The evolutionary trajectory of vertebrate adaptive immune systems
This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
Lymphocytes of vertebrate adaptive immune systems acquired the capability to assemble, from split genes in the germline, billions of functional antigen receptors. I will, discuss the co-evolutionary origin of somatic diversification of antigen receptors and programmable genome editors, the evolutionary trajectory of quality control mechanisms that suppress undesired self-reactivity, and the unusual structures of immunogenomes of species exercising natural parabiosis
Date:
7 March 2024, 12:00 (Thursday, 8th week, Hilary 2024)
Venue:
MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details:
Seminar Room
Speaker:
Dr Thomas Boehm (The Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology & Epigenetics, Munich)
Organising department:
MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine
Organiser:
Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address:
seminar.admin@imm.ox.ac.uk
Host:
Oliver Bannard
Booking required?:
Recommended
Booking email:
seminar.admin@imm.ox.ac.uk
Audience:
Members of the University only
Editor:
Yasmine Saito
