Heather Ruiz

Program: Immunology

Current advisor: Gwendalyn J Randolph, PhD

Undergraduate university: University of California-Berkeley, 2018

Enrollment year: 2022

Research summary
Investigate the role of TNF in transmural inflammation and lymphatic remodeling in ileitis.

Graduate publications
Erlich EC, Alayo QA, Kim A, Han J, Mintz RL, Huckstep CG, Ruiz HS, Field RL, Dunning TJ, Saleh LS, Hoofnagle MH, Tumanov AV, Guilak F, Brestoff JR, Czepielewski RS, Randolph GJ. 2025 Distinct roles for B cell-derived LTα3 and LTα1β2 in TNF-mediated ileitis. Nat Immunol, 26(10):1781-93. PMCID: PMC12479355

Lee DD, Telfer KA, Koenis MAJ, Lee YK, Namink KW, Saunders BT, Lee H, Kelley H, Ruiz HS, Gaut JP, Randolph GJ, Zinselmeyer BH. 2025 Depth-variant deconvolution applied to widefield microscopy for rapid large-volume tissue imaging. Commun Biol, 8(1):1599. PMCID: PMC12627534