Sarah Zaghouani

Class of
2021


Education: 
Harvard University
Human Developmental and Regenerative Biology major, Language Citation in Modern Arabic (minor)
B.A., 2016

MSTP Student Governance:

  • JEDI Committee, 2021-22

Sarah is currently working on her PhD externally at Harvard University.

Publications

Wang C, Wagner A, Fessler J, DeTomaso D, Zaghouani S, Zhou Y, Pierce K, Sobel RA, Clish C, Yosef N, Kuchroo VK. The glycolytic reaction PGAM unexpectedly restrains Th17 pathogenicity and Th17-dependent autoimmunity. 2024 Aug 19:2024.08.18.607992PMCID: PMC11370342. Preprint.

 For work prior to the UMN MSTP:

Thakore PI, Schnell A, Huang L, Zhao M, Hou Y, Christian E, Zaghouani S, Wang C, Singh V, Singaraju A, Krishnan RK, Kozoriz D, Ma S, Sankar V, Notarbartolo S, Buenrostro JD, Sallusto F, Patsopoulos NA, Rozenblatt-Rosen O, Kuchroo VK, Regev A. BACH2 regulates diversification of regulatory and proinflammatory chromatin states in TH17 cells. Nat Immunol. 2024 Aug;25(8):1395-1410.  

Bod L, Kye YC, Shi J, Torlai Triglia E, Schnell A, Fessler J, Ostrowski SM, Von-Franque MY, Kuchroo JR, Barilla RM, Zaghouani S, Christian E, Delorey TM, Mohib K, Xiao S, Slingerland N, Giuliano CJ, Ashenberg O, Li Z, Rothstein DM, Fisher DE, Rozenblatt-Rosen O, Sharpe AH, Quintana FJ, Apetoh L, Regev A, Kuchroo VK. B-cell-specific checkpoint molecules that regulate anti-tumour immunity. Nature. 2023 Jul;619(7969):348-356. PMCID: PMC10795478

Wagner A, Wang C, Fessler J, DeTomaso D, Avila-Pacheco J, Kaminski J, Zaghouani S, Christian E, Thakore P, Schellhaass B, Akama-Garren E, Pierce K, Singh V, Ron-Harel N, Douglas VP, Bod L, Schnell A, Puleston D, Sobel RA, Haigis M, Pearce EL, Soleimani M, Clish C, Regev A, Kuchroo VK, Yosef N. Metabolic modeling of single Th17 cells reveals regulators of autoimmunity. Cell. 2021 Aug 5;184(16):4168-4185.e21. PMCID: PMC8621950

Zhu C, Dixon KO, Newcomer K, Gu G, Xiao S, Zaghouani S, Schramm MA, Wang C, Zhang H, Goto K, Christian E, Rangachari M, Rosenblatt-Rosen O, Okada H, Mak T, Singer M, Regev A, Kuchroo V. Tim-3 adaptor protein Bat3 is a molecular checkpoint of T cell terminal differentiation and exhaustion. Sci Adv. 2021 Apr 30;7(18):eabd2710. PMCID: PMC8087420

Zhu C, Sakuishi K, Xiao S, Sun Z, Zaghouani S, Gu G, Wang C, Tan DJ, Wu C, Rangachari M, Pertel T, Jin HT, Ahmed R, Anderson AC, Kuchroo VK. Corrigendum: An IL-27/NFIL3 signalling axis drives Tim-3 and IL-10 expression and T-cell dysfunction. Nat Commun. 2015 Jul 8;6:7657. 

Zhu C, Sakuishi K, Xiao S, Sun Z, Zaghouani S, Gu G, Wang C, Tan DJ, Wu C, Rangachari M, Pertel T, Jin HT, Ahmed R, Anderson AC, Kuchroo VK. An IL-27/NFIL3 signalling axis drives Tim-3 and IL-10 expression and T-cell dysfunction. Nat Commun. 2015 Jan 23;6:6072. PMCID: PMC25614966

Wan X, Guloglu FB, Vanmorlan AM, Rowland LM, Zaghouani S, Cascio JA, Dhakal M, Hoeman CM, Zaghouani H. Recovery from overt type 1 diabetes ensues when immune tolerance and β-cell formation are coupled with regeneration of endothelial cells in the pancreatic islets. Diabetes. 2013 Aug;62(8):2879-89. PMCID: PMC3717841

Cascio JA, Haymaker CL, Divekar RD, Zaghouani S, Khairallah MT, Wan X, Rowland LM, Dhakal M, Chen W, Zaghouani H. Antigen-specific effector CD4 T lymphocytes school lamina propria dendritic cells to transfer innate tolerance. J Immunol. 2013 Jun 15;190(12):6004-14. PMCID: PMC3679289

Haymaker CL, Guloglu FB, Cascio JA, Hardaway JC, Dhakal M, Wan X, Hoeman CM, Zaghouani S, Rowland LM, Tartar DM, VanMorlan AM, Zaghouani H. Bone marrow-derived IL-13Rα1-positive thymic progenitors are restricted to the myeloid lineage. J Immunol. 2012 Apr 1;188(7):3208-16. PMCID: PMC3311706

UMN MSTP student Sarah Zaghouani