Josh Deffenbaugh

Program: Immunology

Current advisor: Takeshi Egawa, MD, PhD

Undergraduate university: Ohio State University-Columbus, 2022

Enrollment year: 2023

Research summary
Transcriptional regulation of tissue-resident lymphocytes.

Graduate publications
Murphy MK, McCullen M, Deffenbaugh JL, Chen AY, Pai J, Daniel B, Yousif A, Raju S, Hsiung S, Wang Z, Ghoneim HE, Satpathy AT, Colonna M, Oltz EM, Egawa T. 2025 The transcriptional repressor BLIMP1 enforces TCF-1-dependent and -independent restriction of the memory fate of CD8+ T cells. Immunity, 58(10):2472-2488.e9. PMCID: