Education:
University of California - Santa Cruz
Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology major
B.S., 2020
MSTP Student Governance:
- JEDI Committee, 2025-2026
- WISM, 2025-2026
Brittany is in the first year of Medical School and is rotating through labs to identify a thesis advisor.
Publications
For work prior to the UMN MSTP:
Diop M, Davidson BR, Fragiadakis GK, Sirota M, Gaudillière B, Combes AJ. Single-cell omics technologies - Fundamentals on how to create single-cell looking glasses for reproductive health. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2025 Apr;232(4S):S1-S20. PMCID: PMC12090843
McIntyre TI, Valdez O, Kochhar NP, Davidson B, Samad B, Qiu L, Hu K, Combes AJ, Erlebacher A. KDM6B-dependent epigenetic programming of uterine fibroblasts in early pregnancy regulates parturition timing in mice. Cell. 2025 Mar 6;188(5):1265-1279.e18. PMCID: PMC11890963
Huang D, Flynn E, Almonte-Loya A, Davidson B, Chan M, Casillas A, Irwin JC, Fragiadakis GK, Cakmak H, Combes AJ, Cedars MI, Sirota M, Giudice LC. A positive ReceptivaDx result for BCL6 does not correlate with abnormal ERA results or decreased expression of receptivity-associated markers: two sides of the endometrial receptivity coin in fertility evaluation and treatment. F S Sci. 2025 Feb;6(1):55-64. PMCID: PMC11829826
Ray A, Bassette M, Hu KH, Pass LF, Courau T, Samad B, Combes A, Johri V, Davidson B, Wai K, Ha P, Hernandez G, Zaleta-Linares I, Krummel MF. Multimodal delineation of a layer of effector function among exhausted CD8 T cells in tumors. bioRxiv [Preprint]. 2025 Feb 16:2023.09.26.559470. PMCID: PMC10557647
Babdor J, Patel RK, Davidson B, Noecker C, Rahim M, Bisanz JE, Tenvooren I, Marquez D, Calvo M, Johri V, McCarthy E, Shaheed A, Ekstrand C, Weakley AM, Yu FB, Fiehn O, Turnbaugh PJ, Combes AJ, Fragiadakis GK, Spitzer MH. Coordinated variation in the immune systems and microbiomes of healthy humans is linked to tonic interferon states. bioRxiv [Preprint]. 2024 Dec 3:2024.11.27.625750.
He JY, Kim YJ, Mennillo E, Rusu I, Bain J, Rao AA, Andersen C, Law K, Yang H, Tsui J, Shen A, Davidson B, Kushnoor D, Shi Y, Fan F, Cheung A, Zhang L, Fong L, Combes AJ, Pisco AO, Kattah MG, Oh DY. Dysregulation of CD4+ and CD8+ resident memory T, myeloid, and stromal cells in steroid-experienced, checkpoint inhibitor colitis. J Immunother Cancer. 2024 Apr 19;12(4):e008628. PMCID: PMC11033653
Urbanski G, Chabrun F, Delattre E, Lacout C, Davidson B, Blanchet O, Chao de la Barca JM, Simard G, Lavigne C, Reynier P. An immuno-lipidomic signature revealed by metabolomic and machine-learning approaches in labial salivary gland to diagnose primary Sjögren's syndrome. Front Immunol. 2023 Jul 14;14:1205616. PMCID: PMC10375713
Rahim MK, Okholm TLH, Jones KB, McCarthy EE, Liu CC, Yee JL, Tamaki SJ, Marquez DM, Tenvooren I, Wai K, Cheung A, Davidson BR, Johri V, Samad B, O'Gorman WE, Krummel MF, van Zante A, Combes AJ, Angelo M, Fong L, Algazi AP, Ha P, Spitzer MH. Dynamic CD8+ T cell responses to cancer immunotherapy in human regional lymph nodes are disrupted in metastatic lymph nodes. Cell. 2023 Mar 16;186(6):1127-1143.e18. PMCID: PMC10348701
Combes AJ, Samad B, Tsui J, Chew NW, Yan P, Reeder GC, Kushnoor D, Shen A, Davidson B, Barczak AJ, Adkisson M, Edwards A, Naser M, Barry KC, Courau T, Hammoudi T, Argüello RJ, Rao AA, Olshen AB; Immunoprofiler Consortium; Cai C, Zhan J, Davis KC, Kelley RK, Chapman JS, Atreya CE, Patel A, Daud AI, Ha P, Diaz AA, Kratz JR, Collisson EA, Fragiadakis GK, Erle DJ, Boissonnas A, Asthana S, Chan V, Krummel MF. Discovering dominant tumor immune archetypes in a pan-cancer census. Cell. 2022 Jan 6;185(1):184-203.e19. PMCID: PMC8862608
Ashley GE, Duong T, Levenson MT, Martinez MAQ, Johnson LC, Hibshman JD, Saeger HN, Palmisano NJ, Doonan R, Martinez-Mendez R, Davidson BR, Zhang W, Ragle JM, Medwig-Kinney TN, Sirota SS, Goldstein B, Matus DQ, Dickinson DJ, Reiner DJ, Ward JD. An expanded auxin-inducible degron toolkit for Caenorhabditis elegans. Genetics. 2021 Mar 31;217(3):iyab006. PMCID: PMC8045686
