Keynote Speaker:
Emil R. Unanue, MD
Paul & Ellen Lacy Professor, Pathology and Immunology
Washington University School of Medicine
Member, National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Institute of Medicine

Title: Cellular and genetic events initiating diabetic autoimmunity

Professor, Medical College of Georgia

Anupam Agarwal, MD
Interim Senior Vicepresident for Medicine and Dean, School of Medicine
UAB

Title: Heme oxygenase-1 in the regulation of the immune response

Immunology Trainee 1

Han Dong and Timothy N.J. Bullock.  Human Immune Therapy Center, Department of Pathology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22908

Title: CD27 costimulation enhances IL-7 receptor re-expression on CD8+ T cells during viral infection and promotes CD8+ T cell memory

Immunology Trainee 2

Tahseen H. Nasti¹, Kyle Rudemiller¹, George Twitty¹, Hee Kyung Kim ^1,2, Yuko Tsuruta ^1,2, Mohammad Athar ^1,2, Craig Elmets ^1,2 and Laura Timares ^1,2 , ¹ The Department of Dermatology, ² The UAB Skin Diseases Research Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine.

Title: An immune prevention strategy for protection against chemical carcinogenesis.

Immunology Trainee 3

Ying Yi Zheng, Laurence Morel. Department of Pathology, Immunology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610.

Title: Contribution of marginal zone B cells to autoimmunity in the B6.Sle1.Sle2.Sle3 lupus prone mouse model.

Laurie E. Harrington, PhD
Assistant Professor of Cell, Developmental and Integrative Biology
UAB

Title: Elucidating the factors that mediate protective and pathogenic CD4 T cell responses

Coffee Break

Chad Steele, PhD
Professor of Medicine/Division of Pulmonary, Allergy & Critical Care Medicine
UAB

Title: Immunopathogenesis during fungal asthma

Devin Absher, PhD
Faculty Investigator
HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology

Title: Epigenetics of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

Keynote Speaker
Prof. Dr. med. Rolf M. Zinkernagel
1996 Nobel Prize for Medicine
Professor Emeritus, University of Zurich, University Hospital, Zurich

Title: Immunology taught by viruses

James (Tom) W. Thomas, MD
Professor of Medicine
Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Title: Tracking B cells in Type 1 Diabetes

Linda K. Myers, MD
Professor of Pediatrics
University of Tennessee College of Medicine at Memphis

Title: Collagen peptides and autoimmune arthritis

Arnold E. Postlethwaite, M.D.
Goodman Professor of Medicine
University of Tennessee College of Medicine at Memphis

Title: Naturally Occurring Noncalcemic Analogs of Vitamin D Possess Immunomodulatory and Anti-Fibrotic Properties

Allan J. Zajac, PhD
Associate Professor of Microbiology
UAB

Title: Controlling effector and memory anti-viral CD8 T cell development

Timothy Denning, PhD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Division of Neonatology
Emory University School of Medicine

Title: Intestinal Macrophages: Regulators of Homeostasis and Inflammation

Paul Goepfert, MD
Professor of Medicine and Microbiology
Director, Alabama Vaccine Research Clinic
UAB

Title: Induction of CD8 T cell cryptic epitope responses by HIV infection and vaccines

Keynote Speaker
John Cambier, PhD
Ida and Cecil Green Distinguished Professor and Chairman,
Integrated Department of Immunology
University of Colorado Denver and
National Jewish Health

Title: Subversion of BCR regulatory signaling circuitry by risk alleles promotes autoimmunity