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Wojciech Lason
Gates Fellow, Bioinformatician in Immune Single-Cell and Spatial Omics
Hello! I am a bioinformatician interested in understanding the immune system using large (100,000+ cells) omics datasets, including multimodal single cell genomics (RNA, immune repertoire, chromatin accessibility) and spatial transcriptomics. I use and develop novel tools, including machine learning strategies, to help with my research.
I've been awarded the prestigious Gates Fellowship to study immune responses to R21/Matrix-M vaccine against malaria created by the Jenner Institute, which is my primary research focus. I also work across a range of diseases which cause "type 2 immune response", such as asthma, allergy, and skin conditions.
I teach bioinformatics on the MSc Genomic Medicine course.
Recent publications
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MAIT cells protect against sterile lung injury.
Journal article
Zhang X. et al, (2025), Cell rep, 44
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Panpipes: a pipeline for multiomic single-cell and spatial transcriptomic data analysis.
Journal article
Curion F. et al, (2024), Genome biol, 25
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MAIT cells protect against lung injury
Conference paper
Zhang X. et al, (2024), Harmony in healing: immune cell choregraphy of lung injury and repair, 209