Pentraxins in humoral innate immunity -- galectins as pattern recognition receptors: structure, function, and evolution -- the role of innate immunity in trafficking of hematopoietic stem cells - an emerging link between activation of complement cascade and chemotactic gradients of bioactive sphingolipids -- interaction of the microbiome with the innate immune response in chronic wounds -- keystone species and community service through manipulation of innate immunity -- a conserved host and pathogen site on immunoglobulins: structural and functional aspects -- advances in understanding the structure, function, and mechanism of the scin and efb families of staphylococcal immune evasion proteins -- granzyme b: a new crossroad of complement and apoptosis -- role of c3, c5 and anaphylatoxin receptors in acute lung injury and in sepsis -- complement mediated ocular angiogenesis -- platelets, complement, and contact activation: partners in inflammation and thrombosis -- nuclear factor-κb in immunity and inflammation: the treg and th17 connection -- function of act1 in il-17 family signaling and autoimmunity -- differential effect of inhibiting md-2 and cd14 on lps- versus whole e. coli bacteria-induced cytokine responses in human blood -- zebrafish: model for the study of inflammation and the innate immune response to infectious diseases -- monocyte-derived inflammatory dendritic cells in the granuloma during mycobacterial infection -- nk/dc crosstalk in anti-viral response -- innate-adaptive crosstalk: how dendritic cells shape immune responses in the cns -- nutritional immunity: homology modeling of nramp metal import.