Charles H. McCauley Professor and Chair, Department of Microbiology
| Address: | 1720 2nd Avenue South Bevill Biomedical Research Building, 276 UAB Birmingham, AL 35294 - 2170 |
| Telephone: | 205-934-9339 |
| FAX: | 205-996-4008 |
| Email: | flund@uab.edu |
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Education
B.S. (Microbiology), University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN
Ph.D. (Microbiology and Immunology) Duke University, Durham, NC
Research Interests
The overarching research objective of the Lund laboratory is to identify the key players that suppress or exacerbate mucosal inflammatory responses with the long-term goal of developing therapeutics to treat immunopathology associated with chronic infectious, allergic and autoimmune disease. One of the lab’s major projects is to characterize the roles that cytokine-producing “effector” B cells play in modulating inflammation and T cell-mediated immune responses to pathogens, autoantigens and allergens. In a second project, the lab evaluates how inflammatory signals regulate the balance between the development of the antibody-producing long-lived plasma cells and the memory B cell compartment within lymphoid tissues. The lab also studies how these cells are maintained long-term at inflammatory sites. Finally, the lab examines how oxidative stress induced by reactive oxygen species impacts inflammation, immune responses and cellular metabolism. In particular, the lab is experimentally modulating the NAD metabolome of immune cell in order to alter the responsiveness of these cells to oxidative stress.