Immune reviews the local and systemic responses after human SARS-CoV-2 challenge infection, and how bat antibodies display elevated antigen binding strength and diversity at higher temperatures that are characteristic of flight.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Cindy Leifer, Stephanie Langel and Brianne Barker

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Links for this episode

• MicrobeTV Discord Server
• Responses to human SARS-CoV-2 challenge (Nature)
• Temperature-sensitivity of bat antibodies (Nat Comm)
• Time stamps by Jolene. Thanks!

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From the American Association of Immunologists 2024 conference in Chicago, Cindy and Steph meet up with Jane Buckner to talk about her career, and the research of her laboratory on mechanisms by which regulation of the adaptive immune response fails or is overcome in the setting of human autoimmunity.

Hosts: Cindy Leifer and Steph Langel

Guest: Jane Buckner

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From the American Association of Immunologists 2024 conference in Chicago, Cindy and Brianne meet up with Tonya Webb to talk about her career, the role of NKT cells in cancer, and her efforts to ensure diversity, equity, and inclusion in research.

Hosts: Cindy Leifer and Brianne Barker

Guest: Tonya Webb

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From the American Association of Immunologists 2024 conference in Chicago, Cindy and Brianne meet up with Michal Tal to talk about her career, sex differences in immune responses, and how one giant mouse uterus changed the trajectory of her research career.

Hosts: Cindy Leifer and Brianne Barker

Guest: Michal Tal

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From the American Association of Immunologists 2024 conference in Chicago, Cindy and Brianne where meet up with Luis Montaner to talk about his career and his research on boosting the immune system to combat viral diseases or cancer progression.

Hosts: Cindy Leifer and Brianne Barker

Guest: Luis Montaner

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Links for this episode

• Community engagement in research (Res Involv Engag)
• Susceptibility to HIV bnAbs during ART (AIDS)
• Minority scientists’ experience (J Immunol)
• Time stamps by Jolene. Thanks!

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Immune travels to Chicago for the American Association of Immunologists conference where they meet up with Joseph Larkin III to talk about his career and his research on the contribution of T lymphocyte subsets and functions in maintaining tolerance.

Hosts: Stephanie Langel and Brianne Barker

Guest: Joseph Larkin III

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Links for this episode

• MicrobeTV Discord Server
• Th17 cells in immunity and autoimmunity (J Immunol Res)
• COVID-19 booster enhances virus neutralization by milk (Front Nutr)
• SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in milk and infant stool after maternal immunization (J Perinatol)
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Immune presents three stories: intranasal neomycin and antiviral immunity, sexual dimorphism in skin immunity, and maternal diet changes infant microbes that alter gut DC responses and respiratory health.

Hosts: Stephanie Langel, Cynthia Leifer, and Brianne Barker

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Links for this episode

• MicrobeTV Discord Server
• Intranasal neomycin as antiviral (PNAS)
• Sexual dimorphism in skin immunity (Science)
• Maternal diet and infant respiratory health (Immunity)
• Time stamps by Jolene. Thanks!

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Immune explains how antibody-mediated depletion of myeloid-hematopoietic stem cells in aged mice restores characteristic features of a more youthful immune system, including increasing common lymphocyte progenitors, naive T cells and B cells, while decreasing age-related markers of immune decline.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Cynthia Leifer, and Brianne Barker

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Links for this episode

• MicrobeTV Discord Server
• Depleting My-HSC rejuvenates aged immunity (Nature)
• Time stamps by Jolene. Thanks!

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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)
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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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• MicrobeTV Discord Server
• Trans endothelial migration activates neutrophil killing (Immunity)
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