Creating Memory: Vaccines & Immunity

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Hear from scientists working to develop new vaccines and understand immunity to microbial pathogens. Host: Larissa Thackray, Ph.D., Professor of Infectious Diseases

  1. Episode 27: IRGM1 regulation of host immunity during vaccination

    APR 28

    Episode 27: IRGM1 regulation of host immunity during vaccination

    We talk with Dr. Sumanta Naik, a staff scientist in the Department of Molecular Microbiology at Washington University School of Medicine, who is investigating the role of IRGM1 in type I interferon and B cell responses following vaccination and tuberculosis infection.

    24 min
  2. Episode 26: Harnessing bacterial components for vaccines and therapeutics

    APR 8

    Episode 26: Harnessing bacterial components for vaccines and therapeutics

    We talk with Dr. Mario Feldman, Professor of Microbiology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO who studies the pathogenesis of Acinetobacter and the biogenesis of bacterial extracellular vesicles.

    28 min

  3. APR 8

    Episode 25: Understanding the role of T cells to improve vaccination for respiratory pathogens

    We talk with Dr. Daniel Hoft, Director of the Division of Infectious Diseases, Allergy & Immunology and the Center for Vaccine Development at Saint Louis University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO who studies the development of T-cell targeting vaccines against mucosally-invasive intracellular pathogens such as tuberculosis and influenza.

    35 min

  4. APR 8

    Episode 24: Understanding Tfh cells to improve vaccine-induced antibody responses

    We talk with Dr. Michela Locci, Associate Professor of Microbiology at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine in Philadelphia, PA who studies how T follicular helper cells promote optimal germinal cell reactions and antibody responses following vaccination.

    23 min
  5. Episode 23: Developing novel lipid nanoparticles to improve vaccine-induced immune responses

    MAR 27

    Episode 23: Developing novel lipid nanoparticles to improve vaccine-induced immune responses

    We talk with Dr. Namit Chaudhary, a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Immunology & Microbiology at The Scripps Research Institute, CA, who develops new technologies to generate a safe and effective single-shot lipid nanoparticle-based HIV vaccine.

    23 min
  6. Episode 22: Use of VSV-chimeras to understand emerging virus infection and develop anti-viral countermeasures

    MAR 6

    Episode 22: Use of VSV-chimeras to understand emerging virus infection and develop anti-viral countermeasures

    We talk with Dr. Zhouming Liu, an assistant professor of Molecular Microbiology at Washington University School of Medicine, MO, who studies mechanisms of La Cross virus entry and monoclonal antibody–mediated inhibition of infection.

    30 min
  7. Episode 21: A role for T cells in flavivirus vaccination and pathogenesis

    JAN 27

    Episode 21: A role for T cells in flavivirus vaccination and pathogenesis

    We talk with Dr. Annie Elong Ngono, a research instructor in the Center for Vaccine Innovation at the La Jolla Institute for Immunology, CA, who studies the role of T cells in vaccine-mediated protection and neurological disease following flavivirus infection.

    24 min

  8. 12/19/2025

    Episode 20: Understanding broadly protective immune responses to develop pandemic virus vaccines

    We talk with Dr. Anass Abbad, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Microbiology at the Icahn School of Medicine Mount Sinai, NY who studies humoral immune responses and virus-host receptor interactions to design next generation pandemic virus vaccines.

    24 min
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