The next invited guest speaker in the at the Inflammation Repair and Development Section’s seminar series Professor Paul Kubes. Paul is a world-renowned immunologist and imaging expert from the University of Calgary in Canada.
This event will be chaired by Professor Clare Lloyd and available on Microsoft Teams.
Biography
Professor Paul Kubes is a Professor in the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology at the University of Calgary, Canada. Paul heads the University’s Research Strategy for Infections, Inflammation, and Chronic Diseases in the Changing Environment and is the Canada Research Chair in Leukocyte Migration. He has interrogated the immune system using cutting edge imaging technology, including spinning-disk confocal, resonant-scanning confocal, and multi-photon microscopy approaches to image immune cells in transgenic and knockout mouse models. His research has been able to delineate molecular mechanisms that contribute to the recruitment of leukocytes to sites of inflammation and his work has provided an understanding of the multi-step cascade of leukocyte recruitment, including proteins responsible for engaging leukocytes and tethering them to the endothelium, as well as examining the proteins that contribute to leukocyte migration out of the vasculature. By imaging complex cellular behaviors in real time, Professor Kubes has helped us develop a visual comprehension into how immune cells, such as neutrophils, monocytes, macrophages, eosinophils, and iNKT cells function under physiological and pathological disease states.