IUIS Beijing ICI 2019 Presentations Summaries

Eighteen members of the Division of Immunology attended the 17th International Congress of Immunology held in Beijing in October 2019. Twelve of the attendees provided summaries of their presentations and posters. Find them all below.

• Khanyisile Kgoadi - Recruited brain conventional dendritic cells and T cells promote protection against CNS-TB

• Lorna Gcanga - IL-4/IL-13-inducible lincRNA-MIR99AHG regulates macrophage polarization and promotes intracellular survival of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

• Shandre Pillay - The effect of long non-coding RNA-125 on mouse and human macrophage polarization during Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection

• Cheleka Mpande - Investigating the Mycobacterium tuberculosis-specific CD4 T cell memory profiles: A comparison of immune responses between recent and remote M.tb infection

• Tiroyaone Bogale - Microglia play a significant role in interleukin 4 receptor alpha directed cognition

• Sabelo Hadebe - New function of immunoglobulin M isotype in allergic asthma

• Nada Abdel Aziz - IL-4Rα is required by Foxp3+ regulatory T cells to control tissue inflammation

• Paballo Mosala - Absence of cysteinyl leukotriene receptor-1 (cysLTR1) ameliorates liver granulomatous inflammation during schistosomiasis

• Nadia Ikumi - Regulatory T cells at the maternal foetal interface in HIV-infected

• Emily Tangie - The Effect of Malaria on the Efficacy of BCG vaccine against Mycobacterium tuberculosis in mice

• Avril Walters - The influence of TNFRp75 on alveolar macrophage and neutrophil responses to early BCG infection

• Sohair Geyer - Investigating Host Immune Responses in Astrocytes During CNS-TB Infection