The Peters Laboratory for Chronic Infectious Diseases

10/01/2021

Congratulations to first author Leah Shan Hohman on her publication investigating the requirements for effective protective immunity against the parasitic infectious disease Leishmaniasis.
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Author summary Ongoing chronic infection with the intracellular parasite Leishmania major results in robust protective immunity at sites of secondary challenge. However, translation of our understanding of this protective response into an efficient vaccine has remained elusive. This is due, at least...

09/07/2021

Congrats to Lab Member Matheus Carneiro on the publication of his review: The Paradox of a Phagosomal Lifestyle: How Innate Host Cell-Leishmania amazonensis Interactions Lead to a Progressive Chronic Disease

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2021.728848/full?&utm_source=Email_to_authors_&utm_medium=Email&utm_content=T1_11.5e1_author&utm_campaign=Email_publication&field=&journalName=Frontiers_in_Immunology&id=728848

04/27/2021

We will be participating in a Panel Discussion in celebration of International Day of Immunology on April 29th talking about COVID and the science of immunology!

On April 29, World Immunology Day, join the Snyder Institute for Chronic Diseases and Calgary Public Library for "Using Our Immune System to Understand, Control and Defeat COVID-19". Meet our immunologists – experts who are scientists, clinicians, community
members, and parents – to hear their perspectives and ask your
questions about the response to the pandemic and our path forward. Featured speakers: Dr. Jennifer Corcoran, Dr. Christopher Mody, and Dr. Nathan Peters. Facilitator: Dr. Raj Bhardwaj. Free registration here https://bit.ly/3n57Atd

04/13/2021

Join us on Thursday at 10:30 AM MST for an engaging talk by Research Associate Matheus Carneiro...
https://ucalgary.zoom.us/j/91604954362?from=addon…
Meeting ID: 916 0495 4362
Presenting work from: https://sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S193131282030175X…

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The impact of T helper (Th) 1 versus Th2 immunity on intracellular infections is attributed to classical versus alternative activation of macrophages …

03/26/2021

Snyder Institute Mini-Medical School April 12!

Mini-Medical School is designed for members of the general public who are interested in learning more about chronic diseases and topics such as va**ng associated lung disease, vaccines and preventable diseases, mental health and the microbiome, obesity and exercise, arthritis and autoinflammatory di...

02/18/2021

Art and Science Meet: UCalgary Host-Parasite Interactions Network member teamed with Jennifer Danvers on Window Art Installation for Chinook Blast. On display DT Calgary at The Roslyn (400 5 Ave SW – 3 St facing) until Feb 28th.

https://www.chinookblast.ca/the-hub/the-art-of-science

February 19-28

01/26/2021

Undergraduate Summer Student Emily Bennet talks about summer 'research' in the time of COVID.

By Emily Bennett The beginning of my research experience this past summer was a unique one, and it came with some unique lessons. For a little background, I started a summer studentship this past M…

12/12/2020

Congratulations to Peters Lab Trainees Leah Hohman and Nonso Nzelu on being selected for Oral Presentations at the 2020 ASMTH Meeting. Also congratulations to Leah for receiving support from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund to attend the 2021 Meeting in Washington D.C. Data from Matheus Carneiro on Th1/Th2 Cross-regulation in Leishmaniasis was also part of the Monocyte Symposium.

12/12/2020

Congratulation to Peters Lab Trainees Adam Ranson (UCalgary M.Sc.) and Gabriel Ferland (UoT - Undergraduate Summer Student 2018, 2020) on their acceptance into UCalgary Medical School.

07/29/2020

Work from the Peters Lab is featured in todays issue of the University of Calgary Magazine, UToday...

https://ucalgary.ca/news/ucalgary-researchers-unlock-new-insights-could-help-vaccine-development?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiT0Rka1pqVTVPR0pqWW1ZMyIsInQiOiJSZUpGUFZWQkZMNGpzY0JXQysrcUhpZUk5UFNvYzUwR3duMVExV21TZUlvc2FCTjc3VndmZmtmeUJhR0VtWW9CeFwvY0wrczA4VFVyM1RNZlRIRVwvMVpKdDJsS2hjVE80WmxOMFRVYW5KMElrN2JaRitUeXR2ZGpacGpQOFwvcGJnUiJ9

Study finds immune responses thought to be non-protective are actually essential

07/02/2020

The Peters Lab is currently looking for graduate students. Send us a message!

04/17/2020

Our new paper in Cell Host and Microbe examining how the balance between components of the immune system influences infection outcome in an unexpected way. Congratulation Matheus Carneiro and Leah Hohman from the Peters Lab and all of our other co-authors and contributors!

Caneiro et al. show during early Leishmaniainfection of the skin, Th1/Th2 cross-regulationinitially controls the size of the permissive host cell reservoir, while influencing phagocyte activation. The parasite takes advantage of Th1-dependent monocyte recruitment to establish a replication niche an...

01/30/2020

Award winners at Kananaskis Inflammation Workshop Congrats Peters Lab Trainees Matheus and

10/28/2019

https://snyder.ucalgary.ca/community/minimedical

Dr, Dylan Pillai and I are giving a public lecture on Monday, Nov 4, 2019 on the topic of "Travellers’ health: An ounce of prevention a pound of cure: Infections in the Tropics."

Mini-Medical School is designed for members of the general public who are interested in learning more about chronic diseases and topics such as travellers' health, vaccines and preventable diseases, mental health and the microbiome, obesity and exercise, arthritis and autoinflammatory diseases in ki...

09/13/2019

Annual Lab Hiking Trip saw us tackle Ha Ling peak near Canmore, AB. Not everyone made it but those who did saw... not much, we were totally fogged in.

06/02/2019

Rise of the Vector: how arthropod blood feeding alters a vector-transmitted disease. Nonso Nzelu talking about sand flies during the UoC Host-Parasite Interactions seminar this week

05/19/2019

What if memory is not enough? Our new review examining protective immunity against a group of infections that have so far eluded our vaccine efforts, using Leishmaniasis as a model system.

The generation of an efficacious vaccine that elicits protective CD4+ T cell-mediated immunity has been elusive. The lack of a vaccine against the Leishmania parasite is particularly perplexing as infected individuals acquire life-long immunity to reinfection. Experimental observations suggest that....

04/18/2019

Just returned from a great Woods Hole Immuno-parasitology meeting (WHIP) at