Christine Hehnly

This study identifies intraventricular macrophages (IVMs) as first responders to blood in developing brains, showing their dynamic behavior and unique transcriptional profiles.

The paper shows the ChP acts as an immune organ in brain inflammation, with immune cell interactions and epithelial cell specialization regulating the barrier.

The paper introduces a method to infer differential richness in 16S rRNA surveys by accounting for spurious taxa generated during sequencing, using an R package called Prokounter.

This study uses microbial topic modeling to identify associations between vaginal microbiome composition and intrapartum fever in Ugandan laboring women, improving prediction beyond clinical variables.