Creating Memory: Vaccines & Immunity

We talk with Dr. Hanover Matz, Postdoctoral Research Associate in Pathology and Immunology at Washington University School of Medicine, MO, who uses human vaccine studies as well as comparisons to other vertebrate immune systems to understand how adaptive immunity has evolved and how we can use that information to generate more effective vaccines.

We talk with Dr. Seth Zost, Research Instructor in the Vanderbilt Vaccine Center at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, TN, who is developing new approaches to define how antibody responses to SARS-CoV-2 and influenza viruses shape the antigenic evolution of these viruses.

We talk with Dr. Brett Case, Instructor of Infectious Diseases at Washington University School of Medicine, MO, who studies how to generate cross-protective and sterilizing mucosal immunity following vaccination.

We talk with Dr. Christina Stallings, Professor of Molecular Microbiology at Washington University School of Medicine, MO, who studies host molecules important for mycobacterium tuberculosis pathogenesis to develop new therapies to treat mycobacterium infection and disease. 

We talk with Dr. Robert Seder, Chief of the Cellular Immunology Section of the Vaccine Research Center in Bethesda, MD, who studies how changing the route of vaccination can improve immunity and protection against pathogens.

We talk with Dr. Nardhy Gomez-Lopez, a professor at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO, who studies the immunology of pregnancy and birth to identify biomarkers that may predict adverse outcomes.

We talk with Dr. Gabriel Victora, an associate professor and HHMI investigator at The Rockefeller University in NY, NY, who studies how antibodies are generated in response to infection and immunization through the evolutionary process of affinity maturation in germinal centers.

We talk with Dr. Helen Chu, a physician and professor at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA, who studies the transmission of respiratory viruses in the community and correlates of immune protection induced by maternal vaccines against these viruses.