Epigenetics of the Immune System, Volume 16

• Provides an overview of most important immune mechanisms, the current status of epigenetics, and how both of them are brought together
• Presents key principles of immune mechanisms in epigenetics, presenting current findings and key principles
• Features in-depth chapter contributions from a wide range of international researchers and specialists in immunology, translational medicine and epigenetics
• Merges two very large areas, covering the unique interrelatedness of epigenetics and immunology

Immunologists, Human Geneticists; Medical Geneticists; Researchers and students working in genetics, genomics, biology, molecular biology, biochemistry, chemistry, pharmaceutical science, oncology, psychiatry, neurology, neuroscience, metabolic disorders, inflammatory and infectious disease, internal medicine, and clinical therapy; advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, postgraduates; pharmaceutical company and biotechnology researchers

Preface

1. An introduction to immunology and epigenetics
Jaydeep Bhat, Dieter Kabelitz

2. Plant epigenetics and the “intelligent” priming system to combat biotic stress
Hemlata Kotkar, Ashok Giri

3. Understanding immune system development: An epigenetic perspective
Ayush Madhok, Anjali deSouza, Sanjeev Galande

4. Epigenetic mechanisms in the regulation of lymphocyte differentiation
Nina Schmolka, Bruno Silva-Santos, Anita Q. Gomes

5. Epigenetics mechanisms driving immune memory cell differentiation and function
Stephen J. Turner, Jasmine Li, Brendan E. Russ

6. Microbiota in the context of epigenetics of the immune system
Katarzyna Placek

7. Sequencing technologies for epigenetics: From basics to applications
Rosario Michael Piro

8. Advances in single-cell epigenomics of the immune system
Jonas Schulte-Schrepping, Humberto J. Ferreira, Adem Saglam, Emily Hinkley, Joachim L. Schultze

9. Machine learning and deep learning for the advancement of epigenomics
Magdalena A. Machnicka, Bartek Wilczynski

10. Systems immunology meets epigenetics
Wenhui Li, Ziyi Chen, Aiping Wu, F. Xiao-Feng Qin, Lianjun Zhang

11. Epigenetic deregulation of immune cells in autoimmune and autoinflammatory diseases
Javier Rodríguez-Ubreva, Tianlu Li, Esteban Ballestar

12. Epigenetics of allergies: From birth to childhood
Avery DeVries, Donata Vercelli

13. Epigenetic regulation of normal hematopoiesis and its dysregulation in hematopoietic malignancies
Mark Hartmann, Mariam Hakobyan, Jens Langstein, Maximilian Schonung, Sina Stäble, Aurore Touzart, Justyna A. Wierzbinska, Daniel B. Lipka

14. Impact of epigenetic modifiers on the immune system
Sajad Ahmad Bhat, Shalini Kashipathi Sureshbabu, Chinna Susan Philip, Shubhada Chiplunkar