Cells, Gene Programs, and Spatially Organized Immune Hubs in MMRd and MMRp Colorectal Cancer

Speaker: Karin Pelka, Gladstone Institutes
Karin Pelka earned her PhD in innate immunity from the University of Bonn in Germany, where she discovered a key regulatory mechanism that controls the detection of infection- or danger-associated nucleic acids by sensors of the innate immune system. As a postdoctoral fellow at the Broad Institute, she led a cross-disciplinary, multi-institutional single-cell RNA-sequencing and spatial profiling effort on human colorectal cancer. She joined UCSF this fall and is now an assistant investigator at Gladstone Institutes and an assistant professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at UCSF. She is a member of the American Association for Cancer Research, the German Society for Immunology (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Immunologie), and the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer. Her work aims to understand how immunological processes are regulated in human tissues in order to leverage the immune system in the fight against diseases such as cancer.
This talk was given at the Gladstone-UCSF Institute of Genomic Immunology Symposium on November 3, 2021.

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Very interesting presentation, Karin! Thanks for sharing!