Exploring Neuro-Immunology

Over the last few decades, we have become increasingly aware of the gut-brain axis and important interplay between these and other organs. In recent years, scientists from the Institut Pasteur and the Francis Crick Institute in London have come together on multiple occasions to explore how their seperate research projects in neurology, immunology and sometimes across the two disciplines, might find a mutual research interest.

The most recent conference, which took place last summer included the following presentations:

Vassilis Pachnis (Francis Crick Institute)
Enteric glial cells: neurogenic past and immunoregulatory present
Gerard Eberl (Institut Pasteur)
Modulation of hypothalamus activity by microbiota and immunity
Caetano Reis e Sousa (Francis Crick Institute)
An immuno-neuro journey: from dendritic cells to ependymal cells
Thomas Bourgeron (Institut Pasteur)
Phenotypic effects of genetic variants associated with autism beyond diagnosis
Sonia Gandhi (Francis Crick Institute)
Understanding the inflammatory response to proteinopathy in Parkinson’s’ disease
Uwe Maskos (Institut Pasteur)
A role for nicotinic receptors in "other" diseases
Gabriel Lepousez (Institut Pasteur)
How brain circuits sense and integrate peripheral immune signals
Leanne Li (Francis Crick Institute)
Cancer Neuroscience: Neural orchestration of the tumour immune microenvironment
Katharina Schmack (Francis Crick Institute)
Hallucinating mice, dopamine and immunity: towards mechanistic treatments for psychosis
Florent Haiss (Institut Pasteur)
Choice and sensory coding in somatosensory cortex of mice
George Kassiotis (Francis Crick Institute)
Antibody responses to endogenous retroviruses in health and disease
Jean-Baptiste Masson (Institut Pasteur)
Amortised inference at the frontiers of physics and biology

We are excited to see new collaborations and projects between the Francis Crick Institute and the Institut Pasteur emerge following this important opportunity to discuss, collaborate and discover together.