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  • Thursday, Apr 16th
    8:00 AM - 8:15 AM US ET
    Mechanisms regulating ferritinophagy during infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis induces ferroptosis and orchestrates TB pathogenesis
    Location: 153AB
    Author: Kithiganahalli Balaji – Indian Inst. of Sci., Bangalore
    Microbial, Parasitic, and Fungal Immunology (MPF)
  • Thursday, Apr 16th
    8:15 AM - 8:30 AM US ET
    An Immunological Wildfire: Trichomonas vaginalis sparks pyroptosis in ectocervical cells
    Location: 153AB
    Author: Johann Tailor (he/him/his) – San Diego State University & UC San Diego
    Microbial, Parasitic, and Fungal Immunology (MPF)
  • Thursday, Apr 16th
    8:30 AM - 8:45 AM US ET
    Host-Parasite Interactions of Intraerythrocytic Malaria Infections
    Location: 153AB
    Author: Marissa Schroeter (she/her/hers) – Rutgers University-Newark
    Microbial, Parasitic, and Fungal Immunology (MPF)
  • Thursday, Apr 16th
    8:45 AM - 9:00 AM US ET
    Effects of type 2 diabetes mellitus on fibrosis formation in post-tuberculosis lung disease
    Location: 153AB
    Author: Alyssa Varghese – University of Texas Medical Branch
    Microbial, Parasitic, and Fungal Immunology (MPF)
  • Thursday, Apr 16th
    9:00 AM - 9:15 AM US ET
    Characterizing the Alveolar Macrophage and Neutrophil Responses to Inhaled Coccidioides Spores using Ce3D-cleared Precision-Cut Lung Slices
    Location: 153AB
    Author: Paul Brennan (he/him/his) – Rutgers New Jersey Med. Sch.
    Microbial, Parasitic, and Fungal Immunology (MPF)
  • Thursday, Apr 16th
    9:15 AM - 9:30 AM US ET
    Clostridioides difficile-Driven Expansion of IL1B+ Monocytes Amplifies Neutrophil Recruitment in Ulcerative Colitis
    Location: 153AB
    Author: Eun Hye Yoon (she/her/hers) – SNU Graduate School Department of Biomedical Sciences
    Microbial, Parasitic, and Fungal Immunology (MPF)
  • Friday, Apr 17th
    12:45 PM - 1:00 PM US ET
    T cell dysfunction during Staphylococcus aureus osteomyelitis in humanized mice
    Location: 153C
    Author: Katya McDonald, MS – University of Rochester
    Microbial, Parasitic, and Fungal Immunology (MPF)
  • Friday, Apr 17th
    1:00 PM - 1:15 PM US ET
    Rv2140c is targeted by follicular helper T cells in M.tuberculosis exposed γ Interferon Release Assay negative populations in Uganda and South Africa
    Location: 153C
    Author: Fei Gao, PhD (she/her/hers) – Stanford Univ. Sch. of Med.
    Microbial, Parasitic, and Fungal Immunology (MPF)
  • Friday, Apr 17th
    1:15 PM - 1:30 PM US ET
    MDSC-Mediated Regulation of Th9 and CD8⁺ T Cells Orchestrates Neurocognitive Pathology in Experimental Cerebral Malaria
    Location: 153C
    Author: PRONABESH GHOSH – University of Calcutta
    Microbial, Parasitic, and Fungal Immunology (MPF)
  • Friday, Apr 17th
    1:30 PM - 1:45 PM US ET
    Aantibody response to Burkholderia pseudomallei in a 13-year chronic infection: Relationship of antibody response to bacterial genomics and proteomics
    Location: 153C
    Author: Jinhee Yi, PhD – Northern Arizona University/ The Pathogen and Microbiome Institute
    Microbial, Parasitic, and Fungal Immunology (MPF)
  • Friday, Apr 17th
    1:45 PM - 2:00 PM US ET
    B cell role in susceptibility to Pneumocystis murina infection in murine strains with a single point mutation in either IRF4 or IKZF3
    Location: 153C
    Author: Shelly Curran, PhD – National Institutes of Health
    Microbial, Parasitic, and Fungal Immunology (MPF)
  • Friday, Apr 17th
    4:30 PM - 4:45 PM US ET
    LOX-1 promotes efferocytosis and oxLDL-mediated immune reprogramming of alveolar macrophages during pneumonia.
    Location: 153C
    Author: Filiz Korkmaz, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Iowa
    Microbial, Parasitic, and Fungal Immunology (MPF)
  • Friday, Apr 17th
    4:45 PM - 5:00 PM US ET
    Hyperglycemia-induced HIF-1α dysregulation drives epithelial barrier dysfunction and increases susceptibility to oral candidiasis
    Location: 153C
    Author: Jinendiran Sekar, PhD (he/him/his) – Harbor-UCLA Med. Ctr.
    Microbial, Parasitic, and Fungal Immunology (MPF)
  • Friday, Apr 17th
    5:00 PM - 5:15 PM US ET
    Critical role of 4-1BB:4-1BBL axis in humoral immune responses against Plasmodium
    Location: 153C
    Author: Carolina Caloba, MS (she/her/hers) – Rosalind Franklin Univ. of Med. and Sci.
    Microbial, Parasitic, and Fungal Immunology (MPF)
  • Friday, Apr 17th
    5:15 PM - 5:30 PM US ET
    Centrosome-associated assembly and trafficking coordinate spatial activation of the NLRP3 inflammasome in primary human monocytes
    Location: 153C
    Author: Melissa Lodoen, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of California, Irvine
    Microbial, Parasitic, and Fungal Immunology (MPF)
  • Friday, Apr 17th
    5:30 PM - 5:45 PM US ET
    Absence of the “Don’t Eat Me” signal results in aberrant T cell responses to Leishmania major
    Location: 153C
    Author: Hanna Paton, PhD Candidate – University of Iowa
    Microbial, Parasitic, and Fungal Immunology (MPF)