Professor and Director
NOMIS Center for Immunobiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
NOMIS Chair
Robles-Oteíza, C., Hastings, K., Choi, J., Sirois, I., Ravi, A., Expósito, F., de Miguel, F., Knight, J.R., López-Giráldez, F., Choi, H., Socci, N.D., Merghoub, T., Awad, M., Getz, G., Gainor, J., Hellmann, M.D., Caron, , Kaech, S.M., Politi, K. Hypoxia is linked to acquired resistance to immune checkpoint inhibitors in lung cancer. (2025) Journal of Experimental Medicine. 222(1). DOI: 10.1084/jem.20231106
Ma, S., Dahabieh, M.S., Mann, T.H., Zhao, S., McDonald, B., Song, W.S., Chung, H.K., Farsakoglu, Y., Garcia-Rivera, L., Hoffmann, F.A., Xu, S., Du, V.Y., Chen, D., Furgiuele, J., LaPorta, M., Jacobs, E., DeCamp, L.M., Oswald, B.M., Sheldon, R.D., Ellis, A.E., Liu, L., He, P., Wang, Y., Jang, C., Jones, R.G., Kaech, S.M. Nutrient-driven histone code determines exhausted CD8 T cell fates. (2024) Science.:eadj3020 DOI: 10.1126/science.adj3020
Xu, Z., Kuhlmann-Hogan, A., Xu, S., Tseng, H., Chen, D., Tan, S., Sun, M., Tripple, V., Bosenberg, M., Miller-Jensen, K., Kaech, S.M. Scavenger Receptor CD36 in Tumor-Associated Macrophages Promotes Cancer Progression by Dampening Type I Interferon Signaling. (2024) Cancer Research. DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-23-4027
McGeary, M.K., Damsky, W., Daniels, A.J., Lang, S.M., Xu, Q., Song, E., Huet-Calderwood, C., Lou, H.J., Paradkar, S., Micevic, G., Kaech, S.M., Calderwood, D.A., Turk, B.E., Yan, Q., Iwasaki, A., Bosenberg, M.W. Setdb1-loss induces type-I interferons and immune clearance of melanoma. (2024) Cancer Immunology Research. DOI: 10.1158/2326-6066.CIR-23-0514
Oswald, B.M., DeCamp, L.M., Longo, J., Dahabieh, M.S., Bunda, N., Ma, S., Watson, M.J., Sheldon, R.D., Vincent, M.P., Johnson, B.K., Ellis, A.E., Soper-Hopper, M.T., Isaguirre, C.N., Shen, H., Williams, K.S., Crawford, P.A., Kaech, S., Jang, H.J., Krawczyk, C.M., Jones, R.G. Dietary Restriction Enhances CD8 T Cell Ketolysis to Limit Exhaustion and Boost Anti-Tumor Immunity. (2024) bioRxiv. DOI: 10.1101/2024.11.14.621733
McGuire, C.K., Meehan, A.S., Couser, E., Bull, L., Minor, A.C., Kuhlmann-Hogan, A., Kaech, S.M., Shaw, R.J., Eichner, L.J. Transcriptional repression by HDAC3 mediates T cell exclusion from mutant lung tumors. (2024) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 121(42):e2317694121. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2317694121
Bridges, K., Pizzurro, G.A., Baysoy, A., Baskaran, J.P., Xu, Z., Mathew, V., Tripple, V., LaPorte, M., Park, K., Damsky, W., Kluger, H., Fan, R., Kaech, S.M., Bosenberg, M.W., Miller-Jensen, K. Mapping intratumoral myeloid-T cell interactomes at single-cell resolution reveals targets for overcoming checkpoint inhibitor resistance. (2024) bioRxiv. DOI: 10.1101/2024.10.28.620093
Kaymak, I., Watson, M.J., Oswald, B.M., Ma, S., Johnson, B.K., DeCamp, L.M., Mabvakure, B.M., Luda, K.M., Ma, E.H., Lau, K., Fu, Z., Muhire, B., Kitchen-Goosen, S.M., Vander Ark, A., Dahabieh, M.S., Samborska, B., Vos, M., Shen, H., Fan, Z.P., Roddy, T.P., Kingsbury, G.A., Sousa, C.M., Krawczyk, C.M., Williams, K.S., Sheldon, R.D., Kaech, S.M., Roy, D.G., Jones, R.G. ACLY and ACSS2 link nutrient-dependent chromatin accessibility to CD8 T cell effector responses. (2024) Journal of Experimental Medicine. 221(9). DOI: 10.1084/jem.20231820
Mathews, I.T., Saminathan, P., Henglin, M., Liu, M., Nadig, N., Fang, C., Mercader, K., Chee, S.J., Campbell, A.M., Patel, A.A., Tiwari, S., Watrous, J.D., Ramesh, K., Dicker, M., Dao, K., Meyer, M.A., Jousilahti, P., Havulinna, A.S., Niiranen, T., Salomaa, V., Joosten, L.A.B., Netea, M.G., Zheng, P., Kronenberg, M., Patel, S.P., Gutkind, J.S., Ottensmeier, C., Long, T., Kaech, S.M., Hedrick, C.C., Cheng, S., Jain, M., Sharma, S. Linoleoyl-lysophosphatidylcholine suppresses immune-related adverse events due to immune checkpoint blockade. (2024) medRxiv. DOI: 10.1101/2024.08.07.24310974
Maxwell, M.B., Hom-Tedla, M.S., Yi, J., Li, S., Rivera, S.A., Yu, J., Burns, M.J., McRae, H.M., Stevenson, B.T., Coakley, K.E., Ho, J., Gastelum, K.B., Bell, J.C., Jones, A.C., Eskander, R.N., Dykhuizen, E.C., Shadel, G.S., Kaech, S.M., Hargreaves, D.C. ARID1A suppresses R-loop-mediated STING-type I interferon pathway activation of anti-tumor immunity. (2024) Cell. DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2024.04.025
Kuhlmann-Hogan, A., Cordes, T., Xu, Z., Kuna, R.S., Traina, K.A., Robles-Oteiza, C., Ayeni, D., Kwong, E.M., Levy, S., Globig, A.M., Nobari, M.M., Cheng, G.Z., Leibel, S.L., Homer, R.J., Shaw, R.J., Metallo, C.M., Politi, K., Kaech, S.M. EGFR-driven lung adenocarcinomas coopt alveolar macrophage metabolism and function to support EGFR signaling and growth. (2024) Cancer Discovery.:OF1-OF22 DOI: 10.1158/2159-8290.CD-23-0434
McDonald, B., Chick, B.Y., Hargreaves, D.C., Kaech, S.M. Early Chromatin Remodeling Events in Acutely Stimulated CD8 T Cells. (2023) Yale J Biol Med. 96(4):467-473. DOI: 10.59249/AXGU7370
Djureinovic, D., Weiss, S.A., Krykbaeva, I., Qu, R., Vathiotis, I., Moutafi, M., Zhang, L., Perdigoto, A.L., Wei, W., Anderson, G., Damsky, W., Hurwitz, M., Johnson, B., Schoenfeld, D., Mahajan, A., Hsu, F., Miller-Jensen, K., Kluger, Y., Sznol, M., Kaech, S.M., Bosenberg, M., Jilaveanu, L.B., Kluger, H.M. A bedside to bench study of anti-PD-1, anti-CD40, and anti-CSF1R indicates that more is not necessarily better. (2023) Molecular Cancer. 22(1):182. DOI: 10.1186/s12943-023-01884-x
Giles, J.R., Globig, A.M., Kaech, S.M., Wherry, E.J. CD8 T cells in the cancer-immunity cycle. (2023) Immunity. 56(10):2231-2253. DOI: 10.1016/j.immuni.2023.09.005
Mittra, S., Harding, S.M., Kaech, S.M. Memory T Cells in the Immunoprevention of Cancer: A Switch from Therapeutic to Prophylactic Approaches. (2023) Journal of Immunology. 211(6):907-916. DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.2300049
Globig, A.M., Zhao, S., Roginsky, J., Maltez, V.I., Guiza, J., Avina-Ochoa, N., Heeg, M., Araujo Hoffmann, F., Chaudhary, O., Wang, J., Senturk, G., Chen, D., O'Connor, C., Pfaff, S., Germain, R.N., Schalper, K.A., Emu, B., Kaech, S.M. The β-adrenergic receptor links sympathetic nerves to T cell exhaustion. (2023) Nature. DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-06568-6
Mangalhara, K.C., Varanasi, S.K., Johnson, M.A., Burns, M.J., Rojas, G.R., Esparza Moltó, P.B., Sainz, A.G., Tadepalle, N., Abbott, K.L., Mendiratta, G., Chen, D., Farsakoglu, Y., Kunchok, T., Hoffmann, F.A., Parisi, B., Rincon, M., Vander Heiden, M.G., Bosenberg, M., Hargreaves, D.C., Kaech, S.M., Shadel, G.S. Manipulating mitochondrial electron flow enhances tumor immunogenicity. (2023) Science. 381(6664):1316-1323. DOI: 10.1126/science.abq1053
Chen, D., Varanasi, S.K., Hara, T., Traina, K., Sun, M., McDonald, B., Farsakoglu, Y., Clanton, J., Xu, S., Garcia-Rivera, L., Mann, T.H., Du, V., Chung, H.K., Xu, Z., Tripple, V., Casillas, E., Ma, S., O'Connor, C., Yang, Q., Zheng, Y., Hunter, T., Lemke, G., Kaech, S.M. CTLA-4 blockade induces CD4 T cell IFNγ-driven microglial phagocytosis and anti-tumor function in glioblastoma. (2023) Immunity. DOI: 10.1016/j.immuni.2023.07.015
Krykbaeva, I., Bridges, K., Damsky, W., Pizzurro, G.A., Alexander, A.F., McGeary, M.K., Park, K., Muthusamy, V., Eyles, J., Luheshi, N., Turner, N., Weiss, S.A., Olino, K., Kaech, S.M., Kluger, H.M., Miller-Jensen, K., Bosenberg, M. Combinatorial immunotherapy with agonistic CD40 activates dendritic cells to express IL12 and overcomes PD-1 resistance. (2023) Cancer Immunology Research. DOI: 10.1158/2326-6066.CIR-22-0699
McDonald, B., Chick, B.Y., Ahmed, N.S., Burns, M., Ma, S., Casillas, E., Chen, D., Mann, T.H., O'Connor, C., Hah, N., Hargreaves, D.C., Kaech, S.M. Canonical BAF complex activity shapes the enhancer landscape that licenses CD8 T cell effector and memory fates. (2023) Immunity. 56(6):1303-1319.e5. DOI: 10.1016/j.immuni.2023.05.005
Kuhlmann-Hogan, A., Cordes, T., Xu, Z., Traina, K.A., Robles-Oteíza, C., Ayeni, D., Kwong, E.M., Levy, S.R., Nobari, M., Cheng, G.Z., Shaw, R., Leibel, S.L., Metallo, C.M., Politi, K., Kaech, S.M. EGFR lung adenocarcinomas coopt alveolar macrophage metabolism and function to support EGFR signaling and growth. (2023) bioRxiv. DOI: 10.1101/2023.04.15.536974
Cable, J., Rathmell, J.C., Pearce, E.L., Ho, P.C., Haigis, M.C., Mamedov, M.R., Wu, M.J., Kaech, S.M., Lynch, L., Febbraio, M.A., Bapat, S.P., Hong, H.S., Zou, W., Belkaid, Y., Sullivan, Z.A., Keller, A., Wculek, S.K., Green, D.R., Postic, C., Amit, I., Benitah, S.A., Jones, R.G., Reina-Campos, M., Torres, S.V., Beyaz, S., Brennan, D., O'Neill, L.A.J., Perry, R.J., Brenner, D. Immunometabolism at the crossroads of obesity and cancer-a Keystone Symposia report. (2023) Ann N Y Acad Sci. DOI: 10.1111/nyas.14976
Kasmani, M.Y., Zander, R., Chung, H.K., Chen, Y., Khatun, A., Damo, M., Topchyan, P., Johnson, K.E., Levashova, D., Burns, R., Lorenz, U.M., Tarakanova, V.L., Joshi, N.S., Kaech, S.M., Cui, W. Clonal lineage tracing reveals mechanisms skewing CD8+ T cell fate decisions in chronic infection. (2023) Journal of Experimental Medicine. 220(1). DOI: 10.1084/jem.20220679
Tsai, C.H., Chuang, Y.M., Li, X., Yu, Y.R., Tzeng, S.F., Teoh, S.T., Lindblad, K.E., Di Matteo, M., Cheng, W.C., Hsueh, P.C., Kao, K.C., Imrichova, H., Duan, L., Gallart-Ayala, H., Hsiao, P.W., Mazzone, M., Ivanesevic, J., Liu, X., de Visser, K.E., Lujambio, A., Lunt, S.Y., Kaech, S.M., Ho, P.C. Immunoediting instructs tumor metabolic reprogramming to support immune evasion. (2023) Cell Metabolism. 35(1):118-133.e7. DOI: 10.1016/j.cmet.2022.12.003
Varanasi, S.K., Kaech, S.M., Bui, J.D. SnapShot: Cancer immunoediting. (2022) Cell. 185(21):4038-4038.e1. DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2022.09.027
Gubbala, V.B., Jytosana, N., Trinh, V.Q., Maurer, H.C., Naeem, R.F., Lytle, N.K., Ma, Z., Zhao, S., Lin, W., Han, H., Shi, Y., Hunter, T., Singh, P.K., Olive, K.P., Tan, M.C.B., Kaech, S.M., Wahl, G.M., DelGiorno, K.E. Eicosanoids in the pancreatic tumor microenvironment - a multicellular, multifaceted progression. (2022) Gastro Hep Adv. 1(4):682-697. DOI: 10.1016/j.gastha.2022.02.007
Chaudhary, O., Trotta, D., Wang, K., Wang, X., Chu, X., Bradley, C., Okulicz, J., Maves, R.C., Kronmann, K., Schofield, C.M., Blaylock, J.M., Deng, Y., Schalper, K.A., Kaech, S.M., Agan, B., Ganesan, A., Emu, B. Patients with HIV-associated cancers have evidence of increased T cell dysfunction and exhaustion prior to cancer diagnosis. (2022) J Immunother Cancer. 10(4). DOI: 10.1136/jitc-2022-004564
Wang, T., Wang, Z., de Fabritus, L., Tao, J., Saied, E.M., Lee, H.J., Ramazanov, B.R., Jackson, B., Burkhardt, D., Parker, M., Gleinich, A.S., Wang, Z., Seo, D.E., Zhou, T., Xu, S., Alecu, I., Azadi, P., Arenz, C., Hornemann, T., Krishnaswamy, S., van de Pavert, S.A., Kaech, S.M., Ivanova, N.B., Santori, F.R. 1-deoxysphingolipids bind to COUP-TF to modulate lymphatic and cardiac cell development. (2021) Developmental Cell. DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2021.10.018
Mann, T.H., Kaech, S.M. Counting on You: How MHC Tetramers Revolutionized the Study of T Cell Memory and CD8 T Cell Exhaustion. (2021) Journal of Immunology. 207(5):1225-1227. DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.2100533
Robles-Oteiza, C., Ayeni, D., Levy, S., Homer, R.J., Kaech, S.M., Politi, K. Elevated murine HB-EGF confers sensitivity to diphtheria toxin in EGFR-mutant lung adenocarcinoma. (2021) Dis Model Mech. DOI: 10.1242/dmm.049072
Qian, Y., Arellano, G., Ifergan, I., Lin, J., Snowden, C., Kim, T., Thomas, J.J., Law, C., Guan, T., Balabanov, R.D., Kaech, S.M., Miller, S.D., Choi, J. ZEB1 promotes pathogenic Th1 and Th17 cell differentiation in multiple sclerosis. (2021) Cell Reports. 36(8):109602. DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2021.109602
Zhao, S., Peralta, R.M., Avina-Ochoa, N., Delgoffe, G.M., Kaech, S.M. Metabolic regulation of T cells in the tumor microenvironment by nutrient availability and diet. (2021) Seminars in Immunology.:101485 DOI: 10.1016/j.smim.2021.101485
Weiss, S.A., Djureinovic, D., Jessel, S., Krykbaeva, I., Zhang, L., Jilaveanu, L., Ralabate, A., Johnson, B., Shanwetter Levit, N., Anderson, G., Zelterman, D., Wei, W., Mahajan, A., Trifan, O., Bosenberg, M., Kaech, S.M., Perry, C.J., Damsky, W., Gettinger, S., Sznol, M., Hurwitz, M., Kluger, H.M. A phase I study of APX005M and cabiralizumab with/without nivolumab in patients with melanoma, kidney cancer or non-small cell lung cancer resistant to anti-PD-(L)1. (2021) Clinical Cancer Research. DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-21-0903
Farsakoglu, Y., McDonald, B., Kaech, S.M. Motility Matters: How CD8 T-Cell Trafficking Influences Effector and Memory Cell Differentiation. (2021) Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology. DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a038075
Xu, S., Chaudhary, O., Rodríguez-Morales, P., Sun, X., Chen, D., Zappasodi, R., Xu, Z., Pinto, A.F.M., Williams, A., Schulze, I., Farsakoglu, Y., Varanasi, S.K., Low, J.S., Tang, W., Wang, H., McDonald, B., Tripple, V., Downes, M., Evans, R.M., Abumrad, N.A., Merghoub, T., Wolchok, J.D., Shokhirev, M.N., Ho, P.C., Witztum, J.L., Emu, B., Cui, G., Kaech, S.M. Uptake of oxidized lipids by the scavenger receptor CD36 promotes lipid peroxidation and dysfunction in CD8 T cells in tumors. (2021) Immunity. DOI: 10.1016/j.immuni.2021.05.003
Chung, H.K., McDonald, B., Kaech, S.M. The architectural design of CD8+ T cell responses in acute and chronic infection: Parallel structures with divergent fates. (2021) Journal of Experimental Medicine. 218(4). DOI: 10.1084/jem.20201730
Van Acker, H.H., Ma, S., Scolaro, T., Kaech, S.M., Mazzone, M. How metabolism bridles cytotoxic CD8 T cells through epigenetic modifications. (2021) Trends in Immunology. DOI: 10.1016/j.it.2021.03.006
Casanova, J.L., Holtzman, D.M., Kaech, S.M., Lanier, L.L., Nathan, C.F., Rudensky, A.Y., Tuveson, D., Wolchok, J.D. Immigration in science. (2020) Journal of Experimental Medicine. 217(11). DOI: 10.1084/jem.20202055
McGee, H.M., Marciscano, A.E., Campbell, A.M., Monjazeb, A.M., Kaech, S.M., Teijaro, J.R. Parallels between the anti-Viral State and the Irradiated State. (2020) J Natl Cancer Inst. DOI: 10.1093/jnci/djaa190
Low, J.S., Farsakoglu, Y., Amezcua Vesely, M.C., Sefik, E., Kelly, J.B., Harman, C.C.D., Jackson, R., Shyer, J.A., Jiang, X., Cauley, L.S., Flavell, R.A., Kaech, S.M. Tissue-resident memory T cell reactivation by diverse antigen-presenting cells imparts distinct functional responses. (2020) Journal of Experimental Medicine. 217(8). DOI: 10.1084/jem.20192291
DelGiorno, K.E., Chung, C.Y., Vavinskaya, V., Maurer, H.C., Novak, S.W., Lytle, N.K., Ma, Z., Giraddi, R.R., Wang, D., Fang, L., Naeem, R.F., Andrade, L.R., Ali, W.H., Tseng, H., Tsui, C., Gubbala, V.B., Ridinger-Saison, M., Ohmoto, M., Erikson, G.A., O'Connor, C., Shokhirev, M.N., Hah, N., Urade, Y., Matsumoto, I., Kaech, S.M., Singh, P.K., Manor, U., Olive, K.P., Wahl, G.M. Tuft Cells Inhibit Pancreatic Tumorigenesis in Mice by Producing Prostaglandin D2. (2020) Gastroenterology. DOI: 10.1053/j.gastro.2020.07.037
Starrett, J.H., Guernet, A.A., Cuomo, M.E., Poels, K.E., van Alderwerelt van Rosenburgh, I.K., Nagelberg, A., Farnsworth, D., Price, K.S., Khan, H., Ashtekar, K.D., Gaefele, M., Ayeni, D., Stewart, T.F., Kuhlmann, A., Kaech, S., Unni, A.M., Homer, R., Lockwood, W.W., Michor, F., Goldberg, S.B., Lemmon, M.A., Smith, P.D., Cross, D.A., Politi, K. Drug sensitivity and allele-specificity of first-line osimertinib resistance EGFR mutations. (2020) Cancer Research. DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-19-3819
O'Garra, A., Belkaid, Y., Sharpe, A., Kaech, S., Cherry, S., Passegué, E. JEM women in STEM: Unique journeys with a common purpose. (2020) Journal of Experimental Medicine. 217(3). DOI: 10.1084/jem.20200254
Avey, S., Mohanty, S., Chawla, D.G., Meng, H., Bandaranayake, T., Ueda, I., Zapata, H.J., Park, K., Blevins, T.P., Tsang, S., Belshe, R.B., Kaech, S.M., Shaw, A.C., Kleinstein, S.H. Seasonal Variability and Shared Molecular Signatures of Inactivated Influenza Vaccination in Young and Older Adults. (2020) Journal of Immunology. 204(6):1661-1673. DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1900922
Crotty, S., Blish, C., Cadwell, K., Chi, H., Goldrath, A., Green, D., Kaech, S.M., Krummel, M., Pepper, M., Rothlin, C.V., Wherry, E.J. Reinvigorating NIH Grant Peer Review. (2020) Immunity. 52(1):1-3. DOI: 10.1016/j.immuni.2019.12.016
Wu, Z., Oeck, S., West, A.P., Mangalhara, K.C., Sainz, A.G., Newman, L.E., Zhang, X.O., Wu, L., Yan, Q., Bosenberg, M., Liu, Y., Sulkowski, P.L., Tripple, V., Kaech, S.M., Glazer, P.M., Shadel, G.S. Mitochondrial DNA Stress Signalling Protects the Nuclear Genome. [Pubmed] (2019) Nature Metabolism. 1(12):1209-1218. DOI: 10.1038/s42255-019-0150-8
Varanasi, S.K., Ma, S., Kaech, S.M. T Cell Metabolism in a State of Flux. (2019) Immunity. 51(5):783-785. DOI: 10.1016/j.immuni.2019.10.012
Harel, M., Ortenberg, R., Varanasi, S.K., Mangalhara, K.C., Mardamshina, M., Markovits, E., Baruch, E.N., Tripple, V., Arama-Chayoth, M., Greenberg, E., Shenoy, A., Ayasun, R., Knafo, N., Xu, S., Anafi, L., Yanovich-Arad, G., Barnabas, G.D., Ashkenazi, S., Besser, M.J., Schachter, J., Bosenberg, M., Shadel, G.S., Barshack, I., Kaech, S.M., Markel, G., Geiger, T. Proteomics of Melanoma Response to Immunotherapy Reveals Mitochondrial Dependence. (2019) Cell. DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2019.08.012
Mann, T.H., Kaech, S.M. Tick-TOX, it's time for T cell exhaustion [Pubmed] (2019) Nature Immunology. 20(9):1092-1094. DOI: 10.1038/s41590-019-0478-y
Ayeni, D., Miller, B., Kuhlmann, A., Ho, P.C., Robles-Oteiza, C., Gaefele, M., Levy, S., de Miguel, F.J., Perry, C., Guan, T., Krystal, G., Lockwood, W., Zelterman, D., Homer, R., Liu, Z., Kaech, S., Politi, K. Tumor regression mediated by oncogene withdrawal or erlotinib stimulates infiltration of inflammatory immune cells in EGFR mutant lung tumors. (2019) Journal for Immunotherapy of Cancer. 7(1):172. DOI: 10.1186/s40425-019-0643-8
Myers, L.M., Tal, M.C., Torrez Dulgeroff, L.B., Carmody, A.B., Messer, R.J., Gulati, G., Yiu, Y.Y., Staron, M.M., Angel, C.L., Sinha, R., Markovic, M., Pham, E.A., Fram, B., Ahmed, A., Newman, A.M., Glenn, J.S., Davis, M.M., Kaech, S.M., Weissman, I.L., Hasenkrug, K.J. A functional subset of CD8 T cells during chronic exhaustion is defined by SIRPα expression. (2019) Nature Communications. 10(1):794. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-08637-9
Kaech, S.M. T-bet in Tfh cells: Now you see me, now you don't. (2018) J. Exp. Med.:2697-2698 DOI: 10.1084/jem.20181878
Fan, M.Y., Low, J.S., Tanimine, N., Finn, K.K., Priyadharshini, B., Germana, S.K., Kaech, S.M., Turka, L.A. Differential Roles of IL-2 Signaling in Developing versus Mature Tregs. (2018) Cell Reports. 25(5):1204-1213.e4. DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2018.10.002
Arojo, O.A., Ouyang, X., Liu, D., Meng, T., Kaech, S.M., Pereira, J.P., Su, B. Active mTORC2 Signaling in Naive T Cells Suppresses Bone Marrow Homing by Inhibiting CXCR4 Expression. (2018) Journal of Immunology. 201(3):908-915. DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1800529
Gettinger, S.N., Wurtz, A., Goldberg, S.B., Rimm, D., Schalper, K., Kaech, S., Kavathas, P., Chiang, A., Lilenbaum, R., Zelterman, D., Politi, K., Herbst, R.S. Clinical Features and Management of Acquired Resistance to PD-1 Axis Inhibitors in 26 Patients With Advanced Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer. (2018) J Thorac Oncol. 13(6):831-839. DOI: 10.1016/j.jtho.2018.03.008
Pereira, F.V., Melo, A.C.L., Low, J.S., de Castro, I.A., Braga, T.T., Almeida, D.C., Batista de Lima, A.G.U., Hiyane, M.I., Correa-Costa, M., Andrade-Oliveira, V., Origassa, C.S.T., Pereira, R.M., Kaech, S.M., Rodrigues, E.G., Câmara, N.O.S. Metformin exerts antitumor activity via induction of multiple death pathways in tumor cells and activation of a protective immune response. (2018) Oncotarget. 9(40):25808-25825. DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.25380
Herndler-Brandstetter, D., Ishigame, H., Shinnakasu, R., Plajer, V., Stecher, C., Zhao, J., Lietzenmayer, M., Kroehling, L., Takumi, A., Kometani, K., Inoue, T., Kluger, Y., Kaech, S.M., Kurosaki, T., Okada, T., Flavell, R.A. KLRG1 Effector CD8 T Cells Lose KLRG1, Differentiate into All Memory T Cell Lineages, and Convey Enhanced Protective Immunity. (2018) Immunity. 48(4):716-729.e8. DOI: 10.1016/j.immuni.2018.03.015
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Rutishauser, R.L., Martins, G.A., Kalachikov, S., Chandele, A., Parish, I.A., Meffre, E., Jacob, J., Calame, K., Kaech, S.M. Transcriptional repressor Blimp-1 promotes CD8(+) T cell terminal differentiation and represses the acquisition of central memory T cell properties. (2009) Immunity. 31(2):296-308. DOI: 10.1016/j.immuni.2009.05.014
Parish, I.A., Kaech, S.M. Diversity in CD8(+) T cell differentiation. (2009) Current Opinion in Immunology. 21(3):291-7. DOI: 10.1016/j.coi.2009.05.008
Hand, T.W., Kaech, S.M. Intrinsic and extrinsic control of effector T cell survival and memory T cell development. (2009) Immunologic Research. 45(1):46-61. DOI: 10.1007/s12026-008-8027-z
Cui, W., Joshi, N.S., Jiang, A., Kaech, S.M. Effects of Signal 3 during CD8 T cell priming: Bystander production of IL-12 enhances effector T cell expansion but promotes terminal differentiation. (2009) Vaccine. 27(15):2177-87. DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2009.01.088
Whitmire, J.K., Asano, M.S., Kaech, S.M., Sarkar, S., Hannum, L.G., Shlomchik, M.J., Ahmed, R. Requirement of B cells for generating CD4+ T cell memory. (2009) Journal of Immunology. 182(4):1868-76. DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.0802501
Rahman, A.H., Cui, W., Larosa, D.F., Taylor, D.K., Zhang, J., Goldstein, D.R., Wherry, E.J., Kaech, S.M., Turka, L.A. MyD88 plays a critical T cell-intrinsic role in supporting CD8 T cell expansion during acute lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus infection. (2008) Journal of immunology. 181(6):3804-10.
Haining, W.N., Ebert, B.L., Subrmanian, A., Wherry, E.J., Eichbaum, Q., Evans, J.W., Mak, R., Rivoli, S., Pretz, J., Angelosanto, J., Smutko, J.S., Walker, B.D., Kaech, S.M., Ahmed, R., Nadler, L.M., Golub, T.R. Identification of an evolutionarily conserved transcriptional signature of CD8 memory differentiation that is shared by T and B cells. (2008) Journal of immunology. 181(3):1859-68.
Chandele, A., Joshi, N.S., Zhu, J., Paul, W.E., Leonard, W.J., Kaech, S.M. Formation of IL-7Ralphahigh and IL-7Ralphalow CD8 T cells during infection is regulated by the opposing functions of GABPalpha and Gfi-1. (2008) Journal of Immunology. 180(8):5309-19.
Joshi, N.S., Kaech, S.M. Effector CD8 T cell development: a balancing act between memory cell potential and terminal differentiation. (2008) Journal of Immunology. 180(3):1309-15.
D'Souza, A.D., Parikh, N., Kaech, S.M., Shadel, G.S. Convergence of multiple signaling pathways is required to coordinately up-regulate mtDNA and mitochondrial biogenesis during T cell activation. (2007) Mitochondrion. 7(6):374-85. DOI: 10.1016/j.mito.2007.08.001
Wu, H., Yuan, M., Kaech, S.M., Halloran, E. A statistical analysis of memory CD8 T cell differentiation: An application of a hierarchical state space model to a short time course microarray experiment (2007) Annals of Applied Statistics. 1(2):442-458. DOI: doi:10.1214/07-AOAS118
Wherry, E.J., Ha, S.J., Kaech, S.M., Haining, W.N., Sarkar, S., Kalia, V., Subramaniam, S., Blattman, J.N., Barber, D.L., Ahmed, R. Molecular signature of CD8+ T cell exhaustion during chronic viral infection. (2007) Immunity. 27(4):670-84. DOI: 10.1016/j.immuni.2007.09.006
Kaech, S.M., Wherry, E.J. Heterogeneity and cell-fate decisions in effector and memory CD8+ T cell differentiation during viral infection. (2007) Immunity. 27(3):393-405. DOI: 10.1016/j.immuni.2007.08.007
Joshi, N.S., Cui, W., Chandele, A., Lee, H.K., Urso, D.R., Hagman, J., Gapin, L., Kaech, S.M. Inflammation directs memory precursor and short-lived effector CD8(+) T cell fates via the graded expression of T-bet transcription factor. (2007) Immunity. 27(2):281-95. DOI: 10.1016/j.immuni.2007.07.010
Hand, T.W., Morre, M., Kaech, S.M. Expression of IL-7 receptor alpha is necessary but not sufficient for the formation of memory CD8 T cells during viral infection. (2007) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 104(28):11730-5. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0705007104
Tesar, B.M., Walker, W.E., Unternaehrer, J., Joshi, N.S., Chandele, A., Haynes, L., Kaech, S., Goldstein, D.R. Murine [corrected] myeloid dendritic cell-dependent toll-like receptor immunity is preserved with aging. (2006) Aging Cell. 5(6):473-86. DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-9726.2006.00245.x
Intlekofer, A.M., Takemoto, N., Wherry, E.J., Longworth, S.A., Northrup, J.T., Palanivel, V.R., Mullen, A.C., Gasink, C.R., Kaech, S.M., Miller, J.D., Gapin, L., Ryan, K., Russ, A.P., Lindsten, T., Orange, J.S., Goldrath, A.W., Ahmed, R., Reiner, S.L. Effector and memory CD8+ T cell fate coupled by T-bet and eomesodermin. (2005) Nature Immunology. 6(12):1236-44. DOI: 10.1038/ni1268
Gao, Y., Tao, J., Li, M.O., Zhang, D., Chi, H., Henegariu, O., Kaech, S.M., Davis, R.J., Flavell, R.A., Yin, Z. JNK1 is essential for CD8+ T cell-mediated tumor immune surveillance. (2005) Journal of immunology. 175(9):5783-9.
Chandele, A., Kaech, S.M. Cutting edge: memory CD8 T cell maturation occurs independently of CD8alphaalpha. (2005) Journal of immunology. 175(9):5619-23.
Manders, P.M., Hunter, P.J., Telaranta, A.I., Carr, J.M., Marshall, J.L., Carrasco, M., Murakami, Y., Palmowski, M.J., Cerundolo, V., Kaech, S.M., Ahmed, R., Fearon, D.T. BCL6b mediates the enhanced magnitude of the secondary response of memory CD8+ T lymphocytes. (2005) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 102(21):7418-25. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0501585102
Paiardini, M., Cervasi, B., Albrecht, H., Muthukumar, A., Dunham, R., Gordon, S., Radziewicz, H., Piedimonte, G., Magnani, M., Montroni, M., Kaech, S.M., Weintrob, A., Altman, J.D., Sodora, D.L., Feinberg, M.B., Silvestri, G. Loss of CD127 expression defines an expansion of effector CD8+ T cells in HIV-infected individuals. (2005) Journal of immunology. 174(5):2900-9.
Wherry, E.J., Barber, D.L., Kaech, S.M., Blattman, J.N., Ahmed, R. Antigen-independent memory CD8 T cells do not develop during chronic viral infection. (2004) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 101(45):16004-9. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0407192101
Sabbagh, L., Kaech, S.M., Bourbonnière, M., Woo, M., Cohen, L.Y., Haddad, E.K., Labrecque, N., Ahmed, R., Sékaly, R.P. The selective increase in caspase-3 expression in effector but not memory T cells allows susceptibility to apoptosis. (2004) Journal of immunology. 173(9):5425-33.
Latner, D.R., Kaech, S.M., Ahmed, R. Enhanced expression of cell cycle regulatory genes in virus-specific memory CD8+ T cells. (2004) Journal of Virology. 78(20):10953-9. DOI: 10.1128/JVI.78.20.10953-10959.2004
Masopust, D., Kaech, S.M., Wherry, E.J., Ahmed, R. The role of programming in memory T-cell development. (2004) Current Opinion in Immunology. 16(2):217-25. DOI: 10.1016/j.coi.2004.02.005
Kaech, S.M., Tan, J.T., Wherry, E.J., Konieczny, B.T., Surh, C.D., Ahmed, R. Selective expression of the interleukin 7 receptor identifies effector CD8 T cells that give rise to long-lived memory cells. (2003) Nature Immunology. 4(12):1191-8. DOI: 10.1038/ni1009
Wan, J., Martinvalet, D., Ji, X., Lois, C., Kaech, S.M., Von Andrian, U.H., Lieberman, J., Ahmed, R., Manjunath, N. The Bcl-2 family pro-apoptotic molecule, BNIP3 regulates activation-induced cell death of effector cytotoxic T lymphocytes. (2003) Immunology. 110(1):10-7.
Adams, A.B., Williams, M.A., Jones, T.R., Shirasugi, N., Durham, M.M., Kaech, S.M., Wherry, E.J., Onami, T., Lanier, J.G., Kokko, K.E., Pearson, T.C., Ahmed, R., Larsen, C.P. Heterologous immunity provides a potent barrier to transplantation tolerance. (2003) Journal of Clinical Investigation. 111(12):1887-95. DOI: 10.1172/JCI17477
Kersh, E.N., Kaech, S.M., Onami, T.M., Moran, M., Wherry, E.J., Miceli, M.C., Ahmed, R. TCR signal transduction in antigen-specific memory CD8 T cells. (2003) Journal of Immunology. 170(11):5455-63.
Blattman, J.N., Grayson, J.M., Wherry, E.J., Kaech, S.M., Smith, K.A., Ahmed, R. Therapeutic use of IL-2 to enhance antiviral T-cell responses in vivo. (2003) Nature Medicine. 9(5):540-7. DOI: 10.1038/nm866
Antia, R., Bergstrom, C.T., Pilyugin, S.S., Kaech, S.M., Ahmed, R. Models of CD8+ responses: 1. What is the antigen-independent proliferation program. (2003) Journal of Theoretical Biology. 221(4):585-98.
Kaech, S.M., Ahmed, R. Immunology. CD8 T cells remember with a little help. (2003) Science. 300(5617):263-5. DOI: 10.1126/science.1084511
Wherry, E.J., Teichgräber, V., Becker, T.C., Masopust, D., Kaech, S.M., Antia, R., von Andrian, U.H., Ahmed, R. Lineage relationship and protective immunity of memory CD8 T cell subsets. (2003) Nature Immunology. 4(3):225-34. DOI: 10.1038/ni889
Shen, H., Whitmire, J.K., Fan, X., Shedlock, D.J., Kaech, S.M., Ahmed, R. A specific role for B cells in the generation of CD8 T cell memory by recombinant Listeria monocytogenes. (2003) Journal of immunology. 170(3):1443-51.
Hathcock, K.S., Kaech, S.M., Ahmed, R., Hodes, R.J. Induction of telomerase activity and maintenance of telomere length in virus-specific effector and memory CD8+ T cells. (2003) Journal of Immunology. 170(1):147-52.
Kaech, S.M., Hemby, S., Kersh, E., Ahmed, R. Molecular and functional profiling of memory CD8 T cell differentiation. (2002) Cell. 111(6):837-51.
Kaech, S.M., Wherry, E.J., Ahmed, R. Effector and memory T-cell differentiation: implications for vaccine development. (2002) Nature Reviews. Immunology. 2(4):251-62. DOI: 10.1038/nri778
Blattman, J.N., Antia, R., Sourdive, D.J., Wang, X., Kaech, S.M., Murali-Krishna, K., Altman, J.D., Ahmed, R. Estimating the precursor frequency of naive antigen-specific CD8 T cells. (2002) Journal of Experimental Medicine. 195(5):657-64.
Kaech, S.M., Ahmed, R. Memory CD8+ T cell differentiation: initial antigen encounter triggers a developmental program in naïve cells. (2001) Nature Immunology. 2(5):415-22. DOI: 10.1038/87720
Perego, C., Vanoni, C., Villa, A., Longhi, R., Kaech, S.M., Fröhli, E., Hajnal, A., Kim, S.K., Pietrini, G. PDZ-mediated interactions retain the epithelial GABA transporter on the basolateral surface of polarized epithelial cells. (1999) EMBO Journal. 18(9):2384-93. DOI: 10.1093/emboj/18.9.2384
Borg, J.P., Straight, S.W., Kaech, S.M., de Taddéo-Borg, M., Kroon, D.E., Karnak, D., Turner, R.S., Kim, S.K., Margolis, B. Identification of an evolutionarily conserved heterotrimeric protein complex involved in protein targeting. (1998) Journal of Biological Chemistry. 273(48):31633-6.
Kaech, S.M., Whitfield, C.W., Kim, S.K. The LIN-2/LIN-7/LIN-10 complex mediates basolateral membrane localization of the C. elegans EGF receptor LET-23 in vulval epithelial cells. (1998) Cell. 94(6):761-71.
Simske, J.S., Kaech, S.M., Harp, S.A., Kim, S.K. LET-23 receptor localization by the cell junction protein LIN-7 during C. elegans vulval induction. (1996) Cell. 85(2):195-204. DOI: 0.1016/s0092-8674(00)81096-x
BS, Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Washington
PhD, Developmental Biology, Stanford University