September 7, 2023
Amanda Jamieson to present Division of Biology Seminar
Submitted by Division of Biology
Amanda Jamieson, associate professor of molecular microbiology and immunology at Brown University, will present her research, "Mediating Host Tolerance and Innate Immune Triage: The Lung as a Central Regulator," as part of the Division of Biology Seminar Series at 3:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 11, in 221 Ackert Hall.
Jamieson is interested in understanding how the immune system can respond to multiple inflammatory insults at the same time. Specifically, Jamieson seeks to understand how the lung orchestrates the local, organismal, and systemic responses through the lens of balancing host tolerance and resistance. Disease tolerance is the concept that in order to survive an infection, the host must not only clear the pathogen but withstand changes to homeostasis triggered by both the pathogen and the host response. This talk focuses on two interrelated areas: understanding host disease tolerance and the innate immune response to complex respiratory infections with viral pathogens and bacteria; and understanding how the immune system responds to two competing inflammatory insults or “immune triage.”
If you would like to visit with Jamieson, please contact Pankaj Baral at baral@k-state.edu.