Immune

Immune reviews new research that shows a boost in T cell function after eating and the potential for the cGAS-STING pathway to be a new lupus therapeutic target.


Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Cindy Leifer, Stephanie Langel, and Brianne Barker
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T cell immunity boosted after eating (Nature, 2026)
Inhibiting autoimmunity through TLR7-cGAS (Nat Comm, 2026)
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Stacy Horner discusses her work on innate detection of viruses, viral countermeasures, and the role of m(6)A RNA modifications in regulating antiviral immunity.
Host: Cindy Leifer
Guest: Stacy Horner

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Hepatitis virus proteases block host response (J Virol, 2012)
Host RNA binds to MAVS (Science, 2024)
m6A modifications modify innate response to viruses (Cell Chem Biol, 2024)
UFMylation coordinates MAVS assembly for antiviral responses (bioRxiv, 2025)
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Scott Smith talks about his research on cloned individual antibodies and how those studies have shifted his thoughts on the role of IgE in parasite defense and food allergy.
Host: Cindy Leifer
Guest: Scott Smith

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Complement control proteins in poxvirus evasion (J Virol, 2000)
Complement control protein reduces xenotransplant rejection (Transpl Proc, 2002)
Engineering therapeutic antibodies (J Allergy Clin Immunol, 2023)
Antigens in peanut allergy anaphylaxis (J Allergy Clin Immunol, 2025)
Using human antibodies to identify parasite antigens (J Allergy Clin Immunol, 2022)
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Kathryn Knoop and Marion Brunck join the Immune team to talk about their research and their podcast "Mucosal Immunology".


Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Cindy Leifer, Stephanie Langel, and Brianne Barker
Guests: Kathryn Knoop and Marion Brunck
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Knoop: Oral tolerance in early life review
Knoop: Gamma delta T cells in neonatal sepsis
Knoop: EGF and IgA in breastmilk
Brunck: FcGR's in PMNS
Brunck: CRISPR KO to study FcGR's in human PMN
Brunck: Leukocytes in breastmilk review
Mucosal Immunology podcast
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Jenna Guthmiller talks about how she became interested in immunology and her exciting research on how different responses to vaccines and infection shape future responses to infection. 

Host: Cindy Leifer
Guest: Jenna Guthmiller
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Broadly neutralizing flu antibodies (Nature, 2022)
First exposure antibodies to H1N1 flu (Sci Transl Med, 2021)
Long lasting B cells to chimeric flu vaccine (Immunity, 2025)
Vaccine strategies to target HA anchor epitope (Nat Comm, 2025)
Pre-existing immunity shapes flu response (Sci Trans Med, 2020)
From Immune 35: SARS-CoV-2 infection severity linked to anti-spike (mBio, 2021)
Guthmiller lab
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