Saturday, May 15, 2021

Morning Yoga

Join us every morning for a 30-minute yoga-and-mindfulness session. We experience distractions and stressors that pull our attention in many directions. This class will relax you and prepare you to be fully present before engaging in your selected sessions during the day ahead.

Poster Sessions

Antigen Processing and Presentation 1

Microbiota, Sex-Bias, and Aging in Autoimmunity

Cytokine Signaling during Protective and Inflammatory Immune Responses

Lymphocyte Differentiation in the Thymus

Hematopoiesis

GUT and NERVES

Cellular Mechanisms of Innate Immunity in Pathogen Defense

Cellular Mechanisms of Innate Immunity in Surveillance, Inflammation and Tissue Repair

Pathogen Control and Evasion

Metabolites, Diet, and Obesity

Antibody and B Cell Responses to Viruses

Interviewing for a Job

Chair:

• Mary T. Litzinger, Director of Educational and Career Development, AAI

Speaker:

• Derek Haseltine, Hertz Foundation

This session will be focused on tips and techniques to help you successfully navigate the interview process. Emphasis will be on how you can present yourself in the best possible light. You will also learn how to respond to unexpected questions. This session is open to anyone but is especially intended for student and postdoctoral attendees.

Transforming the Study of Human Disease through Systems Immunology

Sponsored by the AAI Clinical Immunology Committee

Chairs:

• Jennifer H. Anolik, Univ. of Rochester Med. Ctr., AAI Clinical Immunology Committee Chair
• John R. Lukens, Univ. of Virginia

Speakers:

• John S. Tsang, NIAID, NIH, Systems immunology of vaccination and COVID-19
• Ali H. Ellebedy, Washington Univ. Sch. of Med., Germinal center B cell response to SARS-CoV-2 vaccination
• Meromit Singer, Dana-Farber Cancer Inst., Harvard Med. Sch., Single-cell RNA-seq coupled with clonal analysis reveals systemic T cell characteristics in melanoma
• Judith A. Woodfolk, Univ. of Virginia Sch. of Med., Tools and strategies for monitoring adaptive immunity to respiratory viruses in man

Single-cell analytics are changing the way we interpret and understand immunology. In this session sponsored by the AAI Clinical Immunology Committee, top researchers will highlight the use of single-cell analytics to explore human immunology and how such techniques will open doors to tomorrow’s therapeutics.

Japanese Society for Immunology (JSI) Symposium

Osteoimmunology: The Interplay Between the Immune System and Bone

Chairs:

• Hiroshi Takayanagi, The Univ. of Tokyo, Japan
• Cevayir Coban, The Univ. of Tokyo, Japan

Speakers:

• Hiroshi Takayanagi, The Univ. of Tokyo, Japan, Bone-immune interactions in health and disease
• Cevayir Coban, The Univ. of Tokyo, Japan, Bone dynamics during malaria
• Yoshiki Omatsu, Osaka Univ., Japan, Niches for hematopoietic stem cells in bone marrow
• Kazuo Okamoto, The Univ. of Tokyo, Japan, RANKL in immunity, bone, and cancer

Block Symposia

Cancer and Inflammation

Molecular Regulation of Cytotoxic Lymphocyte Responses

Immunity in Motion: Leukocyte Trafficking during Inflammation

Mucosal Immunity

Immunology of Infection

AAI-Steinman Award for Human Immunology Research Presentation and Lecture

Chairs:

• Jenny P.-Y. Ting, Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, AAI President (2020–2021)
• Jeremy M. Boss, Emory Univ. Sch. of Med., AAI President (2019–2020)

Award Recipient:

Michael J. Lenardo
NIAID, NIH
Identification of novel gene defects leads to precision therapies for congenital immune diseases

Recognizes an individual who has made significant contributions to the understanding of immune processes underlying human disease pathogenesis, prevention, and therapies

Major Symposium G

B Cell Lineage Signals in Protective vs. Maladaptive Antibody Responses

Generously supported by Agilent Technologies, Inc.

Chairs:

• Mark R. Boothby, Vanderbilt Univ. Med. Ctr.
• Roberta Pelanda, Univ. of Colorado, Denver

Speakers:

• Roberta Pelanda, Univ. of Colorado, Denver, Molecular control of central B cell tolerance: is it one for all?
• Julie Zikherman, Univ. of California, San Francisco, Negative feedback regulation of normal and autoimmune B cell responses
• João P. Pereira, Yale Univ. Sch. of Med., B cell circuits in homeostasis and disease
• Pamela L. Schwartzberg, NIAID, NIH, Modulation of B cell responses by activated PI3K-delta
• Mark R. Boothby, Vanderbilt Univ. Med. Ctr., Imag(in)ing a fusion of nutrients, metabolism, and function as B cells affect antibody responses
• Michel C. Nussenzweig, Rockefeller Univ., Human antibody responses to viral pathogens

Major Symposium H

The Stromal Cell Underpinning of Immune Cell Development and Function

Generously supported by Adaptive Biotechnologies

Chairs:

• Susan R. Schwab, New York Univ. Grossman Sch. of Med.
• Juan Carlos Zúñiga-Pflücker, Univ. of Toronto, and Sunnybrook Res. Inst., Canada

Speakers:

• Juan Carlos Zúñiga-Pflücker, Univ. of Toronto, and Sunnybrook Res. Inst., Canada, Thymic stromal cells are plastic
• Mark S. Anderson, Univ. of California, San Francisco, Maintenance of immune tolerance by thymic stromal cells
• Burkhard Ludewig, Kantonsspital St. Gallen, Switzerland, Fibroblastic reticular cells: subsets and functions
• Melody A. Swartz, Univ. of Chicago, Antigen presentation by lymphatic endothelial cells and T cell memory
• Theresa T. Lu, Hosp. for Special Surgery Res. Inst., Langerhans cells and stromal regulation in lupus
• Susan R. Schwab, New York Univ. Grossman Sch. of Med., Exit strategies: S1P and immune cell migration

Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC) Symposium

Vaccines for Therapy and Prevention of Cancer

Chairs:

• Olivera J. Finn, Univ. of Pittsburgh
• Jay A. Berzofsky, NCI, NIH

Speakers:

• Nina Bhardwaj, Icahn Sch. of Med. at Mount Sinai, Overcoming resistance to immunotherapy: targeting innate immune cells
• Jay A. Berzofsky, NCI, NIH, Dendritic cell-based vaccines for cancer
• Mary N. Disis, Univ. of Washington, Multi-antigen vaccines for cancer prevention
• Olivera J. Finn, Univ. of Pittsburgh, Disease associated antigens (DAA) as tumor antigens for preventative cancer vaccines

Society for Natural Immunity (SNI) Symposium

Novel Concepts in Human Natural Killer Cell Biology

Chairs:

• Todd A. Fehniger, Washington Univ. Sch. of Med
• Emily M. Mace, Columbia Univ.

Speakers:

• Frank Cichocki, Univ. of Minnesota, Boosting NK cell immunotherapy with nicotinamide
• Chiara Romagnani, Deutsches Rheuma-Forschungszentrum Berlin, Germany, Human NK cells and CMV
• Melissa M. Berrien-Elliott, Washington Univ. Sch. of Med., Human NK cell Memory-Like Differentiation and Therapy
• Nicholas D. Huntington, Monash Univ., Australia, Cytokine regulation of human NK cell responses

Block Symposia

Veterinary and Comparative Immunology

Innate Immune Sensing and Signaling

Pathologies and Interventions

Innovations in Therapy for Organ-Specific Autoimmunity.

Immunity to SARS-CoV-2 and Other Viruses