78 episodes

A podcast about the body's defenders against disease.

Immune Vincent Racaniello

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    • 5.0 • 13 Ratings

A podcast about the body's defenders against disease.

    Tolerance and tolerating many vaccines

    Tolerance and tolerating many vaccines

    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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    Links for this episode MicrobeTV Discord Server 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) Time stamps by Jolene. Thanks! Music by Steve Neal.
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    • 1 hr 24 min
    Squeezing the most killing out of neutrophils

    Squeezing the most killing out of neutrophils

    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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    Links for this episode MicrobeTV Discord Server Trans endothelial migration activates neutrophil killing (Immunity) Time stamps by Jolene. Thanks! Music by Steve Neal.
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    • 56 min
    Macrophages to the rescue with Juliet Morrison

    Macrophages to the rescue with Juliet Morrison

    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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    Links for this episode MicrobeTV Discord Server Publishing is broken (Solving for Science) Pleural macrophages move to the lung during influenza (PNAS) Time stamps by Jolene. Thanks! Music by Steve Neal
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    • 1 hr 7 min
    Ang Cui unveils the cytokine symphony

    Ang Cui unveils the cytokine symphony

    Ang Cui joins Immune to discuss her career and her work on establishing the Immune Dictionary, a compendium of single-cell transcriptomic profiles of more than 17 immune cell types in response to each of 86 cytokines (>1,400 cytokine-cell type combinations) in mouse lymph nodes in vivo.
    Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Cynthia Leifer, and Brianne Barker
    Guest: Ang Cui
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    Links for this episode MicrobeTV Discord Server Publishing is broken (Solving for Science) Immune Dictionary (Nature) Time stamps by Jolene. Thanks! Music by Steve Neal.
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    • 1 hr 15 min
    Germinal center dynamics with Carla Nowosad

    Germinal center dynamics with Carla Nowosad

    Carla Nowosad joins Immune to discuss her career and her work on germinal centers, the structure in secondary lymphoid tissues where B cells proliferate, differentiate, and diversify their immunoglobulin genes by somatic hypermutation.
    Hosts: Stephanie Langel, Cynthia Leifer, and Brianne Barker
    Guest: Carla R. Nowosad
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    Links for this episode MicrobeTV Discord Server B cells and the intestinal microbiome (Sem Immunol) B cell selection in gut germinal centres (Nature) B cell antigen internalization (Methods Mol Biol) Immune synapse architecture (Nat Immunol) Time stamps by Jolene. Thanks! Music by Steve Neal.
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    • 1 hr 11 min
    Big macs

    Big macs

    Immune reveals the total mass (1.2kg), number (1.8 trillion), and distribution of immune cells in the human body, with macrophages contributing nearly 50% of the total cellular mass.
    Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Cynthia Leifer, and Brianne Barker
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    Links for this episode MicrobeTV Discord Server Immune cells in the human body (PNAS) Letters read on Immune 73 Time stamps by Jolene. Thanks! Music by Steve Neal.
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    • 1 hr 14 min

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