Dr. Luis Barreiro from the University of Chicago

We will have ASHBi Seminar with Dr. Luis Barreiro from the University of Chicago.

For more details of the seminar, please check the flyer.

If you have any interest in the topic, you are welcome to attend this seminar.

Program

Shaped by Survival: Natural Selection and Immune Variation Across Population

Luis Barreiro, Ph.D.
Professor, the University of Chicago

about speaker

Luis Barreiro is a Professor in the Section of Genetic Medicine at the University of Chicago, where he also serves as Chair of the Genetics, Genomics, and Systems Biology Graduate Program. He earned his undergraduate and master’s degrees in Biotechnology from Lusófona University in Lisbon, Portugal, and completed his Ph.D. in Human Population Genetics at the University of Paris VII. He then carried out postdoctoral training at the University of Chicago, focusing on the evolutionary and functional genomics of immune variation.

Before returning to Chicago in 2018, Dr. Barreiro was a Professor at the Université de Montréal and a researcher at the CHU Sainte-Justine Research Center, where he developed a leading program in human evolutionary immunology.

His research examines how genetic and environmental factors shape human immune responses and why individuals and populations differ in their susceptibility to infection and immune-related disease. By integrating population genetics, functional genomics, and evolutionary biology, his lab has been a pioneer in identifying the genetic and epigenetic mechanisms underlying immune variation.

Dr. Barreiro has published more than 130 peer-reviewed papers in leading journals such as Nature, Science, Cell, and Immunity. His work has revealed how natural selection and ancestry shape immune responses, how genetic variants modulate the response to infection, and how epigenetic regulation contributes to immune memory and adaptation.

He is widely recognized as a leader in evolutionary and functional immunogenomics, advancing our understanding of how evolution and environment have molded the human immune system.

Registration

Pre-registered participants only

Eligibility

Academic researchers and students in Kyoto University

Host

Guillaume Bourque

Fumitaka Inoue

Contact

Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Biology (WPI-ASHBi)
ashbi-event [at] mail2.adm.kyoto-u.ac.jp
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