About Benjamin Youngblood
Dr. Benjamin A. Youngblood is a Member in the Department of Immunology at St. Jude. After his graduate training in biochemistry at UCSB, he joined Dr. Rafi Ahmed’s lab in 2007 as a postdoc studying epigenetic regulation of memory CD8 T cell differentiation. Since 2014, Dr. Youngblood has been vital part of the St. Jude community, developing a robust research program to inform our understanding of viral infection, cancer and autoimmunity. Based on his accomplishments and expertise, he was invited to serve on the prestigious Stand Up to Cancer Epigenetics Dream Team.
Meet the Team
Benjamin A. Youngblood, PhD
Principal Investigator
- Member, St. Jude Faculty
- Shanta Alli, PhD
- Lab Operations Manager
- Anoop Babu Vasandan, PhD
- Postdoctoral Research Associate
- Hongfeng Chen, PhD
- Senior Researcher
- Tae Gun Kang, PhD
- Postdoctoral Research Associate
- Xin Lan
- Postdoctoral Research Associate
- Tian Mi, PhD
- Lead Bioinformatics Analyst
- Allison Norman, BS
- Student
- Grace Ward, PhD
- Postdoctoral Research Associate
- Caitlin Zebley, MD, PhD
- Assistant Member, St. Jude Faculty