Guest:
Dr. Theresa Alenghat is a Professor in the Immunobiology Division and the Margaret K. Hostetter Chair at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati. Her lab investigates mechanisms underlying the host-microbiota relationship, and how this regulation affects intestinal immunity and inflammatory bowel disease. She discusses how butyrate affects tuft cells in the intestine.
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The Immunology Round Up
Ancient Cheese – Researchers retrieved DNA from ancient kefir cheese to study how human-microbial interactions contribute to the adaptation of domesticated lactobacilli.
Mitochondrial Movement – Mitochondrial transfer augments CD8+ T cell mitochondria