Autophagy Regulation of Innate Immunity

Dr. Jun Cui is a Professor and Director of the Department of Biochemistry, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University. He is a lifelong member of the Chinese Society of Immunology and Chinese Society of Cell Biology. He also serves as the Executive Director of Guangdong Society for Immunology. Prof. Cui’s research focuses on signal transduction and regulation of innate immunity, and he has published more than 50 research articles on this topic in leading international journals, such as Cell, Immunity, Nature Immunology and Molecular Cell.

• Introduction.- Autophagy Regulation of Mammalian Immune Cells.- Autophagy in Plant Immunity.- Autophagy Regulation of Bacterial Pathogen Invasion.-  Autophagy and viral infection.- The Interplay between Pattern Recognition Receptors and Autophagy in Inflammation.- Regulation of Inflammasome by Autophagy.- The Cross-regulation between Autophagy and Type I Interferon Signaling in Host Defense.- Selective Autophagy Regulates Innate Immunity through Cargo Receptor Network.- Autophagy and Immune-related Diseases.- Targeting Autophagy with Small-molecule Modulators in Immune-related diseases