Research groups
Colleges
Wojciech Lason
Gates Fellow, Bioinformatician in Immune Single-Cell and Spatial Omics
Hello! I am a bioinformatician interested in understanding the immune system using large (100,000+ cells) omics datasets, including multimodal single cell genomics (RNA, immune repertoire, chromatin accessibility) and spatial transcriptomics. I use and develop novel tools, including machine learning strategies, to help with my research.
I've been awarded the prestigious Gates Fellowship to study immune responses to R21/Matrix-M vaccine against malaria created by the Jenner Institute, which is my primary research focus. I also work across a range of diseases which cause "type 2 immune response", such as asthma, allergy, and skin conditions.
I teach bioinformatics on the MSc Genomic Medicine course.
Recent publications
Multiomic phenotyping of the airways in health and disease at single-cell resolution to discover molecular mechanisms of asthma
Thesis / Dissertation
Lason W., (2025)
MAIT cells protect against sterile lung injury.
Journal article
Zhang X. et al, (2025), Cell Rep, 44
Panpipes: a pipeline for multiomic single-cell and spatial transcriptomic data analysis.
Journal article
Curion F. et al, (2024), Genome Biol, 25
MAIT cells protect against lung injury
Conference paper
Zhang X. et al, (2024), Harmony in healing: immune cell choregraphy of lung injury and repair, 209