Publications

Robertson TF, Hou Y, Schrope J, Shen S, Rindy J, Sauer JD, Dinh HQ, Huttenlocher A. A Tessellated Lymphoid Network Provides Whole-Body T cell Surveillance in Zebrafish. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 2023. PMID: 37155881
See accompanying UW-Madison News article

Robertson TF, Schrope J, Zwick Z, Rindy JK, Horn A, Huttenlocher A. Live imaging in zebrafish reveals tissue-specific strategies for amoeboid migration. Development. 2025. PMID: 40114648
See accompanying interview with Development

Robertson TF, Chengappa P, Gomez Atria D, Wu CF, Avery L, Roy NH, Maillard IP, Petrie RJ, Burkhardt JK. Lymphocyte Egress Signal Sphingosine-1-Phosphate Promotes ERM-Guided, Bleb-Based Migration. J. Cell Biol. 2021. PMID: 33764397

Robertson TF, Huttenlocher A. Real-time imaging of inflammation and its resolution: It's apparent because it's transparent. Immunol. Rev. 2022. PMID: 35023170

Allman A, Gaudette BT, Kelly S, Alouche N, Carrington L, Perkey E, Brandstadter JD, Outen R, Vanderbeck A, Lederer K, Zhou Y, Faryabi RB, Robertson TF, Burkhardt JK, Tikhonova A, Aifantis I, Scarpellino L, Koch U, Ratke F, Lütge M, De Martin A, Ludewig B, Tveriakhina L, Gossler A, Mosteiro L, Siebel CW, Gómez Atria D, Luther SA, Allman D, Maillard I. Splenic fibroblasts control marginal zone B-cell movement and function via two Notch2-dependent regulatory programs. Immunity. 2025. PMID: 39731910

Castranova D, Kenton MI, Kraus A, Dell CW, Park JS, Galanternik MV, Park G, Lumbantobing DN, Dye L, Marvel M, Iben J, Taimatsu K, Pham V, Willms RJ, Blevens L, Robertson TF, Hou Y, Huttenlocher A, Foley E, Parenti LR, Frazer JK, Narayan K, Weinstein BM. The axillary lymphoid organ is an external, experimentally accessible immune organ in the zebrafish. J Exp Med. 2025; 222 (6): e20241435. doi: https://doi.org/10.1084/jem.20241435

Gómez Atria D, Gaudette BT, Londregan J, Kelly S, Perkey E, Allman A, Srivastava B, Koch U, Radtke F, Ludewig B, Siebel CW, Ryan RJ, Robertson TF, Burkhardt JK, Pear WS, Allman D, Maillard I. Stromal Notch ligands foster lymphopenia-driven functional plasticity and homeostatic proliferation of naive B cells. J Clin Invest. 2022. PMID: 35579963

Avery L, Robertson TF, Wu CF, Roy NH, Chauvin SD, Perkey E, Vanderbeck A, Maillard I, Burkhardt JK. A Murine Model of X-Linked Moesin-Associated Immunodeficiency (X-MAID) Reveals Defects in T Cell Homeostasis and Migration. Front Immunol. 2022. PMID: 35069520

Choa R, Tohyama J, Wada S, Meng H, Okumura M, May RM, Robertson TF, Langan RA, Nace A, Hopkins C, Jacobsen EA, Haldar M, Fitzgerald GA, Behrens EM, Minn AJ, Seale P, Cotsarelis G, Kim B, Seykora JT, Arany Z, Kambayashi T. Thymic Stromal Lymphopoietin induces adipose loss through sebum hypersecretion. Science. 2021. PMID: 34326208

Burn TN, Lee KD, Dawany N, Robertson TF, Fisher MR, Bassing CH, Behrens EM. A Spontaneous RAG1 Nonsense Mutation Unveils Naturally Occurring N-Terminal Truncated RAG1 Isoforms. Immunohorizons. 2020. PMID: 32144186

Kotzin JJ, Iseka F, Wright J, Basavappa MG, Clark ML, Mohammed-Alkhatim A, Abdel-Hakeem S, Robertson TF, Mowel WK, Joannas L, Neal VD, Spencer SP, Syrett CM, Anguera MC, Williams A, Wherry EJ, Henao-Mejia J. The long noncoding RNA Morrbid regulates CD8 T cells in response to viral infection. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 2019. PMCID: PMC6575676

Roy NH, MacKay JL, Robertson TF, Hammer DA, Burkhardt JK. Crk adaptor proteins mediate actin-dependent T cell migration and mechanosensing induced by the integrin LFA-1. Sci Signal. 2018. PMCID: PMC6333317

Freund-Brown J, Choa R, Singh BK, Robertson TF, Ferry GM, Viver E, Bassiri H, Burkhardt JK, Kambayashi T. Cutting Edge: Murine NK Cells Degranulate and Retain Cytotoxic Function without Store-Operated Calcium Entry. J. Immunol. 2017. PMCID: PMC5807242

Schrope JH, Horn A, Farooqui M, Lazorchak K, Li J, Tinnen C, Stevens JJ, Bennin D, Robertson TF, Juang T, Li C, Huttenlocher A, Beebe DJ. Confinement by Liquid-Liquid Interface Replicates In Vivo Neutrophil Deformations and Elicits Bleb-Based Migration. Adv Sci. 2025. PMID: 40151891

Cover image: Pictured are fluorescently labeled T cells (green) and scales (magenta) from an adult zebrafish. Tanner F. Robertson et al. examined how nonmammalian jawed vertebrates maintain an adaptive immune system without lymph nodes. Imaging of transparent zebrafish revealed that T cells travel through a previously unreported lymphoid network, which spans the body and enables both the collective migration of T cells and surveillance for antigen-presenting cells.