Friday Lecture Series
(open to the Rockefeller community)
Friday, April 22, 2022
Rafi Ahmed, Ph.D.
Professor,
Department of Microbiology and Immunology,
Director, Emory Vaccine Center,
Eminent Scholar, Georgia Research Alliance,
Investigator, Emory Center for Aids Research,
Emory University
T Cell Lifestyle during Chronic Viral Infection and Cancer: Implications for Immunotherapy
Recommended Readings:
Empirical Articles
Chang, A., Akhtar, A., Linderman, S. L., Lai, L., Orellana-Noia, V. M., Valanparambil, R., Ahmed, H., Zarnitsyna, V. I., McCook-Veal, A. A., Switchenko, J. M., Koff, J. L., Blum, K. A., Ayers, A. A., O’Leary, C. B., Churnetski, M. C., Sulaiman, S., Kives, M., Sheng, P., Davis, C. W., Nooka, A. K., Antia, R., Dhodapkar, M.V., Suthar, M.S., Cohen, J.B., & Ahmed, R. (2022). Humoral Responses Against SARS-CoV-2 and Variants of Concern After mRNA Vaccines in Patients With Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma and Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia. Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, JCO2200088. Advance online publication.
Su, F. Y., Zhao, Q. H., Dahotre, S. N., Gamboa, L., Bawage, S. S., Silva Trenkle, A. D., Zamat, A., Phuengkham, H., Ahmed, R., Santangelo, P. J., & Kwong, G. A. (2022). In vivo mRNA delivery to virus-specific T cells by light-induced ligand exchange of MHC class I antigen-presenting nanoparticles. Science advances, 8(8), eabm7950.
Démoulins, T., Baron, M. L., Gauchat, D., Kettaf, N., Reed, S. J., Charpentier, T., Kalinke, U., Lamarre, A., Ahmed, R., Sékaly, R. P., Sarkar, S., & Kalia, V. (2022). Induction of thymic atrophy and loss of thymic output by type-I interferons during chronic viral infection. Virology, 567, 77–86.
Zarnitsyna, V. I., Akondy, R. S., Ahmed, H., McGuire, D. J., Zarnitsyn, V. G., Moore, M., Johnson, P., Ahmed, R., Li, K. W., Hellerstein, M. K., & Antia, R. (2021). Dynamics and turnover of memory CD8 T cell responses following yellow fever vaccination. PLoS computational biology, 17(10), e1009468.
Eberhardt, C. S., Kissick, H. T., Patel, M. R., Cardenas, M. A., Prokhnevska, N., Obeng, R. C., Nasti, T. H., Griffith, C. C., Im, S. J., Wang, X., Shin, D. M., Carrington, M., Chen, Z. G., Sidney, J., Sette, A., Saba, N. F., Wieland, A., & Ahmed, R. (2021). Functional HPV-specific PD-1+ stem-like CD8 T cells in head and neck cancer. Nature, 597(7875), 279–284.
