Biography

I stand for empathy, inclusivity, diversity, and everything that allows all good and curious people to enter science and be in science.

Research interests: lymphocyte development, immunological memory beyond lymphocytes, neuroimmunology, high-throughput technologies

Lab roles: resident alien, comic relief, support of various sorts (pipetting, conversation), spiritual leader of technicians

Outside of science: literature, judo, Tracy Chapman and Manu Chao, The Art Assignment and Atlas Pro (youtube)

Grew up in Bosnia and Herzegovina; went to UWC Mostar and Tufts University.

Mepolizumab targets multiple immune cells in aspirin-exacerbated respiratory disease
  • Buchheit et al.,
  • Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology,
  • 2023
  • Medicine
  • Immunology
  • Genomics
  • Biology
  • Marko Vukovic
  • Alex K. Shalek
  • José Ordovas-Montañes
IL-5Rα marks nasal polyp IgG4- and IgE-expressing cells in aspirin-exacerbated respiratory disease
  • Buchheit et al.,
  • Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology,
  • Immunology
  • Genomics
  • Biology
  • José Ordovas-Montañes
  • Marko Vukovic
  • Alex K. Shalek
Single-cell profiling of environmental enteropathy reveals signatures of epithelial remodeling and immune activation
  • Kummerlowe et al.,
  • Science Translational Medicine,
  • 2022
  • Cell Atlas
  • Microbiology
  • Genomics
  • Immunology
  • Infectious Disease
  • Biology
  • Conner Kummerlowe
  • Travis Hughes
  • Nolawit Mulugeta
  • Ira Fleming
  • Marko Vukovic
  • Benjamin Doran
  • Toby Aicher
  • Marc Wadsworth II
  • José Ordovas-Montañes
  • Alex K. Shalek
Screening for modulators of the cellular composition of gut epithelia via organoid models of intestinal stem cell differentiation
  • Mead et al.,
  • Nature Biomedical Engineering,
  • 2022
  • Biology
  • Computational Methods
  • Technology
  • Genomics
  • R&D
  • Immunology
  • Medicine
  • Ben Mead
  • Marko Vukovic
  • Conner Kummerlowe
  • José Ordovas-Montañes
  • Alex K. Shalek
Single-cell profiling of environmental enteropathy reveals signatures of epithelial remodeling and immune activation in severe disease
  • Kummerlowe et al.,
  • bioRxiv,
  • 2021
  • Infectious Disease
  • Genomics
  • Biology
  • Immunology
  • Conner Kummerlowe
  • Travis Hughes
  • Nolawit Mulugeta
  • Ira Fleming
  • Marko Vukovic
  • Benjamin Doran
  • José Ordovas-Montañes
  • 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
Lymph nodes are innervated by a unique population of sensory neurons with immunomodulatory potential
  • Huang et al.,
  • Cell,
  • 2020
  • Genomics
  • Immunology
  • Biology
  • Carly Ziegler
  • Marko Vukovic
  • José Ordovas-Montañes
  • Alex K. Shalek
Single-Cell Analyses of Colon and Blood Reveal Distinct Immune Cell Signatures of Ulcerative Colitis and Crohn’s Disease
  • Mitsialis et al.,
  • Gastroenterology,
  • 2020
  • Genomics
  • Biology
  • Immunology
  • José Ordovas-Montañes
  • Marko Vukovic
  • Alex K. Shalek
High-throughput organoid screening enables engineering of intestinal epithelial composition
  • Mead et al.,
  • bioRxiv,
  • 2020
  • Biology
  • Genomics
  • Technology
  • Medicine
  • R&D
  • Ben Mead
  • Marko Vukovic
  • 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
  • Cell Atlas
  • Biology
  • Immunology
  • Statistics
  • Genomics
  • Infectious Disease
  • 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
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
  • Medicine
  • Biology
  • Immunology
  • Infectious Disease
  • Computational Methods
  • Cell Atlas
  • 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
Sensory neurons innervate peripheral lymph nodes and locally regulate gene expression in postsynaptic endothelium, stromal cells, and innate leukocytes
  • Huang et al.,
  • bioRxiv,
  • 2019
  • Immunology
  • Cell Atlas
  • Biology
  • Genomics
  • Computational Methods
  • Carly Ziegler
  • Marko Vukovic
  • José Ordovas-Montañes
  • Alex K. Shalek
Allergic Inflammatory Memory in Human Respiratory Epithelial Progenitor Cells
  • Ordovas-Montanes et al.,
  • Nature,
  • 2018
  • Biology
  • Medicine
  • Immunology
  • Cell Atlas
  • José Ordovas-Montañes
  • Sarah Nyquist
  • Marko Vukovic
  • Marc Wadsworth II
  • Travis Hughes
  • Sam Kazer
  • Alex K. Shalek