{"id":399,"date":"2018-07-17T02:04:19","date_gmt":"2018-07-17T01:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lloydlab.co.uk\/?page_id=399"},"modified":"2026-04-15T10:24:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T09:24:17","slug":"william-traves","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lloydlab.co.uk\/index.php\/people\/william-traves\/","title":{"rendered":"William Traves"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"399\" class=\"elementor elementor-399\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-1a385480 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"1a385480\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-676222ff\" data-id=\"676222ff\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-141d6338 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"141d6338\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h1><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1333 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/lloydlab.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/211112_nhli_lloyd_lab_008_william_traves-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lloydlab.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/211112_nhli_lloyd_lab_008_william_traves-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lloydlab.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/211112_nhli_lloyd_lab_008_william_traves-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lloydlab.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/211112_nhli_lloyd_lab_008_william_traves-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lloydlab.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/211112_nhli_lloyd_lab_008_william_traves-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/lloydlab.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/211112_nhli_lloyd_lab_008_william_traves-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/lloydlab.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/211112_nhli_lloyd_lab_008_william_traves-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> William Traves &#8211; Research Assistant<\/h1><p style=\"box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.75em; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">My research seeks to understand the complex interactions between immune, epithelial, stromal, and neuronal cells toegther with extracellular matrix, contribute to the pathophysiology of chronic lung diseases, particularly severe asthma.\u00a0<span style=\"font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400;\">I use intact tissue from human paediatric and adult subjects, alongside mouse models of chronic lung diseases to study these processes in their native spatial context. My work combines spatially resolved, high-dimensional imaging with mass spectrometry approaches to investigate tissue organisation, cellular interactions, and extracellular matrix remodelling.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.75em; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">After completing a BSc in Biology at Swansea University in 2020, I moved to London to undertake an MSc in Immunology at Imperial College London, with the research component carried out in the Lloyd Lab. Following this, I remained in the Lloyd Lab to undertake a PhD in Clinical Medicine Research, which I completed in 2025.<\/p><p style=\"box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.75em; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">Alongside my research, I am actively involved in several professional roles. 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The diarrhetic shellfish-poisoning toxin, okadaic acid, provokes gastropathy, dysbiosis and susceptibility to bacterial infection in a non-rodent bioassay, <em>Galleria mellonella<\/em>. <em>Archives of Toxicology<\/em> 95, 3361\u20133376 (2021). <a>https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s00204-021-03132-x<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n \t<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Joulia, R., Puttur, F., St\u00f6lting, H., <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Traves, W.J.<\/strong><\/span>, Entwistle, L.J. et al. Mast cell activation disrupts interactions between endothelial cells and pericytes during early life allergic asthma. <em style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Journal of Clinical Investigation<\/em><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"> (2024).\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1172\/JCI173676\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1172\/JCI173676<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n \t<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hewitt, R.J., Puttur, F., Gaboriau, D.C.A., Fercoq, F., Fresquet, M., <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Traves, W.J.<\/strong><\/span> et al. Lung extracellular matrix modulates KRT5+ basal cell activity in pulmonary fibrosis. <em>Nature Communications<\/em> (2023). <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41467-023-41621-y\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41467-023-41621-y<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n \t<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Joulia, R., Patti, S., <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Traves, W.J.<\/strong><\/span>, Loewenthal, L., Yates, L. et al. A single-cell spatial chart of the airway wall reveals proinflammatory cellular ecosystems and their interactions in health and asthma. <em>Nature Immunology<\/em> (2025). <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41590-025-02161-3\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41590-025-02161-3<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n \t<li>Puttur, F., <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Traves, W.J.<\/strong><\/span>, Martin, M.G., Di Carmine, S., Fercoq, F., Gaboriau, D.C.A. et al. Epithelial cell-derived lumican modulates extracellular matrix dynamics in early-life airways disease. <em>Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology<\/em> (2025).\u00a0<a style=\"font-size: 14px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.95);\" href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jaci.2025.08.030\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jaci.2025.08.030<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n \t<li>Hewitt, R.J., Chakravarty, P., Perez-Lloret, J., Banchero, M., Berg, M., Berge, M., <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Traves, W.J<\/strong><\/span>. et al. Single-cell RNA-seq reveals aberrant airway epithelial-immune cell crosstalk in pulmonary fibrosis. <em>Journal of Clinical Investigation <\/em>(2026). https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1183\/23120541.01273-2025<\/li>\n<\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-c148558 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"c148558\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-8d7b4f7\" data-id=\"8d7b4f7\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Traves &#8211; 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