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Contributors
A laboratory is a small standing company of people who have agreed to be interested in the same problem for a long time.
The Principal Investigator
Casey T. Weaver
Dr. Weaver is the Wyatt & Susan Haskell Professor of Medical Excellence in the Departments of Pathology and Microbiology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He took his BS and MD at the University of Florida, and completed residency and postdoctoral training at Barnes Hospital and Washington University in St. Louis before joining the faculty at UAB, where the laboratory has worked since.
His laboratory helped define the Th17 lineage of CD4 T cells and has since shaped much of the modern account of mucosal immunity — the developmental logic of T-helper differentiation, the instability of effector programs, the reciprocal traffic between the intestinal microbiota and the immune system, and the cytokine grammar by which T cells instruct a barrier tissue. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a co-author of Janeway's Immunobiology.
He has also spent a good deal of the last three decades training the people listed below, which most of his colleagues would say is the more durable half of the record.
The laboratory
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Lab Member Name Postdoctoral Fellow
A sentence on what this person works on — the question, not the technique. Replace with the real roster. Email.
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Lab Member Name Graduate Student, Graduate Biomedical Sciences
A sentence on the thesis problem. Trainees are the reason a laboratory's questions outlive any one project.
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Lab Member Name Research Technician
A sentence on what this person keeps running — colonies, cytometry, the single-cell pipeline, the standards everything else depends on.
The roster above is a placeholder, carried over from the site's data file. Replace each entry with a real name, title, and one-line description; add a portrait to the folder of member photographs and the plate frame will hold it.
Former contributors
Former trainee, now Assistant Professor at an institution to be named. — Former trainee, now in industry. — Former trainee, now in clinical practice.
A laboratory of this age has a long alumni list; set it as a running paragraph rather than a table, and it stays readable at any length.
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