Friday Lecture Series
(open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities)
Friday, October 24, 2025
Dan Littman, M.D., Ph.D.
Helen L. and Martin S. Kimmel Professor of Molecular Immunology, Department of Pathology and Department of Cell Biology, New York University School of Medicine; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
T Cell Homeostasis in Response to Food and Intestinal Microbiota
Recommended Readings:
Fu, Liuhui, et al. “PRDM16-dependent antigen-presenting cells induce tolerance to gut antigens.” Nature (2025): 1-3.
Britton, Graham J., et al. “Inflammatory disease microbiomes share a functional pathogenicity predicted by C-reactive protein.” bioRxiv (2025).
Vidal, Vinícius M., et al. “Disease tolerant mice shelter a pathogenic intestinal microbiota able to trigger lethal disease in low tolerant hosts.” bioRxiv (2025): 2025-02.
Kedmi, Ranit, and Dan R. Littman. “Antigen-presenting cells as specialized drivers of intestinal T cell functions.” Immunity 57.10 (2024): 2269-2279.
Najar, Tariq A., et al. “Microbiota-induced plastic T cells enhance immune control of antigen-sharing tumors.” bioRxiv (2024).
