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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Immune 87: When the immune system misbehaves

Immune discusses basophils as regulators of of lung inflammation over space and time, and neoself-antigens as the primary target for autoreactive T cells in human lupus.

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

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Immune 86: Where did the SARS-CoV-2 antibodies go?

Immune explains how distinct olfactory mucosal macrophage populations mediate neuronal maintenance and pathogen defense, and failure to establish durable SARS-CoV-2-specific plasma cells in the bone marrow long-lived compartment after mRNA vaccination.

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

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Immune 85: Immune trade-offs

Immune explores the immunological diversity in the upper airway, including memory B and T cells and germinal center B cells, and how chronic infection with Plasmodium parasites leads to development of B cell cancers.

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

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Immune 84: Gender-affirming therapy and immune responses with Petter Brodin

Petter Brodin joins Immune to discuss immune system adaptation in individuals assigned female sex at birth and undergoing gender affirming testosterone therapy (trans-men).

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

Guest: Petter Brodin

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Immune Booster #9: Autoimmune diseases with Mark Shlomchik

From the American Association of Immunologists 2024 conference in Chicago, Cindy and Steph meet up with Mark Shlomchik to talk about his career and the research of his laboratory on systemic autoimmune diseases, long-lived B cell immunity, and immunopathogenesis.

Hosts: Cindy Leifer and Steph Langel

Guest: Mark Shlomchik

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