Gabriel Victora joins Immune to review how high affinity antibodies are produced in the germinal centers of secondary lymphoid tissues.

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

Guest: Gabriel Victora

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• Concerto in B (TWiV 161)
• Visualizing antibody affinity maturation (Science)
• Restricted B cell clonality after boosting (Cell)
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Nikhil Joshi joins Immune to discuss the creation of NINJA mice that synthesize neoantigens to enable the study of endogenous antigen-specific naïve T cell responses in disease and infection.

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

Guest: Nikhil Joshi

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• Creation of NINJA mice (Nature Biotech)
• Time stamps by Jolene. Thanks!

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Immune reviews evidence that toll-like receptor 9 on the surface of red blood cells binds DNA, leading to uptake by macrophages and innate immune activation.

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

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• DNA binding to TLR9 on red blood cells (Sci Transl Med)
• Time stamps by Jolene. Thanks!

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Keke Fairfax joins Immune to discuss the work from her laboratory on understanding how maternal schistosomiasis impairs IL-4 production and B cell expansion in offspring, and modulation of macrophage immunometabolism by helminths.

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

Guest: Keke Fairfax

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• Maternal schistosomiasis impairs offspring immunity (PloS Path)
• Helminth modulation of macrophage immunometabolism (Immune)
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Tim Hand joins Immune to discuss the work from his laboratory showing that environmental enteric dysfunction, a disease caused by chronic malnutrition and infection, and which is associated with reduced growth and oral vaccine failure, is controlled by an increase in intestinal regulatory T cells.

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

Guest: Timothy Hand

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• Mouse model for EED (Immunity)
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The immune professors discuss neutrophil extracellular traps, and how IgA-virus immune complexes potentiate this process through Fc receptors on neutrophils.

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

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• Antiviral IgA potentiates NETosis (PNAS)
• Letters read on Immune 47
• Time stamps by Jolene. Thanks!

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Immune explore the observation that bat cells display dampened STING-dependent interferon activation, suggesting why bats might have a unique capacity to harbor many viruses.

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

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• Dampened STING in bats (Cell Host Micr)
• Lessons from bat defenses (Nature)
• Bat immune systems (Front Immune)
• Bats protected from genotoxic compounds (Nat Comm)
• Letters read on Immune 46
• Time stamps by Jolene. Thanks!

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On this episode of Immune, we answer listener questions about CAR-Macs, complement and COVID-19, sleep and the immune system, caving and the immune system, germinal centers, COVID-19 vaccines and much more.

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

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• Letters read on Immune 45
• Time stamps by Jolene. Thanks!

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On this episode of Immune, IgA-producing plasma cells mobilized from the gut play an unexpected role in suppressing neuroinflammation.

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

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• Intestinal IgA regulates neuroinflammation (Cell)
• Time stamps by Jolene. Thanks!

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On this episode of Immune, Cindy provides an update on CAR-T cell therapy of cancers and introduces two new approaches that utilize NK cells and macrophages and their use in treating solid tumors.

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

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• CAR-T cell therapy on Immune 4
• Recent CAR-T cell advances (Nat Rev Cancer)
• Status of CAR-T cell therapy (CancerConnect)
• CAR-MAC for cancer (Nat Biotech)
• CAR-MAC for COVID-19 (bioRxiv)
• Letters read on Immune 43
• Time stamps by Jolene. Thanks!

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