Agenda

Tuesday, Sep 3 Wednesday, Sep 4

Tuesday, September 3, 2024

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

09:00 am - 09:45 am EST
Between innate and adaptive immunity: innate-like T cells

Mitchell Kronenberg, Ph.D.

Scripps

HONORING JAY BERZOFSKY

09:45 am - 09:55 am EST
Introduction of Jay Berzofsky
09:55 am - 08:20 pm EST
The Two-Faced Epitope: Discovering Tolerogenic Epitopes in Silico and In Vivo

Annie De Groot, MD

Epivax

10:20 am - 10:45 am EST
Myeloid cell biology in the context of vaccines

Dmitry Gabrilovich, MD, Ph.D.

Astra-Zeneka

10:45 am - 11:05 am EST

Coffee Break

EMERGING VACCINE DEVELOPMENTS

11:05 am - 11:30 am EST
Cancer Vaccine

Asaf Poran, Ph.D.

BioNTech

11:30 am - 11:55 am EST
Cancer Vaccine

Bob Seder, M.D.

NIH/VRC

11:55 am - 12:05 pm EST
Short Talk - from abstract
12:05 pm - 12:15 pm EST
Short talk - from abstract
12:15 pm - 01:15 pm EST

Lunch Break

01:15 pm - 02:15 pm EST

Poster Session

CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY

02:15 pm - 02:40 pm EST
Hematologic Malignancy Target Discovery

Art Shaffer, Ph.D.

Astra Zeneca

02:40 pm - 03:05 pm EST
CAR-Macrophages

Michael Kinchinsky, PHARMD, Ph.D.

Carisma therapeutics

03:05 pm - 03:25 pm EST

Coffee break 

03:25 pm - 03:50 pm EST
Tumor microenvironment

Leila Akkari, Ph.D.

NKI

03:50 pm - 04:00 pm EST
Short Talk - from abstract
04:00 pm - 04:10 pm EST
Short talk - from abstract

Wednesday, September 4, 2024

ENVIRONMENTAL CUES AND IMMUNOREGULATION 

09:00 am - 09:25 am EST
Diet, microbiota and inflammation

Ivan Vujikovic Cvijin, Ph.D.

Cedar Sinai

09:25 am - 09:50 am EST
High salt, inflammation and CV disease

Annet Kirabo, Ph.D.

Vanderbilt

09:50 am - 10:15 am EST
T cell biology in aging

Janko Nikolich, MD, Ph.D

University of Arizona

10:15 am - 10:40 am EST
Safe starts: Strategies to protect newborns from influenza

Martha Alexander-Miller, Ph.D.

Wake Health

10:40 am - 10:50 am EST
Short talk - from abstract
10:50 am - 11:00 am EST
Short talk - from abstract
11:00 am - 11:20 am EST

Coffee break

NEURO-IMMUNE AXIS

11:20 am - 11:45 am EST
Neuroimmune disorder (Multiple Sclerosis)

Jennifer Gommerman, Ph.D.

University of Toronto

 

11:45 am - 12:10 pm EST
Neuroimmunology (lympatics/glympatics system of CNS)

Jonathan Kipnis, Ph.D.

Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis

12:10 pm - 12:35 pm EST
Neuroimmunology (Microglia/AD)

Marco Colonna, MD

Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis

12:35 pm - 01:00 pm EST
Short talk - from abstracts
01:00 pm - 01:25 pm EST
Short talk - from abstracts
01:25 pm - 02:30 pm EST

Lunch Break

ALLERGY AND AUTOIMMUNITY

02:30 pm - 02:55 pm EST
Cytokine Engineering

Warren Leonard, MD

NHLBI

02:55 pm - 03:20 pm EST
Cross-presentation by dendritic cells from live antigen-donor cells

Anne Hosmalin, Ph. D.

Institut Cochin

03:20 pm - 03:45 pm EST
Immunopathology of allergy and autoimmunity disorders

Joshua Milner, MD

Columbia University

03:45 pm - 04:00 pm EST

Coffee break

04:00 pm - 04:25 pm EST
Arthritis/biologics

Aaron Winkler, Ph.D.

Pfizer

04:25 pm - 05:00 pm EST
New Frontiers in B-cell depletion: From Cancer to Systemic Autoimmune Diseases

Richard Siegel, MD, Ph.D.

Novartis

04:50 pm - 05:00 pm EST
Short talk - from abstracts