
McAllister Laboratory
Florencia McAllister, M.D.
Principal Investigator
The McAllister Laboratory studies the interplay between the immune system, microbes and tumors behavior. We are fundamentally interested in understanding how those interactions ultimately determine tumor initiation, progression, therapies responses and metastasis.
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Research Focus
The McAllister Laboratory studies the interplay between the immune system, microbes and tumors behavior.
We use a variety of models depending on the question we are asking, including genetically engineered or orthotopic mouse models, bone marrow chimeric animals as well as in vitro interactive modeling systems. We follow the same approach with technologies and use flow cytometry, CyTOF, Immunoplex, single cell sequencing, as well as a variety of imaging methods. In parallel our laboratory maintains a human microbial biobank from healthy individuals, cancer patients as well as high-risk individuals, which allows to determine the translation relevance of our basic findings.
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Lab Members
Learn more about our current lab members, their various interests in the lab, and hobbies outside of the lab. Also take a peak at the McAllister Alumni and what they are doing today.
Right now, we are...
June 2025 — Welcome to Luoxi, who joined the lab as a Ph.D. student, and Soham and Ege, our summer students
May 2025 — Dr. Rian graduated after successfully defending her thesis in April! Give her a hearty congrats if you see her
April 2025 — Welcome to our 3 newest lab members, Min, Mostafa and Fernando!
March 2025 — Haoyue won a poster award during the Immunology Program Retreat, her second prize to date
December 2024 — Saying a temporary goodbye to Le as he travels to China
November 2024 — Haoyue and Sumedha represented their work in the lab at the AACR Special Conference in Cancer Research: Tumor-Body Interactions, in Boston
August 2024 — Sharing knowledge at the Mechanisms and Models of Cancer Meeting at Cold Spring Harbor Lab
July 2024 — PUBLICATION ALERT! Head to our Publications page to take a look at the newest work out of the McAllister Lab
April 2024 — Our McAllister Lab colleagues are heading to San Diego to share the important progress with other researchers at the annual AACR meeting
March 2024 — The McAllister Lab is happy to announce that we have joined the Genetics Department under the leadership of Dr. Lozano
January 2024 — A Happy New Year from the McAllister Lab team
November 2023 — Celebrating Thanksgiving with our fellow lab mates
October 2023 — Celebrating with Hajar Rajaei after her White Coat Ceremony