Research

Classifying Host Responses to Rhinovirus Infection Transcriptomic and clinical features of children with/without asthma

Rhinovirus often infects children without causing symptoms. We are examining how children with and without asthma respond to these subclinical infections through a combination of clinical collaboration, data mining, and laboratory experiments

Susceptibility to Respiratory Virus Infection in Different Model Systems What makes respiratory epithelial cells susceptible to infection?

Not everyone is equally susceptible to respiratory virus infection. Similar variability in susceptibility is also observed directly in respiratory epithelial cells. We are testing what makes someone (or their cells) more or less susceptible to infection