Biography

Sam Allon is a Chemistry PhD candidate in the Shalek Lab. He is interested in discovering new chain reactions of cell-cell communication that contribute to immune responses in the airways.

As a biochemistry major at the University of Pennsylvania, Sam worked with Professor Kristen Lynch to discover regulation mechanisms of alternative mRNA splicing. He likes teaming up with Shalek lab members to teach immunology to middle school and high school students.

Expression of Foxp3 by T follicular helper cells in end-stage germinal centers
  • Jacobsen et al.,
  • Science,
  • 2021
  • Immunology
  • Biology
  • Genomics
  • Sam Allon
  • Alex K. Shalek
Human airway mast cells proliferate and acquire distinct inflammation-driven phenotypes during type 2 inflammation
  • Dwyer et al.,
  • Science Immunology,
  • 2021
  • Biology
  • Immunology
  • Genomics
  • José Ordovas-Montañes
  • Sam Allon
  • Marko Vukovic
  • Travis Hughes
  • Sarah Nyquist
  • Alex K. Shalek
Single-cell meta-analysis of SARS-CoV-2 entry genes across tissues and demographics
  • Muus et al.,
  • Nature Medicine,
  • 2021
  • Statistics
  • Cell Atlas
  • Infectious Disease
  • Immunology
  • Computational Methods
  • Genomics
  • Sam Allon
  • Sarah Nyquist
  • Marc Wadsworth II
  • Carly Ziegler
  • Alex K. Shalek
Cyclin D3 drives inertial cell cycling in dark zone germinal center B cells
  • Pae et al.,
  • Journal of Experimental Medicine,
  • 2020
  • Immunology
  • Biology
  • Genomics
  • Sam Allon
  • José Ordovas-Montañes
  • Alex K. Shalek
Cyclin D3 drives inertial cell cycling in dark zone germinal center B cells
  • Pae et al.,
  • bioRxiv,
  • 2020
  • Genomics
  • Biology
  • Immunology
  • Sam Allon
  • José Ordovas-Montañes
  • Alex K. Shalek
SARS-CoV-2 receptor ACE2 is an interferon-stimulated gene in human airway epithelial cells and is detected in specific cell subsets across tissues
  • Ziegler et al.,
  • Cell,
  • 2020
  • Biology
  • Genomics
  • Statistics
  • Cell Atlas
  • Infectious Disease
  • Immunology
  • Carly Ziegler
  • Sam Allon
  • Sarah Nyquist
  • Vincent Miao
  • Constantine Tzouanas
  • Marc Wadsworth II
  • Sam Kazer
  • Travis Hughes
  • Benjamin Doran
  • James Gatter
  • Marko Vukovic
  • Ben Mead
  • Shaina Carroll
  • Alex K. Shalek
  • José Ordovas-Montañes
Integrated analyses of single-cell atlases reveal age, gender, and smoking status associations with cell type-specific expression of mediators of SARS-CoV-2 viral entry and highlights inflammatory programs in putative target cells
  • Muus et al.,
  • bioRxiv,
  • Statistics
  • Cell Atlas
  • Biology
  • Genomics
  • Immunology
  • Infectious Disease
  • Computational Methods
  • Sam Allon
  • Sarah Nyquist
  • José Ordovas-Montañes
  • Marc Wadsworth II
  • Carly Ziegler
  • Alex K. Shalek
SARS-CoV-2 receptor ACE2 is an interferon-stimulated gene in human airway epithelial cells and is enriched in specific cell subsets across tissues
  • Ziegler et al.,
  • SSRN,
  • 2020
  • Biology
  • Cell Atlas
  • Medicine
  • Immunology
  • Infectious Disease
  • Computational Methods
  • Genomics
  • Carly Ziegler
  • Sam Allon
  • Sarah Nyquist
  • Vincent Miao
  • Marc Wadsworth II
  • Sam Kazer
  • Travis Hughes
  • Benjamin Doran
  • James Gatter
  • Marko Vukovic
  • Constantine Tzouanas
  • Shaina Carroll
  • Alex K. Shalek
  • José Ordovas-Montañes
Loss of DNA methyltransferase activity in primed human ES cells triggers increased cell-cell variability and transcriptional repression
  • Tsankov et al.,
  • Development,
  • 2019
  • Genomics
  • Biology
  • Marc Wadsworth II
  • Sam Allon
  • Ben Mead
  • Riley Drake
  • Alex K. Shalek