Bagaitkar Lab
The Bagaitkar Lab studies the complex interactions between innate immune cells, epithelial cells, and microbial colonizers at the oral mucosal barrier. Reciprocal and heterogenous interactions between these three entities modulate tolerogenic or inductive immune responses that determine host susceptibility to chronic inflammation, cancers and oral mucosal infections with bacterial and viral pathogens.
The Bagaitkar Lab has two main areas of focus: Factors determining immune homeostasis at the oral mucosal barrier, and the regulatory role of NADPH oxidase derived oxidants in immune homeostasis.
