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Immunoengineering: Engineering the Immune System

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BIOENG-399: Immunoengineering

Immunoengineering is an emerging field where engineering principles are grounded in immunology. This course provides students a broad overview of how engineering approaches can be utilized to study immunology, model immune systems, modulate immune response ...

Description

This lecture explores the complexity of the immune system, focusing on dendritic cells, natural killer cells, cytokines, and the role of DNA in immunostimulation. It delves into techniques like flow cytometry, ELISA, and transcript profiling to analyze immune networks. The concept of immunoengineering is introduced, emphasizing the application of engineering principles to manipulate the immune system for therapeutic purposes. The lecture also discusses microengraving as a strategy to capture quantitative information from live cells, showcasing its potential in immunology research.

Instructor

Li Tang

Education and Training Postdoctoral Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013 - 2016 Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2007 - 2012 B.S., Peking University, 2003-2007

Official source

Ontological neighbourhood

Health sciences

Immunology: Immune system

Biology

Cell biology: Cancer

Related concepts (32)

Immune system

The immune system is a network of biological processes that protects an organism from diseases. It detects and responds to a wide variety of pathogens, from viruses to parasitic worms, as well as cancer cells and objects such as wood splinters, distinguishing them from the organism's own healthy tissue. Many species have two major subsystems of the immune system. The innate immune system provides a preconfigured response to broad groups of situations and stimuli.

Adaptive immune system

The adaptive immune system, also known as the acquired immune system, or specific immune system is a subsystem of the immune system that is composed of specialized, systemic cells and processes that eliminate pathogens or prevent their growth. The acquired immune system is one of the two main immunity strategies found in vertebrates (the other being the innate immune system). Like the innate system, the adaptive immune system includes both humoral immunity components and cell-mediated immunity components and destroys invading pathogens.

Innate immune system

The innate, or nonspecific, immune system is one of the two main immunity strategies (the other being the adaptive immune system) in vertebrates. The innate immune system is an alternate defense strategy and is the dominant immune system response found in plants, fungi, insects, and primitive multicellular organisms (see Beyond vertebrates).

Dendritic cell

A dendritic cell (DC) is an antigen-presenting cell (also known as an accessory cell) of the mammalian immune system. A DC's main function is to process antigen material and present it on the cell surface to the T cells of the immune system. They act as messengers between the innate and adaptive immune systems. Dendritic cells are present in tissues that are in contact with the body's external environment, such as the skin (where there is a specialized dendritic cell type called the Langerhans cell), and the inner lining of the nose, lungs, stomach and intestines.

Immune response

An immune response is a physiological reaction which occurs within an organism in the context of inflammation for the purpose of defending against exogenous factors. These include a wide variety of different toxins, viruses, intra- and extracellular bacteria, protozoa, helminths, and fungi which could cause serious problems to the health of the host organism if not cleared from the body. In addition, there are other forms of immune response.

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