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October 20(Sun)
15:10-16:50
Symposium 1

mRNA Vaccine and Immunity

Room A
Speaker(s) TBC

Annette Vogel (BioNTech SE, DEU)

B cell responses to vaccination: Lessons from the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic

Ali Ellebedy (Washington Univ., USA)

TBC

Galit Alter (Moderna, USA)

October 20(Sun)
15:10-16:50
Symposium 2

IFNs and Inflammation

Room B
Speaker(s) Positive and Negative Regulation of Interferon Signaling and Antiviral Immunity

Curt Horvath (Northwestern Univ., USA)

Molecular mechanisms of innate immunity and inflammation in health and disease

Thirumala-Devi Kanneganti (St. Jude Children's Hospital, USA)

Regulation of cancer immunity, spatial organization, and immunotherapy by interferons

David G Brooks (Univ. of Toronto, CAN)

October 20(Sun)
16:50-17:40
Keynote

Room A
Speaker(s) Type 2 Cytokines: a story of Macrophages, Matrix & Metazoan Parasites

Judith Allen (The Univ. of Manchester, GBR)

October 21(Mon)
08:30-10:10
Symposium 3

Host-Microbiota Interaction

Room A
Speaker(s) Wild-derived microbiota regulate host immune responses and disease outcome in preclinical models

Barbara Rehermann (NIH, USA)

Microbiome Therapeutics for Inflammatory Disorders and Cancer

Sin-Hyeog Im (POSTECH, KOR)

October 21(Mon)
08:30-10:10
Symposium 4

B cell and Cytokines

Room B
Speaker(s) IL-4 and germinal center B cell selection

Marion Pepper (Univ. of Washington, USA)

Title: B cell immune responses in complex microenvironment

Ziv Shulman (Weizmann Institute of Science, ISR)

The impact of type I interferon dynamics on memory B cell subsets during infection

Kim Good-Jacobson (Monash Univ., AUS)

October 21(Mon)
08:30-10:10
Symposium 5

KAI-AKIA

Room C
Speaker(s) Dissecting host immune responses in situ

Jun Huh (Harvard Univ., USA)

CD103 preconditions naïve CD8 T cells for their acquisition of effector phenotype and function

Jung-Hyun Park (NIH/NCI, USA)

TBC

TBC

October 21(Mon)
10:40-12:00
Symposium 6

Trained Immunity and Cytokines

Room A
Speaker(s) Central Trained Immunity and Chronic Inflammation

George Hajishengallis (Univ. of Pennsylvania, USA)

Innate Immune Memory and the Aging Eye

Przemyslaw Sapieha (Centre de recherche HMR, FRA)

October 21(Mon)
10:40-12:00
Symposium 7

Mucosal Immunity

Room B
Speaker(s) Microbiota-regulation of Tumor-Associated Macrophages

Jorge Henao-Mejia (Univ. of Pennsylvania, USA)

Microbiota and immune responses in the stomach are involved in controlling various diseases

Naoko Satoh-Takayama (RIKEN, JPN)

October 21(Mon)
10:40-12:00
Symposium 8

T cell Homeostasis and Cytokines (Charles D. Surh Memorial Session)

Room C
Speaker(s) Fixing to generate new T cells (lessons learned from Charlie Surh, about golf, wine & cytokines)

Juan Carlos Zuniga-Pflucker (Univ. of Toronto, CAN)

Subsetting and shaping naive CD8 T cell pools with complex effector codes

Jae Ho Cho (Chonnam Univ, KOR)

October 21(Mon)
16:20-18:00
Symposium 9

Tumor Immunology and Immunotherapy

Room A
Speaker(s) Control of cytokine signaling to enhance efficacy and safety of CAR-T cell therapy

Yuki Kagoya (Keio Univ., JPN)

Shared mechanisms of Anti-PD1 efficacy in tumor, and toxicity in tissue

Niroshana Anandasabapathy (Cornell Univ., USA)

Functional Identification and Therapeutic Targeting of Cancer Neoantigens

Stephen Schoenberger (La Jolla Institute for Immunology, USA)

October 21(Mon)
16:20-18:00
Symposium 10

Infection and Immunity

Room B
Speaker(s) Differential innate antiviral signaling in human and bat cells

Karen Mossman (McMaster Univ., CAN)

Inflammasome sensing in inflammation and cancer

Si Ming Man (Australia National Univ., AUS)

Regulation of IL-15-induced NK-like activation of CD8+ T cells in viral infection

Eui-Cheol Shin (KAIST, KOR)

October 21(Mon)
16:20-18:00
Guest Symposium

Predicting virus associated inflammatory disease severity in children with laboratory diagnostics and artificial intelligence- PreVAIL kIds experience with SARS-CoV-2 infection syndrome including MIS-C

Room C
Speaker(s) Analytics approaches to evaluate the contribution of biomarkers integrated into clinical prediction models

Cedric Manlhiot (Johns Hopkins University, USA)

ML derived unique cytokine/chemokine biosignature of MIS-C across SARS-CoV-2 variants

Ananth Annapragada (Texas Children's Hospital, USA)

Identifying biomarker signatures of prognostic value for Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C)

Juan Salazar (Connecticut Children's Hospital, USA)

Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) induces a Toll-like receptor-tolerant phenotype in peripheral blood cells that is genetically modulated

Maria Gennaro (Rutgers University, USA)

Diagnosing and predicting risk in children with SARS-CoV-2 related illness

Jane Burns (University of California, San Diego, USA)

Host-based clinical assays for diagnosis and severity prediction of COVID-19 associated clinical syndromes including MIS-C

Charles Chiu (University of California, San Francisco, USA)

October 22(Tue)
08:30-10:10
Symposium 11

Cytokine Engineering

Room A
Speaker(s) Molecular modulation of interleukin-2 for next-generation immunotherapy

Onur Boyman (Univ. of Zurich, CHE)

Protein engineering efforts enable the production of IFNλ4, the solution of the receptor complex by cryoEM, and provide insights into its differential activity

Juan Mendoza (Univ Chicago, USA)

Targeting tumor microenvironment with engineered cytokines

Yang-Xin Fu (Tsinghua Univ., CHN)

October 22(Tue)
08:30-10:10
Symposium 12

Immune Regulation of Inflammatory Diseases

Room B
Speaker(s) Transcription factor NFAT5 is essential to chronic inflammatory diseases

Wan-Uk Kim (Catholic Univ., KOR)

Metabolic Checkpoints in Autoimmune Tissue Inflammation

Cornelia M. Weyand (Mayo Clinic, USA)

Role of MIF in the Glucocorticoid Regulation of Immune Responsiveness

Richard J. Bucala (Yale Univ. School of Medicine, USA)

October 22(Tue)
10:40-12:00
Symposium 13

Cytokines and Myeloid Cells

Room A
Speaker(s) Neutrophil heterogeneity at steady state and stress conditions

Lai Guan Ng (Singapore Immunology Network(SIgN), A*STAR, SGP)

Transcriptional and spatial control of macrophages in cancer

Renato Ostuni (Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele, ITA)

October 22(Tue)
10:40-12:00
Symposium 14

Cytokines and CD8 T cell Immunity

Room B
Speaker(s) T cell differentiation and function in chronic infection and cancer

Axel Kallies (Univ. of Melbourne, AUS)

Costimulation modulates the PD-1+ CD8 T cells beyond priming

Alice Kamphorst (Mount Sainai, USA)

October 22(Tue)
10:40-12:00
Symposium 15

Immune Regulation of Tissue Repair

Room C
Speaker(s) Fibroblast orchestration of tissue resident lymphocytes in disease and aging

Tien Peng (Univ. of California, San Francisco, USA)

Immune-mediated mechanisms of adaptive and maladaptive tissue responses

Shruti Naik (New York Univ., USA)

October 22(Tue)
16:20-18:00
Symposium 16

Type 2 Immunity and Airway Diseases

Room A
Speaker(s) Regulating type 2 cytokine production from T follicular helper cells

Stephanie Eisenbarth (Northwestern Univ., USA)

ILCs at the Crossroads: Understanding their Influence in Type 2 Immunity and Airway Disorders

Hye-Young Kim (Seoul National Univ., KOR)

The regulation and role lung resident and lymphoid T follicular helper cells in allergic airways disease

James Harker (Imperial College London, GBR)

October 22(Tue)
16:20-18:00
Symposium 17

Clinical Immunology of Autoimmune Diseases

Room B
Speaker(s) The role of cytokine receptors in identifying T cell subsets in health and disease

Insoo Kang (Yale Univ. School of Medicine, USA)

Mechanism-based cytokine-targeting therapies and precision medicine in rheumatic diseases

Yoshiya Tanaka (Univ. of Occupational and Environmental Health, JPN)

Integrative Functional Genomics Reveals the Determinants of Age/Autoimmune-Associated B Cells (ABCs)

Nan Shen (Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ. School of Medicine, CHN)

October 22(Tue)
16:20-18:00
Guest Symposium

Lambda IFN

Room C
Speaker(s) IFN-λ controls intestinal repair in IBD

Achille Broggi (CIML, FRA)

STING dependent induction of type III IFN subtypes

Megan Stanifer (Univ. of Florida, USA)

Single cell sequencing of influenza virus infected primary human alveolar macrophages reveals a powerful Interferon Lambda response

Rune Hartmann (Aarhus Univ., DNK)

Viral exploitation of the programmed cell death for evasion of IFN-Lambda immunity

Sanghyun Lee (Brown Univ., USA)

Regulation of antiviral immunity in the intestinal epithelium

Tim Nice (OHSU, USA)

October 23(Wed)
08:30-10:10
Symposium 18

Cytokine-blockade Therapy of Human Diseases

Room A
Speaker(s) Anti-T2 biologics in severe asthma

Ian Adcock (Imperial College London, GBR)

Role of CXCR6+CD4+ Tissue-Resident Memory T Cells in Chronic Allergic Skin Inflammation

Kenji Kabashima (Kyoto Univ., JPN)

The multifaceted contribution of the BAFF/APRIL system to Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia progression

Fabienne Mackay (QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, AUS)

October 23(Wed)
08:30-10:10
Symposium 19

Cytokines in T helper Differentiation and Function

Room B
Speaker(s) Gene dosage control by multi-enhancer hub formation

Golnaz Vahedi (Univ. of Pennsylvania, USA)

Neuronal Control of Cutaneous Inflammation

Daniel Kaplan (Univ. of Pittsburgh, USA)

Non-canonical regulation of IL-21 bioavailability and activity

Di Yu (The Univ. of Queensland, AUS)

October 23(Wed)
13:30-14:30
Keynote

Room A
Speaker(s) Nucleoside Modified mRNA-LNP Therapeutics

Drew Weissman (Univ. of Pennsylvania, USA)

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