Some Light Reading on Immunology

Sign up for your spot in The Biology of Immunology (Jan-Jun 2022 @ IPAK-EDU)

A little light reading as I being to prepare course material for The Biology of Immunology @ IPAK-EDU. This in addition to the tens of thousands of papers on Immunology. Here's the working syllabus. Reserve your seat today!

https://ipak-edu.org/old-home-2/?store-page=The-Biology-of-the-Immune-System-p412473268

IPAK-EDU

Syllabus – The Biology of the Immune System

Spring 2022 (January-June)

Instructor: James Lyons-Weiler, PhD

Live class meetings: Day TBA @ 1PM ET via Zoom

If you miss a class, don’t worry. Lecture videos will be available after each class.

Course description: In a series of live online presentations and discussions, students will learn the fundamentals of the biology of the immune system and become well-informed and primed for discussions in the public sphere.There will be recommended readings, additional recommended videos, recommended books.There are no quizzes or exams. Students are encouraged to think of questions during each lecture to be ready to facilitate the live discussion after each lecture.

Lecture Schedule Topics (15 or 16 lectures in total, tentative, subject to change)

1 Background and Course Overview

2 History of Immunology

3 First Defenses

4 Innate Immunity Overview

5 Adaptive Immunity Overview (Adaptive Immunity is Recombination Defense)

6 Gastroimmunity

7 Immune System and Development (Immunohomeostasis)

8 Autoimmunity (Processes, Nervous System, Cardiovascular System, Metabolism)

9 Anaphylaxis, Mast Cell Disease

10 Asthma is an Autoimmune Condition

11 Immunology and Cancer

12 Immunology and Degenerative Diseases

13 Microglia and Your Brain

14 Pathogen/Host Interactions

15 Immunotoxins

16 SARS-COV-2, COVID-19 and Human Immunity