{"id":48,"date":"2009-03-20T19:17:31","date_gmt":"2009-03-21T00:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bowdish.ca\/lab\/?page_id=48"},"modified":"2024-12-27T21:21:41","modified_gmt":"2024-12-28T02:21:41","slug":"current-projects","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bowdish.ca\/lab\/current-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ongoing projects in the Bowdish lab:<\/h1>\n
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  1. Uncovering how age, frailty, and chronic inflammation alter immune responses to vaccination and infection.<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. Understanding why susceptibility to pneumonia increases with age and can accelerate or exacerbate age related health conditions such as cognitive decline.<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. Elucidating how the aging gut microbiome contributes to age-associated inflammation and frailty\/unhealthy aging<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. Uncovering how age-associated inflammation alters the maturation and function of monocytes and macrophages<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    General publications on macrophages:<\/strong><\/h1>\n
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    1. Reviews, protocols, and publications on macrophages<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Past projects in the Bowdish lab:<\/h1>\n
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      1. Discovering how age-related changes in the upper respiratory microbiota contribute to susceptibility to pneumonia<\/a><\/li>\n
      2. Characterizing the role of the macrophage scavenger receptors in host defence<\/a>