Farber Lab

12/08/2018

Check out updates and links to new publications on the Farberlab website

The Farber Lab is located in the Columbia Center for Translational Immunology at the Columbia University Irving Medical Center. Dr. Farber is in the Department of Surgery and the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons. The lab...

07/24/2018

We have a new lab website! Check it out:

The Farber Lab is located in the Columbia Center for Translational Immunology at the Columbia University Irving Medical Center. Dr. Farber is in the Department of Surgery and the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons. The lab...

02/21/2018

Our review on human T cell development, localization and function is published today in Immunity

Recent studies of human T cells in diverse tissue sites have revealed that the functional role of T cells is closely linked to the anatomical location, subset, and developmental stage. Kumar et al. review these advances and highlight human-specific aspects of T cell immunity.

01/21/2018

Our paper on lung tissue resident memory T cells and allergic asthma is published online in the Journal of Immunology, with Damian Turner as first author and in collaboration with Drs. Monica Goldklang and Jeanine D'Armiento

Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease mediated by allergen-specific CD4 T cells that promote lung inflammation through recruitment of cellular effectors into the lung. A subset of lung T cells can persist as tissue-resident memory T cells (TRMs) following infection and allergen induction, althoug...

12/06/2017

Brahma Kumar successfully defended his thesis. Congratulations Brahma on this outstanding accomplishment!

09/21/2017

Our study identifying a unifying signature for human tissue resident memory T cells was published in Cell Reports

09/09/2017

Our study on validating the use of organ donor tissues for immunology research is published today by the American Journal of Transplantation

Organ donors are sources of physiologically healthy organs and tissues for life‐saving transplantation, and have been recently used for human immunology studies which are typically confined to the sampling...

08/30/2017

Our study on mechanisms for altered infant respiratory immunity was published today in the Journal of Experimental Medicine

Infants suffer disproportionately from respiratory infections and generate reduced vaccine responses compared with adults, although the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. In adult mice, lung-localized, tissue-resident memory T cells (TRMs) mediate optimal protection to respiratory pathogens, and…

08/29/2017

Our collaborators on our NIH program grant, Drs. Nina Luning-Prak (UPenn), Uri Hershberg (Drexel) and Mark Shlomchik (U. Pitt.) just published an elegant study revealing B cell clonal distribution throughout the human body.
http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nbt.3942.html

08/19/2017

Elemental Haiku in Science magazine

Author Mary Soon Lee (marysoonlee{at}gmail.com) provides this review of the periodic table composed of 119 science haiku, one for each element plus a closing haiku for element 119 (not yet synthesized). The haiku encompass astronomy, biology, chemistry, history, physics, and a bit of whimsical flair

06/30/2017

Presented symposium talk and one of the Keynote lectures at the Japanese Association for Cancer Immunology annual meeting in Chiba, Japan. Thank you to the wonderful hosts, Dr. Naoto Hirano and Professor Toshinori Nakayama, President of the JACI
http://jaci21.umin.jp/

第21回日本がん免疫学会総会公式サイト

06/18/2017

Farber Lab members presented at the Federation of Clinical Immunology Societies (FOCIS) annual meeting this week in Chicago, IL