Immune

Gabrielle Rizzuto from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center discusses her work on the curious immunology of pregnancy and how a woman tolerates a genetically different baby but quickly rejects a mismatched organ donation.
Host: Cindy Leifer
Guest: Gabrielle Rizzuto
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Rizzuto lab at MSKCC
Tolerance at the fetal-maternal interface (Nature, 2022)
The paradox of fetal-maternal tolerance (J Exp Med, 2022)
Spatially resolved timeline of fetal-maternal interface (Nature, 2023)
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Immune discusses how tattoo ink accumulates in lymph nodes, promotes inflammation and influences response to two different vaccines.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Cindy Leifer, Stephanie Langel, and Brianne Barker
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IL-9, CAR T cells and anti-tumor CD8 cells
Tattoo ink, inflammation and vaccines
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Anna Beaudin from University of Utah talks about the key thread of her career, development, and how that influences her research on the events happening during critical prenatal windows shapes everything from the developing immune system to hearing loss.
Host: Cindy Leifer
Guest: Anna Beaudin
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Beaudin lab at University of Utah
PhD work on metabolism and development
Postdoc work on hematopoietic stem cells
Maternal inflammation and hematopoietic stem cell development
Prenatal inflammation effect on postnatal immunity
Early life inflammation and hearing loss
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Leslie Berg talks about her career studying T cell receptor signaling, T cell development, and the importance of mentors in her career.





 
Host: Cindy Leifer
Guest: Leslie Berg
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Berg lab at University of Colorado Anschutz
TCR thresholds and ITK (PNAS)
Review on TCR signaling (Nat Immunol)
Generation of TCR transgenic mice (Mol Cell Bio)
T cell negative selection in TCR transgenic mice (Nature)
Thymic exit of mature T cells in TCR transgenic mice (Cell)
AAI past president Berg information
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The whole Immune gang gathers with special guests Gretchen Diehl and Shruti Naik at The Incubator with an audience to celebrate the 100th episode.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Cindy Leifer, Stephanie Langel, and Brianne Barker
Guests: Gretchen Diehl and Shruti Naik

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Diehl: Gut microbe-specific T cell development (Nature 2021)
Diehl: Bacteria-induced IL-1 is gut protective (Gut Microbes 2022)
Diehl: Microbiota, macrophages, IL10, and colitis (Gut Microbes 2022)
Diehl: E. coli-activated circuit restrains gut inflammation (Cell Rep 2025)
Naik: Commensals control skin inflammation (Science 2012)
Naik: IL-17 and hypoxic stress during skin repair (Science 2022)
Naik: Human psoriasis and spatial transcriptomics (Sci Immunol 2023)
Time stamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!
Music by Tatami.

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