Zuri Sullivan
@zurisullivan.bsky.social
How and why do infections make us sick? sullivanlab.wi.mit.edu
Assistant Professor of Biology @ MIT
Member @ Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
HHMI Hanna H. Gray Faculty Fellow
Assistant Professor of Biology @ MIT
Member @ Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
HHMI Hanna H. Gray Faculty Fellow
Thrilled to start my lab at the @whiteheadinstitute.bsky.social @mit.edu and to join such a special community of creative and inspiring colleagues. The Sullivan Lab asks (1) how and (2) why infections make us sick, bridging immunology and neuroscience to understand host defense at the organism scale
“I want everyone in my lab to be exposed to many ways of thinking about biology,” says Whitehead Institute’s newest Member, immunologist Zuri Sullivan. “Creative science often comes from making connections across systems, and Whitehead is uniquely well-suited for that.”
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January 6, 2026 at 2:08 PM
Thrilled to start my lab at the @whiteheadinstitute.bsky.social @mit.edu and to join such a special community of creative and inspiring colleagues. The Sullivan Lab asks (1) how and (2) why infections make us sick, bridging immunology and neuroscience to understand host defense at the organism scale
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I am thrilled to share our latest work led by @zurisullivan.bsky.social in collaboration with @moffittlab.bsky.social ! We find that the brain encodes distinct, pathogen-specific sickness states across behavior, physiology, neural activity, and gene expression 1/6
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
www.biorxiv.org
December 9, 2025 at 12:05 PM
I am thrilled to share our latest work led by @zurisullivan.bsky.social in collaboration with @moffittlab.bsky.social ! We find that the brain encodes distinct, pathogen-specific sickness states across behavior, physiology, neural activity, and gene expression 1/6
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Reposted by Zuri Sullivan
Our Primer on Sickness and the Brain: how are inflammatory signals and the brain coordinate to make us sick?
in the new issue of Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...
together with @Zuri A. Sullivan
in the new issue of Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...
together with @Zuri A. Sullivan
Sickness and the brain
Zuri Sullivan and Catherine Dulac discuss the reciprocal communication between the
brain and the immune system in sickness behavior.
www.cell.com
October 20, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Our Primer on Sickness and the Brain: how are inflammatory signals and the brain coordinate to make us sick?
in the new issue of Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...
together with @Zuri A. Sullivan
in the new issue of Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...
together with @Zuri A. Sullivan