Degrees & Affiliations
BS, Biology - Oklahoma Christian University MPH, Epidemiology - University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Medical Student - Harvard Medical School (HST) PhD Candidate, Immunology - Harvard Medical School
Background & Interests








Biography
Travis is an MD-PhD student in the Shalek Lab pursuing an MD in HST and a PhD in the Harvard Immunology program. He is broadly interested in developing and applying single-cell technologies to understand cellular ecology in health and disease. Current projects include developing improvements and extensions of the Seq-Well platform, and he is working on a large project aimed to understand the cellular ecology of M. tuberculosis granulomas.
Travis is a native of Oklahoma and did his undergraduate work in Biology at Oklahoma Christian University. During college, he co-founded a non-profit organization called Wishing Well, which raises money for water projects. After graduation, he spent time working on international development projects in Rwanda and Uganda before returning to Oklahoma to begin work in the lab of Amr Sawalha at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation. Travis obtained a MPH in Epidemiology and International Health at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Prior to coming to HMS and MIT, he spent an additional year in the lab working on autoimmune genetics, while simultaneously working as a live-in caregiver for a man living with multiple sclerosis. In his spare time, Travis enjoys reading, sailing, amateur mixology, pottery, and analog photography.
Publications

Comprehensive multi-site profiling of the malignant pleural mesothelioma micro-environment identifies candidate molecular determinants of histopathologic type





Systematic deconstruction of myeloid cell signaling in tuberculosis granulomas reveals IFN-γ, TGF-β, and time are associated with conserved myeloid diversity





CD8+ lymphocytes are critical for early control of tuberculosis in macaques









Hypoxic, glycolytic metabolism is a vulnerability of B-acute lymphoblastic leukemia-initiating cells







PI3K activation allows immune evasion by promoting an inhibitory myeloid tumor microenvironment









Single-cell profiling of environmental enteropathy reveals signatures of epithelial remodeling and immune activation

















Multimodal profiling of lung granulomas in macaques reveals cellular correlates of tuberculosis control















A single-cell liver atlas of Plasmodium vivax infection











JAK inhibition in a patient with a STAT1 gain-of-function variant reveals STAT1 dysregulation as a common feature of aplastic anemia







The cellular architecture of the antimicrobial response network in human leprosy granulomas







