That's as little as one - tenth of the intake among the world's dwindling hunter - gatherer and rural agrarian populations, whose living conditions and dietary intake presumably most closely resemble those of our common human ancestors, said Justin Sonnenburg, PhD, associate professor
of microbiology and immunology and senior author of a study published Jan. 13 in Nature.
Dr. Justin Sonnenburg is an associate professor
of microbiology and immunology at Stanford and Dr. Erica Sonnenburg is a senior research scientist in the Sonnenburg lab where they research many aspects the interaction between diet with the 100 trillion or so bacteria in the gut (specifically the colon) and how this impacts the health of the host (which in this case is a laboratory research mouse).
«Your risk largely depends on the number of cows making up your ground beef,» says Michael Schmidt, PhD, professor at the department
of microbiology and immunology at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC).
David Topham, a professor
of microbiology and immunology at the University of Rochester, agrees there is a strong need for more influenza surveillance.
A new study, led by Aron E. Lukacher, chair and professor
of microbiology and immunology, and Saumya Maru, an MD / PhD graduate student, has uncovered more details about what it takes to generate a good tissue - resident memory T cell response against repeat infections.
Dr. Ziaur S.M. Rahman, assistant professor
of microbiology and immunology, is working to answer what factors drive the development of B lymphocyte groups without the presence of a pathogen.
«Nobody comes away unscathed from PML — you either die or you're left with a lifelong searing neurological defect,» said Aron E. Lukacher, chair and professor
of microbiology and immunology.
Other researchers on this project were Todd D. Schell, professor
of microbiology and immunology, and Ge Jin, research technologist, both at Penn State College of Medicine.
Within the fields
of microbiology and immunology, neurologic diseases, neuropharmacology, behavioral, cognitive and developmental neuroscience, and psychiatric disorders, the center's research programs are seeking ways to: develop vaccines for infectious and noninfectious diseases; understand the basic neurobiology and genetics of social behavior and develop new treatment strategies for improving social functioning in social disorders such as autism; interpret brain activity through imaging; increase understanding of progressive illnesses such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases; unlock the secrets of memory; treat drug addiction; determine how the interaction between genetics and society shape who we are; and advance knowledge about the evolutionary links between biology and behavior.
Compans is professor
of microbiology and immunology at Emory University School of Medicine and scientific director of Emory's Influenza Pathogenesis and Immunology Research Center.
Lowen and Steel are assistant professors
of microbiology and immunology at Emory and IPIRC investigators.
«Patentiflorin A represents a novel anti-HIV agent that can be added to the current anti-HIV drug cocktail regimens to increase suppression of the virus and prevention of AIDS,» said lead co-author Lijun Rong, professor
of microbiology and immunology in the College of Medicine at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
The letter signers from Emory are: Walter Orenstein, MD, professor of medicine and principal investigator for the Emory - University of Georgia Influenza Pathogenesis and Immunology Research Center (IPIRC), Richard Compans, PhD, professor
of microbiology and immunology and scientific director of IPIRC, and John Steel, PhD, assistant professor
of microbiology and immunology.
«We all want to know what's going to happen if you transplant these stem cells into a person,» said Mark Davis, MD, PhD, the Burt and Marion Avery Family Professor and professor
of microbiology and immunology.
Todd Schell, professor
of microbiology and immunology at Penn State College of Medicine, said that because beta blockers are already widely available, the findings — published in the journal OncoImmunology — could indicate a simple way for physicians to better treat their patients.
The research, which was published online October 25, 2016 in Cell Reports, was conducted by the laboratories of co-senior authors Nevan J. Krogan, PhD, a professor of cellular and molecular pharmacology at UCSF, director of the Quantitative Biosciences Institute (QBI) in UCSF's School of Pharmacy, and a senior investigator at the Gladstone Institutes, and Alexander Marson, MD, PhD, an assistant professor
of microbiology and immunology in UCSF's School of Medicine.
Researchers led by Christopher C. Norbury, professor
of microbiology and immunology, recently found that some viruses get past the local lymph node, enter the blood, and are fought off at a third checkpoint: organs that filter the blood.
«The cytotoxic chemotherapy can first kill some cancer cells and enhance the sensitivity of the tumour toward ICB therapy, which then stimulates the effectiveness of the ICB therapy,» said co-author Gianpietro Dotti, PhD, professor
of microbiology and immunology at the UNC School of Medicine and member of the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Rama Rao Amara, a vaccine researcher at Emory Vaccine Center and Yerkes National Primate Research Center, and Harriet Robinson, former head
of microbiology and immunology at Yerkes and now chief scientific officer at the firm GeoVax, both described extra ingredients for the DNA / MVA vaccine that Robinson designed while at Yerkes in collaboration with NIH researchers.
The collaboration, involving the labs of Douglas Turner, professor of chemistry; Luis Martinez - Sobrido, associate professor
of microbiology and immunology; and two researchers in Poland, reported that «antisense» compounds targeting one of the virus» eight genomic RNA segments caused a five - to 25-fold reduction of influenza A virus in cell cultures.
UNC School of Medicine researchers Aravinda de Silva, PhD, professor
of microbiology and immunology, and Stefan Metz, PhD, are creating a nanoparticle vaccine that in experiments showed increased antibody responses against one serotype of dengue virus.
For this study, Emory investigators led by Tansey and Jeremy Boss, PhD, chair
of microbiology and immunology, teamed up with Stewart Factor, DO, head of Emory's Comprehensive Parkinson's Disease Center, and public health researchers from UCLA led by Beate Ritz, MD, PhD.
Anti-flu peptides could become handy when vaccines are unavailable, in the case of a new pandemic strain, or when circulating strains become resistant to current drugs, says senior author Joshy Jacob, PhD, associate professor
of microbiology and immunology at Emory Vaccine Center and Emory University School of Medicine.
One reason for this, explains Hai - Hui (Howard) Xue, MD, PhD, UI professor
of microbiology and immunology, is that there are two kinds of tumor cells — bulk leukemia cells that can be killed by TKI drugs, and a subset of cells called leukemia stem cells, which are resistant to TKIs and to chemotherapy.
«The optimal strategy for protecting people and animals against this deadly disease would be through vaccination, but there are no FDA - licensed plague vaccines available in the U.S.,» said Ashok Chopra, UTMB professor
of microbiology and immunology.
«We want to know what the basic function of GATA - 3 in regulating cell biology is, although it has been shown that GATA - 3 is important for the function of CD4 + T cell type to clear extracellular parasites,» said Yisong Wan, PhD, assistant professor
of microbiology and immunology at the UNC School of Medicine and member of UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center.
The protein constructs used in this investigation were originally developed by a team of researchers headed by Dr. John Moore, professor
of microbiology and immunology at Weill Cornell.
«Our work uses a semiconducting nanoparticle with an attached platinum electrode to drive the synthesis of an anti-cancer compound when illuminated by light,» says Howard R. Petty, Ph.D., professor of ophthalmology and visual sciences and
of microbiology and immunology.
«These spores are like armored seeds, and they can pass through the gut's acidic environment intact,» says Philip Hanna, Ph.D., senior author of the new paper and a professor
of microbiology and immunology at U-M.
«Radioimmunotherapy not only worked against these cancers but, in addition, the radioactivity was confined entirely to the tumor masses, leaving healthy tissues undamaged,» said senior study co-author Ekaterina Dadachova, an associate professor of nuclear medicine and
of microbiology and immunology at Einstein.
«Phosphate is a limited resource and we don't use it very efficiently,» said Dangl, who is also an adjunct professor
of microbiology and immunology at the UNC School of Medicine.
About one in 20 people, and possibly many more, harbor C. difficile in their gut, said study co-author Justin Sonnenburg, PhD, professor
of microbiology and immunology, who has conducted pioneering research on the trillions of microbes constituting our intestinal ecosystems.
The work, published this week in mBio ®, an online open - access journal of the American Society for Microbiology, suggests that immunizing pregnant women against HSV and similar infections could prevent serious brain disease related to these conditions in fetuses and newborns, said senior study author David A. Leib, Ph.D., professor
of microbiology and immunology at the medical school.
The epidemic, which now has a firm hold on cities in Liberia and Sierra Leone, is more challenging to stamp out than prior outbreaks that raged in isolated areas and burned themselves out, says Daniel Lucey, a professor
of microbiology and immunology at Georgetown University Medical Center, who recently returned from caring for Ebola patients in Sierra Leone.
George Chrousos's home page at the NICHD Home page of the department
of microbiology and immunology at the Virginia Commonwealth University
She focused on this exclusively, interviewing with various labs at UBC and finally deciding to complete her doctoral studies with Brett Finlay in the department
of microbiology and immunology.
After five years of deep genomic analysis, Garry Nolan, PhD, professor
of microbiology and immunology at Stanford, and Atul Butte, MD, PhD, director of the Institute for Computational Health Sciences at the University of California - San Francisco, have pinpointed the mutations responsible for the anomalous specimen.
«While biotechnology is being pursued primarily for beneficial and legitimate purposes, there are potential uses that are detrimental to humans, other species, and ecosystems,» said Michael Imperiale, professor and associate chair
of microbiology and immunology at the University of Michigan Medical School and chair of the committee that wrote the interim report.
According to Page S. Morahan, former chair of the department
of microbiology and immunology and current co-director of ELAM (an executive leadership program for women in academic medicine) at Drexel University College of Medicine in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a mentor can make a difference in two ways.
Not exact matches
«These infections can be just one plane ride away, which is why we have to continue to vaccinate,» explains Michael Pichichero, MD, professor
of microbiology /
immunology, pediatrics,
and medicine at the University
of Rochester, in New York State.
Kristen is a Senior Editor at Science, based in Washington, D.C., whose areas
of responsibility include
immunology,
microbiology and infectious disease.
Without that atomic description, «it was impossible to determine how the genome was being sustained through the spread
of the virus,» said Z. Hong Zhou, a professor
of microbiology,
immunology and molecular genetics, a member
of UCLA's California NanoSystems Institute,
and a senior author
of the research.
Bernier, who holds a PhD in
microbiology and immunology from the University
of Montreal, is responsible for sourcing, evaluating,
and managing investments in new technologies.
New knowledge from the fields
of immunology and microbiology has been applied to the development
of vaccines in recent years.
«This work demonstrates the feasibility
of using a single gene editing platform, plus the regenerative power
of stem cells to correct genetic mutations
and restore dystrophin production for 60 percent
of Duchenne patients,» said Pyle, associate professor
of microbiology,
immunology and molecular genetics
and member
of the Broad Stem Cell Research Center.
«This research took place at the intersection
of microbiology,
immunology and genetics, which is illustrative
of the complex
and synergistic ways in which multiple organs
and organ systems operate in the body.»
For instance, Curtis Suttle, professor
of earth
and ocean sciences,
microbiology and immunology,
and botany, plus associate dean
of science at The University
of British Columbia, says, «Find an M.S. program that is really geared toward a profession.»
«Most HIV drugs target the virus,» said Huang, assistant professor
of molecular
microbiology and immunology at the Keck School
of Medicine, which ranked No. 1 in National Institutes
of Health funds received per principal investigator in 2016.
«With more than 1.7 million people dying globally from TB each year
and the rise
of strains that are resistant to drug treatment, we need a better way to prevent this disease,» said the study's principal investigator Louis Picker, M.D., who is the associate director
of the OHSU Vaccine
and Gene Therapy Institute
and a professor
of pathology, molecular
microbiology,
and immunology in the OHSU School
of Medicine.
As a bonus, my job provides me with a fairly unique opportunity to work on a list
of books related to the subject area I studied
and enjoy, namely
microbiology,
immunology,
and the rapidly expanding areas
of bioinformatics
and genomics.