Dr. Wilfried Ellmeier is a Co-Chair of the Scientific Planning Committee at the International Union of Immunological Societies (IUIS) and Professor of Immunobiology and Head of the Institute of Immunology at the Medical University of Vienna. Dr. Laurence Zitvogel is a Keynote Speaker at IUIS 2025 and a Professor and Group Leader at Gustave Roussy. Dr. Dan Littman is also a Keynote Speaker at IUIS 2025 and Professor of Cell Biology and Helen L. and Martin S. Kimmel Professor of Molecular Immunology at NYU Langone. This episode features a discussion on  the upcoming IUIS 2025 Congress taking place August 17-22 in Vienna, Austria. They talk about what to expect at the meeting, highlights from this year’s program, and where to explore in Vienna. (42:25)

An African Microbiome Atlas – A cross-sectional gut microbiome study sampled 1,801 women from Burkina Faso, Ghana, Kenya, and South Africa. (3:33)

Understanding Transplant Rejection – Inducing tolerance to immunodominant indirect CD4+ T cells prolongs graft survival. (7:38)

SARS-CoV-2 Evolution – A modeling approach predicts SARS-CoV-2 variant dynamics on the basis of immunity and cross-neutralization. (25:00)

Tregs in the Meninges – Meningeal Tregs are a multifaceted safeguard of brain homeostasis at steady state. (31:01)

Images courtesy of Drs. Wilfried Ellmeier, Laurence Zitvogel, and Dan Littman

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