Julia Dunn earned her B.S. in Biochemistry at Denison University and PhD in Immunology at the University of North Carolina. She completed her postdoctoral training in the Rothenberg Lab at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, where she developed an ex vivo system for studying eosinophil-epithelial interactions. Julia’s independent laboratory was established at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus in 2023, and in 2024 she received a New Innovators Award from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease to define unique specialization states of eosinophils in mucosal tissues. The goal of the Dunn Lab is to identify new therapeutic targets for the treatment of eosinophilic esophagitis and other allergic conditions.

Nathachit Limjunyawong is a junior faculty member on the special research track at the Center of Research Excellence in Allergy and Immunology, Mahidol University, Thailand. He earned a PhD in Environmental Health Science from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and completed postdoctoral training under Professor Xinzhong Dong at Johns Hopkins Medicine, focusing on G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) in granulocytes. With a strong interest in how granulocytes respond to environmental exposures, his research centers on unraveling the roles of eosinophils in regional public health challenges—such as parasitic infections (e.g., eosinophilic meningitis caused by Angiostrongylus spp.), allergic diseases (e.g., dust mite and cockroach allergies), and air pollution (e.g., PM2.5).