Immunology Seminar Series, Clarissa Campbell

    Immunology Seminar Series

    November 1st at 14:00 – 15:00 (Finland time)

    Virtual event

     

    Clarissa Campbell, Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (CeMM):
    Reciprocal interactions between Metabolism and Immunity

    Host: Riitta Lahesmaa (rilahes@utu.fi )

    Registration latest October 31st at: https://link.webropolsurveys.com/S/93424EB9FFCA7C25

    Immunology seminar series is jointly organised by the Finnish Society for Immunology, InFLAMES Flagship and Turku Bioscience. For further information contact Anne Lahdenperä (ankahy@utu.fi) or Riitta Lahesmaa (rilahes@utu.fi), University of Turku.

     

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    Clarissa Campbell studied Biology with a minor in Genetics at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and subsequently earned a master’s degree from the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (FIOCRUZ) investigating how bacterial molecules exert immunomodulatory effects on mammalian cells via nuclear receptors, a topic she would continue to explore throughout her career. She joined the Tri-Institutional Immunology and Microbial Pathogenesis Program at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York as a graduate student where she specialized in mucosal immunology and regulatory T (Treg) cell biology. After obtaining her PhD, Clarissa remained under the mentorship of Dr. Alexander Rudensky at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center to continue her work on host- commensal interactions and pursue broader scientific questions bridging the fields of immunology and metabolism. Her research has characterized a circuit whereby microbial metabolites including short-chain fatty acids and secondary bile acids facilitate the differentiation of peripherally induced Treg cells, which in turn suppress immune responses to colonization and preserve a niche for a group of intestinal bacteria. More recently, she found that a bile acid-sensing nuclear receptor contributes to the cell-intrinsic responsiveness of effector T cells to fasting. Clarissa Campbell joined CeMM as a principal investigator in July 2021. Her lab is interested in investigating how changes in microbial and organismal metabolism contribute to regulate immune cell function.

    Selected Papers

    Michaels AJ, Campbell C, Bou-Puerto  R, Rudensk AY. Nuclear receptor LXRβ controls fitness and functionality of activated T cells. J Exp Med 2021 Apr 5;218(4):e20201311.

    Campbell C, Marchildon  F, Michaels AJ, Takemoto N, van der Veeken J, Schizas M, Pritykin Y, Leslie CS, Intlekofer AM, Cohen P, Rudensky AY. FXR mediates T cell-intrinsic responses to reduced feeding during infection. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 2020 Dec 29;117(52):33446-33454.

    Campbell C, McKenney PT, Konstantinovsky  D, Isaeva OI, Schizas M, Verter J, Mai C, Jin W-B, Guo C-J, Violante S, Ramos RJ, Cross JR, Kadaveru K, Hambor J, Rudensky AY. Bacterial metabolism of bile acids promotes generation of peripheral regulatory T cells. Nature. 2020 May;581(7809):475-479.

    Campbell C, Dikiy S, Bhattarai SK, Chinen T, Matheis F, Calafiore M, Hoyos B, Hanash A, Mucida D, Bucci V, Rudensky AY. Extrathymically Generated Regulatory T Cells Establish a Niche for Intestinal Border-Dwelling Bacteria and Affect Physiologic Metabolite Balance. Immunity. 2018 Jun 19;48(6):1245-1257.e9.

    Arpaia N, Campbell  C, Fan X, Dikiy S, van der Veeken J, deRoos P, Liu H, Cross JR, Pfeffer K, Coffer PJ, Rudensky AY. Metabolites produced by commensal bacteria promote peripheral regulatory T-cell generation. Nature. 2013 Dec 19;504(7480):451-5.