T Cell Homeostasis in Response to Food and Intestinal Microbiota
Event Details
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- Friday Lecture Series
- Speaker(s)
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Dan Littman, M.D., Ph.D., Helen L. and Martin S. Kimmel Professor of Molecular Immunology, department of pathology and department of cell biology, New York University School of Medicine; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- Speaker bio(s)
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Our immune system has evolved to mount responses against pathogenic microbes while tolerating self-antigens as well as the abundant dietary antigens and commensal microbiota within the intestine. The Littman laboratory studies how both food and microbiota shape gut immune responses, how the host maintains immune homeostasis, and how the microbiota can be harnessed to ameliorate inflammatory conditions or eliminate cancer cells.
Dan Littman’s laboratory has made multiple contributions towards our understanding of mechanisms that promote immune system development and roles in physiological homeostasis, particularly through interactions with microbiota and with cells of the peripheral and central nervous systems. He received Ph.D. and M.D. degrees from Washington University in St. Louis, and was Professor of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of California, San Francisco, before joining NYU, where he is the Kimmel Professor of Molecular Immunology in the Department of Cell Biology (formerly the Skirball Institute) and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
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- Tri-Institutional