International Journal of Immunology is a peer-reviewed open access journal that publishes original research articles as well as review articles in all areas of immunology. Immunology is a diverse and growing discipline that can be defined as the study of the tissues, cells and molecules involved in host defense mechanisms. Immunologists attempt to understand how the immune system develops, how the body defends itself against disease, and what happens when it all goes wrong. Priority is given to work that provides fundamental insight into the workings of the immune system. Areas covered include, but are not limited to, innate immunity and inflammation; development; immune receptors, signaling and apoptosis; antigen presentation; gene regulation and recombination; cellular and systemic immunity; vaccines; immune tolerance; autoimmunity and tumor immunology, microbial immunopathology; and transplantation.

The great advances in immunology in recent years make this field one of the most dynamic and rapidly growing in biological sciences. This remarkable growth is stimulated by the influx of investigators from other disciplines such as biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, microbiology, virology and various medical disciplines. These disciplines are so well interlinked with immunology that no immunological challenge can now be properly addressed without sophisticated applications of expertise of combinations of these disciplines. As a consequence, immunology has become a vast and rich field encompassing discoveries and outlooks that range from the highly clinical to the highly molecular. Although such perspectives may appear diverse, they are, in fact, extremely interdependent. The journal seeks to present a balanced overview of contemporary immunology and melds together different aspects of molecular immunology, immunobiology and clinical immunology.

Immunology is the branch of biomedical science that deals with the response of an organism to antigenic challenge and its recognition of what is self and what is not. It deals with the defense mechanisms including all physical, chemical and biological properties of the organism that help it to combat its susceptibility to foreign organisms, material, etc

Immunology has its origins in the study of how the body protects itself against infectious diseases caused by microorganisms, such as bacteria, viruses, protozoa, and fungi, and also parasitic organisms, such as helminth worms. Research / review articles deals with, among other things, the physiological functioning of the immune system in states of both health and disease; malfunctions of the immune system in immunological disorders (autoimmune diseases, hypersensitivities, immune deficiency, transplant rejection); the physical, chemical and physiological characteristics of the components of the immune system in vitro, in situ, and in vivo are of prime interest.

We take great pleasure in welcoming you to our new journal, International Journal of Immunology. We have created this publication with the intention of providing a space for the generation of knowledge, dialogue, critique, debate, and collaboration among an international community of immunologists, pathologists, researchers, scholars, etc.

Our vision is to create a high-quality publication that will be relevant, challenging, thought-provoking, for graduate students, academic researchers and scholars. We welcome original research papers, reviews articles, case studies, book reviews, and works-in progress.

We look forward to welcoming your submissions.

Classificaion/Scope of Journals

1. Adaptive immunity 11. Cancer and Tumor Immunobiology
2. Immunologic Techniques 12. Cellular & Regional Immunology
3. Transplantation Immunology 13. Combining Cancer Immunotherapies
4. Computational Immunology 14. Allergy prevention and risk factors
5. Immunology 15. Nutritional Immunology
6. Immunotherapy   16. Clinical Immunology
7. Pediatric Immunology 17. Reproductive Immunology
8. Immune Tolerance 18. Fungal Immunology
9. Mucosal Immunology   19. Neuro Immunology
10. Immune Toxicology    20.Immunoinformatics and System

Immune Scientific Networks:

Immunology Leadership & Committees consider proposals for Special Issues Editors will return a decision on your proposal within Two weeks of receipt. To enrich our vision of making the scientific information available at an ease of access, Immunology Leadership & Committees initiated special issue for the open access journals. All the articles published under a special issue focuses on a single topic providing the complete information about the ongoing research providing more insight on an emphasized topic of research enabling the readers access wide forecasted information on a particular topic Issue.

Special Issue Proposals: Special Issue deals with focused research topics of high interest, falling under the scope of the Journal. Special Issues are the pool of articles under a current topic selected from the Ongoing Research under specific discipline. The aim of the Special Issue is to provide a platform for the researchers to understand the recent advancements and challenges in particular areas of research. These articles will provide an opportunity to the readers to understand and access the scientific information.
We encourage potential scientists to organize the Special Issue in their field of interests that fits within the Journal scope. This will provide an opportunity to increase the visibility of the Guest Editors. The Special Issue Titles may be from any basic and clinical area of Science, Technology and Medicine. People interested in publishing a special issue are advised to consider the following guidelines.

Your proposal should contain:

Short CV with research interests
Executive Summary
Special issue topic and the Proposed Title
Justification for why the Special Issue is needed
Explanation of why the issue is particularly suitable for Nano Scientific Networks and brief note on the proposed Topic (should explain the aim and overview of the proposed topic)
Backgrounds of the proposed Guest Editors, including visibility on the topic in question, and editorial experience
A Co-Editor (Optional); If a co-editor name is suggested, kindly provide short CV of the co-editor
Estimated number of Articles under the title
A list of scholars who may be interested in submitting to your special issue
Opening date
Closing date

By submitting a Special Issue proposal to Immunology Leadership & Committees, you agree to abide by the Special Issue Editor Protocol should your proposal be accepted

Special issue articles are published immediately upon their acceptance and are released under upcoming regular issues. Special Issues are invited throughout the year. For more information or any queries about the special issues, please write us to specialissues@helicsgroup.net or info@helicsgroup.net

Promoting Your Special Issue

Immunology Leadership & Committees will work with Guest Editors to increase the visibility of the Special Issue in the months leading up to the submission deadline and once it has been published.

What Immunology Leadership & Committees will do:

1. Immunology Leadership & Committees will circulate your Call for Papers to the Immune Editorial Board, targeted mailing lists, and relevant AoM listservs. It will also advertise your Call on the Immune websites and other social media platforms. It will re-issue the Call at appropriate intervals.

2. Once the Special Issue is published, announcements will be made to the Immune Editorial Board, targeted mailing lists, and relevant AoM listservs as well as on the Immune websites social media platforms.

3. Free access to the Special Issue will be made available in the website to Guest Editors and readers.

What is expected of Guest Editors?

1. We expect that Guest Editors will circulate the Call for Papers within their own personal networks, social media groups, and at any relevant conferences or workshops they may attend.

2. If it has not already been suggested as part of the proposal, consideration should be given to organizing a conference or workshop either to generate submissions or to aid in the development of submitted papers. A symposium or PDW at a well-known conference may also be considered.

3. We expect Guest Editors to identify up to 50 scholars for whom the Special Issue will be particularly relevant

If you have any queries, please contact Elena Griffin (editors.ijit.immune@helicsgroup.net)

committee

Members

Seung-Yong Seong

Professor

Education
Seoul National University College of Medicine
Ph.D. (Microbiology and Immunology)	1995
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Seoul National University College of Medicine

M.S. (Microbiology and Immunology)	1992
Seoul National University College of Medicine
Bachelor, Medical doctor 1990 Seoul National University College of Medicine

Awards:

Letter of Commendation (Governer, Gangwon province, Minister, M. of Health and welfare, Korea)	2012
Yuhan Medical Award, Seoul Medical Association	2012
The best poster award, DC 2007, Bamburg, Germany	2007
Poster Award, International Conference on Inante Immunity, Greece	2006
Hamchun Medical Award, Seoul National University Medical College Alumni Association	2005
Award of Young Investigator,Seoul National University Hospital	1999
Award of excellent paper,The Korean Federation of Science and Technology Societies	1998
Award of Bursary,Federation of Immunological Society of Australia, Immunology Workshop	1996
Sustaining Member Travel Grant Award , 93rd General Meeting of American Society for Microbiology	1993

Memberships

Korean Society for Microbiology

Korean Society for Immunology

American Society for Microbiology

American Society for Immunology

1990~ present

1991 ~ present

1998 ~ present

Publications (2004~)

2004

1. Seong SY, Matzinger P. Hydrophobicity: an ancient damage-associated molecular pattern that initiates innate immune responses. Nature Reviews Immunology 2004;4:469-78.

2. Cho NH, Choi CY, Seong SY. Down-regulation of gp96 by Orientiatsutsugamushi. Microbiology and immunology 2004;48:297-305.

3. Koh YS, Yun JH, Seong SY, Choi MS, Kim IS. Chemokine and cytokine production during Orientiatsutsugamushi infection in mice. Microbial pathogenesis 2004;36:51-7.

2005

1. Yun JH, Koh YS, Lee KH, et al. Chemokine and cytokine production in susceptible C3H/HeN mice and resistant BALB/c mice during Orientiatsutsugamushi infection. Microbiology and immunology 2005;49:551-7.

2006

1. Kim DH, Cho IH, Kim HS, et al. Anti-inflammatory effects of 8-hydroxydeoxyguanosine in LPS-induced microglia activation: suppression of STAT3-mediated intercellular adhesion molecule-1 expression. Experimental & molecular medicine 2006;38:417-27.

2008

1. Min CK, Bang SY, Cho BA, et al. Role of amphipathic helix of a herpesviral protein in membrane deformation and T cell receptor downregulation. PLoS pathogens 2008;4:e1000209.

2009

1 . Nam-Hyuk Cho, Seung-Yong Seong, Apolipoproteins inhibit the innate immunity activated by necrotic cells or bacterial endotoxin , Immunology. 2009 Sep;128(1 Suppl):e479-86. Epub 2008 Dec 17.

2. Jin Hee Kim, Tae Heung Kang, Kyung Hee Noh, Hyun CheolBae, Seok-Ho Kim, Young Do Yoo, Seung-Yong Seong, Tae Woo Kim, Enhancement of dendritic cell-based vaccine potency by anti-apoptotic siRNAs targeting key pro-apoptotic proteins in cytotoxic CD8+ T cell-mediated cell death. ImmunolLett. 2009 Jan 29;122(1):58-67.

3. Lee KM, Seong SY. Partial role of TLR4 as a receptor responding to damage-associated molecular pattern. ImmunolLett. 2009 Jun 30;125(1):31-9.

4. Na HY, Mazumdar K, Moon HJ, Chang S, Seong SY. TLR4-independent and PKR-dependent interleukin 1 receptor antagonist expression upon LPS stimulation.

Cell Immunol. 2009;259(1):33-40. Epub 2009 Jun 6.

5. Kang TH, Bae HC, Kim SH, Seo SH, Son SW, Choi EY, Seong SY, Kim TW.

Modification of dendritic cells with interferon-gamma-inducible protein-10 gene to enhance vaccine potency. J Gene Med. 2009 Oct;11(10):889-98.

6. Bae MY, Cho NH, Seong SY. Protective anti-tumour immune responses by murine dendritic cells pulsed with recombinant Tat-carcinoembryonic antigen derived from Escherichia coli. ClinExpImmunol. 2009 Jul;157(1):128-38.

7. Yang H, Cho NH, Seong SY. The Tat-conjugated N-terminal region of mucin antigen 1 (MUC1) induces protective immunity against MUC1-expressing tumours. ClinExpImmunol. 2009 Nov;158(2):174-85

8. Park H, Lee K, Kim M, Lee J, Seong SY, Ko G. Detection and hazard assessment of pathogenic microorganisms in medical wastes. J Environ Sci Health A Tox Hazard Subst Environ Eng. 2009 Aug;44(10):995-1003.

9. Lee SH, Taek Han S, Choi SW, Seong SY, You HJ, Ye SK, Chung MH. Inhibition of Rac and Rac-linked functions by 8-oxo-2'-deoxyguanosine in murine macrophages. Free Radic Res. 2009 Jan;43(1):78-84.

2010

1. Chun KH, Seong SY. CD14 but not MD2 transmit signals from DAMP. IntImmunopharmacol. 2010 Jan;10(1):98-106.

2. Cho BA, Cho NH, Seong SY, Choi MS, Kim IS. Intracellular invasion by Orientiatsutsugamushiis mediated by integrin signaling and actin cytoskeleton rearrangements. Infect Immun. 2010 May;78(5):1915-23.

3. Cho BA, Cho NH, Min CK, Kim SY, Yang JS, Lee JR, Jung JW, Lee WC, Kim K, Lee MK, Kim S, Kim KP, Seong SY, Choi MS, Kim IS. Global gene expression profile of Orientiatsutsugamushi. Proteomics. 2010 Apr;10(8):1699-715.

2011

1. Kang TH, Kim KW, Bae HC, Seong SY, Kim TW. Enhancement of DNA vaccine

potency by antigen linkage to IFN-gamma-inducible protein-10. Int J Cancer. 2011 Feb 1;128(3):702-14.

2. Nam-Hyuk Cho, Taek-Chin Cheong, Ji Hyun Min, Jun Hua Wu, Sang Jin Lee,

Daehong Kim, Jae-Seong Yang, SangukKim,YoungKeun Kim and Seung-Yong Seong A multifunctional core-shell nanoparticle for dendritic cell based cancer immunotherapy. Nature Nanotech. 2011 Sep 11;6(10):675-82.

3. Choi HJ, Kim MK, Ko JH, Lee HJ, Jeong HJ, Wee WR, Seong SY, Akira S. Effect of Toll-like receptor 2 and 4 of corneal fibroblasts on cytokine expression with co-cultured antigen presenting cells. Cytokine. 2011 Nov;56(2):265-71.

2012

1. Zuo DC, Choi S, Shahi PK, Kim MY, Park CG, Kim YD, Lee J, Chang IY, Lee HS, Yeom SC, Moon HJ, Seong SY, So I, Jun JY. Action of lipopolysaccharide on interstitial cells of cajal from mouse small intestine. Pharmacology. 2012;90(3-4):151-9.

2. Noh KH, Kim BW, Song KH, Cho H, Lee YH, Kim JH, Chung JY, Kim JH, Hewitt SM, Seong SY, Mao CP, Wu TC, Kim TW. Nanog signaling in cancer promotes stem-like phenotype and immune evasion. J Clin Invest. 2012 Nov 1;122(11):4077-93.

2013

1. Lee SH, Nam KW, Jeong JY, Yoo SJ, Koh YS, Lee S, Heo ST, Seong SY, Lee KH.

The Effects of Climate Change and Globalization on Mosquito Vectors: Evidence from Jeju Island, South Korea on the Potential for Asian Tiger Mosquito (Aedesalbopictus) Influxes and Survival from Vietnam Rather Than Japan. PLoS One. 2013 Jul 24;8(7):e68512.

2014

1. Lee HC, Narayanan S, Park SJ, Seong SY, Hahn YS. Transcriptional regulation of IFN-λ genes in hepatitis C virus-infected hepatocytes via IRF-3·IRF-7·NF-κB complex. J Biol Chem. 2014 Apr 25;289(17):11861.

2. Noh KH, Park YM, Kim HS, Kang TH, Song KH, Lee YH, Byeon Y, Jeon HN, Jung ID, Shin BC, Lee KM, Seong SY, Han HD, Kim TW. GM-CSF-loaded chitosan hydrogel as an immunoadjuvant enhances antigen-specific immune responses with reduced toxicity. BMC Immunol. 2014 Oct 18;15:48.

2015

1.Cheong TC, Shin EP, Kwon EK, Choi JH, Wang KK, Sharma P, Choi KH, Lim JM, Kim HG, Oh K, Jeon JH, So I, Kim IG, Choi MS, Kim YK, Seong SY, Kim YR, Cho NH. Functional Manipulation of Dendritic Cells by Photoswitchable Generation of Intracellular Reactive Oxygen Species. ACS Chem Biol. 2015 Mar 20;10(3):757-65.

2. Kim JE, Hong YH, Lee JH, Ahn SW, Kim SM, Park KS, Sung JJ, Lee KW, Seong SY. Pattern difference of dissociated hand muscle atrophy in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and variants. Muscle Nerve. 2015 Mar.51(3):333-7

3. Pattern of Respiratory Deterioration in Sporadic Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis According to Onset Lesion by Using Respiratory Function Tests. Kim DG, Hong YH, Shin JY, Lee KW, Park KS, Seong SY, Sung JJ.ExpNeurobiol. 2015 Dec;24(4):351-7.

4. Neuroprotective Effect of Human Adipose Stem Cell-Derived Extract in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. Jeon GS, Im W, Shim YM, Lee M, Kim MJ, Hong YH, Seong SY, Kim M, Sung JJ.Neurochem Res. 2015 Dec 8. [Epub ahead of print]

5. Modulation of SOD1 Subcellular Localization by Transfection with Wild- or Mutant-type SOD1 in Primary Neuron and Astrocyte Cultures from ALS Mice. Lee DY, Jeon GS, Shim YM, Seong SY, Lee KW, Sung JJ.ExpNeurobiol. 2015 Sep;24(3):226-34.

2016

1.Neuroprotective Effect of Human Adipose Stem Cell-Derived Extract in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis.Jeon GS, Im W, Shim YM, Lee M, Kim MJ, Hong YH, Seong SY, Kim M, Sung JJ. Neurochem Res. 2016 Apr:41(4): 913-23

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Seoul National University College of Medicine

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