Khai Nguyen

Program: Immunology

Current advisor: Marco Colonna, MD

Undergraduate university: Earlham College, 2020

Enrollment year: 2020

Research summary
Homeostatic and pathologic roles of B-cells in the meninges.

My work in Dr. Colonna’s lab focuses on B-cells in the meninges. I am utilizing mouse models and multiomic techniques to study the role of B-cells in autoimmune, traumatic, and congenital conditions of the central nervous system. In particular, I am looking at anti-NMDA autoimmune encephalitis, neuropsychiatric lupus, syndromic craniosynostosis and spinal cord injury.

Graduate publications
Ver Heul A, Fredman A, Trier A, Tamari M, Nguyen K, Kim B. (2022). Type 2 inflammation drives transcriptional remodeling of itch-sensory neurons. J Allergy Clin Immunol., Abstract.