Uri Hershberg, PhD

Assistant Professor at Drexel University

Speaker

Uri Hershberg leads the Systems Immunology Lab, which is one of the leading labs in the world for the study and computational analysis of B cell receptor repertoires. SImLab has developed several tools for analysis and modeling of immunology experiments used for research published in Nature Immunology, Nature, and other leading journals. Most importantly, they have developed ImmuneDB (immuneDB.com), a tool for rapid database creation, analysis, visualization, and dissemination of high throughput B cell receptor and T cell receptor sequencing experiments. In recent work, published in Nature Biotechnology, Dr. Hershberg has used ImmuneDB to help in the first study of B cell repertoires in human tissues, leading to the discovery that the gut and blood tissues have orthogonal B cell receptor repertoires