Location of the events:

• Registration: The Forum 3^rd Floor Lobby
• General Sessions: The Forum G-I
• Poster Sessions: The Forum K
• Meals: The Forum J
• Coffee Breaks: The Forum 3^rd Floor Lobby

Saturday, June 16, 2018

7:30 a.m.	Registration: The Forum 3rd floor Lobby
8:00 a.m.	Welcome address: The Forum G-I

Session 1: Chair: Ashlyn Anderson, Graduate Student, UAB

8:10 a.m.	Jeffrey Rathmell, PhD, Professor, Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center Title: Fueling T Cell Differentiation and Function
8:35 a.m.	Michele Kosiewicz, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Louisville Title: Sex and gut microbiota influences on immunoregulation and disease in lupus-prone mice
9:00 a.m.	Xiaopin Zhong, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Immunology,  Duke University Title: Signal Control of Invariant T Cell Development and Function
9:25 a.m.	Kenneth Oestreich, PhD, Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine, Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute Title: Novel roles for Ikaros zinc finger transcription factors in T helper cell differentiation
9:50 a.m.	Trainee speaker: Mei Lan Chen, Graduate Student, The Scripps Research Institute, FL Title: Specialization of Effector CD4+ T Cells in the Small Intestine
10:05 a.m.	Coffee Break: The Forum 3rd floor Lobby

Session 2: Chair: Jessica Peel, Graduate Student, UAB

10:30  a.m.	Keynote address 1 Jean-Laurent Casanova, MD, PhD, Senior Attending Physician, Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Professor, The Rockefeller University Title: Toward a genetic theory of childhood infectious diseases
11:30 a.m.	Tajie H. Harris, PhD University of Virginia School of Medicine Title: The danger of brain infections: Alarmins and the control of T. gondii in the CNS
11:55 a.m.	Malu G. Tansey, PhD Emory University School of Medicine Title: Role and regulation of inflammation and immune responses in age-related neurodegeneration
12:20 p.m.	Lunch: The Forum J
12:50 p.m.	Poster Session 1: Block A Posters - The Forum K

Session 3: Chair: Jennifer Marvin, Graduate Student, Vanderbilt University

2:30 p.m.	Jan Novak, PhD UAB School of Medicine Title: Defining pathogenesis of an autoimmune disease: From glycomics to genomics and back
2:55 p.m.	Jennifer Martinez, PhD NIEHS Title: Rubicon: Above and beyond the call of duty
3:20 p.m.	Jian Mei Leavenworth. MD, PhD UAB Medical School Title: New players in anti-tumor immunity
3:45 p.m.	Trainee Speaker: Selene Meza-Perez, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, UAB Title: PPARg+VAT-associated Tregs are required to suppress anti-tumor responses in the omentum
4:00 p.m.	Coffee Break: The Forum 3rd floor Lobby

Session 4: Chair: Claire Rosean, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, The University of Virginia

4:20 p.m.	Heather Pua, MD, PhD Vanderbilt University Medical Centere Title: Extracellular RNA and vesicles in allergic lung inflammation
4:45 p.m.	Bing Li, PhD University of Louisville School of Medicine Title: Expression of A-FABP in Tumor Associated Macrophages Promotes Breast Cancer Progression
5:10 p.m.	Keynote Address 2 Yasmine Belkaid, PhD, Senior Investigator. Mucosal Immunology Section, NIAID/DIR  Title:  Homeostatic immunity to the microbiota
6:15 p.m.	Dinner: The Forum J
7:00 p.m.	Poster Session 2: Block B Posters - The Forum K

Sunday, June 17, 2018

Session 5: Chair: Vineel Reddy, , Postdoctoral Fellow, UAB

8:00 a.m.	Amanda S. MacLeod, MD Duke University School of Medicine Title: Innate Immune Defense and Repair Functions  at the Skin Barrier
8:25 a.m.	Liwu Li, PhD Virginia Tech Title: Innate immunity programming dynamics in acute and chronic diseases
8:50 a.m.	Melanie Rutkowski, PhD University of Virginia School of Medicine Title: Antibiotic-induced commensal dysbiosis attenuates the efficacy of PD-1/PD-L1 blockade in breast cancer
9:15 a.m.	Mehul S. Suthar, PhD Emory University Vaccine Center Title: Immune control of flavivirus infection
9:40 a.m.	Trainee speaker: Daniel Silberger, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, UAB Title: CD4+ T Cell-derived Interleukin-21 Promotes the Clearance of Enteropathogenic bacteria via Enhancement of Humoral Immunity and Inhibition of T Follicular Regulatory Cell Development.
9:55 a.m.	American Association of Immunology Awards
10:10 a.m.	Coffee Break: The Forum 3rd Floor Lobby

Session 6: Chair:  Adam Getzler, Graduate Student, The Scripps Research Institute, FL

10:30 a.m.	Trainee Speaker: Robert Haines, Graduate Student, Emory University Title: The histone demethylase LSD1 regulates B cell proliferation and plasmablast differentiation
10:45 a.m.	Nilu Goonetilleke, PhD University of North Carolina School of Medicin Title: T cells immunobiology in HIV infection
11:10 a.m.	Uma Nagarajan, PhD University of North Carolina School of Medicine Title: Innate immune response to Chlamydia infection-the role for PRRs and the DAMPs in disease
11:35 a.m.	Keynote address 3 Stephen Jameson, PhD, Professor and Chairman's Fund Professorship in Experimental Pathology, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota Title: The ATP sensor P2RX7 controls metabolic fitness of memory CD8 T cells
12:35 p.m.	Closing remarks and announcement of next symposium
12:45 p.m.	Lunch and Departure: The Forum J