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  • Wednesday, Apr 15th
    2:45 PM - 3:00 PM US ET
    Oncostatin M Limits Lung Injury during Influenza by Modulating Leukocyte Recruitment and Inducing Tissue Repair Factors
    Location: 102
    Author: Yewoo Lee (she/her/hers) – Boston Univ. Chobanian & Avedisian Sch. of Med.
    Mucosal And Regional Immunology (MUC)
  • Wednesday, Apr 15th
    3:00 PM - 3:15 PM US ET
    Discovery of Exhausted-like Lung Tissue-Resident Memory T Cells as Key Mediators of Protective Immunity
    Location: 102
    Author: Chaofan Li, PhD – University of Virginia
    Mucosal And Regional Immunology (MUC)
  • Wednesday, Apr 15th
    3:15 PM - 3:30 PM US ET
    Total respiratory tract immunization induces optimal systemic and regional antigen-specific immune responses
    Location: 102
    Author: Juliana Barreto de Albuquerque, PhD – Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
    Mucosal And Regional Immunology (MUC)
  • Wednesday, Apr 15th
    3:30 PM - 3:45 PM US ET
    Local immune networks promote respiratory IgA responses after mucosal vaccination
    Location: 102
    Author: Jinyi Tang, PhD – Univ. of Virginia Sch. of Med.
    Mucosal And Regional Immunology (MUC)
  • Wednesday, Apr 15th
    3:45 PM - 4:00 PM US ET
    Therapeutic intranasal delivery of NanoSTING provides broad protection against seasonal and highly pathogenic influenza strains
    Location: 102
    Author: Kate Reichel (she/her/hers) – Univ. of Houston
    Mucosal And Regional Immunology (MUC)
  • Wednesday, Apr 15th
    4:00 PM - 4:15 PM US ET
    The impact of skin-like CD103+ ILC2s on lung immunity
    Location: 102
    Author: Mi Lian, PhD – Univ. of California, San Francisco
    Mucosal And Regional Immunology (MUC)
  • Thursday, Apr 16th
    8:00 AM - 11:15 AM US ET
    MUC2 - Major Symposium B: Microbiome Influence on Epithelial-immune Crosstalk
    Location: Ballroom
    Chair: Ramnik J. Xavier – Harvard Med. Sch., Broad Inst.
    Speaker: Christopher D. Johnston, PhD – Univ. of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Cntr.
    Speaker: Dharti Shantaram, PhD (she/her/hers) – Ohio State University College of Medicine
    Speaker: Thaddeus Stappenbeck, MD PhD – Cleveland Clinic
    Speaker: Himanshi Tanwar (she/her/hers) – University of Maryland
    Speaker: Ramnik J. Xavier – Harvard Med. Sch., Broad Inst.
    Mucosal And Regional Immunology (MUC)
  • Thursday, Apr 16th
    8:00 AM - 8:33 AM US ET
    Tumor-infiltrating microbes and their impact on the tumor immune microenvironment
    Location: Ballroom
    Speaker: Christopher D. Johnston, PhD – Univ. of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Cntr.
    Mucosal And Regional Immunology (MUC)
  • Thursday, Apr 16th
    8:33 AM - 9:06 AM US ET
    Probing the function of human immune lectins
    Location: Ballroom
    Mucosal And Regional Immunology (MUC)
  • Thursday, Apr 16th
    9:06 AM - 9:39 AM US ET
    Early life immune-microbe crosstalk in skin 
    Location: Ballroom
    Mucosal And Regional Immunology (MUC)
  • Thursday, Apr 16th
    9:39 AM - 9:54 AM US ET
    Pseudomonas instigates neutrophil accumulation in adipose tissue and insulin resistance in obesity
    Location: Ballroom
    Author: Dharti Shantaram, PhD (she/her/hers) – Ohio State University College of Medicine
    Mucosal And Regional Immunology (MUC)
  • Thursday, Apr 16th
    9:54 AM - 10:27 AM US ET
    Micro-communities of microbes that modulate immune responses
    Location: Ballroom
    Speaker: Thaddeus Stappenbeck, MD PhD – Cleveland Clinic
    Mucosal And Regional Immunology (MUC)
  • Thursday, Apr 16th
    10:27 AM - 10:42 AM US ET
    Role of Periodontitis in Inflammatory Bowel Disease
    Location: Ballroom
    Author: Himanshi Tanwar (she/her/hers) – University of Maryland
    Mucosal And Regional Immunology (MUC)
  • Thursday, Apr 16th
    10:42 AM - 11:15 AM US ET
    Gut microbes, metabolites, and mucosal homeostasis
    Location: Ballroom
    Speaker: Ramnik J. Xavier – Harvard Med. Sch., Broad Inst.
    Mucosal And Regional Immunology (MUC)
  • Friday, Apr 17th
    8:00 AM - 8:33 AM US ET
    Unlocking the power of innate immune memory
    Location: 253
    Chair: Maziar Divangahi – McGill Univ.
    Mucosal And Regional Immunology (MUC)
  • Friday, Apr 17th
    12:45 PM - 1:00 PM US ET
    Loss of the microbiota unleashes harmful T cell responses against dietary antigen induced by enteric viruses
    Location: 153AB
    Author: Nicholas Usher, BS – Univ. of Chicago
    Mucosal And Regional Immunology (MUC)
  • Friday, Apr 17th
    1:00 PM - 1:15 PM US ET
    B7 co-stimulation antagonizes RORγt⁺ regulatory T cells and tolerance to gut microbiota
    Location: 153AB
    Author: Mengze Lyu, PhD – Weill Cornell Med.
    Mucosal And Regional Immunology (MUC)
  • Friday, Apr 17th
    1:15 PM - 1:30 PM US ET
    Epithelial antigen compartmentalization dictates CD4+ T cell fate during C. rodentium infection
    Location: 153AB
    Author: C. Garrett Wilson, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Alabama at Birmingham
    Mucosal And Regional Immunology (MUC)
  • Friday, Apr 17th
    1:30 PM - 1:45 PM US ET
    Antigen-presenting cell–T cell interactions shaping immune responses to intestinal antigens
    Location: 153AB
    Author: Maria Cecilia Campos Canesso, PhD (she/her/hers) – Albert Einstein College of Medicine
    Mucosal And Regional Immunology (MUC)
  • Friday, Apr 17th
    1:45 PM - 2:00 PM US ET
    Role of Microbial Tryptophan Metabolism in Th17 Activation and Multiple Sclerosis
    Location: 153AB
    Author: Kate Stack – Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison
    Mucosal And Regional Immunology (MUC)
  • Friday, Apr 17th
    2:00 PM - 2:15 PM US ET
    Multi-omics of controlled microbial naturalization uncovers sex-dimorphic immune maturation
    Location: 153AB
    Author: Anis Barmada, MPhil – Yale Sch. of Med.
    Mucosal And Regional Immunology (MUC)
  • Friday, Apr 17th
    3:45 PM - 4:00 PM US ET
    TGF-β drives uterine tissue-resident NK cell differentiation crucial for murine pregnancy
    Location: 253
    Author: Josselyn Barahona (she/her/hers) – Washington Univ. Sch. of Med., St. Louis
    Mucosal And Regional Immunology (MUC)
  • Friday, Apr 17th
    4:00 PM - 4:15 PM US ET
    IL-9 at the Maternal-Fetal Interface Drives a Novel Immunological Mechanism of Preterm Labor and Birth
    Location: 253
    Author: Eva Kareus, BA (she/her/hers) – Washington Univ., St. Louis
    Mucosal And Regional Immunology (MUC)
  • Friday, Apr 17th
    4:15 PM - 4:30 PM US ET
    Decidual Natural Killer cells utilize the antimicrobial protein granulysin to control bacterial infection
    Location: 253
    Author: Tamara Tilburgs, PhD (she/her/hers) – Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical center
    Mucosal And Regional Immunology (MUC)
  • Friday, Apr 17th
    4:30 PM - 4:45 PM US ET
    Persistent uterine inflammation following murine chorioamnionitis predisposes to poor outcomes in subsequent pregnancy
    Location: 253
    Author: Ifechukwu S. Ezeilo (she/her/hers) – Univ. of Iowa Grad. Col.
    Mucosal And Regional Immunology (MUC)
  • Friday, Apr 17th
    4:45 PM - 5:00 PM US ET
    Microbiota-dependent Interferon Lambda Controls Uterine Immunity and Placental Anti-bacterial Responses
    Location: 253
    Author: Elisha Segrist, PhD – National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health
    Mucosal And Regional Immunology (MUC)
  • Saturday, Apr 18th
    12:45 PM - 1:00 PM US ET
    Sensory neuronal regulation of intestinal inflammation and immunity
    Location: 153C
    Author: Wen Zhang, PhD (she/her/hers) – Weill Cornell Med.
    Mucosal And Regional Immunology (MUC)
  • Saturday, Apr 18th
    1:00 PM - 1:15 PM US ET
    Induction of germinal centers in human Peyer’s patches shapes robust intestinal adaptive immunity in early life.
    Location: 153C
    Author: Yosuke Sakamoto, MD – Columbia Univ. Irving Med. Ctr.
    Mucosal And Regional Immunology (MUC)
  • Saturday, Apr 18th
    1:15 PM - 1:30 PM US ET
    A single cell and spatially resolved atlas of the intestinal innate immune response to infection
    Location: 153C
    Author: Andrew Hart, PhD – Univ. of Pennsylvania
    Mucosal And Regional Immunology (MUC)
  • Saturday, Apr 18th
    1:30 PM - 1:45 PM US ET
    Endobiotic glycolipid structure of gut symbionts modulates host inflammatory response
    Location: 153C
    Author: Hyoung-Soo Cho, PhD (he/him/his) – Harvard Medical School
    Mucosal And Regional Immunology (MUC)
  • Saturday, Apr 18th
    1:45 PM - 2:00 PM US ET
    Breast milk-derived signals regulate epithelial cells maturation and gamma delta-IEL colonization to shape early life intestinal homeostasis
    Location: 153C
    Author: Marilia Garcia de Oliveira (she/her/hers) – Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School
    Mucosal And Regional Immunology (MUC)
  • Saturday, Apr 18th
    2:00 PM - 2:15 PM US ET
    Integrated multi-omics analysis identifies microbial and metabolic signatures and drivers of CNS autoimmunity
    Location: 153C
    Author: Theresa L. Montgomery, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Vermont
    Mucosal And Regional Immunology (MUC)