WEHI IMM Special Seminar hosted by Associate Professor Joanna Groom
 

Caroline L Sokol MD PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Assistant Physician, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)
Associate Member, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

Neuroimmune circuits driving allergic immunity

Davis Auditorium (in-person viewing highly recommended)

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Including Q&A session

Dr Sokol is a practicing allergist and principal investigator at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School. Her laboratory studies the cutaneous neuro-immune interactions promoting allergic immune disease and underlying allergen induced itch responses. She has provided several seminal contributions to the field, establishing the cysteine protease activity of allergens as Type-2 adjuvants, illustrating a role for basophils in the skewing of Th2 cells, and identifying a requirement for CCR8 in the entry of allergic-skewing dendritic cells into the lymph node. Most recently her laboratory established sensory neurons as crucial in linking allergen detection with dendritic cell activation and the initiation of the allergic immune response. In addition to these roles, Dr Sokol is the Associate Program Director for the Physician-Scientist Pathway in the Internal Medicine Residency at MGH.

 
All welcome!