Apr. 30
Kipnis to Discuss Neuroimmunology at Next WALS
The NIH Director’s Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series (WALS) will feature Dr. Jonathan Kipnis on April 30 at 2 p.m. ET in the Clinical Center’s Lipsett Amphitheater. The lecture will also be videocast at https://videocast.nih.gov/. His talk is titled, “Navigating Uncharted (Neuroimmune) Waters.”
Kipnis is a neuroscientist, immunologist and professor of pathology and immunology at the Washington University School of Medicine. He is best known for his lab’s discovery of meningeal lymphatic vessels in humans and mice, which has impacted research on neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease and multiple sclerosis, neuropsychiatric disorders, such as anxiety, and neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism and Rett syndrome.
The Kipnis lab investigates how the nervous and immune systems talk to each other in health and disease. They have discovered lymphatic vessels in the tissues surrounding the brain, a finding that has challenged some of the previous dogmas in the field of neuro-immunology and increased our knowledge and understanding of how the immune system impacts neurological diseases.
Their goal is to elucidate the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying nervous and immune system interactions in neurodegenerative, neurodevelopmental and mental disorders as well as in physiology (as in healthy aging).
To view the current WALS season schedule, visit: https://oir.nih.gov/wals/2024-2025-wals-season.