Zuri Sullivan

Zuri Sullivan is an Assistant Professor of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Core Member of the Whitehead Institute. She studies how interactions between the immune system and the brain affect physiology and behavior to promote host defense. Her research focuses on understanding the neuroimmune interactions that lead to sickness and their impact on host fitness. Sullivan's work explores how and why infections make us sick, with an emphasis on the mechanistic basis of sickness as a host defense strategy. She is affiliated with the Department of Biology at MIT and maintains a lab website at https://biology.mit.edu/profile/zuri-sullivan/.

Zuri Sullivan is a researcher at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and MIT, focusing on Immunology and Neuroscience. Their work explores the intersection of immunology and neuroscience, particularly in understanding immune responses in infectious diseases and aging. Sullivan's research includes the role of γδ T cells in intestinal immunity, immune activation in HIV/TB co-infection, and the molecular mechanisms of tuberculosis pathogenesis. They also investigate brain-immune interactions and their role in sickness behaviors. Additionally, Sullivan has contributed to the development of platforms for genetic screens and the study of food allergy as a biological quality control system. Their research emphasizes the interplay between immunity, metabolism, and neurological function.