How to bust up a bacterial biofilm
NIH Director's Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series
The Bakaletz laboratory ’ s research focus is attempting to understand the pathogenic mechanisms operational in the highly prevalent pediatric disease, otitis media (OM) (or middle ear infection). Specifically, we are interested in elucidating how upper respiratory tract viruses predispose the middle ear to invasion by any of the three predominant bacterial pathogens of OM (nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae, Moraxella catarrhalis and Streptococcus pneumoniae). We are also interested in understanding how bacterial biofilms contribute to the recurrence and chronicity of OM...
Source: Videocast - All Events - March 25, 2019 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Microbial networking ( … it ’ s like Tinder for bugs)
NIH Director's Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series
Annual Rolla E. Dyer Lecture
Few microbes (viruses, bacteria, fungi) live in isolation or exclusively with members of their own kingdom or domain. Affinities or aversions among microbial members influence the community structure, but these interactions can be reorganized with the arrival of disruptors. In respiratory infections, for example, infectious agents — be they viral or bacterial — are entering an environment within the host where they can impact existing ecological relationships among local residents. Disrupting these " social " networks has ecological and phys...
Source: Videocast - All Events - February 4, 2019 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
" The Sarlacc, " by Adam Shields
"The Sarlacc," by Adam Shields. This antÂs spiracle, or air hole, is 35 microns wide -- smaller than the width of a human hair. The opening leads to the antÂs respiratory system, a network of hollow tubes that runs throughout its body. "To a nerdy physicist," says Shields, "this image was ...This is an NSF Multimedia Gallery item. (Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery)
Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery - March 13, 2018 Category: Science Source Type: video
"The Sarlacc," by Adam Shields
. This ants spiracle, or air hole, is 35 microns wide -- smaller than the width of a human hair. The opening leads to the ants respiratory system, a network of hollow tubes that runs throughout its body. "To a nerdy physicist," says Shields, "this image was ...This is an NSF Multimedia Gallery item. (Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery)
Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery - September 15, 2017 Category: Science Source Type: video
Iftikhar Hussain, MD - New Developments in Inflammatory Dermatologic and Respiratory Diseases: Clinical Highlights From Helsinki
New Developments in Inflammatory Dermatologic and Respiratory Diseases: Clinical Highlights From Helsinki (Source: Peerview CME/CE Video Podcast - Internal Medicine International)
Source: Peerview CME/CE Video Podcast - Internal Medicine International - August 4, 2017 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: PVI, PeerView Institute for Medical Education Tags: Science, Medicine Source Type: video
Elucidating the regulation of antiviral immune responses in humans
Director's Seminar Series
Research in the laboratory headed by Dr. Su is aimed at understanding the molecular regulation of human immune responses in vivo. The laboratory aims to identify the genetic underpinnings of patients who have rare inherited immunodeficiencies that present with virus infections. These patients serve as " experiments of nature " who can more broadly inform us as to what is happening in the healthy immune system. Viruses of particular interest include those that infect the skin such as herpes simplex virus, as well as systemic viruses such as Epstein-Barr virus, and more recently respiratory tract vi...
Source: Videocast - All Events - March 14, 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
Quantitative Control of Macrophage Inflammatory Responses
Immunology Interest Group
Rachel Gottschalk obtained her bachelor’s degree in Biology from Emory University in 2005 and went on to earn her Immunology Ph.D. from Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences. She carried out her thesis work in the laboratory of James Allison at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, studying distinct influences of peptide-MHC quality and quantity on T cells responses, including induction of regulatory T cells. Rachel joined the Laboratory of Systems Biology, NIAID in 2012 as a post-doctoral fellow, where she currently studies macrophage signal integration under the mentorship of Ro...
Source: Videocast - All Events - April 14, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
PhotographED Videos: The Case of the Missing Tortilla
Dr. Alice S.Y. Lee shares the case of a woman with respiratory distress. Read The Case of the Missing Tortilla at http://emn.online/PhotographedEMN, and then watch this video. (Source: Emergency Medicine News - Video)
Source: Emergency Medicine News - Video - April 14, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: video
PhotographED Videos: The Case of the Missing Tortilla
Dr. Alice S.Y. Lee shares the case of a woman with respiratory distress. Read The Case of the Missing Tortilla at http://emn.online/PhotographedEMN, and then watch this video. (Source: Emergency Medicine News - Video)
Source: Emergency Medicine News - Video - April 13, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: video
Health in Building Roundtable Conference
This one-day conference, sponsored by the NIH Health in Buildings Roundtable (HiBR), will highlight how research teams are establishing a new knowledge base using wearable and portable devices to assess health outcomes linked to environmental experience. The results of these projects are producing new policy and practices that promote wellness, including enhanced movement, healthy stress outcomes, improved circadian stimulation, and reduction in respiratory illness. The conference will explore issues and challenges of translating complex research findings into design, behavioral guidance, and building operational practice...
Source: Videocast - All Events - November 23, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Genomics of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
NIH Director's Seminar Series
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS; Lou Gehrig’s disease) is a fatal neurodegenerative disorder that leads to rapidly progressive paralysis and respiratory failure. ALS is the third most common neurodegenerative disease in the Western World, and there are currently no effective therapies. Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is the most common form of dementia in the population under the age of 65. An overlap between these two clinically distinct neurological diseases has long been recognized, but the molecular basis of this intersection was unknown.
Recently, the Laboratory of Neurogenetics ...
Source: Videocast - All Events - March 16, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
