Immune Booster #15 Vaccine ground rules with Shane Crotty

Cindy talks with Shane Crotty about his teenage days driving 3 ½ hours every weekend to have his first research experience in marine biology, how that eventually led to studying how vaccines work and how we can make them better, and how immunology research and publishing got a turbo-boost during the pandemic.

Hosts: Cindy Leifer

Guest: Shane Crotty

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Immune 94: The nose knows

The Immune team goes up the nose to discuss cytotoxic T cells activating complement through secretion of granzyme K to drive inflammatory nasal polyps and how IgA-producing B cells are made in the nose.

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

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Immune Booster #14: In the eye of immune responses with Darren Lee

From the 2024 Society for Leukocyte Biology meeting, Cindy and Brianne talk with Darren Lee to discuss his career, how he got interested in immunology of the eye, and how his team visualizes immune responses of the eye in real time with the hope of better understanding autoimmune uveitis.

Hosts: Cindy Leifer and Brianne Barker

Guest: Darren Lee

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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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Stephanie Langel, Ph.D.


Cindy Leifer, Ph.D.


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