IUIS-IIS-FIMSA-Immuno-Jaipur Basic and Advanced Translation Immunology Course brought together experts in the field of immunology from across the globe to interact and discuss with the young researchers and clinicians.The opening session was addressed by Dr. Narinder Mehra...
2019
IUIS Beijing ICI 2019
Last month, the official International Union of Immunological Societies (IUIS) conference that took place in Beijing, China. ICI 2019 was opened by 3 wonderful talks by Nobel Laureates Peter Doherty, Jules Hoffman and Tasuku Honjo. Peter Doherty gave a brilliant history of Immunology...
IDA Highlight: What’s New in anti-HIV humoral immunity.
Humoral immunity is one of the most studied aspects of anti-HIV immunity. This year IDA Symposium faculty members gave talks on various aspects of anti-HIV humoral immunity. Richard Koup, began his talk highlighting why we currently don’t have an HIV vaccine.
IDA Highlight: Current state of malaria vaccines
We had two talks on Malaria research, one that focuses on understanding immune responses associated with repeated malaria infections, and the other on malaria vaccinology titled “Vaccine-Induced Antibody-Mediated Immunity Against Malaria”...
IDA Highlight: Scanning the TCR repertoire to inform new TB vaccine targets
There are 4000 known M.tb antigens, current strategies exploring potential epitopes to target use IFN-Y ELISA to determine cellular responses to people infected (versus uninfected) to see if they elicit a good response to M.tb antigens...
IDA Highlight: Possible barriers and opportunities for HIV cure
Thumbi N’dungu from African Health Research Institute (AHRI) was one of the faculty members, who presented on “Possible barriers and opportunities for HIV cure in patients who initiate treatment during acute HIV infection.” His presentation...
IDA Highlight: Not all levels of malaria exposure induce the same anti-malarial immunity
We highlight Dr Yaw Bediako’s (faculty) presentation on “Performing immunological studies in human cohorts - Systems approaches to studying immunity to malaria”.
IDA Highlight: Immune responses to TB vaccines
Dr Elisa Nemes from SATVI presented on the current status of TB vaccinology, where she primarily focused immunological aspects of tested vaccine strategies. Immunoprofiling of TB-vaccine induced immunity, still primarily focuses on...
IDA Highlight: CD4 T cells in HIV infection
CD4 T cells are well known as the main target for HIV infection, however, their T cell antiviral activity during His infection is not as well known. This year the IDA invited Dr Zaza Ndhlovu from the African Health Research Initiative, to be one of the faculty members of the HIV themed session, where he presented...
Career Advice from IDA faculty that were once previous IDA Scholars
The 9th IDA Symposium began with a "Science and Career Advice" session presented by speakers who were once IDA as a student or Post-Doc, and are now faculty members. Highlights of their talks were: Yaw Bediako (YB): "Be active in your science career