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Immune

Vincent Racaniello

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Frequency: 1 episode/23d. Total Eps: 140

A podcast about the body's defenders against disease.

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Immune 98: T cells on the brain

Episode 98

Tuesday, November 25, 2025 • Duration 01:31:47

Immune discusses cross-reactive antibodies to avian influenza neuraminidases and a role for gut-derived T cells in the brain to regulate eating behavior.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Cindy Leifer, Steph Langel, and Brianne Barker

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MicrobeTV Discord Server
Antibody cross-reactivity to influenza H5N1 (Cell Host Microbe, 2025)
Gut-derived T cells regulate behavior (Nature, 2025)
Time stamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!

Music by Tatami.
Immune logo image by Blausen Medical

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Information on this podcast should not be construed as medical advice.

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Immune Booster 19: Virus-immune Tug-of-war with Kristian Andersen

Tuesday, November 11, 2025 • Duration 01:00:22

Kristian Andersen from Scripps Research Institute joins Cindy to talk about how he got interested in virus evolution, how the immune system drives viral adaptation, and what we can learn from this research to better prepare us for the next pandemic.

Host: Cindy Leifer

Guest: Kristian Andersen

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MicrobeTV Discord Server
Andersen Lab website
Perspective on Immunological drivers of virus emergence
Kristian's appearance on TWiV 774
Time stamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!

Music by Tatami.
Logo image by Blausen Medical

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Information on this podcast should not be construed as medical advice.

Immune Booster #14: In the eye of immune responses with Darren Lee

Tuesday, July 8, 2025 • Duration 28:31

From the 2024 Society for Leukocyte Biology meeting, Cindy and Brianne talk with Darren Lee to discuss his career, how he got interested in immunology of the eye, and how his team visualizes immune responses of the eye in real time with the hope of better understanding autoimmune uveitis.

Hosts: Cindy Leifer and Brianne Barker

Guest: Darren Lee

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MicrobeTV Discord Server
The eye is an immunosuppressive environment (Adv Drug Delivery Rev 2023)
Tregs control autoimmune uveitis (Sci Rep 2025)
TIGIT, Tregs, and autoimmune uveitis (J Leuk Biol 2024)
Society for Leukocyte Biology
Time stamps by Jolene . Thanks!

Immune 17: Feed a macrophage, starve a tumor

Episode 17

Wednesday, February 13, 2019 • Duration 01:08:23

The immunophiles explain how metabolic rewiring of macrophages by CpG promotes clearance of cancer cells.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Stephanie Langel, and Cynthia Leifer

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Darwin Day
Metabolic rewiring of macrophages by CpG (Nat Immunol)
Letters read on Immune 17
Time stamps by Jolene. Thanks!

Weekly Science Picks

Steph- Pregnant Scholar
Cindy- Anti-vaxxers vaccinating against measles
Vincent- Center for Science in the Public Interest

Music by Steve Neal. Immune logo image by Blausen Medical.

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Immune 16: B is for Bursa

Episode 16

Saturday, January 19, 2019 • Duration 01:12:43

The Immune team turns to chickens, which have been important in understanding the immune system, to show that infection of mature B cells is not required for the pathogenesis of Marek's disease herpesvirus.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Stephanie Langel, and Cynthia Leifer

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Role of B cells in Marek's disease pathogenesis (PNAS)
In ovo vaccination (YouTube)
First chickens lacking B cells (PNAS)
Letters read on Immune 16
Time stamps by Jolene. Thanks!

Weekly Science Picks

Steph - 7 Days Out
Cindy - Watson PBS documentary and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory - and

Immune 15: Happy neu-trophil year

Episode 15

Saturday, December 22, 2018 • Duration 01:26:27

Stephanie takes the Immune team on a tour of neutrophils, the most abundant leukocytes in mammals, including tethers and slings, neutrophil rolling, and neutrophil nets.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Stephanie Langel, and Cynthia Leifer

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Slings enable neutrophil rolling (Nature)
Sling video (La Jolla Inst Allergy Immunol)
Neutrophil extracellular traps kill bacteria (Science)
Neutrophil review (Sci Immunol)
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Time stamps by Jolene. Thanks!

Weekly Science Picks

Steph- Should reviewers remain anonymous?
Cindy- Breast Cancer Research Foundation - (The Scientist)

Immune 14: Braking bad

Episode 14

Wednesday, November 14, 2018 • Duration 01:20:17

The Immune team explains the science behind the 2018 Nobel Prizes awarded to Allison and Honjo: checkpoint immunotherapy.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Stephanie Langel, and Cynthia Leifer

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2018 Nobel Prize in Medicine
2018 Nobel Prize in Medicine (pdf)
What's in a name?(Can Res Inst)
Checkpoint inhibitor failures(Nature)
Image credit
Time stamps by Jolene. Thanks!

Weekly Science Picks

Steph- Immunobites
Cindy- List of immunology Nobels -

Immune 13: Do no harm

Episode 13

Saturday, October 20, 2018 • Duration 01:17:01

The ImmuNerds discuss how a cellular long non-coding RNA binds to an innate RNA sensor and regulates virus-induced interferon production to prevent damage to the host.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Stephanie Langel, and Cynthia Leifer

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Host lncRNA binds RIG-I (Cell)
Microbe Art at virology blog
Letters read on Immune 13
Time stamps by Jolene. Thanks!

Weekly Science Picks

Steph- That's Pediatrics Podcast
Cindy- Trilobite Glassworks
Vincent- Research!America

Music by Steve Neal. Immune logo image by .

Immune 12: Systems immunology

Episode 12

Wednesday, September 19, 2018 • Duration 01:11:39

The Immune trifecta explores systems immunology, and its use in a study of immune system development in newborn children.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Stephanie Langel, and Cynthia Leifer

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Immune system development in newborns (Cell)
Dead parrots and live wildcats (TWiV 185)
Pathogenesis card game (JAMA)
Letters read on Immune 12

Weekly Science Picks

Steph- Kaleidoscopean
Cindy- 500 women scientists
Vincent- NIH budget increase 2019

Music by Steve Neal. Immune logo image by Blausen Medical.

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Immune 11: Immunomimetic designer cells

Episode 11

Saturday, August 18, 2018 • Duration 01:08:33

Cindy and Vincent describe the construction of a gene network that programs mammalian cells to detect and eliminate bacterial infections.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Cynthia Leifer

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Immunomimetic designer cells (Cell)
Antimicrobial drug resistance (NIH)
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Letters read on Immune 11

Science Picks

Cindy - No Tdap link to autism
Vincent- Unpaywall

Music by Steve Neal. Immune logo image by Blausen Medical.

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