Stefan Muljo

Chief
Integrative Immunobiology Section
Laboratory of Immunology
United States of America

Scientist Immunology
Biography

Dr. Muljo earned his Ph.D. from the Graduate Program in Immunology at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Part of his dissertation work was performed at the department of molecular and cell biology in the division of immunology and pathogenesis, University of California, Berkeley. This was followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at the Immune Disease Institute (formerly the Center for Blood Research), Harvard Medical School. He was recruited to the Laboratory of Immunology (LI) in 2008 as a tenure-track investigator. In 2016, he was promoted to tenured Senior Investigator and is head of the Integrative Immunobiology Section. He is a faculty member of the NIH-Penn graduate partnership program, as well as others.

Research Intrest

Non-coding RNAs: characterization under physiological and pathological conditions, regulation of production, mechanisms of action, identification of cognate targets

List of Publications
Kanellopoulou C, Gilpatrick T, Kilaru G, Burr P, Nguyen CK, Morawski A, Lenardo MJ, Muljo SA. Reprogramming of polycomb-mediated gene silencing in embryonic stem cells by the miR-290 family and the methyltransferase Ash1l. Stem cell reports. 2015 Dec 8;5(6):971-8.
Escobar TM, Kanellopoulou C, Kugler DG, Kilaru G, Nguyen CK, Nagarajan V, Bhairavabhotla RK, Northrup D, Zahr R, Burr P, Liu X. miR-155 activates cytokine gene expression in Th17 cells by regulating the DNA-binding protein Jarid2 to relieve polycomb-mediated repression. Immunity. 2014 Jun 19;40(6):865-79.
Yuan J, Muljo SA. Exploring the RNA world in hematopoietic cells through the lens of RNA‐binding proteins. Immunological reviews. 2013 May 1;253(1):290-303.
Yuan J, Nguyen CK, Liu X, Kanellopoulou C, Muljo SA. Lin28b reprograms adult bone marrow hematopoietic progenitors to mediate fetal-like lymphopoiesis. Science. 2012 Mar 9;335(6073):1195-200.