Erin Gordon, MD

Associate Professor

I am a physician-scientist with an interest in airway epithelial dysfunction in asthma. Specifically, my lab focuses on understanding how genetic risk variants that are associated with asthma at a population level, actually confer risk of disease at a molecular level. We use novel techniques such as conditionally reprogrammed primary airway epithelial cells, CRISPR gene deletion, and biospecimens from large numbers of human subjects to discover the function of genes associated with asthma and elucidate the causal single nucleotide polymorphism. These efforts are designed to uncover novel drug targets and define the subpopulation of asthmatics most likely to benefit from therapy.

Education
M.D., 2005 - School of Medicine, University of Southern California
B.A., 2001 - Molecular Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Internal Medicine, - , University of California, San Diego
Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship, - , University of California, San Francisco
Publications

  1. Kim MC, Gate R, Lee DS, Tolopko A, Lu A, Gordon E, Shifrut E, Garcia-Nieto PE, Marson A, Ntranos V, Ye CJ. Method of moments framework for differential expression analysis of single-cell RNA sequencing data. Cell 2024. PMID: 39454576


  2. Everman JL, Sajuthi SP, Liegeois MA, Jackson ND, Collet EH, Peters MC, Chioccioli M, Moore CM, Patel BB, Dyjack N, Powell R, Rios C, Montgomery MT, Eng C, Elhawary JR, Mak ACY, Hu D, Huntsman S, Salazar S, Feriani L, Fairbanks-Mahnke A, Zinnen GL, Michel CR, Gomez J, Zhang X, Medina V, Chu HW, Cicuta P, Gordon ED, Zeitlin P, Ortega VE, Reisdorph N, Dunican EM, Tang M, Elicker BM, Henry TS, Bleecker ER, Castro M, Erzurum SC, Israel E, Levy BD, Mauger DT, Meyers DA, Sumino K, Gierada DS, Hastie AT, Moore WC, Denlinger LC, Jarjour NN, Schiebler ML, Wenzel SE, Woodruff PG, Rodriguez-Santana J, Pearson CG, Burchard EG, Fahy JV, Seibold MA. A common polymorphism in the Intelectin-1 gene influences mucus plugging in severe asthma. Nature communications 2024. PMID: 38724552


  3. Kotas ME, Patel NN, Cope EK, Gurrola JG, Goldberg AN, Pletcher SD, Seibold MA, Moore CM, Gordon ED. Interleukin-13 associated epithelial remodeling correlates with clinical severity in nasal polyposis. The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology 2023. PMID: 36736797


  4. Kotas ME, Moore CM, Gurrola Ii JG, Pletcher SD, Goldberg AN, Alvarez R, Yamato S, Bratcher PE, Shaughnessy CA, Zeitlin PL, Zhang IH, Li Y, Montgomery MT, Lee K, Cope EK, Locksley RM, Seibold MA, Gordon ED. IL-13-programmed airway tuft cells produce PGE2, which promotes CFTR-dependent mucociliary function. 2022. PMID: 35608904


  5. Dugger DT, Calabrese DR, Gao Y, Deiter F, Tsao T, Maheshwari J, Hays SR, Leard L, Kleinhenz ME, Shah R, Golden J, Kukreja J, Gordon ED, Singer JP, Greenland JR. Lung Allograft Epithelium DNA Methylation Age Is Associated With Graft Chronologic Age and Primary Graft Dysfunction. 2021. PMID: 34691018


  6. Dugger DT, Fung M, Zlock L, Caldera S, Sharp L, Hays SR, Singer JP, Leard LE, Golden JA, Shah RJ, Kukreja J, Gordon E, Finkbeiner W, Kleinhenz ME, Langelier C, Greenland JR. Cystic Fibrosis Lung Transplant Recipients Have Suppressed Airway Interferon Responses during Pseudomonas Infection. Cell reports. Medicine 2020. PMID: 32754722


  7. Lachowicz-Scroggins ME, Dunican EM, Charbit AR, Raymond W, Looney MR, Peters MC, Gordon ED, Woodruff PG, Lefrançais E, Phillips BR, Mauger DT, Comhair SA, Erzurum SC, Johansson MW, Jarjour NN, Coverstone AM, Castro M, Hastie AT, Bleecker ER, Fajt ML, Wenzel SE, Israel E, Levy BD, Fahy JV. Extracellular DNA, Neutrophil Extracellular Traps, and Inflammasome Activation in Severe Asthma. American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine 2019. PMID: 30888839


  8. Lachowicz-Scroggins ME, Gordon ED, Wesolowska-Andersen A, Jackson ND, MacLeod HJ, Sharp LZ, Sun M, Seibold MA, Fahy JV. Cadherin-26 (CDH26) regulates airway epithelial cell cytoskeletal structure and polarity. Cell discovery 2018. PMID: 29449961


  9. Dunican EM, Elicker BM, Gierada DS, Nagle SK, Schiebler ML, Newell JD, Raymond WW, Lachowicz-Scroggins ME, Di Maio S, Hoffman EA, Castro M, Fain SB, Jarjour NN, Israel E, Levy BD, Erzurum SC, Wenzel SE, Meyers DA, Bleecker ER, Phillips BR, Mauger DT, Gordon ED, Woodruff PG, Peters MC, Fahy JV. Mucus plugs in patients with asthma linked to eosinophilia and airflow obstruction. The Journal of clinical investigation 2018. PMID: 29400693


  10. Lachowicz-Scroggins ME, Finkbeiner WE, Gordon ED, Yuan S, Zlock L, Bhakta NR, Woodruff PG, Fahy JV, Boushey HA. Corticosteroid and long-acting ß-agonist therapy reduces epithelial goblet cell metaplasia. Clinical and experimental allergy : journal of the British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology 2017. PMID: 28833774


  11. Gordon ED, Palandra J, Wesolowska-Andersen A, Ringel L, Rios CL, Lachowicz-Scroggins ME, Sharp LZ, Everman JL, MacLeod HJ, Lee JW, Mason RJ, Matthay MA, Sheldon RT, Peters MC, Nocka KH, Fahy JV, Seibold MA. IL1RL1 asthma risk variants regulate airway type 2 inflammation. JCI insight 2016. PMID: 27699235


  12. Gordon ED, Simpson LJ, Rios CL, Ringel L, Lachowicz-Scroggins ME, Peters MC, Wesolowska-Andersen A, Gonzalez JR, MacLeod HJ, Christian LS, Yuan S, Barry L, Woodruff PG, Ansel KM, Nocka K, Seibold MA, Fahy JV. Alternative splicing of interleukin-33 and type 2 inflammation in asthma. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2016. PMID: 27432971


  13. Gordon ED, Locksley RM, Fahy JV. Cross-Talk between Epithelial Cells and Type 2 Immune Signaling. The Role of IL-25. Volume 193 of Issue 9. American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine 2016. PMID: 27128698


  14. Sweerus K, Lachowicz-Scroggins M, Gordon E, LaFemina M, Huang X, Parikh M, Kanegai C, Fahy JV, Frank JA. Claudin-18 deficiency is associated with airway epithelial barrier dysfunction and asthma. Volume 139 of Issue 1. The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology 2016. PMID: 27215490


  15. Erin D. Gordon, Cydney Urbanek, Shaopeng Yuan, Prescott Woodruff, John V. Fahy, Max A. Seibold. 98 Common genetic polymorphisms in the ST2 gene locus are associated with impaired soluble ST2 expression in the airway epithelium. Cytokine 2013. PMID:


  16. Erin D. Gordon, Marrah Lachowicz-Scroggins, Cydney Urbanek, Max A. Seibold, John V. Fahy. 99 IL-33 splice variants are critical to its regulated secretion from airway epithelial cells. Cytokine 2013. PMID:


  17. Gordon ED, Sidhu SS, Wang ZE, Woodruff PG, Yuan S, Solon MC, Conway SJ, Huang X, Locksley RM, Fahy JV. A protective role for periostin and TGF-ß in IgE-mediated allergy and airway hyperresponsiveness. Volume 42 of Issue 1. Clinical and experimental allergy : journal of the British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology 2011. PMID: 22093101


  18. Gordon E, Lazarus SC. Management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: moving beyond the asthma algorithm. The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology 2009. PMID: 19895979


  19. Ferrada MA, Gordon EL, Jen KY, He HZ, Lu X, Barone LM, Amirifeli S, Perkins DL, Finn PW. (R)-albuterol decreases immune responses: role of activated T cells. Respiratory research 2008. PMID: 18194569