1. Thymocyte selection: From signaling to epigenetic regulation Jun Lyu, Lie Wang and Linrong Lu 2. B cell mechanosensing: A mechanistic overview Samina Shaheen, Zhengpeng Wan, Kabeer Haneef, Yingyue Zeng, Wang Jing and Wanli Liu 3. Ionic protein-lipid interactions at the plasma membrane regulate the structure and function of immunoreceptors Hua Li, Chengsong Yan, Jun Guo and Chenqi Xu 4. Non-canonical Hippo signaling regulates immune responses Lanfen Chen 5. Molecular mechanisms of T helper 17 cell differentiation-Emerging roles for transcription cofactors Yu Jiang, Xiaohu Wang and Chen Dong 6. T cell immune response within B-cell follicles Qizhao Huang, Lifan Xu and Lilin Ye 7. Autoimmune diseases in China Ru Li, Xing Sun, Xu Liu, Yue Yang and Zhanguo Li 8. Understanding tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes by single cell RNA sequencing Xianwen Ren and Zemin Zhang
Chen Dong is at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Zhengfan Jiang is a Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences (CLS) Investigator, a tenured full professor and Vice Dean of the School of Life Sciences (SLS) at Peking University (PKU). He works on innate immunity and related cell signaling and, more specifically, on the molecular mechanisms of host defense against virus infection. His lab has identified ERIS which is also named STING and MITA and provided molecular insights into the coordination among viral infection-induced cytokine production, inflammation and apoptosis. Recently, his lab has identified Mn2+ as a critical component required for antiviral innate immunity by activating the cGAS-STING pathway. He has been honored to the National Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholars, China and the Cheung Kong Scholar and tenured full professor at PKU.