Oliver Harrison, DPhil

Assistant Member
Email: 
oharrison@benaroyaresearch.org

Background Information

Dr. Oliver Harrison received his Master's degree in Pharmacology from the University of Bath, and his D.Phil in Infection, Immunology and Translational Medicine from the University of Oxford. He then pursued post-doctoral studies at the National Institutes of Health, studying tissue immunity and T cell responses to commensal microbes. In 2019, he joined the faculty at the Benaroya Research Institute (BRI) and is currently an Assistant Member in the Center for Fundamental Immunology.

Area of Research

Dr. Harrison's lab is a basic immunology lab focused on discovering how the adaptive immune system responds to commensal and pathogenic microbes. Specifically, his current research includes three inter-related projects in the context of tissue immunity:
  • Commensal-specific immunity in tissue homeostasis
  • Post-transcriptional regulation of tissue resident T cell function
  • Genetic regulation of T cell function upon tissue entry

Harrison Laboratory

Featured Publications

Harrison OJ, Linehan Jl, Shih HY, Bouladoux N, Han SJ, Smelkinson M, Sen SK, Byrd Al , Enamorado M, Yao C, Tamoutounour S, Van laethem F, Huraoielle C, Collins N, Paun A, Salcedo R, O'Shea JJ, Belkaid Y. Commensal-specific T cell plasticity promotes rapid tissue adaptation to inJury. Science. 2019. PMID: 30523076

Linehan Jl, Harrison OJ, Han SJ, Byrd Al , Vujkovic-CVijin I, Villarino AV, Sen SK, Shaik J, Smelkinson M, Tamoutounour S, Collins N, Bouladoux N, Dzutsev A, Rosshart SP, Arouckle JH, Wang CR, Kristie TM, Rehermann B, Trinchieri G, Brenchley JM, O'Shea JJ and Belkaid Y. Non-classical immunity controls microbiota impact on skin immunity and tissue repair. Cell. 2018. PMID: 29358051

Belkaid Y, Harrison OJ. Homeostatic Immunity and the Microbiota. Immunity. 2017. PMID 28423337.
Review.

Harrison OJ*, Wilhem C*, Pelletier M, Spencer SP, Urban JF Jr, Ploch M, Siegel R, Belkaid Y. Critical role oflatty acid metabolism in ILC2 mediated oarrier protection during malnutrition and helminth infection. Journal of Experimental Medicine. 2016. PMID 27432938

List of Published Work

To view a full list of published work, please visit Dr Harrison's Google Scholar Page.