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Immunology & Cell Biology

Immunology & Cell Biology is a biology topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Immunology & Cell Biology rather than just read about it. In short: Immunology & Cell Biology (ICB) is an academic journal of the Australia and New Zealand Society for Immunology covering basic immunology research. The journal has a focus on cellular immunology, innate and adaptive immunity, immune responses to pathogens, tumour immunology, immunopathology, immunotherapy, immunogenetics and immunological studies in humans and model organisms (including mouse, rat, Drosophila etc.).

Key takeaways

Immunology & Cell Biology belongs to biology; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Immunology & Cell Biology to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Immunology & Cell Biology from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Immunology & Cell Biology (ICB) is an academic journal of the Australia and New Zealand Society for Immunology covering basic immunology research. The journal has a focus on cellular immunology, innate and adaptive immunity, immune responses to pathogens, tumour immunology, immunopathology, immunotherapy, immunogenetics and immunological studies in humans and model organisms (including mouse, rat, Drosophila etc.).

History

The Australian Journal of Experimental Biology and Medical Science The inaugural (monthly) meeting of The Medical Sciences Club of South Australia was held at the University of Adelaide on 16 April 1920. The fourteen medical men and scientists who attended the meeting appointed Dr Harry Swift as its temporary chairman, and Professor T. Brailsford Robertson as its temporary secretary. The publication of The Australian Journal of Experimental Biology and Medical Science (first issue 15 March 1924), by The Medical Sciences Club of South Australia, was made possible over its first two years by funding from the Keith Sheridan Bequest; and for the next 26 years (1926–1951) it was funded by the specific endowment of Sir Joseph Cooke Verco. In 1930, upon the death of Brailsford Robertson, Charles J. Martin became the journal's editor, and served until 1936.

Significant contributions Major historical contributions including publication by Donald Metcalf of the strategy for identifying colony-stimulating factors (CSFs) and the development of the clonal selection theory by Frank Macfarlane Burnet, in a series of more than 90 publications in the 1970s.

Immunology and Cell Biology The last issue of The Australian Journal of Experimental Biology and Medical Science, Volume 64, Number 6, was published in December 1986; and, in 1987, the journal was re-named Immunology and Cell Biology, making the journal one of the oldest, continuous, speciality immunology journals in existence.

Editorial staff The journal's editor-in-chief is Adrian Liston, with Jonathan Coquet, James Harris, Kate Lawlor, Michelle Linterman, and Fabio Luciani serving as deputy editors. Ashraful Haque and Joanne Reed are News & Commentary Editors, with Jessica Borger as Immunology Futures Editor.

Sister Journal ICB has a sister journal, Clinical and Translational Immunology, which was founded in 2012 in response to a growing need for publishing clinically-orientated research papers in the field of immunology. Both Immunology & Cell Biology and Clinical & Translational Immunology offer prestigious Publication of the Year Awards and Social Impact Awards to their authors: and, each year, the ASI Annual Scientific Meeting hosts a dedicated workshop session to recognise the authors of top papers published in the two journals.

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Immunology & Cell Biology

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Immunology & Cell Biology claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In biology, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Immunology & Cell Biology before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Immunology & Cell Biology ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Immunology & Cell Biology

In research: Immunology & Cell Biology appears in biology research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Immunology & Cell Biology in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Immunology & Cell Biology is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics English-language journals, Immunology journal stubs, Monthly journals, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Immunology & Cell Biology outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Immunology & Cell Biology in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Immunology & Cell Biology means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Immunology & Cell Biology out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Immunology & Cell Biology in simple terms?

Why does Immunology & Cell Biology matter?

Because it connects several biology ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Immunology & Cell Biology?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Immunology & Cell Biology.