July: New Award!
The lab receives a new 5-year program grant to participate in the
Mucosal Immunology Studies Team,a coalition of several academic institutions. Together with the Sundrud lab at Dartmouth Health we will study the effects of bile acids on mucosal immunity.
2025
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.
