Creating Memory: Vaccines & Immunity

We talk with Dr. Annie Elong Ngono, a research instructor in the Center for Vaccine Innovation at the La Jolla Institute for Immunology, CA, who studies the role of T cells in vaccine-mediated protection and neurological disease following flavivirus infection.

We talk with Dr. Anass Abbad, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Microbiology at the Icahn School of Medicine Mount Sinai, NY who studies humoral immune responses and virus-host receptor interactions to design next generation pandemic virus vaccines.

We talk with Dr. Sandhya Bangaru, a staff scientist in the Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology at The Scripps Research Institute, CA who uses advances in cryo-EM to understand antibody epitopes important for their antiviral protective activity and their pathogenic activity in allergic diseases.

We talk with Dr. Florian Krammer, the endowed Mount Sinai Professor of Vaccinology at the Icahn School of Medicine, New York, NY and Director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Science Communication and Pandemic Preparedness at the Medical University of Vienna, Austria, who studies the B cell response in the context of natural infection to better understand how to design broadly protective and durable vaccines.

We talk with Dr. John Gridley, a postdoctoral fellow in the Vaccinology Training Program at Emory University, GA, who uses a hepatitis C virus-related rodent hepacivirus model to identify correlates of protective immunity for HCV and the role of inducible Hepatic-Associated Lymphoid Tissue (iHALT) in the induction of this immune response.