Ana-Maria Lennon-Duménil is a Franco-Chilean immunologist. She created her lab at the Curie Institute in 2004, where she heads today the Immunity and Cancer department. Her career has focused on the study of the molecular and cellular mechanisms used by antigen presenting cells to sample their environment. She has explored this question from the cell biology, physics and immunological perspectives by combining the use of microfabrication with cell and tissue imaging. Her work has highlighted the mechanisms that enable dendritic cells to coordinate their function(s) with their migration in time and space. It has further revealed how these cells sense tissue physical cues, which in turn impact their behavior and function. She recently described a peculiar population of macrophages that protect the colon epithelium from damage by fungi products at steady-state. She has >120 publications, obtained three ‘European Research Council’ grants and was nominated in 2024 as a member of the French Academy of Sciences.
Bing Zhai is a principal investigator at Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. She received her PhD degree under the supervision of Dr Xiaorong Lin at Texas A&M University, where she discovered the anti-cryptococcal activity of sertraline and investigated the protective immune responses elicited by a filamentous mutant of Cryptococcus. She then moved to New York City for postdoctoral training in Tobias Hohl’s lab and initiated the human gut mycobiome project at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. She moved back to China and started her research group in Shenzhen in 2021. Teamed up with a local hospital, Zhai Lab has established the Vaginal Mycobiome of Maternity (VMoM) cohort and investigated the mycobiome dynamics and the fungal-bacterial interactions at the vaginal tract of pregnant women.
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