Evolutionary Concepts in Immunology
Published on 13. June 2019
XVI, 145 pages
978-3-030-18667-8 (ISBN)
Description
Immunology is a nodal subject that links many areas of biology. It permeates the biosciences, and also plays crucial roles in diagnosis and therapy in areas of clinical medicine ranging from the control of infectious and autoimmune diseases to tumour therapy. Monoclonal antibodies and small molecule modulators of immunity are major factors in the pharmaceutical industry and now constitute a multi billion dollar business. Students in these diverse areas are frequently daunted by the complexity of immunology and the astonishing array of unusual mechanisms that go to make it up.
Starting from Dobzhansky's famous slogan, "Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution", this book will serve to illuminate how evolutionary forces shaped immunity and thus provide an explanation for how many of its counter intuitive oddities arose. By doing so it will provide a conceptual framework on which students may organise the rapidly growing flood of immunological knowledge.
Starting from Dobzhansky's famous slogan, "Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution", this book will serve to illuminate how evolutionary forces shaped immunity and thus provide an explanation for how many of its counter intuitive oddities arose. By doing so it will provide a conceptual framework on which students may organise the rapidly growing flood of immunological knowledge.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cham
Switzerland
Publishing group
Springer International Publishing
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
XVI, 145 p. 26 illus., 24 illus. in color.
File size
3,74 MB
ISBN-13
978-3-030-18667-8 (9783030186678)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-18667-8
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Robert Jack | Louis Du Pasquier
Evolutionary Concepts in Immunology
Book
07/2019
Springer
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Persons
Prof. Jack has been trained as an immunologist in Prof Klaus Rajewsky´s lab in Cologne, and worked in developmental biology at Prof. Walter Gehring´s lab in Basel; subsequently, he has been Professor for Immunology for many years at the University of Greifswald. For more than 10 years, he has been active in the organizing committee of the Spring School for Immunology of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Immunologie. Though retired meanwhile, he still gives introductory lectures at the Spring and Autumn School, and a lecture on Concepts in Immunology at Uni Greifswald.
Content
Chapter 1: What makes evolution tick?.- Chapter 2: Immunity - the unicellular to metazoan transition.- Chapter 3: Innate immunity.- Chapter 4: The triumph of individualism: evolution of somatically generated adaptive immune systems.- Chapter 5: The other side of the arms race.- Chapter 6: Postface.
