Ahmed Kabil is a PhD candidate working in the Biomedical Research Centre at the University of British Columbia. He obtained a high honors BASc in applied science from the University of Toronto. Ahmed Kabil’s research focuses on understanding how the immune system is sculpted during development (particularly type 2 innate lymphoid cells (ILC2)) and how perinatal microbial exposures result in lifelong alterations in immune response to disease. He has developed several elegant genetic tools that will allow us to, for the first time, monitor the emergence, development and history of ILCs throughout life and evaluate how they are involved in a variety of animal model diseases.