Welcome to the Zemmour Lab!

Learning how immune cells communicate

Welcome to the Zemmour lab! We are a multidisciplinary team with a passion for understanding immune responses in health and diseases. We are particularly fascinated by regulatory T cells (Tregs). Tregs are unique cells in our body that specialize in preventing autoimmune diseases! Isn’t that amazing? They are present in every organ, but we still puzzle to understand how they work: maintain tolerance, promote tissue homeostasis, and contribute to pathogenesis. In the Zemmour lab, we take the unique perspective to look at cellular interactions, i.e. how Tregs talk to other cells to do their job. Other cell types in the body usually “do something”: skin cells make a barrier, pancreatic cells make enzymes to digest food, etc. By contrast, Tregs specialize in modulating other immune and non-immune cell functions. We explore the role of Tregs directly in human tissues using Systems and Synthetic Biology approaches that illuminate these interactions.