Guests: Dr. Kristin Patrick is an Assistant Professor and Dr. Robert Watson is an Associate Professor at Texas A&M University. Their joint lab investigates innate immune regulation during bacterial infection. They talk about gasdermin D and cell death in tuberculosis , and how running a lab together helps them prioritize mentorship. Featured Products and Resources: Use Easy250 EasySepTM Magnet for rapid immune cell isolation from large-volume samples. Win $300 worth of refreshments to fuel y...
Oct 25, 2022•1 hr 7 min
Guest: Dr. Henrique Borges da Silva is an Assistant Professor at the Mayo Clinic in Arizona. His main research focus is determining how extracellular nucleotides affect transcriptional, metabolic, and functional mechanisms of CD8+ T cells in response to viral infections and cancer. He talks about where extracellular ATP comes from, and how there could be a link between ATP and ADP immunological signaling and the powers of caffeine. Featured Products and Resources: Win $300 worth of refreshments ...
Oct 11, 2022•1 hr 13 min
Guest: Dr. Indira Mysorekar is a Professor of Medicine and Chief of Basic and Translational Research at Baylor College of Medicine. Her lab studies host–microbial interactions in the urinary bladder and the placenta. She discusses the role of the microbiome and the aging immune landscape in recurrent urinary tract infections. She also talks about her research on Zika and SARS-CoV-2 in the placenta. Featured Products and Resources: Win $300 worth of refreshments to fuel your immunology journal cl...
Sep 27, 2022•1 hr 2 min
Guest: Dr. Ruth Ley is Managing Director of the Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen and Director of the Department of Microbiome Science. Dr. Sara Clasen is a postdoctoral fellow in the same lab. Together, they’re interested in the co-evolution of humans with their microbiomes. They use basic science to investigate the evolutionary history of gut microbes, how they have adapted to life inside humans, and how they affect human biology and health. More recently, they published a pre-print on...
Sep 13, 2022•1 hr 24 min
Guest: Dr. Leonardo Ferreira is an Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Immunology at the Medical University of South Carolina. The Ferreira lab uses CARs and other engineered immune receptors to dissect how specificity, affinity, and signaling modulate the function of different T cells subsets in tolerance and immunity. He talks about how CAR Tregs could prevent transplant rejection and treat Type 1 diabetes. He also discusses mixing and matching immune cells, the freedom to pursue multiple ...
Aug 30, 2022•1 hr 20 min
Guest: Dr. Karen Edelblum is an Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School. She discusses γδ T cells and immune-epithelial cross-talk in inflammatory bowel disease. She also talks about intravital microscopy and decorating immunology-themed cakes! Featured Products and Resources: Stay up-to-date with the latest in intestinal cell news. Use EasySep to isolate highly purified immune cells in as little as 8 minutes. The Immunology Science Round Up ...
Aug 16, 2022•1 hr 19 min
Guest: Dr. Jonathan Kipnis is the BJC Investigator and Alan A. and Edith L. Wolff Distinguished Professor of Pathology and Immunology at Washington University in St. Louis. His lab investigates the complex interactions between the immune and nervous systems. He talks about immune activity and surveillance in the brain, and how T cell subsets affect brain function and behavior. He also discusses the brain’s immune reservoir and his lab’s work on cerebrospinal fluid-regulated immune cell mobilizat...
Aug 02, 2022•1 hr 9 min
Guest: Dr. Mark Kaplan is the Chair of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Indiana University School of Medicine. He is currently the Editor-In-Chief for the American Association of Immunologists’ journal ImmunoHorizons . Much of Dr. Kaplan’s work has focused on understanding the function of transcription factors in the development of T helper cell subsets. He talks about the role of T helper 9 cells in lung inflammation and γδ T cells in wound healing. He also discusses ImmunoHoriz...
Jul 19, 2022•1 hr 9 min
Guest: Dr. Laura Mackay is a Professor and Laboratory Head at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity at the University of Melbourne. She talks about her tissue-resident memory T cell research and her ongoing collaboration with Pfizer to identify and validate new targets for cancer therapy. Featured Products and Resources: Isolate cells in as little as 8 minutes with EasySep Webinar: Accelerating T Cell Therapy Research The Immunology Science Round Up Breast Cancer Metastasis Duri...
Jul 05, 2022•56 min
Guest: Dr. Mark Shlomchik is UPMC Endowed Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Immunology at the University of Pittsburgh. He is also a Founder and Chief Scientific Officer of BlueSphere Bio , a company working to create individualized T cell therapies for the treatment of cancer. Dr. Shlomchik’s lab focuses on systemic autoimmune diseases, long-lived B cell immunity, and immunopathogenesis. He talks about the role of toll-like receptors in lupus, how his autoimmune disease res...
Jun 21, 2022•1 hr 8 min
Guest: Dr. Hanover Matz is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Maryland, who recently completed his PhD under the supervision of Dr. Helen Dooley. He discusses why sharks may have evolved adaptive immune systems, the role of T cells, mucosal immunity, and antibodies, and working with sharks in the lab. Featured Products and Resources: Keep current with the latest in immune regulation news. Use Easy250 EasySep magnet for rapid immune cell isolation from large-volume samples. The Immunology...
Jun 07, 2022•1 hr 5 min
Guest: Dr. Michael Alonso is a Scientific Co-Founder, and Vice President of Immunology & Pharmacology at Bolt Biotherapeutics , a biotechnology company developing immunotherapies that activate myeloid cells. He discusses targeting tumors by covering them in “eat me” signals, considerations for moving drugs into the clinic, and building teams in biotech. Featured Products and Resources: Read interviews with immunologists who tell their stories, discuss their research, and voice their opinions...
May 24, 2022•1 hr 11 min
Guest: Dr. Alice Long is an Associate Member of the Center for Translational Immunology at Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason. The Long lab is focused on understanding how tolerance is lost in autoimmunity, specifically as it related to type 1 diabetes. Dr. Long discusses the work she presented at the American Association of Immunologists’ annual meeting, IMMUNOLOGY2022, on CD8 T cell exhaustion and Treg modulation. Featured Products and Resources: Use EasySep to isolate highly purifi...
May 10, 2022•26 min
Guest: Dr. Shruti Naik is an Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences at New York University Langone Medical Center. She studies immunity in the epithelial tissues that line our body to understand how environmental stimuli collaborate with genetic factors to influence health and drive disease at these interfaces. She discusses the work she’s presenting at the American Association of Immunologists’ annual meeting, IMMUNOLOGY2022, on trained immunity and immune-epithelial crosstalk in tissue rep...
May 08, 2022•31 min
Guest: Dr. Gwendalyn Randolph is the Emil R. Unanue Distinguished Professor in the Department of Immunology and Pathology at Washington University in St. Louis. Research in her lab integrates the study of monocytes, monocyte-derived cells, and dendritic cells with vascular and lymphatic vessel biology. She discusses the work she’s presenting at the American Association of Immunologists’ annual meeting, IMMUNOLOGY2022, on the diversity, function, and mysteries of peritoneal macrophages. Featured ...
May 06, 2022•36 min
Guest: Dr. Michael Rosenblum is a Professor of Dermatology at the University of California, San Francisco. His lab seeks to to understand how immune responses are regulated in tissues and how this knowledge can be exploited for therapeutic benefit. They are currently investigating how regulatory T cells (Tregs) control immune responses in tissues, as well as their “alternative” functions. He talks about early-life inflammation and type 2 helper T cells in the skin, and how Tregs can be manipulat...
Apr 26, 2022•1 hr 11 min
Guest: Dr. Gary Koretzky is President of the American Association of Immunologists, Vice Provost for Academic Integration at Cornell University, Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine, and Director of the Cornell Center for Immunology. He talks about how he began his career in immunology, using science to guide Cornell’s response to COVID-19, and what to expect at AAI’s Immunology 2022 meeting taking place May 6-10th. Featured Products and Resources: Use Easy250 EasySep Magnet for rapid...
Apr 12, 2022•1 hr 19 min
Guest: Dr. Florian Krammer is a Professor of Vaccinology at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. His lab focuses on understanding broadly-reactive immune responses against the surface glycoproteins of RNA viruses such as influenza, with the goal to develop better vaccines and novel therapeutics. He talks about his lab’s shift to COVID-19 research, strategies for vaccine development, and how we can prepare for future pandemics. Featured Products and Resources: Keep current with the latest in ...
Mar 29, 2022•1 hr 8 min
Guest: Dr. Andy Kokaji is a Senior Director of Immunology, and Dr. Hannah Lee is a Senior Director of Product Management, at STEMCELL Technologies. They discuss their career paths and how they develop and commercialize products to support scientists worldwide. Featured Products and Resources: Keep current with the latest in human immunology news. STEMCELL is hiring! The Immunology Science Round Up mRNA Boosters Increase Antibodies but Not Side Effects – A Moderna booster vaccine elicited neutral...
Mar 15, 2022•1 hr 6 min
Guest: Dr. Jennifer Gommerman is a Professor of Immunology at the University of Toronto. Her team has uncovered a novel gut-brain axis that regulates neuroinflammation and is examining the role of B lymphocytes in Multiple Sclerosis (MS) patients and in animal models of MS. More recently, she has been studying the antibody response to SARS-CoV-2 in saliva samples from patients with COVID-19. Featured Products and Resources: Keep current with the latest immune regulation research. Explore scienti...
Mar 01, 2022•1 hr 20 min
Guest: Dr. Caetano Reis e Sousa is the Assistant Research Director and Senior Group Leader at the Francis Crick Institute. His lab studies the molecular pathways that trigger dendritic cells into action. He talks about the mechanisms of dendritic cell cross-presentation, RNA interference, and dendritic cell progenitors in influenza. Featured Products and Resources: Differentiate Human Monocytes into Dendritic Cells with ImmunoCult Dendritic Cell Culture Kit The STEMdiff Monocyte Kit generates mi...
Feb 15, 2022•1 hr 6 min
Guest: Dr. Francesco Colucci is a Wellcome Investigator and Professor of Immunology at the University of Cambridge. His research focuses on natural killer (NK) and other innate lymphoid cells, as well as immunogenetics. He talks about uterine NK cells and their education, and falling in love with research as a physician. Featured Products and Resources: Explore scientific resources for your immunology research at the STEMCELL Technologies immunology learning center. Use EasySepTM to isolate high...
Feb 01, 2022•1 hr 8 min
Guest: Dr. Mihai Netea is a Professor of Experimental Medicine at Radboud University Nijmegen and a Professor of Immunometabolism at the University of Bonn. He discusses the mechanisms of trained immunity, transmission of immune traits across generations via epigenetics, and how some vaccines can enhance immunity to other pathogens. Featured Products and Resources: Keep current with the latest in human immunology news. Use EasySepTM to isolate highly purified immune cells in as little as 8 minut...
Jan 18, 2022•56 min
Guest: Dr. De’Broski Herbert is an Associate Professor of Immunology at the University of Pennsylvania. The Herbert lab is exploring the immunoregulatory and regenerative mechanisms operating at the mucosal interface. He discusses his recent paper on IL-33 sources and secretion , his postdoctoral fellowship in South Africa, and the M1/M2 macrophage paradigm. Featured Products and Resources: Keep current with the latest in immune regulation. Use EasySepTM to isolate highly purified immune cells i...
Dec 21, 2021•1 hr 2 min
Guest: Dr. Keke Fairfax is an Associate Professor of Microbiology and Immunology and the Director of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion at the University of Utah. Her lab uses helminth parasite Schistosoma mansoni as a tool to understand the consequences of IL-4 induced immuno-modulation. She explains how helminth infections can reduce the efficacy of childhood vaccinations, and how mentorship and networking can help minority scientists thrive in Utah. Featured Products and Resources: Keep current...
Dec 07, 2021•1 hr 7 min
Guest: Dr. Tri Phan is a Senior Research Fellow at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research and a Conjoint Professor at the University of New South Wales. He runs the Intravital Microscopy Lab, which aims to understand the checks and balances that control B cell responses. His team uses two-photon microscopy to image cells in live animals, including time-lapses of over 24 hours. He talks about the physics behind this type of microscopy and how it can image deep within tissues without destroying ...
Nov 23, 2021•1 hr 4 min
Guest: Dr. Jenny Ting is the William R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor of Genetics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and served as the President of the American Association of Immunologists from 2020-2021. Her lab discovered the NLR protein family, and their recent research interests include oxidative phosphorylation in HIV , the role of AIM2 in autoimmunity , and microbes that can protect from radiation . Featured Products and Resources: Keep current with the latest in immu...
Nov 09, 2021•1 hr 11 min
Guest: Dr. Dario Vignali is the Frank Dixon Chair in Cancer Immunology and Vice Chair and Professor of Immunology at University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. His lab studies various aspects of T cell regulation, and recently generated a new mouse model to target conventional CD4 T cells. Featured Products and Resources: Keep current with the latest in immune regulation research. Use EasySepTM to isolate highly purified immune cells in as little as 8 minutes. The Immunology Science Round Up D...
Oct 26, 2021•1 hr 10 min
Guest: Dr. Anil Bhushan is a Professor at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine and Co-Founder of Deciduous Therapeutics, an aging therapeutics company developing a novel class of immune-modulatory therapies. His lab focuses on understanding how the immune system senses and tunes its response to senescent cells in disease and aging, and was one of the first to show the role of clearing senescent cells in models of type 1 diabetes. Featured Products and Resources: Stay cu...
Oct 12, 2021•1 hr 10 min
Guest: Dr. Michael Burton is an Assistant Professor at the University of Texas in Dallas. His lab studies the complex interactions between the immune and nervous systems that lead to pain, depression, and sickness. Featured Products and Resources: STEMCELL Technologies is hiring! Use EasySepTM to isolate highly purified immune cells in as little as 8 minutes. The Immunology Science Round Up Nanoparticle Vaccines for SARS-CoV-2 Variants – Researchers showed that a receptor-binding domain nanopart...
Sep 28, 2021•1 hr 15 min
