Haerin Jung

Program: Immunology

Current advisor: Steven J. Van Dyken, PhD

Undergraduate university: St. Louis University, 2012

Enrollment year: 2018

Research summary
My research study involves a chitin-triggered feedback loop involving group 2 innate lymphoid cells, which are crucial for lung repair after injury.

Graduate publications
Jung H, Kim DH, Díaz RE, White JM, Rucknagel S, Mosby L, Wang Y, Reddy S, Winkler ES, Hassan AO, Ying B, Diamond MS, Locksley RM, Fraser JS, Van Dyken SJ. 2024 An ILC2-chitinase circuit restores lung homeostasis after epithelial injury. Sci Immunol, 9(100):eadl2986. PMCID:

Jung H, Leal-Ekman JS, Lu Q, Stappenbeck TS. 2019 Atg14 protects the intestinal epithelium from TNF-triggered villus atrophy. Autophagy, 15(11):1990-2001. PMCID: PMC6844524