Ian is an evolutionary biologist who also brings interests and extensive research experience in molecular and cellular immunology, of all things! He now plans to combine these threads into a research project on comparative immunology across rodent diversity, porcupines and all. And, like surprisingly many students and faculty in EEB, Ian is a cellist.
Education
from 2025
Graduate student in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Princeton University
2017-2020
B.A. in Natural Sciences (Biology)
Honors: upper second
University of Cambridge
Awards
2026-2030
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
2017
National Science Olympiad Silver Medalist in Ecology
Scientific Posts
2021-2025
Research Assistant on the Immunological Genome Project for T cells (ImmGenT)
Harvard Medical School
2021-2025
Research Affiliate
Klarman Cell Observatory, Broad Institute
January – March 2021
Research Assistant in Imaging Biology
Friday Harbor Labs, University of Washington
November 2019 – May 2020
Research Assistant in Lepidopteran Silk Production
University of Cambridge
Summer 2019
Research Assistant in Comparative Locomotory Biomechanics
Harvard University
Summer 2018
Research Assistant in Antibodies for Cancer Imaging
Yale University School of Medicine
Additional Publications
Magill IR, Piekarsa V, Kossida S, Croteau J, Lee A, Balderas R, Zemmour D, Benoist C; immgenT Project. 2025. Genomic specificity of anti-mouse TCR mAbs determined by single-cell RNAseq. J Immunol 214: 2202-2210. doi: 10.1093/jimmun/vkaf094. PMID: 40751448; PMCID: PMC12481028.
Jaquish A, Phung E, Gong X, Baldominos P, Galván-Peña S, Magill IR, Bursulaya I, Marina E; ImmgenT consortium; Bertrand K, Chambers C, Muñoz-Rojas AR, Agudo J, Mathis D, Benoist C, Ramanan D. 2025. Mammary intraepithelial lymphocytes and intestinal inputs shape T cell dynamics in lactogenesis. Nat Immunol 26: 1411-1422. doi: 10.1038/s41590-025-02218-3.
PMID: 40730899; PMCID: PMC12369998.
Osum KC, Becker SH, Krueger PD, Mitchell JS, Hong SW, Magill IR, Jenkins MK. 2025. A minority of Th1 and Tfh effector cells express survival genes shared by memory cell progeny that require IL-7 or TCR signaling to persist. Cell Rep 44:115111. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2024.115111. PMID: 39723889; PMCID: PMC12009130
Weiss ES, Hirai T, Li H, Liu A, Baker S, Magill IR, Gillis J, Zhang YR, Ramcke T, Kurihara K; ImmGen Consortium OpenSource T cell Project; Masopust D, Anandasabapathy N, Singh H, Zemmour D, Mackay LK, Kaplan DH. 2025. Epidermal Resident Memory T Cell Fitness Requires Antigen Encounter in the Skin. bioRxiv. PMID: 40236062; PMCID: PMC11996394.
Borys SM, Reilly SP, Magill IR, Zemmour D, Brossay L. 2023. PD-1 Mediated Regulation of Unique Activated CD8 + T Cells by NK Cells in the Submandibular Gland. bioRxiv.
PMID: 37745414