Prof. Yiyin (Erin) Chen

Professor Chen’s lab studies the communication between the immune system and the diverse microbes that colonize every surface of the human body, with a focus on the human body’s largest organ, the skin.

At the Broad, members of the Chen lab will continue to employ microbial genetics, immunologic approaches, and mouse models to dissect the molecular signals used by commensal microbes to educate the immune system. Ultimately, Chen aims to harness these microbe-host interactions to engineer novel therapeutics for human disease.