


Neuroimmunology of
Host-Microbe Interaction
Lab News
04/25/2025: An interplay between BAT (microbes), FLY (brain), and SPIDER (immunity) 😂.
A genius artwork by Nathan.

04/07/2025: Welcome Supurna and Afiyfah for rotating in the lab!
04/05/2025: Nathan and Chien officially join the lab! WELCOME, our FIRST two graduate students!
01/17/2025: FIRST lab outing! New Year lunch @ Hungry's.

01/12/2025: Our first rotation students! Weclome, Basab, Chien and Nathan!
1 1/01/2024: Welcome Matt! Our FIRST lab member!!!
Selected Publications
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Xu, W., Rustenhoven, J., Nelson, C. A., Dykstra, T., Ferreiro, A., Papadopoulos, Z., Burnham, C.D., Dantas, G., Fremont, D. H., Kipnis, J. (2023). A novel immune modulator IM33 mediates a glia-gut-neuronal axis that controls lifespan. Neuron 111(20): 3244-3254.e3248. Featured by Science Signaling, 16(809): eadl5530.
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Xu, W., Bao, P., Jiang, X., Wang, H., Qin, M., Wang, R., Wang, T., Yang, Y., Lorenzini, I., Liao, L., Sattler, R., Xu, J. (2019). Reactivation of nonsense-mediated mRNA decay protects against C9orf72 dipeptide-repeat neurotoxicity. Brain 142, 1349-1364.
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Xu, W., and Xu, J. (2018). C9orf72 Dipeptide Repeats Cause Selective Neurodegeneration and Cell-Autonomous Excitotoxicity in Drosophila Glutamatergic Neurons. J Neurosci 38, 7741-7752.