Immune Booster #15 Vaccine ground rules with Shane Crotty
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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: Guest: Subscribe (free): , , Become a of Immune! Links for this episode on human upper airway immunity Shane Crotty on immunity Shane Crotty on of SARS-CoV memory Time stamps by . Thanks! Music...
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Immune 94: The nose knows
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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: , , , and Subscribe (free): , , Become a of Immune! Links for this episode CD8 T cnflammation (Nature 2025) Where IgA producing (Nature 2024) Time stamps by . Thanks! Music by Tatami. Immune logo image by Send your immunology questions and comments to [email protected] Information on this podcast...
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Immune Booster #14: In the eye of immune responses with Darren Lee
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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: and Guest: Subscribe (free): , , Become a of Immune! Links for this episode The environment (Adv Drug Delivery Rev 2023) Tregs control (Sci Rep 2025) and autoimmune uveitis (J Leuk Biol 2024) Time stamps by . Thanks! Music...
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Immune 93: Macrophages managing memory B cells
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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: and Subscribe (free): , , Become a of Immune! Links for this episode Different infection or vaccination (Nat Comm 2025) responses after vaccination (Cell 2025) Time stamps by . Thanks! Music by Tatami. Immune logo image by Send your immunology questions and...
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Immune Booster #13 Microbiome and regulation of gut inflammation with Justin Wilson
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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: and Guest: Subscribe (free): , , Become a of Immune! Links for this episode Francisella tularensis defenses (Infect Immunity) AIM2 s cancer (Nature Med) NLRP12 regulates (Cell Host Microbe)...
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Immune 92: Gut symbiont breaks antibody
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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: , , , and Subscribe (free): , , Become a of Immune! Links for this episode Gut bacteria (Science) Contribution of fetal mononuclear (Cell) discusses Zika and brain slice infection model. Time stamps by . Thanks! ...
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Immune Booster #12: Innate immunity to Archaea with Holger Heine
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From the 2024 Society for Leukocyte Biology meeting, Immune talks with Holger Heine about the discovery of immune recognition of bacterial lipopolysaccharide and innate immunity to organisms within the kingdom Archaea. Hosts: and Guest: Become a of Immune! Links for this episode TLR8 recognizes human (Front Immunol) The for health and disease (FEBS) Structural insights into mimetics (Nature Comm) Time stamps by . Thanks! Music by . Logo image by Send your immunology questions and comments...
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Immune 91: People, parasites, plagues, and podcasts
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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: , , , and Guests: and Subscribe (free): , , Become a of Immune! Links for this episode podcast protein-specific immunity (Trends in Parasitology) affects T cell repertoire selection (Science Immunology) Dickson Despommier’s book Time stamps...
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Immune Booster #11 Immunity to Fungi with Amy Hise
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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: and Guest: drugs to treat Candida fungal infection is y Subscribe (free): , , Become a of Immune! Music by . Logo image by Send your immunology questions and comments to [email protected] Content in this podcast should not be construed as medical advice.
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Immune 90: Immunology of Injury
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Immune 90: Immunology of Injury March 25, 2025 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: and Guests: and Subscribe (free): , , Become a of Immune! Links for this episode Jim Lederer’s and Liz Kovacs’s and Paper on use of also known as natural immune mice Time stamps...
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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Cindy Leifer, Steph Langel, and Brianne Barker
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- Immune cells in cave nectar bats (Cell Rep)
- Cave nectar bat colony (J Am Asso Lab An Sci)
- Retrotransposons activate erythropoiesis (Science)
- TLRs and ERVs (Immunity)
- Letters read on Immune 88
- Time stamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!
Music by Tatami.
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