Ep. 38: “The Urinary Bladder and Placenta” Featuring Dr. Indira Mysorekar Blog Post
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Dr. Indira Mysorekar is a Professor of Medicine and Chief of Basic and Translational Research at Baylor College of Medicine. Her lab studies host–microbial interactions in the urinary bladder and the placenta. She discusses the role of the microbiome and the aging immune landscape in recurrent urinary tract infections. She also talks about her research on Zika and SARS-CoV-2 in the placenta.
Ep. 37: “Co-Evolution of the Human Microbiome” Featuring Drs. Ruth Ley and Sara Clasen Blog Post
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Dr. Ruth Ley is Managing Director of the Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen and Director of the Department of Microbiome Science. Dr. Sara Clasen is a postdoctoral fellow in the same lab. Together, they’re interested in the co-evolution of humans with their microbiomes. They use basic science to investigate the evolutionary history of gut microbes, how they have adapted to life inside humans, and how they affect human biology and health. More recently, they published a pre-print on the silent recognition of flagellins from human gut commensal bacteria by TLR5.
Drs. Ruth Ley and Sara Clasen
Dr. Ruth Ley is the Managing Director and Dr. Sara Clasen is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology Tübingen. Dr. Ley’s lab uses basic science…
Ep. 36: “Engineered Immune Cell Therapies” Featuring Dr. Leonardo Ferreira Blog Post
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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 how specificity, affinity, and signaling modulate the function of different T cells subsets in tolerance and immunity. He talks about how CAR Tregs could prevent transplant rejection and treat Type 1 diabetes. He also discusses mixing and matching immune cells, the freedom to pursue multiple ideas in academia, and science outreach in Bolivia
