Ebi2 drives intranodal naïve CD4+ T cell peripheralization to promote effective adaptive immunity

Ebi2 drives intranodal naïve CD4+ T cell peripheralization to promote    effective adaptive immunity

Speaker: Dr Antonio Baptista, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Host: Professor Catherine Hawrylowicz

Dr Baptista’s interests lie at the intersection between anatomy and physiology, i.e how tissue organization influences cell identity and function. Using the immune system as a biological model, he is interested in decoding how tissue anatomy and intercellular communication within lymphoid and non-lymphoid effector tissues determines immune cell functional diversification.

Recent publications:

Mao K, Baptista AP et al., “Innate and adaptive lymphocytes sequentially shape the gut microbiota and lipid metabolism.” Nature 554: 255-259, 2018.

Baptista AP, Gola A, Huang Y, Milanez-Almeida P, Torabi-Parizi P, Urban JF, Shapiro VS, Gerner MY, Germain RN. “The chemoattractant receptor Ebi2 drives intranodal naïve CD4+ T cell peripheralization to promote effective adaptive immunity .” Immunity (In Press).