Dr. Lingwood received his Ph.D. from the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biology and Genetics, conducted postdoctoral work at the Vaccine Research Center at NIH, and joined the Ragon faculty in 2014. Dr. Lingwood has garnered international recognition for his discovery that humans possess genetically-encoded antibody sequences that when properly presented as germline B cell receptors, naturally engage conserved sites of viral vulnerability and serve as substrates upon which broadly neutralizing antibodies can be developed. Dr. Lingwood’s lab now centers on defining how this germline antibody 'pattern recognition' can be harnessed as a genetic template for vaccine design.