (2021). Assembly of a spatial circuit of T-bet-expressing T and B lymphocytes is required for antiviral humoral immunity. Science Immunology, 6(60), eabi4710. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciimmunol.abi4710
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Jayanta Chaudhuri, PhD
- Immunologist Jayanta Chaudhuri studies the mechanisms of immunoglobulin gene diversification.
- PhD, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
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Members
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- PhD, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
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- MD, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
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- MD, New York School of Medicine
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- PhD, International Agency for Research on Cancer – World Health Organization (IARC-WHO)
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- PhD, University of Murcia
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- BBMedSci, University of Malaya
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- BS, University of California, Los Angeles
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- BS, Pohang University of Science and Technology
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- MS, The University of Nottingham
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- BS, The George Washington University
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- BS, The City College of New York
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Principal Investigator
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Assistant Attending Surgeon
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Assistant Attending
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow
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Graduate Student
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Graduate Student
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Graduate Student
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Graduate Student
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Research Technician
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Research Technician
Research Technician
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Administrative Assistant
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- PhD, Jawaharlal Nehru University
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- BS-MS, Indian Institute of Science Education & Research, Kolkata
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- BS, Hunter College
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- MD, St. George's University School of Medicine
- MD, State University of New York at Buffalo
- MS, McGill University
Lab Alumni
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow
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Research Technician
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Graduate Student
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow
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Research Technician
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Pediatric Hematology-Oncology Fellow
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Lab Manager
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Graduate Student
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Pediatric Hematology-Oncology Fellow
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Research Technician
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Graduate Student
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Graduate Student
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Graduate Student
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
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