Schedule of Events

Tuesday, May 14, 2024

8.00am Arrival - Breakfast Buffet

Pre-Assembly Room

8.55am Welcome

Woodstock Ballroom

9.00am "Metabolic regulation of epithelial-macrophage crosstalk in the respiratory tract"

Jennifer Bomberger

9.30am "Transcriptomic and immunometabolic approaches to improve adoptive T cell therapies"

Edward Usherwood

10.00am Coffee

Pre-Assembly Room

10.30am "The quest for Immortality: Plasma cell longevity updates"

Mohamed ElTanbouly

11.00am Keynote speaker: "Memory CD8 T Cells: Issues of Quantity, Quality, and Location"  

David Masopust

12.00pm Lunch Buffet

Rockefeller Room

1.00pm Panel discussion on career options in science (Woodstock Ballroom)

Mohamed Eltanbouly (Alumni)

Nicole Desch

Cherie Butts

2.00pm Coffee

Pre-Assembly Room

2.30pm Afternoon break / poster setup and viewing

Posters: Pre-Assembly Room

5:00pm Faculty Meeting

Garden Parlor

6.00pm Dinner Buffet

Rockefeller Room

7.30pm - 9.00pm Poster viewing and judging (Presenters should be at posters 7:30-8:30pm)

Pre-Assembly Room

 

Wednesday, May 15, 2024

8.00am Breakfast Buffet

Pre-Assembly Room

9.00am  "Rethinking neutrophils: mediators of organ repair turned pathogenic by the tissue environment?"

Sladjana Skopelja-Gardner

9.30am Keynote speaker: "The biology and significance of HIV-1 infection of human alveolar macrophages"  

David Russell

10.30am Coffee

Pre-Assembly Room

11.00am "Twenty Years Unveiled: Deciphering the Enigma of Anti-CD4 Therapy"

Mary Jo Turk

11.30am Cores update

Barry Schweitzer (Magnuson Center)

Angela Kull (Bio MT)

Fred Kolling (Genomics)

12.00pm Lunch buffet

Pre-Assembly Room

1.30pm

to 3:00pm

Immunology J Club Meeting

Woodstock Ballroom