Society for Mucosal Immunology

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News & Newsletters | 5/27/2021

Benjamin Marsland, PhD, Named Editor-in-Chief of Mucosal Immunology

The Society for Mucosal Immunology (SMI) is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Benjamin Marsland as the new Editor-in-Chief of Mucosal Immunology, succeeding Dr. Brian Kelsall who has stepp...

Featured Papers | 4/6/2021

Clonal expansion and activation of tissue-resident memory-like TH17 cells expressing GM-CSF in the lungs of patients with severe COVID-19

Single cell profiling of bronchoalveolar lavage samples from #COVID19 patients identifies TRM populations expressing IL-17 and GM-CSF that are associated with disease severity

News & Newsletters | 3/22/2021

Exploiting albumin as a mucosal vaccine chaperone for robust generation of lung-resident memory T cells

A recent publication in Science Immunology by the laboratory of Darrell Irvine at Massachusetts Institute of Technology describes a new approach to mucosal vaccine development.