Immune

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)
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David Schatz talks about his discovery of Rag genes that are critical for antigen receptor development and how that discovery depended on taking high risks and using approaches that everyone thought could never work.
Host: Cindy Leifer
Guest: David Schatz

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Transfer of recombinase activity in non-lymphoid cells (Cell 1988)
Identification of the RAG-1 gene (Cell 1989)
Evolution of a recombinase (Semin Immunol 2004)
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The Immune team discusses the groundbreaking discoveries of regulatory T cells, which was the topic of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Cindy Leifer, and Brianne Barker
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Sakaguchi lab paper on FoxP3 and regulatory T cells (Science 2003)
Brunkow and Ramsdell description of scurfy mouse mutation (Nature 2001)
Nobel Prize writeup on Treg discoveries
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Susan Schwab talks about how she got the research bug, bugs she ate, and her research on how the lipid S1P helps T cells decide- should I stay or should I go.
Host: Cindy Leifer
Guest: Susan Schwab

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Monocytes produce the lipid S1P to regulate T cell movement
Review on S1P and immune cell migration
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