Agenda

Monday, January 29, 2024

08:00 am - 09:00 am EST
Conference Registration
09:00 am - 09:15 am EST
Introductory remarks / Welcome

Gregoire Altan-Bonnet, NCI

09:15 am - 10:15 am EST
Guru Lecture I: Ken Murphy (WUSTL)

"We need to talk about cross-presentation. Really, we do."

10:15 am - 10:30 am EST
Conversation Break

*refreshments available

10:30 am - 11:15 am EST
Session 1: antigen recognition, cellular responses & immune development

Chairs: Joanna Bandola-Simon (NCI) & Hyun Park (NCI)

 

Talk 1: Can Li (NCI)

"CD103 Preconditions Naive CD8 T Cells for Their Acquisition of Effector Phenotype and Function"

Talk 2: Sooraj Achar (NCI)

"Antagonism-enforced braking system to enhance CAR T cell therapeutic specificity"

Speed Talk 1: Jyh Lian Hor (CI)

"PD-1/cDC1 axis in the tumor draining lymph node regulates stem-like CD8+ T cell differentiation"

Speed Talk 2: Natalie D. Convertino (NCI)

"Weak Interaction Between SLP-76 and PLC-g1 Within Heterotetrameric Circular Complex Upon TCR Engagement Fine-Tunes TCR-Signal and Strength"

Speed Talk 3: Guillaume Gaud (NICHD)

"An unexpected inhibitory role for CD3z ITAMs: Implications for TCR signaling and application to tumor-immunotherapy"

 

11:15 am - 12:00 pm EST
Session 2: Immune regulation

Chairs: John O'Shea (NIAMS) & Stefan Muljo (NIAID)

 

Talk 1: Justin Shayne (NIAMS)

"A novel regulatory element, +6.5kbll13, regulates the enhancer landscape and controls chromatin architecture of the Type 2 cytokine locus"

Talk 2: Jennifer Cannons (NIAID)

"PI3K delta coordinates transcriptional, epigenetic and metabolic changes to promote effector CD8 T cells differentiation during acute and chronic viral infections"

Speed Talk 1: Suyasha Roy (NHLBI)

"Blimp-1 negatively regulates IL-2 signaling in T cells"

Speed Talk 2: Shahar Azar (NIDDK)

"Wild-Derived Microbiota Protect Against Diet-Induced Obesity via an Immune-Medicated Effect on Brown Adipocytes"

 

12:00 pm - 01:00 pm EST
Lunch

RRBITC cafeteria, downtown restaurants, food trucks

01:00 pm - 03:00 pm EST
Poster session I (Poster #1 - #120)

1:00pm-2:00pm Even number presenters

2:00pm-3:00pm Odd number presenters

 

03:00 pm - 03:45 pm EST
Session 3: Infectious disease and host response

Chairs: Eric Dang (NIAID) & Lydia Roberts (NIAID)

 

Talk 1: Alex Clark (NCI)

"Spatial Transcriptomic Profiling Technologies highlight the importance of T cell tissue localization in the immune response against chronic infections of the brain"

Talk 2: Motoyoshi Nagai (NIAID)

"Dietary factors and skin microbes govern skin homeostasis via regulating would healing"

Speed Talk 1: Ashira Lubkin (NIAID)

"Candida albicans pathogenesis in mucosal type II interferonopathy"

Speed Talk 2: Brigette Boast (NIH CC)

"Germline multimorphic Irf4T95R variant confers susceptibility to Pneumocystis pneumonia in humans and mice"

Speed Talk 3: Aline Sardinha-Silva (NIAID)

"A gastrointestinal protist reshapes mucosal immunity toward a Type-2 response that attenuates inflammatory bowel-like diseases"

03:45 pm - 04:15 pm EST
Session 4: allergy, autoimmune disorders, clinical and human immunology

Chairs: Julie Fox (NIAID) & Michael Sacks (NHLBI)

 

Talk 1: Erin West (NHLBI)

“Dysregulation of T cell intrinsic C5aR2 activation causes uncontrolled inflammatory Th responses and autoinflammatory syndrome”

Speed Talk 1: Ngoc Thuy Nguyen (NCI)

“Type I interferon and IL27 modulate regulatory T cells in a Lupus-prone mouse model”

Speed Talk 2: Brooke Boyd (NIAMS)

“Elucidating the molecular mechanisms of a novel mutation in IRAK2 in systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis (sJIA)”

04:15 pm - 05:00 pm EST
Session 5: immunotherapy & vaccines

Chairs: Sabina Kaczanowska (NCI) & Ronit Mazor (FDA)

 

Talk 1: Benjamin Angeles (NCI)

“Generation of novel anti-tumor chimeric antigen receptors incorporating downstream T- cell signaling proteins”

Talk 2: Stephen Migueles (NIAID)

“HIV vaccines induce CD8+T cells with low antigenreceptor sensitivity”

Speed Talk 1: Zhijian Duan (NCI)

“CAR-T cells based on a TCR mimic nanobody targeting HPV16 E6 for treating cervical cancer”

Speed Talk 2: Sojin Bing (FDA)

“Rational immunosilencing of a promiscuous T-cell epitope in the capsid of an adeno-associated virus”

Speed Talk 3: Taisuke Kondo (NCI)

“Harnessing arginine metabolism overcomes hyperthermia-induced metabolic dysfunction of CAR T-cells”

 

05:00 pm - 08:00 pm EST
Poster session I - continued ( Poster #1 - #125)

5:00pm-6:00pm Odd number presenters

6:00pm-7:00pm Even number presenters

*food & refreshments available - cash bar

 

Tuesday, January 30, 2024

09:00 am - 10:45 am EST
Session 6: New Investigators

Chairs: Barbara Rehermann (NIDDK) & Li Yang (NCI)

 

Talk 1: Julie Fox (NIAID)

“Antibody effector functions for optimal protection against alphaviruses”

Talk 2: Eric Dang (NIAID)

“Immunity to fungi at barrier tissues”

Talk 3: Hao Jin (NIAID)

"Body-brain axis in the control of immunity"

Talk 4: Meera Murgai (NCI)

“Uncovering Perivascular Niche Dynamics in Metastasis”

Talk 5: Kazusa Ishii (NCI)

"CD22 TCR-Engineered T Cells Exert Anti-Leukemia Cytotoxicity Without Causing Inflammatory Responses"

Talk 6: Sri Krishna (NCI)

“Phenotypic heterogeneity of antitumor T cells in patients with metastatic cancer”

10:45 am - 11:05 am EST
Conversation Break

*refreshments available

11:05 am - 11:45 am EST
Session 7: molecular, structural & systems immunology

Chairs: Gregoire Altan-Bonnet (NCI) & Julia Gross (NIAID)

 

Talk 1:  Javeed Ahmad (NIAID)

“Structure-guided design and Characterization of Bivalent molecules against SARS-CoV-2”

Talk 2: Nathan Manes (NIAID)

“Data-Driven Modeling of the Mouse Macrophage Toll-like Receptor Signaling Pathway”

Speed Talk 1: Shil Patel (NCI)

“Utilizing spatial transcriptomics to study fate decisions and lineage specification during T cell development”

Speed Talk 2: Preeyaporn Songkiatisak (NIA)

“Exploring the roles of NF-kB in Alzheimer’s Disease using APOE risk-associated brain models in vitro”

 

 

11:45 am - 12:30 pm EST
Session 8: innate immunity & inflammation

Chairs: Jay Berzofsky (NCI) & Daniela Verthelyi (FDA)

 

Talk 1: Yongjun Sui (NCI)

“Innate protection against intrarectal SIV acquisition by a live Simian-Human immunodeficiency virus vaccine”

Talk 2: Dragana Jankovic (NIAID)

“Microbial-ligand independent regulation of lymphopoiesis by NOD1”

Speed Talk 1: Chloe Hicks (NIAID)

“Xanthine Oxidase Regulation of Gasdermin D: Developing Biosensors to Assess Cleavage-Activated Signaling Events”

Speed Talk 2: Ian Bettencourt (NCI)

”The peritoneal tissue resident macrophage niche is dynamic and is supported by both stromal and circulating immune cells”

Speed Talk 3: Tomoaki Yoshida (NIDDK)

“Wild-derived Skin Microbiota Drive Eosinophil Levels in Multiple Organs via IL-5 Produced by Dermal ILC2s”

12:30 pm - 01:30 pm EST
Lunch

RRBITC cafeteria, downtown restaurants, food trucks

12:30 pm - 03:00 pm EST
Poster session II (Poster Tuesday #1 - #110)

1:00pm-2:00pm Even number presenters

2:00pm-3:00pm Odd number presenters

*2:30pm-3:00pm - refreshments available

03:00 pm - 03:45 pm EST
Session 9: barrier immunity

Chairs: Nihal Altan-Bonnet (NHLBI) & Oyebola Oyesola (NIAID)

 

Talk 1: Vasileios Ionas Theofilou (NIDCR)

“Spatial atlas of human oral mucosa reveals an immune- activated epithelium actively recruiting neutrophils to police the barrier”

Talk 2: Dan Corral (NIAID)

“Mammary intra-epithelial lymphocytes promote lactogenesis and offspring fitness”

Speed Talk 1: Hiroshi Ichise (NIAID)

“Highly multiplex volumetric imaging Ce3D-IBEX reveals commensal-induced immune clustering along sensory nerves in the lung”

Speed Talk 2: Grozdan Cvijetic (NIDCR)

“Myeloid Notch2 deficiency results in altered intestinal barrier immunity and dysbiosis”

Speed Talk 3: Lunhua Liu (FDA)

“Milk dictates neonatal serum mediated macrophage phenotype and function in suckling neonates”

 

03:45 pm - 04:00 pm EST
Break
04:00 pm - 04:30 pm EST
Session 10: cancer immunology & transplantation

Chairs: Romina Goldszmid (NCI) & Peter Kim (NCI)

 

Talk 1: Ji Hoon Oh (NIDDK)

“Virtual Memory T cells are Induced by Wild-Derived Microbiota in an IL-15-dependent Manner and Enhance the Response to Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor Therapy”

Speed Talk 1: Jack Bibby (NHLBI)

"Prostate epithelial cell intrinsic C3 represses MYC-driven tumorigenesis"

Speed Talk 2: Abir Panda (NIAID)

“Global inhibition of HLA/LILR interactions by anti-MHC-I augments anti-tumor immunity”

04:30 pm - 05:30 pm EST
Guru Lecture II: Pamela Schwartzberg (NIAID)

Introduction: Naomi Taylor (NCI)

 

“Integrating T cell signals: Lessons from Genetics and T cell Biology”

05:30 pm EST
Conclusion and Next to Come @ IIG

Naomi Taylor (NCI)