“Why would a neutrophil biologist study macrophages?”

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About our speaker:
Dr. Paul Kubes is a Professor at the University of Calgary Cumming School of Medicine and Founding Director of the Snyder Institute for Chronic Diseases. He also holds a Canada Research Chair in Leukocyte Recruitment in inflammatory disease.

The Kubes lab is committed to understanding complex immune responses in the context of human clinical disease. Their primary focus is to directly visualize the roles of immune cells during inflammation, infection and tissue injury. The Kubes lab is leading the way in directly imaging the immune system using cutting edge technology, including spinning-disk confocal, resonant-scanning confocal, and multi-photon microscopy. By imaging complex cellular behaviors in real time, both in vitro and in vivo, they can now begin to understand how immune cells, such as neutrophils, monocytes, NKT cells and Kupffer cells function under physiological and pathological disease states.

Dr. Kubes has received numerous awards including the CIHR Investigator of the Year in 2011 for his basic science work on how the brain affects immunity. He has also received the Alberta Science and Technology Award and the Henry Friesen Award. Dr. Kubes has published basic science work in Cell, Science and the Nature journals and also has publications in both clinical journals including Lancet and more translational journals (JCI). His latest work has uncovered a key role for peritoneal cavity macrophage in healing visceral organs.

Visit the Kubes Lab Website for more information on Dr. Kubes’ research.

I3V host: Dr. Brent Johnston