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FGSL Webinar: Overexpression of LIGHT on cancer cells facilitates T-cell cross-priming
🗓️ 15 October
⏰ 11:00am-12:00pm
📍 Online
Join the Functional Genomics Screening Laboratory (FGSL) team as we welcome Dr Lorena Boquete Vilariño for this special webinar.
Speaker: Dr Lorena Boquete Vilariño, Centro de Fabricación de Terapias Avanzadas de Galicia, Galaria EPSS SA
Abstract: Dendritic cells (DCs) are key to initiate anti-tumour immune responses, but their function is commonly disrupted in cancer. We performed a genome-wide arrayed CRISPR-Cas9 screen in a cancer cell – DC co-culture system and uncovered genes which upon knockout in cancer cells could lead to activation in DCs. Using transcriptomics together with binding partner analysis we discovered that overexpression of a single protein (LIGHT) in cancer cells could activate dendritic cells and promote T-cell activation in a cross-priming assay.
Register at: cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/WnKnPejJQfyoB4vYcVobdw#/registration