Center for Computational and Integrative Biology

The 33rd Annual Center for the Study of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (CSIBD) Workshop will take place on November 2-3, 2023. The workshop will focus on four key areas: proteins and metabolites in immunity, host-microbiome interactions, T cell functional specification, and tissue organization and memory formation.  Confirmed speakers include Giorgio Trinchieri, Aashik Manglik, Marcia Haigis, Vamsi Mootha, Nicholas Polizzi, Wendy Garrett, Curtis Huttenhower, Alexandra Zhernakova, Andrea Reboldi, Meng Wu, Vijay Kuchroo, Rob Rahimi, Carmen Gerlach, David Artis, Judith Agudo, Rob Manguso, Diane Mathis, Moshe Biton, Azucena Salas, Jeffrey Moffitt, Ruth Franklin, Christoph Thaiss, and Ananda Goldrath.

We are hiring: Assistant Professor, Infectious Disease Focus!  The Center for Integrated Solutions to Infectious Diseases (CISID), together with CCIB, is looking for a talented junior investigator.  For more information, please see our ad.

Welcome Jonathan Strecker, new faculty member in CCIB!  A main interest in the Strecker lab will be to investigate diverse immune proteins throughout nature, including phage defense and CRISPR-Cas systems, with the long-term goal of using these basic discoveries to enable new programmable functions in biology.

Congratulations Chris Smillie for being selected to join the Pew Scholars Program in Biomedical Sciences! The Scholars were chosen from 188 applicants nominated by leading academic institutions and researchers throughout the United States. This year’s class includes scientists who are studying how external and internal factors affect the gut microbiome, what causes HIV to re-emerge when treatment is halted, and how living an urban lifestyle affects long-term health.

Celebrating a historic $100M gift to establish the Gene Lay Institute for Immunology and Inflammation! The gift, from eminent biotechnology entrepreneur Gene Lay, founder and CEO of BioLegend, is the largest in Brigham's history. The Gene Lay Institute will be led by Vijay Kuchroo, an immunologist and principal investigator at the Brigham who will serve as inaugural director, Arlene Sharpe, chair of the Department of Immunology at HMS, and Ramnik Xavier, our Center Director. Areas of research will include basic understanding of immune-mediated diseases, aging, and cancer toward the development of new immunotherapies. The Institute will also provide training opportunities for students and fellows to support immunology innovators of the future.

Congratulations Emanuel Burgos-Robles in the Smillie lab, for receiving the prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship! Ema is a graduate student in the MIT Computational and Systems Biology PhD Program (CSB).