Immune 93: Macrophages managing memory B cells

Vincent and Cindy discuss differences between MPox-specific T cell responses following infection and vaccination, and lymph node macrophage control of memory B cell localization and trafficking that might be important for choosing which arm to get a vaccine.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Cindy Leifer

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Immune Booster #13: Microbiome and regulation of gut inflammation with Justin Wilson

From the 2024 Society for Leukocyte Biology meeting, Cindy and Brianne sit down with Justin Wilson to talk about how he got into research and his more recent studies on innate immune sensors and the interaction between the gut microbiome and inflammation related to inflammatory bowel disease and cancer.

Hosts: Cindy Leifer and Brianne Barker

Guest: Justin Wilson

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Immune 92: Gut symbiont breaks antibody

Steph talks about identification of gut bacteria that can digest protective mucosal antibodies and Vincent covers a new paper on Zika virus that implicates fetal phagocytes in brain invasion, which may provide insight into the devastating microcephaly outcome of infection during pregnancy.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Cindy Leifer, Steph Langel, and Brianne Barker

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Immune 91: People, parasites, plagues, and podcasts

Immune talks with David Peterson and Kim Klonowski from the University of Georgia about their careers, their People, parasites, and plagues podcast, placental malaria immunity, and and how interferons in the thymus affect T cell repertoire selection.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Cindy Leifer, Steph Langel, and Brianne Barker

Guests: David Peterson and Kim Klonowski

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Immune Booster #11: Immunity to Fungi with Amy Hise

From the 2024 Society for Leukocyte Biology meeting, Immune talks with Amy Hise about her career in science, her current research using mouse models for investigating fungal immunity and navigating the challenges of being a mom in science.

Hosts: Cindy Leifer and Brianne Barker

Guest: Amy Hise

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Immune 90: Immunology of Injury

From the 2024 Society for Leukocyte Biology meeting at Michigan State University, home of the Spartans, Immune’s Cindy and Brianne talk with Liz Kovacs and Jim Lederer about their careers, dirty mice, old mice, and immunity during trauma.

Hosts: Cindy Leifer and Brianne Barker

Guests: James Lederer and Elizabeth Kovacs

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Immune Booster #10: HIV in the brain with Amanda Brown

From the The Society for Leukocyte Biology 2024 conference at Michigan State University, Cindy and Brianne sit down with Amanda Brown from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine to talk about her career and the research of her laboratory on mechanisms of neuroinflammation in disease, especially during HIV infection.

Hosts: Cindy Leifer and Brianne Barker

Guest: Amanda Brown

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Immune 89: Misplaced antibodies and foreign food foes

Immune reviews how non-neutralizing antibodies can still be protective…intracellularly, and a technically innovative paper that uses Lipstic to label antigen-presenting cells responsible for gut tolerance to food antigens.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Cindy Leifer, Steph Langel, and Brianne Barker

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Immune 88: Bespoke antibodies and stinging erythropoiesis

Immune describes the use of bespoke antibodies to characterize immune cell populations in cave nectar bats, and co-option of retrotransposons to activate hematopoietic stem cells and erythropoiesis.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Cindy Leifer, Steph Langel, and Brianne Barker

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Cindy Leifer, Ph.D.


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