Agenda

 

NIH Cytokine Interest Group Symposium:

“Cytokines and Autoimmunity”

Lipsett Amphitheater

APRIL 9, 2019

 

 

 

Tuesday, April 9, 2019

Morning Session

08:30 am - 08:40 am EST
Welcome

Rachel Caspi (NEI)

08:40 am - 09:00 am EST
“Multiomics: the integrative role of IFN-Y on the microbiome, lipid metabolism and autoimmunity”

Rachel Bae (NCI)

09:00 am - 09:50 am EST
“IL-6 in Type 1 diabetes from genetics to clinical intervention”

Jane Buckner (Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason) 

09:50 am - 10:10 am EST
“T cell-driven mucosal interferonopathy underlies fungal infection susceptibility in autoimmune polyendocrinopathy-candidaiasis-ectodermal dystrophy (APECED)”

Mihalis Lionakis (NIAID) 

10:10 am - 10:30 am EST

Coffee Break

10:30 am - 10:50 am EST
”Keratinocyte-intrinsic MHC II expression controls microbiota-induced Th1 cell responses”

Samira Tamoutnounour (NIAID) 

10:50 am - 11:10 am EST
“The Ying and the Yang nature of pro-inflammatory cytokine activation of monocytes with implications in pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis”

Venkateswara Simhadri (FDA)

11:10 am - 12:00 pm EST
“ER stress: reprograming a hostile tumor microenvironment”

Laurie Glimcher (Dana Farber Cancer Institute)

12:00 pm - 01:00 pm EST

Lunch Break

Afternoon Session

01:00 pm - 01:20 pm EST
“Fibroblast-specific integrin-alpha V differentially regulates Type 17 and Type 2 driven inflammation and fibrosis”

Joshua C. Sciurba (NIAID) 

01:20 pm - 01:40 pm EST
“Th17 cells drive oral mucosal immunopathology in mice and humans”

Niki Moutsopoulos (NIDCR)

01:40 pm - 02:00 pm EST
“Attenuation of mucosal IL-17A production is associated with clinical resolution of chronic graft-versus-host disease”

Ana Costa da Silva (NIDCR)

02:00 pm - 02:20 pm EST
“Regulation of Th17 by IL-17 – implications for autoimmunity”

Rachel Caspi (NEI)

02:20 pm - 02:40 pm EST

Coffee Break

02:40 pm - 03:30 pm EST
“Induction and regulation of Th17 cells in autoimmunity”

Vijay Kuchroo (Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital)

03:30 pm - 03:50 pm EST
“Type I IFN signaling on Tregs modulates the migration of myeloid derived suppressor cells”

Shalini Tanwar (NIAID)

03:50 pm - 04:10 pm EST
“Irgm1 links mitochondrial quality control to autoimmunity”

Michael Fessler (NIEHS)

04:10 pm - 04:30 pm EST
“D-mannose suppresses inflammatory diseases through activation of TGF-beta”

Dunfang Zhang (NIDCR)

Concluding remarks

04:30 pm - 05:00 pm EST

Vanja Lazarevic