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Kuby Immunology

Eighth  Edition©2019 Jenni Punt; Sharon Stranford; Patricia Jones; Judy Owen

About

Janis Kuby’s groundbreaking introduction to immunology was the first textbook for the course actually written to be a textbook. Like no other text, it combined an experimental emphasis with extensive pedagogical features to help students grasp basic concepts.

Now in a thoroughly updated new edition, Kuby Immunology remains the only undergraduate introduction to immunology written by teachers of the course. In the Kuby tradition, authors Judy Owen, Jenni Punt, and Sharon Stranford present the most current concepts in an experimental context, conveying the excitement of scientific discovery, and highlight important advances, but do so with the focus on the big picture of the study of immune response, enhanced by unsurpassed pedagogical support for the first-time learner.

Owen, Punt, and Stranford, with special contributor Patricia Jones (Stanford), bring an enormous range of teaching and research experiences to the text, as well as a dedication to continue the experiment-based, pedagogical-driven approach of Janis Kuby. For this edition, they have worked chapter by chapter to streamline the coverage, to address topics that students have the most trouble grasping, and to continually remind students where the topic at hand fits in the study of immunology as a whole.

Table of Contents

1   Overview of the Immune System

2   Cells, Organs, and Microenvironments of the Immune System

3   Recognition and Response

4   Innate Immunity

5   The Complement System

6   The Organization and Expression of Lymphocyte Receptor Genes

7   The Major Histocompatibility Complex and Antigen Presentation

8   T-Cell Development

9   B-Cell Development

10   T-Cell Activation, Differentiation, and Memory

11   B-Cell Activation, Differentiation, and Memory

12   Effector Responses: Cell- and Antibody-Mediated Immunity

13   Mucosal Immunity and the Microbiome

14   The Immune Response in Time and Space

15   Allergy, Hypersensitivities, and Chronic Inflammation

16   Tolerance, Autoimmunity, and Transplantation

17   Infectious Diseases and Vaccines

18   Immunodeficiency Disorders

19   Cancer and the Immune System

20   Experimental Methods and Systems

Jenni Punt

Jennifer Punt has been a Professor of Biology at Haverford College since 1996. A graduate of Bryn Mawr College, who majored in Biology at Haverford College, she attended a combined VMD/PhD (immunology) program at the University of Pennsylvania before doing her post-doctoral fellowship with Dr. Alfred Singer at the National Institutes of Health. She has received numerous teaching awards at Haverford College, as well as the American Association of Immunologist Distinguished Service Award for teaching and helping to develop their Introductory Course Curriculum. She performs research with her undergraduate students on thymocyte and immature blood cell fate decisions

Sharon Stranford

Sharon Stranford received her PhD in Microbiology and Immunology from Hahnemann University (now Drexel) in Philadelphia, where she studied autoimmunity with Elizabeth Blankenhorn. After graduating, she spent 3 years as a postdoctoral fellow at Oxford University in England, exploring transplantation immunology, followed by 3 years at the University of California, San Francisco, working on HIV/AIDS with Dr. Jay Levy. In 2001 she was hired as a Clare Booth Luce Assistant Professor at Mount Holyoke College, a small liberal arts college for women in South Hadley, MA, where she is currently an Associate Professor serving the Department of Biological Sciences and the Program in Biochemistry. Sharon’s research, which is funded by the NIH and NSF, utilizes a murine model of AIDS to study early genetic and immunologic indicators of susceptibility to acquired immune deficiency.

Patricia Jones

Judy Owen

Judith Owen has served on the faculty of Haverford College, Pennsylvania since 1981, where she is the first holder of the Elizabeth Ufford Green Chair of Natural Sciences. Judith earned B.A. and M.A. (Hons) degrees from Cambridge University, England and pursued her PhD at the University of Pennsylvania with the late Dr. Norman Klinman followed by postdoctoral studies at the Wistar Institute with Dr. Peter Doherty. Judith has served on the Education Committee of the American Association of Immunologists, (AAI) and as Chair of the AAI Membership Committee. She is a recipient of the AAI Academic Mentoring Award, the Charles and Mary Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching and of a Career Advancement Award and a Faculty Award for Women from the NSF.

Together, Jennifer Punt and Judith Owen initiated the AAI Introductory Immunology course, which is now offered on an annual basis.