Jason G. Cyster
Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Im
Healthcare
Protagonist Therapeutics
Australia
Biography
Dr. Cyster is a Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of California, San Francisco, an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Cyster is an Immunologist recognized for his work on the cues guiding immune cell movements in lymphoid organs and for defining the mechanism of lymphocyte egress from tissues. He is also known for his use of real-time 2-photon microscopy to study immune cell migration and interaction dynamics within tissues during antibody responses. Cyster was born in Western Australia and grew up on a cattle farm in the south of the state. He graduated from the University of Western Australia with a degree in Biochemistry and Microbiology and from the University of Oxford with a D.Phil. in Immunology in 1992. He was a postdoctoral fellow in immunology at Stanford University School of Medicine and he joined the faculty at the University of California, San Francisco in 1995.
Research Interest
Dr. Cyster is a Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of California, San Francisco, an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Cyster is an Immunologist recognized for his work on the cues guiding immune cell movements in lymphoid organs and for defining the mechanism of lymphocyte egress from tissues. He is also known for his use of real-time 2-photon microscopy to study immune cell migration and interaction dynamics within tissues during antibody responses. Cyster was born in Western Australia and grew up on a cattle farm in the south of the state. He graduated from the University of Western Australia with a degree in Biochemistry and Microbiology and from the University of Oxford with a D.Phil. in Immunology in 1992. He was a postdoctoral fellow in immunology at Stanford University School of Medicine and he joined the faculty at the University of California, San Francisco in 1995.
