December: New Award!
Ivo receives a 2025 Pew Charitable Trust Innovator Award. Together with Andrew Goodman at Yale we will investigate how drug-microbiota interactions revive cryptic anti-microbial peptides.
Read the Press Release here.
November: New paper!
Our collaborative paper with the Wang and Sternberg labs on genetic engineering of SFB is published in Science!
Gelsinger et al. Science 2025.
September: New Facility!
After 15 years the lab has a fully operational Gnotobiotic Facility. We can now do gnotobiotic experiments on site.
Thank you Abhilash and Nahyun.
August: New Grant!
The lab's major R01 grant on SFB biology is renewed for another cycle!
This is a total of 18 years of SFB research going strong! Congrats to everyone in the Ivanov Lab!
July: New paper!
The lab participates in a new exciting study led by the Goodman Lab at Yale published this month in Nature!
Kumar et al. Nature 2025.
July: Promotion!
Ivo is promoted to a full Professor at Columbia University!
June: New Lab Member!
Nahyun Lee joins the lab as our new lab manager.
Welcome Nahyun!
April: Podcast!
Our work on innate lymphoid cells is featured in the latest podcast of the Society for Mucosal Immunology.
Click on the image below to access the podcast.
2024
September:
M&I student Minjee Kim joins the lab for a rotation.
Welcome Minjee!
August: New paper!
Madeline and Leandro's work on innate lymphoid cells is published in Science Immunology!
Congratulations Leandro and Madeline!
July:
Madeline presents a poster at the International Congress of Mucosal Immunology in Copenhagen on her ILC3 work!
Congratulations Madeline!
July:
Ivo receives the 2024 Young Investigator Award from the Society for Mucosal Immunology at the ICMI in Copenhagen!
May:
Dr. Amrita Mishra joins the lab as a postdoctoral scientist. Welcome Amrita!
May:
Madeline received her hood!
April:
Madeline defended her thesis with flying colors. Congratulations Dr. Edwards!
January:
Our latest work on gut T cells is highlighted in
Columbia News!
2023
December: New paper!
Our work on the role of commensal-specific Th17 cells in intestinal homeostasis is published in Immunity.
Congratulations Leonie and Alex!
Brockmann et al. Immunity 2023.
June:
Griffin Deans joins the lab as a research technician. Welcome Griffin!
June:
MD/PhD student Michael Gao joins the lab for a rotation. Welcome Michael!
May:
Gianfranco Yee from MIT joins the lab for the summer as an Amgen Scholar. Welcome Franco!
April:
Dr. Junjie Ma from Karolinska Institut joins the lab as a postdoctoral scientist. Welcome Junjie!
March:
Madeline presents her ILC3 work at the Columbia Digestive and Liver Diseases Research Center seminar series. Great job Madeline!
March:
Ya has been accepted to the Nutrition PhD program at Columbia University. Congrats Ya!
January:
Ruoqi has been accepted to the Microbiology PhD program at Cornell University. Congrats Ruoqi!
January:
NMB student David Harle joins the lab for a rotation. Welcome David!
2022
August: New paper!
Our work on the role of sugar, microbiota and intestinal immunity in obesity and metabolic syndrome is published in Cell.
Kawano et al. Cell 2022.
July:
Yoshi's paper is accepted in Cell.
Congratulations
Yoshi!
February:
Ivo co-authors a new review on T cell responses to the microbiota in the upcoming 2022 issue of
Annual Review of Immunology.
January:
NMB student Isabella Canal Delgado joins the lab for a rotation. Welcome Isa!
June:
Madeline is awarded a second year of funding on her M&I training grant award.
Congrats
Madeline!
2020
December:
The lab is awarded a new
pilot grant from Takeda Pharmaceuticals
to use single cell genomic approaches to study mucosal immune cells in human samples
September 21:
Micro student Carly Lam joins the lab for a rotation. Welcome Carly!
September 11:
The lab participates in the Department of Microbiology & Immunology Annual Retreat.
Thank you
Madeline, Leandro and Yoshi for presenting awesome posters.
Congrats
Yoshi for winning
2nd place award
for your poster presentation.
September 1:
The lab is awarded a new
NIH supplement
to study dietary effects on mucosal immunity
August 24:
MD/PhD student Mary Claire Tuohy joins the lab for a rotation. Welcome Mary Claire!
July 1:
Madeline is awarded an M&I training grant award.
Congrats
Madeline!
2019
June 4:
Ivo is promoted to an Associate Professor
with tenure at Columbia University!
April 16:
Welcome Tomoyoshi Kawano!
Congratulations
Ami and Yoshi!
April 1:
The lab is awarded a new
R01 grant
to study the function of innate lymphoid cells in mucosal immunity
April 1:
Leonie is awarded a prestigious DFG fellowship from the German Research Foundation.
Congrats
Leonie!
March 8:
Our paper on endocytosis of commensal antigens is published in
Science.
March 6:
Madeline passed her qualifying exam.
Congrats
Madeline!
January 28:
Our paper on SFB-IEC interactions, in collaboration with the Bjorkman lab at Caltech, is accepted in Science.
Congratulations
Leandro and Mark!
2018
September 1:
The lab is awarded a new
R01 grant
from NIH to study SFB Th17 responses.
2017
September 20:
Dr. Ivanov and Dr. Pamela Bjorkman at Caltech are awarded a
Pew Innovation Fund Award.
See Columbia announcement
here.
