School of Biomedical Sciences is pleased to invite you to join the following seminar:

Date: Thursday, 18 November 2021

Time: 9:30 am

Via Zoom: https://hku.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIpf-yuqTIjH9ReaFaiLB1Io-s4yov1VeoT

Meeting ID: 964 8567 9950

Password: 355078

Speaker: Dr. Chaofan Li, Research Associate, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Medicine, Department of Medicine, Department of Immunology, Mayo Clinic (Rochester, MN), USA

Title: “Heterogeneous respiratory T cells underlying post-acute COVID-19 lung sequelae”

Biography

Chaofan Li received his Ph.D. from the Key Laboratory of Medical Molecular Virology of the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Education of Fudan University in 2016, and received postdoctoral training as a research fellow in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Medicine in the Mayo Clinic (Rochester, MN) under the mentorship of Dr. Jie Sun, now he works as a research associate in the Department of Medicine and the Department of Immunology in the Mayo Clinic. His research interest focuses on the transcriptional and metabolic regulation of non-lymphoid tissue resident CD8 T cell function during anti-viral and anti-tumor immune responses.

Abstract

Severe COVID-19 pneumonia survivors are at the highest risk of developing chronic pulmonary sequelae and persistent chest imaging abnormalities, however, the underlying mechanisms or associated local and systemic T cell immune correlates remain elusive. In this talk, Dr. Li will present how the potential pathogenic subsets of lung resident CD8+ T cells contribute to chronic pulmonary function impairment following the recovery from acute COVID-19 infection.

ALL ARE WELCOME

Should you have any enquiries, please feel free to contact Miss River Wong at 3917 9216.