Research

Our research is directed towards understanding how leukocytes connect lifestyle stressors with various organ systems including metabolism, the endocrine and nervous systems, and physiology as a whole. The specific projects outlined below are motivated by and entwined with this idea.

Sleep-instructed adaptive immune responses in cardiovascular disease

Effects of diet on hematopoiesis and inflammation

Stress and Cardiovascular Disease

Stress-induced modulation of B cell function in Cardiovascular Disease

Infection and Cardiovascular Disease