WEHI Special Inflammation Seminar hosted by Professor James Murphy

Professor Sherri Christian

Atlantic Cancer Consortium  - Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada

Extracellular Vesicles in B cell development and Activation
 

Davis Auditorium

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Including Q&A session

Dr Sherri Christian completed her PhD at the University of British Columbia in 2004 under the supervision of Dr Mike Gold. The focus of her PhD was on signaling in B lymphocytes. She did two post-doctoral fellowships, both on cell signaling, before obtaining her current position at Memorial University of Newfoundland in 2010, where she is now a full Professor. Her current research focus is on cell-cell communication between normal cells or normal and cancer cells. Her talk will focus on work from her lab studying extracellular vesicles (EVs) secreted from B cells. These bioactive EVs are specifically released from B cells in response to engagement of the pro-apoptotic receptor CD24 and carry functional receptors between B cells. She will discuss the role of these EVs including potential cell targets as well as the signaling pathway that regulates their release.

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