Life in the Lab
The Di Pilato Lab offers a highly collaborative and intellectually vibrant environment that fosters both team-driven discovery and individual scientific growth. Lab members engage in cutting-edge research aimed at unraveling fundamental mechanisms in tumor immunology, with particular emphasis on the tumor microenvironment, dendritic cell-T cell interactions and immune regulation of cancer progression.
Researchers in the lab gain hands-on experience with a wide array of advanced techniques, including: multicolor flow cytometry and FACS for immune cell profiling and isolation, single-cell genomics and transcriptomics, in vivo tumor modeling, multiphoton intravital microscopy and molecular and cellular immunology assays.
Resources available to the lab include superb FACS/flow cytometry facilities, SPF animal housing, cell culture facilities, fluorescent and light microscopes, computational resources and MD Anderson core facilities.