Immune - Part 5

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Immune 61: Training immune cells with Julia Bohannon and Musa Mhlanga

November 8, 2022
Tagged as: immune, immunology, trained innate immunity

From SLB22 on the Island of Hawai’i, Julia and Musa join Immune to reveal their remarkable career paths, and their research on understanding trained innate immunity.

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

Guests: Julia Bohannon and Musa Mhlanga

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From the ashes (Richmond Register)
Innate immune memory (J Immunol)
Epigenetics and metabolism in trained immunity (Immunity)
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Immune 60: Immunoeducation with Sumali Pandey and Phil Mixter

September 22, 2022
Tagged as: course, immune, immunology, immunology education, undergraduate education

Sumali and Phil join Immune to discuss their approaches to immunology education.

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

Guest: Sumali Pandey and Phil Mixter

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ImmunoReach 44:04
ASMCUE: ASM Conference for Undergraduate Educators (ASMCUE) 18:51
Upcoming ASM Webinars: free Microedu Live! discussions:
- Friday, October 14, 1:00 PM Eastern time/10:00 AM Pacific time, topic will be the assessment of learning. Register here .
- Friday, November 4, 1:00 PM Eastern time/10:00 AM Pacific time, topic will be microbiology laboratory biosafety. Register here.
Journals with relevant education resources:
- AAI ImmunoHorizons ImmunoHorizons
- Journal of Microbiology and Biology Education (ASM; open-source, see Tips & Tools for examples):Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education Table of Contents Volume 23, Issue 2 (asm.org)
- CBE Life Sciences Education CBE–Life Sciences Education (LSE) (lifescied.org)
How to tell your professional story effectively – for instruction-focused scientists (including external review): Initiative: External Peer Review of Teaching – The Teaching Academy of the Consortium of West Region Colleges of Veterinary Medicine (westregioncvm.org)
ASM Carski Award for Educators: ASM Carski Award for Undergraduate Education
Undergraduate degree program in Immunology at University of Alabama-Birmingham (only one in the USA): CAS – Undergraduate Immunology Program | UAB
3D printable antibody-antigen epitope models Antibody Epitope teaching kit by esuchman – Thingiverse
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Immune 59: Forks in the road: Th17 cells with Mandy McGeachy

August 19, 2022
Tagged as: immune, immunology, rheumatoid arthritis, T helper cells, Th17 cells

At Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, Mandy joins Immune to discuss her career and her research on understanding how Th17 cells develop and are influenced to be ‘good’ or ‘bad’ in their function.

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

Guest: Mandy McGeachy

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Th17 cytokines in health and disease (Immunity)
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Immune 58: Gut B cells awry in ulcerative colitis

August 3, 2022
Tagged as: IgA, IgG, immune, immunology, monocyte, plasmablast, single cell RNA sequencing, ulcerative colitis

Immune explains a study of three cohorts of patients with ulcerative colitis which finds major perturbations within the mucosal B cell compartment, highlighting a potential role for these cells in disease pathogenesis.

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

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Gut B cell dysbiosis in ulcerative colitis (Nat Med) 11:43
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Immune 57: Bacteria, the new cure for wounds?

June 30, 2022
Tagged as: commensal bacteria, IL-1beta, immune, immunology, inflammation, keratinocytes, S. aureus, skin microbiota, wound regeneration

Immune reviews data showing that in mice, skin bacteria activate keratinocytes to stimulate hair follicle regeneration and wound healing.

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

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Bacteria induce skin regeneration via IL-1beta (Cell Host Microbe) 5:45, 12:51
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Immune 56: Flip flops on the thymic beach with Al Singer

June 1, 2022
Tagged as: CD4, CD8, flip flop mice, immune, immunology, lineage fate determination, MHC I, MHC II, T cell, T cell receptor

Al Singer joins immune to discuss mice that have their T cell immune system reversed, revealing the molecular basis for T cell lineage fate determination in the thymus.

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

Guest: Al Singer

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T cell FlipFlop mice reveal lineage determination (Nat Immunol) 8:28
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Immune 55: Cells that suck at their job

May 3, 2022
Tagged as: autoimmunity, COVID-19, immune, immunology, KIR+CD8+ T cells, peripheral tolerance, regulatory T cells, T cells

Immune reveals a CD8+ regulatory subset of T cell subset that suppress pathogenic T cells and are active in autoimmune diseases and infectious diseases including COVID-19.

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

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KIR+CD8+ regulatory T cells (Science) 2:46
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Immune 54: Asthma and aging

April 6, 2022
Tagged as: age dependence, alveolar macrophage, asthma, immune, immunology, respiratory virus infection, rhinovirus, type 2 inflammation

Immune explains how aging influences chronic outcomes of respiratory viral infection through regulation of the alveolar macrophage compartment and type 2 inflammatory responses to viruses.