Event

I pomeriggi dell'Immunologia. Comprehensive analysis of adaptive immune responses to SARS-CoV-2

Il 15/04/2021 ore 16.00 - 17.30

Piattaforma GoToWebinar

La rete degli Immunologi del Cnr (CIN) organizza il ciclo di webinars “I pomeriggi dell’Immunologia”, con il patrocinio del Dipartimento di scienze biomediche del Cnr, per promuovere una maggiore conoscenza su alcuni temi di immunologia che sono al centro del dibattito attuale.

Tale iniziativa vuole essere un momento di incontro e di approfondimento, aperto a tutta la comunità scientifica, per condividere i risultati più recenti conseguiti nell’ambito degli studi sulla pandemia da SARS-CoV-2 e sui meccanismi chiave della risposta immunitaria.

Ad aprire il ciclo sarà il webinar tenuto da Alessandro Sette (La Jolla Institute for Immunology, CA USA) che presenterà i suoi risultati più recenti sul profilo della risposta immunitaria a SARS-CoV-2 in soggetti convalescenti e in pazienti in fase acuta di malattia. Sette ci parlerà della cross-reattività tra SARS-CoV-2 e i comuni coronavirus a livello della risposta T mediata.

Alessandro Sette has devoted more than 35 years to understanding basic mechanisms of antigen recognition and immune responses, measuring and predicting immune activity, and developing disease intervention strategies against cancer, infectious diseases, autoimmune diseases and allergies. His early work, in the mid-80s to mid-90s, related to the demonstration that the main biological function of MHC is to bind epitopes. From those studies, we further developed the notion that different MHCs have distinct binding specificities that can be used to predict epitopes. Since then, our group has defined motifs for over one hundred different class I and class II MHC variants expressed from humans, and several other species. Throughout the last 17 years, he has been the PI of the Immune Epitope Database and Analysis Resource, freely available to the scientific community, which hosts immune reactivity data, and a series of bioinformatics algorithms to assist in the prediction and evaluation of immune responses. Sette's group also discovered and characterized how MHC variants can be grouped according to broad functional specificities (MHC supertypes), greatly facilitating epitope classification, characterization and understanding the basic rules of epitope-MHC interactions. Over the last 36 years, Sette has been continuously involved in hundreds of epitope identification studies, in cancer, autoimmunity, allergy, and infectious disease. By probing the IEDB, it can be established that I have been involved in identifying over 8,000 different T cell epitopes. A recent focus of his laboratory has been the study of SARS Cov2 T cell immunity.

Complete List of Published Work:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/myncbi/alessandro.sette.1/bibliography/40968398/public/?sort=date&direction=ascending

 

Organizzato da:
Cnr - Ibbc

Referente organizzativo:
Maria Rosaria Coscia
Cnr - Istituto di biochimica e biologia cellulare
Via P. Castellino, 111 80131 Napoli
mariarosaria.coscia@ibbc.cnr.it
081 6132556

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