Jake Fontaine

Jake Fontaine is a graduate student who joined the Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in 2022. He obtained a Bachelor of Science in Biology and a Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry from Emory university in 2022. There, he completed the honors program under the mentorship of Dr. Bruce Levin investigating the ecological role of bacteriophage in the human gut microbiome. Since joining the Müschen lab in 2023, he has now become interested in how B-cells sense pathological signaling in order to regulate their behavior, and how these mechanisms can be dysregulated in lymphomas and autoimmune diseases.