Division of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Subcommittee - September 2017
Report from Division Director and Division StaffAir date: 9/11/2017 1:00:00 PM (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - August 14, 2017 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Myeloid-derived Trefoil Factor 2 (TFF2) controls epithelial regeneration at the mucosal interface
Immunology Interest Group Seminar Series
Trefoil factor proteins, an enigmatic family of mucosal cytokines, are known to promote tissue repair. Despite being discovered decades ago, not much was known until recently about how Trefoil proteins work. Dr. Herbert ’ s laboratory has discovered that these proteins regulate immune responses in allergic asthma and hookworm infection, and that they trigger the regeneration of epithelial cells.
De ’ Broski Herbert is an Associate Professor of Immunology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine. He received his B.S. in microbiology from Xavier University i...
Source: Videocast - All Events - May 17, 2017 Category: General Medicine 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
Myeloid-derived Trefoil Factor 2 (TFF2) controls epithelial regeneration at the mucosal interface
Immunology Interest Group Seminar Series
Trefoil factor proteins, an enigmatic family of mucosal cytokines, are known to promote tissue repair. Despite being discovered decades ago, not much was known until recently about how Trefoil proteins work. Dr. Herbert ’ s laboratory has discovered that these proteins regulate immune responses in allergic asthma and hookworm infection, and that they trigger the regeneration of epithelial cells.
De ’ Broski Herbert is an Associate Professor of Immunology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine. He received his B.S. in microbiology from Xavier University i...
Source: Videocast - All Events - March 13, 2017 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Aire: new tricks from an old dog
Immunology Interest Group Seminar Series
Aire is a transcriptional regulator that controls immunological tolerance. Its primary modus operandi is the induction – specifically in thymic medullary epithelial cells – of a battery of transcripts encoding proteins characteristic of terminally differentiated peripheral cell-types, and consequently negative selection of T cells that recognize these proteins. After briefly reviewing the classical findings, this presentation will focus on more recently discovered facets of Aire function, including positive selection of a perinatal population of regulatory T cells, inhibition of...
Source: Videocast - All Events - February 22, 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)
Source: Videocast - All Events - January 25, 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
Insights into coral health hidden in reefs' microbiomes (Image 9)
Rebecca Vega Thurber, assistant professor of microbiology at Oregon State University (OSU), and Ryan McMinds, an OSU Ph.D. student, collect samples for the Global Coral Microbiome Project.
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Coral microbiomes play an important role in reef health. Monica Medina, a ...This is an NSF Multimedia Gallery item. (Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery)
Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery - November 14, 2016 Category: Science Source Type: video
Insights into coral health hidden in reefs' microbiomes (Image 8)
Rebecca Vega Thurber, assistant professor of microbiology at Oregon State University, prepares to collect samples for the Global Coral Microbiome Project.
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Coral microbiomes play an important role in reef health. Monica Medina, a marine biologist at The ...This is an NSF Multimedia Gallery item. (Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery)
Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery - November 14, 2016 Category: Science 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)
Source: Videocast - All Events - August 29, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Nanolayered drug-release systems for regenerative medicine and targeted nanotherapies
NIH Director's Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series
Margaret Pittman Lecture
Alternating electrostatic assembly is a tool that makes it possible to create ultrathin film coatings that contain highly controlled quantities of one or more therapeutic molecules within a singular construct. These release systems greatly exceed the usual ranges of traditional degradable polymers. The nature of the layering process enables the incorporation of different drugs within different regions of the thin-film architecture; the result is an ability to uniquely tailor both the independent-release profiles and order-of-release of each therap...
Source: Videocast - All Events - May 25, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Division of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Subcommittee - June 2016
Acting Division Director will address the subcommitteeAir date: 6/6/2016 1:00:00 PM (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - May 17, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Bacteria, Their Viruses, and How They Taught Us to Perform Genome Surgery
NIGMS Director’s Early Career Investigator Lecture
Blake Wiedenheft, Ph.D., will give the first annual NIGMS Director’s Early Career Investigator Lecture. The event is geared toward undergraduate students but open to all. Wiedenheft is an assistant professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Montana State University who does research on the CRISPR gene-editing tool. Following a 30-minute talk about his research, Wiedenheft will answer questions related to his career path.For more information go to https://www.nigms.nih.gov/News/meetings/ECI/Pages/default.aspxAir date: 4/13/2016 2:00:00 PM (Source: V...
Source: Videocast - All Events - March 3, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Interleukin 35 (IL-35) and IL-35-producing Regulatory B Cells (i35-Bregs): Critical Regulators of Autoimmune Diseases.
Immunology Interest Group
Charles E. Egwuagu is Chief of the Molecular Immunology Section, National Eye Institute (NEI), NIH. He received his Ph.D in Epidemiology and Microbiology from Yale University Graduate School and a Master of Public Health (M.P.H) degree in Infectious Disease Epidemiology from Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut. Dr. Egwuagu did a 2-year Post-doctoral Fellowship in Molecular Immunology at NEI/NIH and then served as a Commissioned Officer of the United States Public Health Service (PHS) for 10 years, attaining the rank of Captain (06). Research in the Egwuagu laboratory is on autoreacti...
Source: Videocast - All Events - February 18, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
