Innate allergy
Immunology Interest Group Seminar Series
Despite clear roles for classical arms of immunity in maintenance of a healthy commensal microbial flora and protection from invasive pathogenic organisms, the purpose of allergic immunity, which underlies increasingly prevalent diseases like food allergy, asthma and atopic dermatitis, remains puzzling. The discovery of innate lymphoid cells that are programmed to produce cytokines associated with allergic immunity has provided new opportunities to assess basal physiologic processes that involve this canonical tissue response, and may reveal opportunities for re-tuning this arm of i...
Source: Videocast - All Events - March 30, 2017 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
The gut microbiome: a master regulator of metabolism
Immunology Interest Group Seminar Series
Humans and many other animals are home to enormous numbers of beneficial bacteria that profoundly influence health. The existence of beneficial resident microorganisms was first recognized in the late 1800's by Louis Pasteur, who founded the field of medical microbiology. However, we ’ ve only recently begun to acquire a molecular understanding of how resident microorganisms contribute to our health. The Hooper lab has spent more than a decade studying how resident bacteria of the gut communicate with our own cells to shape our physiology, our development, and our ability to fight...
Source: Videocast - All Events - March 27, 2017 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Not Your Average (Flavi)Virus: Clinical and Epidemiologic Investigations of Zika Virus in Puerto Rico
LCID - Wednesday Research Conference
Following the introduction of Zika virus into Puerto Rico in late 2015,>38,000 laboratory-positive cases have been reported to public health authorities to date. Due to unexpected routes of transmission and severe clinical complications associated with Zika virus infection, research studies in Puerto Rico have included: conducting facility-based enhanced surveillance to better define the spectrum of Zika virus disease and associated complications; establishing a prospective cohort of infected individuals to estimate the duration of Zika virus shedding in various body fluids; and case-co...
Source: Videocast - All Events - February 6, 2017 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Division of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Subcommittee - January 2017
Report from Division Director and Division StaffAir date: 1/30/2017 1:00:00 PM (Source: Videocast - All Events)
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Demystifying Medicine 2017: Current Infectious Disease Challenges
The Demystifying Medicine Lecture Series is designed to help bridge the gap between advances in biology and their applications to major human diseases. Each lecture will feature a presentation on a major disease, including current research and advancements on treatments.For more information go tohttps://demystifyingmedicine.od.nih.govAir date: 5/2/2017 4:00:00 PM (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - January 24, 2017 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Is the Right Flavor of Inflammation the Key to Successful Cancer Therapy?
NCI ’ s Center for Cancer Research (CCR) Grand Rounds
Dr. Romina Goldszmid received her Ph.D. working on dendritic cell-based vaccines for melanoma immunotherapy from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, part of which was performed as a visiting scholar in the laboratory of Dr. Ralph Steinman at the Rockefeller University. She then did her postdoctoral training in infectious diseases immunology with Dr. Alan Sher in the Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases (LPD) at NIAID. There, Dr. Goldszmid focused on the interplay between dendritic cells and natural killer cells during the early response to Toxoplasma gondii infecti...
Source: Videocast - All Events - January 23, 2017 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
2016 Kinyoun Lecture - Structure-Based Vaccine Design and B-cell Ontogeny in the Modern Era of Vaccinology
2016 Joseph J. Kinyoun Memorial Lecture
Dr. John Mascola, director of the Dale and Betty Bumpers Vaccine Research Center at NIAID, will deliver the 2016 Joseph J. Kinyoun Memorial Lecture.
His talk, titled “ Structure-Based Vaccine Design and B-cell Ontogeny in the Modern Era of Vaccinology, ” will include an overview of the challenges facing the development of effective vaccines against viruses, including HIV, respiratory syncytial virus and influenza virus. Mascola will describe how researchers can use structural information about viral proteins and antiviral antibodies to design new vaccines. He also will discuss ho...
Source: Videocast - All Events - November 29, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Strategies for an HIV Cure 2016 (Day 3)
This scientific meeting is focused on innovative and collaborative research strategies to cure HIV infection. Investigators from NIH-funded Martin Delaney Collaboratories and other programs related to HIV persistence and cure, investigators in complementary disciplines, and community members will share scientific results and engage in active discussion about the merits of various approaches under investigation. These discussions are intended to stimulate new collaborations and ideas for future research. The meeting is sponsored by the Division of AIDS at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), Na...
Source: Videocast - All Events - November 8, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Strategies for an HIV Cure 2016 (Day 2)
This scientific meeting is focused on innovative and collaborative research strategies to cure HIV infection. Investigators from NIH-funded Martin Delaney Collaboratories and other programs related to HIV persistence and cure, investigators in complementary disciplines, and community members will share scientific results and engage in active discussion about the merits of various approaches under investigation. These discussions are intended to stimulate new collaborations and ideas for future research. The meeting is sponsored by the Division of AIDS at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), Na...
Source: Videocast - All Events - November 8, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Strategies for an HIV Cure 2016 (Day 1)
This scientific meeting is focused on innovative and collaborative research strategies to cure HIV infection. Investigators from NIH-funded Martin Delaney Collaboratories and other programs related to HIV persistence and cure, investigators in complementary disciplines, and community members will share scientific results and engage in active discussion about the merits of various approaches under investigation. These discussions are intended to stimulate new collaborations and ideas for future research. The meeting is sponsored by the Division of AIDS at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), Na...
Source: Videocast - All Events - November 8, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Cytokine Signaling: Genes, Genomes and Drugs
Eleventh annual Philip S. Chen, Jr., Ph.D. Distinguished Lecture on Innovation and Technology Transfer
John J. O'Shea graduated Phi Beta Kappa from St. Lawrence University
with a Bachelor of Science degree, and then gained a Doctor of
Medicine degree from the University of Cincinnati. He carried out a
residency in Internal Medicine at the State University of New York
Upstate Medical University and did subspecialty training at the National
Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH.
Dr. O ’ Shea has made fundamental discoveries related to the basic
mechanisms underlying cytokine signal transduction, molecule...
Source: Videocast - All Events - October 4, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Oral HPV Continuum: Epidemiology of Oral HPV Infection, Persistence and HPV-related Oropharyngeal Squamous Cell Carcinoma
NIDCR Clinical Research Fellowship Grand Rounds
Oral HPV infection now causes the majority of oropharyngeal (tonsillar) cancers in the U.S. The incidence of HPV-related oropharyngeal cancer is increasing significantly, with men disproportionately affected. This talk reviews what is known about oral HPV infection, its natural history, and the epidemiology of HPV-related oropharyngeal cancers.
Gypsyamber D ’ Souza is an associate professor in epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, with a joint appointment in the departments of International Health and Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at th...
Source: Videocast - All Events - September 14, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
NIH Research Festival Plenary Session III - Cell-based immune therapies
Cell-based immune therapies, such as immunotherapy for cancer, are among the hottest topics in clinical research. A centuries-old concept of stimulating the immune system to fight a non-infectious disease, immunotherapy became a viable treatment that doctors could exert some degree of control over as a result of pioneering research at the NCI in the 1960s and 1970s on monoclonal antibodies (Michael Potter) and Interleukin-2 (Robert Gallo). Building on such advances, NCI ’ s Steven Rosenberg, M.D., Ph.D. was the first to recognize the potential of Il-2 and apply it as a novel anti-cancer agent, in 1984. Rosenberg has spen...
Source: Videocast - All Events - September 12, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Division of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Subcommittee - September 2016
Report from Division Director and Division StaffAir date: 9/12/2016 1:00:00 PM (Source: Videocast - All Events)
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Imaging Chemokine Function in Disease
Immunology Interest Group
Dr. Luster studied medicine at Cornell University Medical College and obtained a Ph.D. degree under mentorship of Drs. Jeffrey Ravetch and Zanvil Cohn at the Rockefeller University. As a graduate student, he discovered and characterized the IFN-gamma-inducible protein 10 (IP-10/CXCL10) (Nature 1985; 315:672-676)! He completed residency and a clinical fellowship in medicine and infectious diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital and post-doctoral training in the laboratory of Dr. Philip Leder at Harvard Medical School. In 1994, he joined the faculty of Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts Ge...
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