The Immunology Podcast

The Immunology Podcast


Latest Episodes

Ep. 43: “Respiratory Viral Infections” Featuring Dr. Jie Sun
December 06, 2022

Dr. Jie Sun is the Harrison Professor of Medicine at the University of Virginia. His lab studies respiratory immunology under homeostasis and disease conditions. He talks about how long COVID compares

Ep. 42: “Immune Mechanisms After Stroke” Featuring Dr. Arthur Liesz
November 22, 2022

Dr. Arthur Liesz is a Professor of Experimental Neurology at the University of Munich. The Liesz lab is interested in the interplay between the brain and the immune system after stroke. He talks about

Ep. 41: “Autoimmunity and Cancer Immunotherapy” Featuring Dr. Vijay Kuchroo
November 08, 2022

Dr. Vijay Kuchroo is the Samuel L. Wasserstrom Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School. His major research interests include the role of co-stimulation in autoimmune diseases, as well as cell

Ep. 40: “Bacterial Pathogens” Featuring Drs. Kristin Patrick and Robert Watson
October 25, 2022

Dr. Kristin Patrick is an Assistant Professor and Dr. Robert Watson is an Associate Professor at Texas A&M University. Their joint lab investigates innate immune regulation during bacterial infection.

Ep. 39: “Extracellular Nucleotides” Featuring Dr. Henrique Borges da Silva
October 11, 2022

Dr. Henrique Borges da Silva is an Assistant Professor at the Mayo Clinic in Arizona. His main research focus is determining how extracellular nucleotides affect transcriptional, metabolic, and functi

Ep. 38: “The Urinary Bladder and Placenta” Featuring Dr. Indira Mysorekar
September 27, 2022

Dr. Indira Mysorekar is a Professor of Medicine and Chief of Basic and Translational Research at Baylor College of Medicine. Her lab studies hostmicrobial interactions in the urinary bladder and the

Ep. 37: “Co-Evolution of the Human Microbiome” Featuring Drs. Ruth Ley and Sara Clasen
September 13, 2022

Dr. Ruth Ley is Managing Director of the Max Planck Institute for Biology Tbingen and Director of the Department of Microbiome Science. Dr. Sara Clasen is a postdoctoral fellow in the same lab. Toget

Ep. 36: “Engineered Immune Cell Therapies” Featuring Dr. Leonardo Ferreira
August 30, 2022

Dr. Leonardo Ferreira is an Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Immunology at the Medical University of South Carolina. The Ferreira lab uses CARs and other engineered immune receptors to dissect

Ep. 35: “Inflammatory Bowel Disease” Featuring Dr. Karen Edelblum
August 16, 2022

Dr. Karen Edelblum is an Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School. She discusses T cells and immune-epithelial cross-talk in inflammatory bowel

Ep. 34: “Immunology of the Nervous System” Featuring Dr. Jonathan Kipnis
August 02, 2022

Dr. Jonathan Kipnis is the BJC Investigator and Alan A. and Edith L. Wolff Distinguished Professor of Pathology and Immunology at Washington University in St. Louis. His lab investigates the complex i