Kuby Immunology (8th Edition)

Description

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.

New to this Edition

Stronger Focus on the Big Picture of Immunology

• Chapter 1. Overview of the Immune System offers a clearer overview of the whole immune system.
• A comprehensive figure in Chapter 1 summarizes immune response, with the authors revisiting that same figure in Chapters 2-13 to continue to show students where they are in the big picture.
• A capstone chapter, Ch. 14, The Immune Response in Time and Space, refers more directly back to the Chapter 1 overview to tie everything together.
• Chapters 15-19 cover key clinical concepts and issues.
• Chapter 13. Mucosal Immunity and the Microbiome.

Authors Biography

Jenni Punt received her A.B. from Bryn Mawr College, magna cum laude, with high honors in biology from Haverford

College. She was a combined degree student at the University of Pennsylvania, graduating summa cum laude from the

School of Veterinary Medicine (V.M.D.) with a Ph.D. in immunology. She pursued her interest in T-cell development as

a Damon Runyon-Walter Winchell Physician-Scientist fellow with Dr. Alfred Singer at the National Institutes of Health

and was appointed to the faculty of Haverford College in 1996. After 18 wonderful years there, working on T-cell and

hematopoietic stem cell development, she accepted a position as associate dean for student research at Columbia

University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons. There she was the founding director of an M.D./M.Sc. dual degree program

and co-ran a laboratory on hematopoiesis with her husband, Dr. Stephen Emerson. After being tempted back to

the School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, she is now developing new educational programs

as director of One Health Research Education. She has received multiple teaching awards over the course of her career

and continues to find that students are her most inspirational colleagues.