For reprints of any of these publications, please email Dr. Pompano: rpompano [at] virginia.edu. Any PDFs are provided solely for personal or educational use. We are fortunate to have several stellar undergraduate researchers in the lab. (#) Indicates undergraduate co-author.
Rebecca R. Pompano. "Boosting B cells in blood-derived organoids." Nature Materials (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-024-02113-6
Katerina Morgaenko, Abhinav Arneja, Alexander G. Ball, Audrey M. Putelo, Jennifer M. Munson, Melanie R. Rutkowski, Rebecca R. Pompano, “Ex vivo model of breast cancer cell invasion in live lymph node tissue.” ACS Pharmacology & Translational Science, 2025, ASAP article. [Open access at publisher]
Alexander G. Ball, Katerina Morgaenko, Parastoo Anbaei, Sarah E. Ewald, Rebecca R. Pompano. “Poly I:C vaccination drives transient CXCL9 expression near B cell follicles in the lymph node through type-I and type-II interferon signaling.” Cytokine, 2024, 183, 156731. [Publisher link]
Parastoo Anbaei, Marissa G. Stevens, Alexander G. Ball, Timothy N.J. Bullock, Rebecca R. Pompano, “Spatially resolved quantification of oxygen consumption rate in ex vivo lymph node slices” Analyst, 2024, 149, 2609-2620. [Open access at publisher]
Selected as an Analyst HOT Article of 2024
Ozulumba T, Montalbine AN (#), Ortiz-Cárdenas JE, Pompano RR. “New tools for immunologists: Experimental and computational models of lymph node function from cell to tissue levels”. Frontiers in Immunology, 2023, 14, doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2023.1183286. Review article, open access.
Harris AR, Esparza S, Azimi MS, Cornelison R, Azar FN, Llaneza DC, Belanger M, Mathew A, Tkachenko S, Perez MJ, Rosean CB, Bostic RR, Cornelison RC, Tate KM, Peirce-Cottler SM, Paquette C, Mills A, Landen CN, Saucerman J, Dillon PM, Pompano RR, Rutkowski MA and Munson JM. “Platinum Chemotherapy Induces Lymphangiogenesis in Cancerous and Healthy Tissues That Can be Prevented with Adjuvant Anti-VEGFR3 Therapy.” Frontiers in Oncology, 2022, 12. [Publisher link]
Jennifer H. Hammel, Jonathan M. Zatorski, Sophie R. Cook, Rebecca R. Pompano, Jennifer M. Munson. “Engineering in vitro immune-competent tissue models for testing and evaluation of therapeutics,” Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews (2022). 182, 114111. [Publisher link]
JH Hammel’, SR Cook’, MC Belanger’, JM Munson, and RR Pompano. “Modeling Immunity In Vitro: Slices, Chips, and Engineered Tissues.” Annual Review of Biomedical Eng, 2021, online ahead of print. [pubmed] ‘Equal contributions.
Maura C. Belanger, Alexander G. Ball*, Megan A. Catterton*, Andrew W.L. Kinman*, Parastoo Anbaei, Benjamin D. Groff (#), Stephanie J. Melchor, John R. Lukens, Ashley E. Ross, & Rebecca R. Pompano. “Acute lymph node slices are a functional model system to study immunity ex vivo.”ACS Pharmacology & Translational Science (2021), 4, 1, 128–142. *Equal contributions. [Publisher link] [Pubmed Central]
Ball AG, Belanger MC, & Pompano RR. “Detergent wash improves vaccinated lymph node handling ex vivo” J Immunological Methods, 2021, 112943. [Publisher link] [final version on BioRxiv]
