Awards

2025: T Cells in the Brain Annual Symposium Abstract Award
2023: AAI Young Investigator Award, Autumn Immunology Conference
2023: Iowa MSTP Student Leadership Award
2023: American Association of Immunologists Annual Meeting Abstract Award
2023: Neuroimmune Communication in Health and Disease Gordon Conference Abstract Award
2022: Graduate College Post-Comprehensive Research Fellowship
2021: Neuroimmune Interactions in Health and Disease Keystone eSymposia Abstract Award

Training

2017: B.A. Neuroscience, Wartburg College, Waverly, IA

Research Focus

Neuroimmune interactions of tissue resident memory T cells.

Publications Pubmed

1. Mix MR, van de Wall S, Heidarian M, Escue EA, Fain CE, Pewe LL, Hancox LS, Arumugam SA, Sievers CM, Badovinac VP, Harty JT. Repetitive antigen stimulation in the periphery dictates the composition and recall responses of brain-resident memory CD8+T cells. Cell Rep. 2025 Feb 3;44(2):115247. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2025.115247. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 39903666.
2. Hassert M, Pewe LL, He R, Heidarian M, Phruttiwanichakun P, van de Wall S, Mix MR, Salem AK, Badovinac VP, Harty JT. Regenerating murine CD8+ lung tissue resident memory T cells after targeted radiation exposure. J Exp Med. 2024 Mar 4;221(3):e20231144. doi: 10.1084/jem.20231144. Epub 2024 Feb 16. PMID: 38363548.
3. Fuller MJ, Mix MR, Voigt E, Hoffmann DS, Geyer PK. Guidelines for organizing accessible and inclusive research retreats. Trends Biochem Sci. 2024 Jan 6:S0968-0004(23)00298-0. doi: 10.1016/j.tibs.2023.12.003. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 38184399.
4. Todd BP, Luo Z, Gilkes N, Chimenti MS, Peterson Z, Mix MR, Harty JT, Nickl-Jockschat T, Ferguson PJ, Bassuk AG, Newell EA. Selective neuroimmune modulation by type I interferon drives neuropathology and neurologic dysfunction following traumatic brain injury. Acta Neuropathol Commun. 2023 Aug 18;11(1):134. doi: 10.1186/s40478-023-01635-5. PMID: 37596685 PMCID: PMC10436463
5. Mix MR, Harty JT. Keeping T cell memories in mind. Trends Immunol. 2022 Dec;43(12):1018-1031. doi: 10.1016/j.it.2022.10.001. Epub 2022 Nov 8. PMID: 36369103; PMCID: PMC9691610  (available on 2023-12-01). 
6. Lefebvre MN, Surette FA, Anthony SM, Vijay R, Jensen IJ, Pewe LL, Hancox LS, Van Braeckel-Budimir N, van de Wall S, Urban SL, Mix MR, Kurup SP, Badovinac VP, Butler NS, Harty JT. Expeditious recruitment of circulating memory CD8 T cells to the liver facilitates control of malaria. Cell Rep. 2021 Nov 2;37(5):109956. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2021.109956. PMID: 34731605; PMCID: PMC8628427.
7. Agostinelli LJ, Mix MR, Hefti MM, Scammell TE, Bassuk AG. Input-output connections of LJA5 prodynorphin neurons. J Comp Neurol. 2021 Feb;529(3):635-654. doi: 10.1002/cne.24974. Epub 2020 Jul 24. PMID: 32602558; PMCID: PMC7769903.