https://www.theblanderlab.org/home-1 daily 1.0 2025-10-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed806213a5a392aa7f80ba3/8ba65543-c2d5-4e04-a629-85c1de6df99d/Blander.png Home - Julie Magarian Blander, Ph.D. GLADYS AND ROLAND HARRIMAN PROFESSOR OF IMMUNOLOGY Investigates the mechanisms of innate and adaptive immune responses particularly to microbial infection and cell death. Our laboratory investigates the core mechanisms of innate immunity and inflammation, elucidating their critical roles in human health and disease. We focus on the functions of phagocytes—key immune cells—in combating infections, malignancies, and chronic inflammatory states. Through this research, we aim to drive the development of novel therapeutic strategies and vaccines to address pressing medical challenges. The Blander laboratory is located at Weill Cornell Medicine, within The Jill Roberts Institute for Research in Inflammatory Bowel Disease The Department of Medicine The Department of Microbiology and Immunology The Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center The Cornell Center for Immunology The Weill Cornell/Sloan Kettering Institute Immunology and Microbial Pathogenesis Ph.D. Graduate Program https://www.theblanderlab.org/projects daily 0.75 2020-09-20 https://www.theblanderlab.org/new-page daily 0.75 2025-10-03 https://www.theblanderlab.org/contact-us daily 0.75 2020-09-13 https://www.theblanderlab.org/new-page-2 daily 0.75 2021-04-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed806213a5a392aa7f80ba3/1603234129350-AB53OR2Q5XGZ2PMW4GX8/Cross-presentation+TLR-dependent+ERC-phagosome+fusion.png Research Topic 1 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed806213a5a392aa7f80ba3/1619154692123-OIZM49DXPS7VRD9ZOM9Q/TAP+and+ERC.png Research Topic 1 When TAP is blocked, MHC-I molecules can still traffic to phagosomes, but do so from their new location in the ERGIC by coopting Sec22b-dependent vesicular traffic. While this rescues CD8 T cell priming, it bypasses control by TLR signals. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed806213a5a392aa7f80ba3/1619156279282-1F1KR37K3V8N09LBXL3F/Cross-presentation-ERC+functional.png Research Topic 1 Traffic of MHC-I from the ERC to phagosomes is dependent on TLR signals, while traffic of components of the peptide-loading complex (PLC) from ERGIC to phagosomes is independent of TLR signals and dependent on the ER-SNARE Sec22b. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed806213a5a392aa7f80ba3/1591714825009-B3D4X4MBMQ45LBZV8GG0/Picture1.png Research Topic 1 https://www.theblanderlab.org/research-topic-2 daily 0.75 2023-01-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed806213a5a392aa7f80ba3/1600279006666-YW304PKSWPKX0VLGBE5X/Vita-PAMP+Fig.+5.jpg Research Topic 2 Electron micrographs showing pyroptosis in mouse macrophages at 12 hours only after stimulation with live avirulent Escherichia coli. This pyroptosis is mediated by non-canonical NLRP3 inflammasome activation and is dependent on the detection and response to bacterial RNA and LPS (see Sander LE et al. Nature 2011; Moretti J et al. Cell 2017). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed806213a5a392aa7f80ba3/1600318396663-CYJLM9GJUFQCPVDNF1Z3/vita-PAMPs+Figure+3R.jpg Research Topic 2 Schematic of the macrophage innate response to the vita-PAMP c-di-AMP from Gram-positive bacteria. See Moretti J et al. Cell 2017. Created with BioRender.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed806213a5a392aa7f80ba3/7fec15fe-17d8-4879-800a-04d2a58f7436/Copy+of+Innate+response+to+bacterial+mRNA+-+Gram-negative+bacteria.png Research Topic 2 Model of non-canonical NLRP3 inflammasome activation upon coincident detection of the vita-PAMP bacterial mRNA and the classic PAMP LPS. Based on Sander LE et al. Nature 2011; Moretti J. et al. Nat Immunol 2021. Work by others is also highlighted. Created with BioRender.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed806213a5a392aa7f80ba3/1600318657868-L3SA1BAVLLMBBOSWOS50/vita-PAMP+Figure+1.jpg Research Topic 2 PAMP = dead microbe PAMP + vita-PAMP = live/viable microbe Two vita-PAMPs: Bacterial messenger RNA (mRNA), essential for the viability of all bacteria, and the cyclic dinucleotide adenosine mono-phosphate (c-di-AMP) made by growing Gram-positive bacteria. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed806213a5a392aa7f80ba3/1600277609471-I4PVTJBUM3S59T3TDEAI/vita-PAMP+Figure+4.jpg Research Topic 2 The vita-PAMP bacterial mRNA drives augmented follicular T helper cell and antibody responses. Detection of the vita-PAMP bacterial mRNA by patrolling monocytes in the context of Gram-negative bacteria triggers TRIF signaling and IRF3-dependent interferon (IFN) beta production, which engages IFNAR to license activation of the inflammasome and lead to the production of the alert cytokine interleukin-1 (IL-1) beta. IFN-beta and IL-1 beta engage their respective receptors on CD4 T cells instructing their differentiation into follicular T helper cells (TFH), known for their roles in helping B cells make antibodies. This orchestrated series of events from detection of a vita-PAMP to the adaptive humoral immune response illustrates how key first events in innate immunity shape the quality of the adaptive immune response. See Barbet G et al. Immunity 2018. https://www.theblanderlab.org/research-topic-3 daily 0.75 2020-09-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed806213a5a392aa7f80ba3/1600282261437-948PDIM6QK8X41SUD2O0/Cell+Death+Figure+1.png Research Topic 3 Phagocyte sampling of infected apoptotic cells instructs CD4 T helper 17 cell differentiation. See Torchinsky MB et al. Nature 2009. Created with BioRender.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed806213a5a392aa7f80ba3/1600283568645-K3LCZAQUX26DN7C1J3UA/Cell+death+Figure+2.png Research Topic 3 Potential for self-antigen presentation during infection. In a milieu of T helper 17 (TH17) instructing cytokines, self-reactive CD4 T cells can differentiate into auto reactive TH17 cells. See Campisi L et al. Nat Immunol 2016. Created with BioRender.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed806213a5a392aa7f80ba3/1600295531945-WOINF86KQDGMKIG0TF7I/Cell+death+Figure+4.png Research Topic 3 How does apoptotic cell sampling modulate mononuclear phagocytes in tissues? See Cummings RJ et al. Nature 2016. Created with BioRender.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed806213a5a392aa7f80ba3/1600291470741-MLRX8KGU3YOTPIHVBA51/Cell+death+Figure+3.jpg Research Topic 3 - Mouse model to study phagocyte sampling of apoptotic cells in tissues Mouse model to study tissue resident phagocyte sampling of apoptotic cells. Whole mount of small intestine in this mouse model stained with antibody to CD11c (white) to visualize the intestinal lamina propria mononuclear phagocytes and antibody to cleaved Caspase-3, an effector of apoptosis (red) to visualize apoptotic intestinal epithelial cells. The model is engineered to express a fusion protein of GFP (not shown) and diphtheria toxin receptor driven by the intestinal epithelium-specific villin-promoter. Intraperitoneal injection of diphtheria toxin elicits apoptosis of diphtheria toxin receptor expressing intestinal epithelial cells. See Cummings R et al. 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Left to right: Juliana Idoyaga, Elodie Segura, Carla Rothlin, Julie Magarian Blander, Elina Zuniga https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed806213a5a392aa7f80ba3/1568cb0f-b703-4e89-85a0-b0a6ebe26724/IMG_4471.jpg Photo Gallery Blander Lab - June 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed806213a5a392aa7f80ba3/f78fc754-7d22-4e1a-b9a7-e7abccb33ee6/processed-CD78FF32-84A7-4C69-976F-A491F5AA421C.jpeg Photo Gallery Secret Santa Get Together - December 21, 2023 (photo by Dr. Yuhua Shi) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed806213a5a392aa7f80ba3/9b17ca4e-573f-4d53-81e3-84499cf71331/Washington+University+St+Louis.jpg Photo Gallery 2022-2023 Student Invited Speaker, Immunology Graduate Student Association at Washington University in St. Louis https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed806213a5a392aa7f80ba3/89e4f879-998e-457f-9c29-fe86efdc1b6f/IMG_8219.jpg Photo Gallery American Association of Immunologists, Annual Meeting, Washington DC, May 2023. Blander with Amal Amer and Thirumala Kanneganti. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed806213a5a392aa7f80ba3/bf4e8158-c1e9-4e8e-b188-2d5c6381901b/Central+Park+Jackie+Onassis+Kennedy+Reservoir.jpg Photo Gallery Central Park Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir, a 20 minute walk from the lab. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed806213a5a392aa7f80ba3/9a34ce87-aed6-450c-ac45-29f7ff433fcc/Image.jpeg Photo Gallery Bob and Dmitry returning from the Weill Cornell/Sloan Kettering Immunology and Microbial Pathogenesis Retreat at the Mohonk Mountain House in New Paltz, NY (Oct 20-21, 2022) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed806213a5a392aa7f80ba3/bf321cab-791f-4989-90bd-0fd2dd955266/Queensborough+Bridge+Nearby.jpg Photo Gallery Looking out at the Queensboro Bridge from Roosevelt Island where some WCM postdocs live, April 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed806213a5a392aa7f80ba3/3f8f04f5-8cca-46f6-9954-33cd8c8bc9c3/Intercampus+Immunology+2022+Trainee+Event.jpg Photo Gallery 2nd Intercampus Immunology Symposium, Cornell Tech. Professor Gary Koretzky talks to trainees about "finding your path in science", April 20, 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed806213a5a392aa7f80ba3/9a0467ee-ed61-4ff8-97c1-4d7a98749ce5/Lieberman+Keynote+at+Retreat.jpg Photo Gallery Second Cornell Intercampus Immunology Symposium at Cornell Tech. Professor Judy Lieberman delivers a Keynote lecture, "Lighting A Fire: Pyroptosis in Immune Defense and Immune Pathology". April 19, 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed806213a5a392aa7f80ba3/915999ff-66de-43f2-95b0-5250916673dc/Stephen+Quake+Keynote.jpg Photo Gallery Second Cornell Intercampus Immunology Symposium, Cornell Tech. Professor Stephen Quake delivers a keynote lecture, "A Decade of Molecular Cell Atlases". April 20, 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed806213a5a392aa7f80ba3/0c853531-4c33-4028-b78c-a13f2ab6437d/Farewell+to+Hilary.JPG Photo Gallery Farewell Brunch for Hilary. Freezing outdoors to avoid COVID. April 28, 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed806213a5a392aa7f80ba3/413c28af-9d27-4d5a-91dc-73355ba0e8a0/Siegel+Award.png Photo Gallery Dr. Julie Magarian Blander is the recipient of the 2021 Jeanne and Herbert Siegel Award for Outstanding Medical Research. Dr. Virginia Pascual was the recipient of this Award in 2020. Drs. Blander and Pascual were recognized for this honor during the Weill Cornell Medical College Commencement held virtually on May 20, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed806213a5a392aa7f80ba3/1613768317574-FUH97IE4XBZXUYSY0X3K/3MR0520-104RR+.jpg Photo Gallery Virtual Blander Lab meeting, February 18, 2021. Left to Right, from top: Julien Moretti, Julie Magarian Blander (PI), Baosen Jia, Zachary Hutchins, Barzan Sadiq, Ian Mantel, Kristel Yee Mon, and Anne-Perrine Foray. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed806213a5a392aa7f80ba3/1594350620568-0F34MLA7TSO8OLWYBNIW/Alex+Farewell.png Photo Gallery Alex's virtual farewell party! July 2, 2020 Top L to R: Maeva Metz, Julie Magarian Blander (PI), Monica Viladomiu. Bottom L to R: Silvia Pires, Alex Gutierrez-Guerrero, Barzan Sadiq https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed806213a5a392aa7f80ba3/1593395889468-ED7DIS7TQ3T2ODXN3FAR/1.png Photo Gallery Belated Lab Holiday Party in January 2020. Left to right at the table: Alejandra Gutierrez-Guerrero, Julie Magarian Blander (PI), Gaetan, Maria Violenus (Sr. Admin Specialist), Julien Moretti, Baosen Jia, Ian Mantel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed806213a5a392aa7f80ba3/1593396093828-D382FAK3WJUX4WLE1YGG/2.png Photo Gallery Lab Journal Club in Central Park, September 2019. Left to right: Julien Moretti, Alejandra Gutierrez-Guerrero, Julie Magarian Blander (PI), Ian Mantel, Baosen Jia, Gaetan Barbet. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed806213a5a392aa7f80ba3/1593396122312-8T1QLNYE19T5D8SD04DA/3.png Photo Gallery Lab Journal Club in Central Park, September 2019. Left to right: Julien Moretti, Alejandra Gutierrez-Guerrero, Ian Mantel, Baosen Jia, Gaetan Barbet. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed806213a5a392aa7f80ba3/1593396394407-91VNTUDMPL24GVO0P7UL/4.png Photo Gallery International Cell Death Society, Cell Death through the Ages, 25th Anniversary Meeting, New York, NY. June 2019 Blander (PI) presenting our work on cell death in the intestinal epithelium. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed806213a5a392aa7f80ba3/1593396399765-6T2UY0L7YM2H6PXFI969/5.png Photo Gallery International Cell Death Society, Cell Death through the Ages, 25th Anniversary Meeting, New York, NY. June 2019 Blander (PI) presenting our work on cell death in the intestinal epithelium. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed806213a5a392aa7f80ba3/1593396404102-QETRXCBBYRNOAEJOPLAX/6.png Photo Gallery FASEB Summer Research Conference on Autoimmunity. Asilomar Conference Center, Pacific Grove, CA, July 7-12, 2019. Left to right: Doug Green, Donna Farber and Julie Magarian Blander. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed806213a5a392aa7f80ba3/1593396393119-KHC3GF3TKLVSQ1HY0Y7H/7.png Photo Gallery The late Jill Roberts with David Artis, June 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed806213a5a392aa7f80ba3/1593396342925-CYC839JDAR7VYMOMKAT6/9.png Photo Gallery 20-year Medzhitov Lab Reunion, Lakeville, CT. June 30-July 2, 2019. Ruslan Medzhitov gives state of the lab address. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed806213a5a392aa7f80ba3/1593396511683-TNUX1LWVD2JCSPORE1QZ/11.png Photo Gallery 20-year Medzhitov Lab Reunion, Lakeville, CT June 30-July 2, 2019. Julie Magarian Blander and Jon Kagan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed806213a5a392aa7f80ba3/1593396644133-E377RSP5ODN83S0DK1L8/12.png Photo Gallery Antigen Processing and Presentation Workshop 10, Institut Cochin, Paris, France, May 30-June 2, 2019. An unusual view of the Tour Eiffel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed806213a5a392aa7f80ba3/1593396606568-HHWE09D6HW5P6XYQWHL4/13.png Photo Gallery Celebrations! Gaetan Barbet received a Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation Career Development Award and Ian Mantel chose our lab for his PhD thesis work. Jill Roberts Institute lounge area. June 13, 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed806213a5a392aa7f80ba3/1593396596624-9YMFUCWCVSMEP51O2R56/14.png Photo Gallery Celebrations! Gaetan Barbet received a Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation Career Development Award and Ian Mantel chose our lab for his PhD thesis work. Jill Roberts Institute lounge area. June 13, 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed806213a5a392aa7f80ba3/1593396628546-C13RVQBB33INH1XCUZFB/16.png Photo Gallery American Association of Immunologists, Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, May 2019. Distinguished Fellows of AAI Olivera J. Finn and M. Michele Hogan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed806213a5a392aa7f80ba3/1593396694555-CCTAC5GYOSPB3TB0XW7H/17.png Photo Gallery American Association of Immunologists, Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, May 2019. Blander with Gretchen Diehl and Amanda Jamieson. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed806213a5a392aa7f80ba3/1593396982765-FBCOWSPHVFBC46N6DW9T/24.png Photo Gallery Blander and Moretti, November 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed806213a5a392aa7f80ba3/1593396971174-7S5T22Z7ULAC2GECCB36/25.png Photo Gallery 14th Annual International Innate Immunity Conference, Aegean Conferences, Crete, Greece, June 19-24, 2017. Conference Farewell Dinner. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed806213a5a392aa7f80ba3/1593396950455-WFWU7YK7MAPKBYM5OWX3/26.png Photo Gallery 14th Annual International Innate Immunity Conference, Aegean Conferences, Crete, Greece, June 19-24, 2017. Left to right: Julie Magarian Blander, Manuela Raffatellu and Elina Zuniga https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed806213a5a392aa7f80ba3/1593396962800-FFQ4ID0G2FV62WB1WYYB/27.png Photo Gallery RM Lab 15 years – Reunion 2014 Standing left to right: Chandrashekhar Pasare, Greg Barton, Liz Kopp, Simmie Foster, Seth Rakoff-Nahoum, Dominik Schenten, Arun Unni, Amanda Jamieson, Noah Palm, Carrie Sokol, Dan Stetson, Tanya Bondar. Seated left to right: Julie Magarian Blander, Tiffany Horng, Igor Brodsky, Ruslan Medzhitov, Jon Kagan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed806213a5a392aa7f80ba3/1593397530075-UV587OOR1U51V5FWUYPE/18.png Photo Gallery Genentech, Immunology and Infectious Disease Seminar Series, San Francisco, CA, April 2, 2019. Tangsheng Yi and Julie Magarian Blander. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed806213a5a392aa7f80ba3/1593397471992-V9K0BJI3867VFQNBTT2Q/20.png Photo Gallery EMBO Meeting on “Phagocytosis of dying cells: Molecules, mechanisms and therapeutic implications”. Ghent, Belgium, October 24-27, 2018. Tal Burstyn-Cohen and Julie Magarian Blander. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed806213a5a392aa7f80ba3/1593397526320-KWI4GQCEILNFEKZHP2HZ/21.png Photo Gallery EMBO Meeting on “Phagocytosis of dying cells: Molecules, mechanisms and therapeutic implications”. Ghent, Belgium, October 24-27, 2018. Tour of the St Stefanus Monastery Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed806213a5a392aa7f80ba3/1593397446060-RPXXSRIMDR8VUF3B8G81/22.png Photo Gallery Convocation, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, 2018. Andrew Kent and Julie Magarian Blander. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed806213a5a392aa7f80ba3/1593397470446-6ETPADD5YMXYAXTKICNK/23.png Photo Gallery American Association of Immunologists, Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, May 2018 Blander with Olja Finn and her lab. https://www.theblanderlab.org/funding daily 0.75 2023-03-27