DEM Monthly Snapshot

Monthly Snapshot

May 2024 | Edited by: Meredith Lew Tan

DEM at Keystone

Rania Bouzeyen from the Javid lab gave a short talk titled: Antibody-mediated Immunity to Early M. Tuberculosis Infection in Mice Depends on NLRP3 Inflammasome Formation.

Weihao Zheng from the Ernst Lab gave a short talk titled: Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Resides in Lysosome-poor Monocyte-derived Lung Cells during Chronic Infection

Paul Ogongo presented a poster at Keystone meeting entitled “Peptide domain mapping of M72/AS01E tuberculosis vaccine to identify T cell correlates of vaccine-induced immunity”. Julia Huffaker is the SRA I he works with for this project and generated the data that was presented. M72/AS01E vaccine generated 50% efficacy at preventing active TB disease in infected individuals in Phase IIb clinical trial and just entered Phase III clinical trial in March 2024.

The Suliman Lab's, Angel Ruvalcaba and the Ernst Lab's Alex Mohapatra and Zach Howard also presented posters.

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Announcements

DEM Guacamole Contest - 5/10 at 3 PM

Thank you to all of you who attended the annual DEM Guacamole Contest. Congratulations to the Henrich Lab for winning this year.

ImmunoX (MHC) Mental Health Summit

The 3rd Annual ImmunoX Mental Health Coalition’s Mental Health Summit is next Friday, May 17^th at Parnassus from 12-5. We hope you all can join us for this event! If you haven’t registered yet, please do, and please pass along to your lab!

They will have a mental health keynote speaker, lunch, scientific talks from 5 UCSF researchers that will share their work that focuses on/is related to mental health and immunology, and a faculty/trainee panel and discussion. This summit is an important event where the UCSF community can come together to listen, learn, and talk openly about mental health in hopes of de-stigmatizing mental health issues in science and academia. We hope to see you all there!

Registration link: https://lu.ma/MHCsummit2024