Immunology Podcast

Today's episode focuses on #macrophages! Listen to Dr. Kipp Weiskopf from the Whitehead Institute talk about macrophages in the tumor environment and how targeting the CD47/SIRPa axis can induce phagocytosis of cancer cells. 🎧: https://bit.ly/3X5Gl4o

Next week's episode features an industry guest from STEMCELL Technologies! Tune in to hear about Dr. Wayne Juang's experience building a career in #biotech!

How are organs damaged in #autoimmunity? Drs. Stylianos-Iason Biniaris-Georgallis, Tom Aschman, and Katerina Stergioula at Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin found that NKp46+ ILCs amplify disease-associated #macrophage expansion and epithelial cell injury in #lupus nephritis. 📌- go.nature.com/3WXXvR8 🎙️ - https://bit.ly/3X5Gl4o

Researchers at Monash University and the University of Oxford collaborated to generate a #cryoEM structure of a γδ #Tcell antigen receptor! ❄️🔬 📄 - go.nature.com/3Z9Z3dw 🗨️ - https://bit.ly/3X5Gl4o

🧬 How are genes repressed in #Tregs? Dr. Kenji Ichiyama and a team in Dr. Shimon Sakaguchi's lab at Osaka University showed that the transcription factor Ikaros binds to Foxp3 to inhibit the expression of target genes in Tregs. 📌 Article: bit.ly/3AHiEI5 🎧 Discussion: https://bit.ly/3X5Gl4o

This week: Researchers in Drs. Lauriane Cabon, J. Gray Camp, and Nikolche Gjorevski's labs generated intestinal #organoids with tissue-resident memory #Tcells! 📝Nature paper: go.nature.com/46UpRRd ▶️ Episode: https://bit.ly/3X5Gl4o

Next week's episode features a great conversation about macrophages in cancer with Dr. Kipp Weiskopf at the Whitehead Institute! 👉 Learn more about his lab: bit.ly/4fTjoKd

Drs. Yangyang Zhu, Kimberley Meerschaert, and a team in Dr. Isaac Chiu's lab at Harvard University used a chemogenetic screen to reveal functional #neuroimmune interactions in the gut. Read the Science Magazine article: https://bit.ly/3SQD5s7 Learn more about the role of Tregs in this discussion: https://bit.ly/3M3GPTn

This week: Mari-Lee Odendaal and Dr. Wouter de Steenhuijsen Piters (pictured) at the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) led a study investigating respiratory #microbiota across the human lifespan. Senior authors: Drs. Thijs Bosch and Debby Bogaert Cell Press- paper: bit.ly/3WFB6bk Episode: https://bit.ly/3M3GPTn

👃 How do #NasalVaccines work? Jingjing Liu and a team in Dr. Ziv Shulman's lab at the Weizmann Institute of Science demonstrated that nasal vaccination induces #Bcell expansion in the subepithelial dome of nasal-associated #lymphoid tissues. 📎: go.nature.com/3ytE4Yy 🎧: https://bit.ly/3M3GPTn