2012 Spring Immunology Symposium Agenda

Details: Last Updated: July 19th, 2013

Saturday, June 9, 2012

Place: Heritage Hall, room 102

7:30 am	Registration
8:00 – 8:15 a.m.	Welcome Harry W. Schroeder, Jr, MD, PhD Professor of Medicine Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology Director, UAB Program in Immunology Director, Immunologic Diseases & Basic Immunology Training Program UAB

Basic and Human Immunology Session 1

Chairs: Dr. Jeremy M. Boss, Emory & Dr. Frances Lund, UAB

8:15 – 8:45 a.m	Jeremy (Jerry) Boss, PhD Professor & Chair, Department of Microbiology and Immunology Emory School of Medicine Title: Genetic and Epigenetic Regulation of Programmed Cell Death-1
8:45 – 9:15 a.m.	Frances Lund, PhD Professor & Chair, Department of Microbiology UAB Title: Modulating allergic disease by controlling positioning of dendritic cells within the lymph
9:15 – 10:00 a.m.	Keynote Speaker: Max D. Cooper, MD Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Emory University School of Medicine Title: How did our adaptive immune system evolve?
10:00 – 10:15 a.m.	Coffee Break
10:15 – 10:45 a.m.	Hans Martin Jäck, PhD Head, Division of Molecular Immunology Department of Internal Medicine III University Hospital of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany Title: Micro RNA controls plasma cell differentiation
10:45 – 11:00 a.m.	Xiaoqian Wang, Trainee, Emory University, Travel Award Recipient Title: A division-linked mechanism for the generation of IL-10 producing human B cells
11:00 – 11:15 a.m.	Hao Li, Trainee, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Travel Award Recipent Title: IL-23 controls autoimmunity by facilitating clearance of apoptotic bodies in the marginal zone
11:15 – 11:30 a.m.	Rachel A. Henry, PhD, Trainee, Vanderbilt University, Travel Award Recipent Title: Autoantigen-Specific B Lymphocyte Depletion Overcomes Failed Immune Tolerance in Type 1 Diabetes
11:30 – 11:45 a.m	Sarah Mollo, Trainee, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Travel Award Recipent Title: B Cells Have Multiple Roles for the Generation of CD4 T Cell Memory and Recall Responses
11:45 – 12:00 p.m.	Trainee Awards Ceremony
12:00 - 1:00 p.m.	Lunch

Basic and Human Immunology Session 2

Chairs: Dr. Casey Weaver, UAB & Dr. James E. Crowe, Vanderbilt

1:00 - 1:30 p.m.	George Georgiou, PhD Department of Chemical Engineering Department of Biomedical Engineering Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology Section of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics The University of Texas at Austin Title: Serum Immunoglobulins and V Gene Repertoires
1:30 – 2:00 p.m.	James Crowe, MD Ingram Professor of Cancer Research Professor of Pediatrics, Microbiology and Immuno. Director, Vanderbilt Alliance for Nanomedicine Director, Vanderbilt Program in Vaccine Sciences Vanderbilt School of Medicine Title: Genetic and structural basis for development of human neutralizing antibodies against viruses
2:00 – 2:20 p.m.	Harry W Schroeder Jr, MD PhD Professor of Medicine Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology Director, UAB Program in Immunology Director, Immunologic Diseases & Basic Immunology Training Program UAB Title: Diseases of Immune Function and the Structured Antibody Repertoire: Arginine delenda est!
2:20 – 2:40 p.m.	Thomas (Tom) M. Aune, PhD Professor of Medicine Vanderbilt University Medical Center Title: Diverse functions of distal regulatory elements at the IFNу locus
2:40 – 3:40 p.m.	Keynote Speaker: Lawrence Steinman, MD Professor of Neurology & Neurological Sciences Stanford University, CA Title: Mechanistic Biomarkers in Autoimmune Disease
3:40 – 4:00 p.m.	Coffee Break
4:00 – 4:20 p.m.	Brian Evavold, PhD Associate Professor of Microbiology and Immunology Emory University Title: Frequency and two dimensional affinity of CD4+ T cells
4:20 – 4:40 p.m.	Troy Randall PhD Professor of Medicine Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology UAB Title: The control of Tfh and germinal centers by IL-2
4:40 – 5:00 p.m.	John F. Kearney, DDS PhD Professor of Microbiology UAB Title: Antibodies and the Hygiene Hypothesis
5:15 - 5:45 p.m.	Business Meeting - Heritage Hall, room 102

! Change of Place: Alumni Hall !

6:00 – 8:00 p.m. Reception and Poster Session

Sunday, June 10, 2012

Place: Heritage Hall, room 102

Immunologic Diseases Session

Chairs: Dr. Ignacio (Iñaki) E. Sanz, MD, Emory & Dr. James (Tom) W Thomas, II, Vanderbilt

8:15 – 8:30 a.m.	Welcome Robert P. Kimberly, MD Howard L. Holley Professor of Medicine UAB Director, Comprehensive Arthritis, Musculoskeletal and Autoimmunity Center
8:30 – 9:00 a.m.	S. Louis Bridges, Jr., MD, PhD Marguerite Jones Harbert - Gene V. Ball, MD Professor of Medicine Director, Division of Clinical Immunology & Rheumatology UAB Title: The Role of B Lymphocytes in Rheumatoid Arthritis
9:00 – 9:30 a.m.	Ignacio (Iñaki) E. Sanz, MD Professor of Medicine Director, Division of Rheumatology Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar Director, Kathleen B. and Mason I. Lowance Center for Human Immunology Emory University Title: Using B cells to understand and treat SLE
9:30 – 10:00 a.m.	Peggy Kendall, MD Assistant Professor of Medicine (Allergy/Immunology) Vanderbilt University Medical Center Title: The Role of B Lymphocytes in Type 1 Diabetes
10:00 – 10:30 a.m.	Casey Weaver MD Professor of Pathology UAB
10:30 – 11:00 a.m.	Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:20 a.m.	Jian Han, MD PhD Faculty Investigator HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology Title: High throughput sequencing of immune repertoire: Technology and applications
11:20 – 11:40 a.m.	Sung Sam Lim, MD MPH Associate Professor of Medicine Emory University School of Medicine Title: The Disparities of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
11:40 – 12:00 a.m.	Charles O. Elson, III, M.D. Professor of Medicine University of Alabama at Birmingham Title: Innate and Adaptive Immunity in IBD
12:00 – 1:00 p.m.	Keynote Speaker: Noel Rose, MD PhD Professor, Director, Center for Autoimmune Disease Research Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Title: Immunologic Diseases: Views of the Past, Visions of the Future

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