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Jonathan Cohen PhD

    Education & Training

  • Swarthmore College, BA, 2014
Representative Publications

Huang H, Kuzirian MS, Cai X, Snyder LM, Cohen J, Kaplan DH, Ross SE. Generation of a NK1R-CreER knockin mouse strain to study cells involved in Neurokinin 1 Receptor signaling. Genesis. 2016 Nov;54(11):593-601. doi: 10.1002/dvg.22985. Epub 2016 Oct 31. PMID: 27712014; PMCID: PMC5241089.

Cohen JA, Edwards TN, Liu AW, Hirai T, Jones MR, Wu J, Li Y, Zhang S, Ho J, Davis BM, Albers KM, Kaplan DH. Cutaneous TRPV1+ Neurons Trigger Protective Innate Type 17 Anticipatory Immunity. Cell. 2019 Aug 8;178(4):919-932.e14. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2019.06.022. Epub 2019 Jul 25. PMID: 31353219; PMCID: PMC6788801.

Cohen JA, Wu J, Kaplan DH. Neuronal Regulation of Cutaneous Immunity. J Immunol. 2020 Jan 15;204(2):264-270. doi: 10.4049/jimmunol.1901109. PMID: 31907268; PMCID: PMC7583491.

Saloman JL, Cohen JA, Kaplan DH. Intimate neuro-immune interactions: breaking barriers between systems to make meaningful progress. Curr Opin Neurobiol. 2020 Jun;62:60-67. doi: 10.1016/j.conb.2019.11.021. Epub 2019 Dec 13. PMID: 31841783.

Zhang S, Edwards TN, Chaudhri VK, Wu J, Cohen JA, Hirai T, Rittenhouse N, Schmitz EG, Zhou PY, McNeil BD, Yang Y, Koerber HR, Sumpter TL, Poholek AC, Davis BM, Albers KM, Singh H, Kaplan DH. Nonpeptidergic neurons suppress mast cells via glutamate to maintain skin homeostasis. Cell. 2021 Apr 15;184(8):2151-2166.e16. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2021.03.002. Epub 2021 Mar 24. PMID: 33765440; PMCID: PMC8052305.

Shoger KE, Cheemalavagu N, Cao YM, Michalides BA, Chaudhri VK, Cohen JA, Singh H, Gottschalk RA. CISH attenuates homeostatic cytokine signaling to promote lung-specific macrophage programming and function. Sci Signal. 2021 Aug 31;14(698):eabe5137. doi: 10.1126/scisignal.abe5137. Epub 2021 Aug 31. PMID: 34516753; PMCID: PMC8982672.

Cohen JA, Kaplan DH. Inflammatory thoughts can upset your guts. Immunity. 2022 Jan 11;55(1):11-13. doi: 10.1016/j.immuni.2021.12.011. PMID: 35021052.

Research Interests

Studying the role of plasmacytoid dendritic cells in intratumoral tolerance

Student Year
MS3
Career Advisor
JoAnne Flynn, PhD
Thesis Advisor
Daniel Kaplan, MD, PhD
Program
Microbiology and Immunology
Trainee
Current
Training Start Year
2015