Immune Booster 19: Virus-immune Tug-of-war with Kristian Andersen
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Kristian Andersen from Scripps Research Institute joins Cindy to talk about how he got interested in virus evolution, how the immune system drives viral adaptation, and what we can learn from this research to better prepare us for the next pandemic. Host: Guest: Subscribe (free): , , Become a of Immune! Links for this episode Andersen Perspective on of virus emergence Kristian’s appearance Time stamps by . Thanks! Music by . Logo image by Send your immunology questions and comments...
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Immune 97: Bystander B cells go bananas
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Cindy and Steph discuss a paper that challenges the textbook dogma that B cells must first bind to an antigen for antibody affinity maturation to occur, and a snippet on dysfunctional T cells during bacterial vaginosis. Hosts: and Subscribe (free): , , Become a of Immune! Links for this episode Somatic B cells (Immunity 2025) Dysfunctional vaginosis (J Clin Invest 2025) Time stamps by . Thanks! Music by Tatami. Immune logo image by Send your immunology questions and comments to immune@microbe.tv Information...
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Immune Booster 18: From Stars to cells with Bali Pulendran
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Cindy sits down with Bali Pulendran at the AAI 2025 meeting where he told the story of how a childhood fascination with the cosmos grew into a career addressing fundamental questions about the human immune response, and how when an antigen enters the body it is like the big bang in how it initiates immune responses. Host: Guest: Subscribe (free): , , Become a of Immune! Links for this episode Systems and durability (Nature 2025) World’s (Sem Immunol 2024) Review (Immunity 2010) Time stamps by . Thanks! Music by ....
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Immune Booster #17: From unvaccinated to vaccine advocacy with Liz Marnik
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Elizabeth Marnik, also known as Science Whiz Liz, grew up unvaccinated, yet she is now an immunologist, science communicator, and advocate for vaccines–this is her story. Host: Guest: Subscribe (free): , , Become a of Immune! Links for this episode More about Liz on her on Instagram From the Science Classroom with Science Whiz Liz Time stamps by . Thanks! Music by . Logo image by Send your immunology questions and comments to immune@microbe.tv Information on this podcast should not be...
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Immune 96: How to floss a mouse
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Immune discusses the potential future of delivering vaccines by flossing your teeth and how antibodies in human milk shape the normal immune responses in newborns. Hosts: , , , and Subscribe (free): , , Become a of Immune! Links for this episode vaccination (Nat Biomed Engineering 2025) vaccine paper (Sci News) Human development (PNAS 2025) Time stamps by . Thanks! Music by Tatami. Immune logo image by Send your immunology questions and comments to immune@microbe.tv Information on this...
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Immune Booster #16: Teaching and communicating immunology with Aimee Pugh Bernard
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Cindy speaks with Aimee Pugh Bernard from University of Colorado about her career and her passion for teaching and communicating immunology to the public. Host: Guest: Subscribe (free): , , Become a of Immune! Links for this episode More about Aimee on her on Instagram Fun Size Science with Fun Time stamps by . Thanks! Music by . Logo image by Send your immunology questions and comments to immune@microbe.tv Information on this podcast should not be construed as medical advice....
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Immune 95: Mitochondria for everyone
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Immune discusses how cancer cells swap mitochondria with T cells and then digs in for a discussion of an unusual checkpoint blockade that failed for cancer but could be repurposed for autoimmune inflammation. Hosts: , , , and Subscribe (free): , , Become a of Immune! Links for this episode Cancer cells for metastasis (Nature 2025) Cancer cells to impair them (Nature 2025) PD-L1 binding to CD80 on the same dendritic cell needed for migration (Sci Adv 2025) Time stamps by . Thanks! Music by Tatami. Immune logo...
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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 immune@microbe.tv 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...
info_outlineImmune 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: Vincent Racaniello, Cindy Leifer, Steph Langel, and Brianne Barker
Guests: David Peterson and Kim Klonowski
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- Placental malaria and circumsporozoite protein-specific immunity (Trends in Parasitology)
- Sterile production of interferons in the thymus affects T cell repertoire selection (Science Immunology)
- Dickson Despommier’s book People Parasites and Plowshares
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