Lecture Series: Emergence of Adaptive Immunity: The Answer to Everything


Event Type:
IBBR Seminar Series
Contact Person:
Nicole Tenly

Event Info


Date:
Monday, January 25 2021 - 11:00am to 12:00pm
Location:
Auditorium

Event Details


Speaker:
Martin Flajnik
Title:
Professor
Affiliation:
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Description:

Emergence of Adaptive Immunity: The Answer to Everything 

Adaptive immunity in jawed vertebrates (Gnathostomes) is centered on Ig, TCR, and the MHC, as well as RAG-mediated VDJ recombination, AID-mediated somatic hypermutation, and responses initiated in secondary lymphoid tissues. All of these characteristics are present in the oldest living gnathostomes, the sharks. Interestingly, our data would argue that Ig, TCR, and MHC are derived from a primordial genetic region that can be followed by examining genome-wide duplications early in the history of the vertebrates.

 

MFlajnik@som.umaryland.edu

 

Meeting link:

https://umd.webex.com/umd/j.php?MTID=m9658b87f897d9d8dc01b1b66ea3b3788 

Meeting number:

120 343 9282

Password:

wJpHeMCv538

 

 

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