Chief, Inflammation and Innate Immunity Unit
Education:
Ph.D., 2006, University of Würzburg, Germany
Biography
Katrin (Kat) Mayer-Barber received her diploma in biology from the University of Würzburg, Germany, in 2002. In 2003, she came to the United States for her Ph.D. thesis work in the laboratory of Dr. Markus Mohrs at the Trudeau Institute in Saranac Lake, New York. There, she specialized in multi-parameter flow-cytometry analysis of pulmonary CD4 effector T cells and their interferon responses in vivo. She obtained her doctoral degree in 2006 from the University of Würzburg, Germany, and joined NIAID in 2007 as a postdoctoral fellow with Alan Sher. There, she studied pulmonary innate effector cells, such as inflammatory monocytes and dendritic cells, and delineated the role of inflammatory mediators, including IL-1, type I Interferons, and prostaglandins in host resistance to tuberculosis, a chronic pulmonary disease. Dr. Mayer-Barber was awarded the Earl Stadtman Tenure-Track Investigator position in the NIAID Laboratory of Clinical Immunology and Microbiology in 2015. Since then, her work has focused on innate immune effector cells, inflammatory cytokines, and lipid mediators in pulmonary immune responses in both murine and nonhuman primate models of disease.