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Immune Booster #4: Human autoimmunity with Jane Buckner Jul 23, 2024

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From the American Association of Immunologists 2024 conference in Chicago, Cindy and Steph meet up with Jane Buckner to talk about her career, and the research of her laboratory on mechanisms by which regulation of the adaptive immune response fails or is overcome in the setting of human autoimmunity.

Hosts: Cindy Leifer and Steph Langel

Guest: Jane Buckner

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Immune Booster #3: NKT cells and cancer, and DEI in research with Tonya Webb Jul 16, 2024

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From the American Association of Immunologists 2024 conference in Chicago, Cindy and Brianne meet up with Tonya Webb to talk about her career, the role of NKT cells in cancer, and her efforts to ensure diversity, equity, and inclusion in research.

Hosts: Cindy Leifer and Brianne Barker

Guest: Tonya Webb

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Immune Booster #2: Sex differences in immune responses with Michal Tal Jul 09, 2024

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From the American Association of Immunologists 2024 conference in Chicago, Cindy and Brianne meet up with Michal Tal to talk about her career, sex differences in immune responses, and how one giant mouse uterus changed the trajectory of her research career.

Hosts: Cindy Leifer and Brianne Barker

Guest: Michal Tal

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Immune Booster #1: From bench to bedside to beat HIV with Luis Montaner Jul 02, 2024

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From the American Association of Immunologists 2024 conference in Chicago, Cindy and Brianne where meet up with Luis Montaner to talk about his career and his research on boosting the immune system to combat viral diseases or cancer progression.

Hosts: Cindy Leifer and Brianne Barker

Guest: Luis Montaner

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Community engagement in research (Res Involv Engag)
Susceptibility to HIV bnAbs during ART (AIDS)
Minority scientists' experience (J Immunol)
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Immune 81: T cells and tolerance with Joseph Larkin III Jun 25, 2024

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Immune travels to Chicago for the American Association of Immunologists conference where they meet up with Joseph Larkin III to talk about his career and his research on the contribution of T lymphocyte subsets and functions in maintaining tolerance.

Hosts: Stephanie Langel and Brianne Barker

Guest: Joseph Larkin III

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Th17 cells in immunity and autoimmunity (J Immunol Res)
COVID-19 booster enhances virus neutralization by milk (Front Nutr)
SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in milk and infant stool after maternal immunization (J Perinatol)
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Immune 80: Intranasal neomycin; sex hormones and skin immunity; and maternal diet and infant microbiomes May 28, 2024

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Immune presents three stories: intranasal neomycin and antiviral immunity, sexual dimorphism in skin immunity, and maternal diet changes infant microbes that alter gut DC responses and respiratory health.

Hosts: Stephanie Langel, Cynthia Leifer, and Brianne Barker

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Intranasal neomycin as antiviral (PNAS)
Sexual dimorphism in skin immunity (Science)
Maternal diet and infant respiratory health (Immunity)
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Immune 79: Spa therapy for the immune system May 26, 2024

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Immune explains how antibody-mediated depletion of myeloid-hematopoietic stem cells in aged mice restores characteristic features of a more youthful immune system, including increasing common lymphocyte progenitors, naive T cells and B cells, while decreasing age-related markers of immune decline.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Cynthia Leifer, and Brianne Barker

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Depleting My-HSC rejuvenates aged immunity (Nature)
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Immune 78: Tolerance and tolerating many vaccines Mar 26, 2024

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Immune discusses responses in a COVID hypervaccinated individual, synthetically glycosylated antigens for the antigen-specific suppression of established immune responses, gut bacteria–derived serotonin promotes immune tolerance in early life, and mucosal and systemic immune correlates of viral control after SARS-CoV-2 infection challenge.

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

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Adaptive immune responses preserved in hypervaccinated individual (Lancet)
Synthetically glycosylated antigens for antigen-specific suppression of established immune responses (Nat Biomed Eng)
Gut bacteria–derived serotonin promotes immune tolerance in early life (Sci Immunol)
Immune correlates of viral control after SARS-CoV-2 challenge in adults (Sci Immunol)
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Immune 77: Squeezing the most killing out of neutrophils Feb 27, 2024

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Immune reviews research showing that the migration of neutrophils between endothelial cells activates bactericidal function via mechanosensing.

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

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Trans endothelial migration activates neutrophil killing (Immunity)
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Immune 76: Macrophages to the rescue with Juliet Morrison Jan 30, 2024

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Juliet Morrison joins Immune to discuss her career and the research of her laboratory showing that pleural macrophages translocate to the lung during infection to promote improved influenza outcomes.

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

Guest: Juliet Morrison

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