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  • Thursday, Apr 16th
    9:45 AM - 10:00 AM US ET
    CX3CR1+ myeloid cell-intrinsic NOD2 signaling limits Crohn's disease-associated intestinal fibrosis
    Location: 102
    Author: Tapas Mukherjee, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Toronto
    Innate Immune Responses and Host Defense: Cellular Mechanisms (INC)
  • Thursday, Apr 16th
    10:00 AM - 10:15 AM US ET
    Siglec-F+ neutrophils are pro-inflammatory and exacerbate C. difficile colitis
    Location: 102
    Author: Farha Naz, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of virginia
    Innate Immune Responses and Host Defense: Cellular Mechanisms (INC)
  • Thursday, Apr 16th
    10:15 AM - 10:30 AM US ET
    Noncanonical role for Caspase-5 in the human intestinal epithelium
    Location: 102
    Author: Yuhua Shi, PhD – Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University
    Innate Immune Responses and Host Defense: Cellular Mechanisms (INC)
  • Thursday, Apr 16th
    10:30 AM - 10:45 AM US ET
    MAIT17 Cells and IL-17-Driven iBALT Formation Protect Against Pulmonary Tularemia
    Location: 102
    Author: Sebastian Joyce, PhD – Vanderbilt University Medical Center
    Innate Immune Responses and Host Defense: Cellular Mechanisms (INC)
  • Thursday, Apr 16th
    10:45 AM - 11:00 AM US ET
    SPIC-dependent erythrophagocytic macrophages promote bacterial tissue persistence during Salmonella infection
    Location: 102
    Author: Trung Pham, MD PhD (he/him/his) – Stanford University
    Innate Immune Responses and Host Defense: Cellular Mechanisms (INC)
  • Thursday, Apr 16th
    11:00 AM - 11:15 AM US ET
    Myeloid-specific NLRP12 is a checkpoint of colonic inflammation by promoting taurine-driven microbiota
    Location: 102
    Author: Guannan Huang, PhD – University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
    Innate Immune Responses and Host Defense: Cellular Mechanisms (INC)
  • Saturday, Apr 18th
    12:45 PM - 1:00 PM US ET
    Sepsis-induced alterations to the microenvironment promotes maladaptive emergency granulopoiesis and susceptibility to Streptococcus pneumoniae
    Location: 156
    Author: Amber Bahr – Albany Med. Col.
    Innate Immune Responses and Host Defense: Cellular Mechanisms (INC)
  • Saturday, Apr 18th
    1:00 PM - 1:15 PM US ET
    High throughput CRISPR screens reveals novel roles for retroviral elements in proliferation and inflammation in murine macrophages
    Location: 156
    Author: Eric Malekos – Univ. of California, Santa Cruz
    Innate Immune Responses and Host Defense: Cellular Mechanisms (INC)
  • Saturday, Apr 18th
    1:15 PM - 1:30 PM US ET
    Neutrophil diversity in the host defense niche
    Location: 156
    Author: Marie Siwicki, PhD – University of Calgary
    Innate Immune Responses and Host Defense: Cellular Mechanisms (INC)
  • Saturday, Apr 18th
    1:30 PM - 1:45 PM US ET
    Real-Time Single-Cell Kinetics of Innate Immune Activation
    Location: 156
    Author: Skyler Briggs, BS – Wertheim Univ. of Florida Scripps Inst.
    Innate Immune Responses and Host Defense: Cellular Mechanisms (INC)
  • Saturday, Apr 18th
    1:45 PM - 2:00 PM US ET
    pH-Dependent Innate Immune Circuitry Confers Tolerance to Systemic Inflammation
    Location: 156
    Author: Xu Zhou, PhD (he/him/his) – Boston Children's Hosp., Harvard Med. Sch.
    Innate Immune Responses and Host Defense: Cellular Mechanisms (INC)
  • Saturday, Apr 18th
    2:00 PM - 2:15 PM US ET
    How do tissues sense proteolytic stress?
    Location: 156
    Author: Karen Agaronyan, PhD – Yale University
    Innate Immune Responses and Host Defense: Cellular Mechanisms (INC)
  • Sunday, Apr 19th
    9:45 AM - 10:00 AM US ET
    Phagocytic CD206+ interstitial macrophages are remodeled after pneumococcal respiratory infection
    Location: 104 AB
    Author: Elise Armstrong, MS (she/her/hers) – Boston Univ. Chobanian & Avedisian Sch. of Med.
    Innate Immune Responses and Host Defense: Cellular Mechanisms (INC)
  • Sunday, Apr 19th
    10:00 AM - 10:15 AM US ET
    Lactation-induced granulopoiesis and pulmonary epithelial remodeling enhance maternal antiviral defense
    Location: 104 AB
    Author: Thomas Cafiero, MA (he/him/his) – Princeton Univ.
    Innate Immune Responses and Host Defense: Cellular Mechanisms (INC)
  • Sunday, Apr 19th
    10:15 AM - 10:30 AM US ET
    Influenza-driven hematopoietic stem cell reprogramming accelerates atherosclerosis
    Location: 104 AB
    Author: Jeffrey Downey, PhD – Icahn Sch. of Med., Mount Sinai
    Innate Immune Responses and Host Defense: Cellular Mechanisms (INC)
  • Sunday, Apr 19th
    10:30 AM - 10:45 AM US ET
    Steady-state immune surveillance of the nasal mucosa by neutrophils
    Location: 104 AB
    Author: Rodrigo Gonzalez, PhD (he/him/his) – Harvard Med. Sch.
    Innate Immune Responses and Host Defense: Cellular Mechanisms (INC)
  • Sunday, Apr 19th
    10:45 AM - 11:00 AM US ET
    Eosinophil Activation in the Allergic Lung Limits Pneumococcal Superinfection During Influenza
    Location: 104 AB
    Author: Amali E. Samarasinghe, PhD – University of Wisconsin, Madison
    Innate Immune Responses and Host Defense: Cellular Mechanisms (INC)
  • Sunday, Apr 19th
    11:00 AM - 11:15 AM US ET
    Helminth trained nerve and airway associated interstitial macrophages are indispensable for mitigating pathology during respiratory viral infection
    Location: 104 AB
    Author: Payal Damani-Yokota, PhD (she/her/hers) – New York University Langone Medical Center
    Innate Immune Responses and Host Defense: Cellular Mechanisms (INC)