Immune Booster 26: Immune defense against parasitic worms with Irah King

Irah King from McGill University talks about his passion to understand how our immune system detects and responds to helminthic worm infections, how the worms can reprogram those responses, and how these pathways might be exploited to develop new treatments for inflammatory diseases.

Host: Cindy Leifer

Guest: Irah King

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Links for this episode

• MicrobeTV Discord Server
• King lab at McGill
• Stromal cells and disease tolerance against intestinal infection (Cell, 2025)
• Helminth-Microbiome Interactions in Early Life (Cell, Host, & Microbe, 2024)
• BCL6, CD4T cells and parasitic infection (Mucoslal Immunol, 2023)
• Helminths manipulate the intestinal epithelium (Trends Parasit, 2023)
• Time stamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!

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