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  • Thursday, Apr 16th
    12:45 PM - 1:00 PM US ET
    Skull bone marrow is an early source of antiviral CD8 T cell priming and expansion during neurotropic virus infection
    Location: 104AB
    Author: Asma Hassani, MMed Sci, PhD – Mayo Clinic, Rochester MN
    Viral Immunology (VIR)
  • Thursday, Apr 16th
    1:00 PM - 1:15 PM US ET
    HSV-2 Infection Induces Lasting Transcriptional and Functional Changes in Vaginal Tissue NK Cells
    Location: 104AB
    Author: Sarah C. Vick, PhD (she/her/hers) – Fred Hutchinson Cancer Res. Ctr.
    Viral Immunology (VIR)
  • Thursday, Apr 16th
    1:15 PM - 1:30 PM US ET
    A Tonsil Organoid Model for Epstein-Barr Virus-Host Immune Interactions in Germinal Centers
    Location: 104AB
    Author: Yizhe Sun, PhD (he/him/his) – Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
    Viral Immunology (VIR)
  • Thursday, Apr 16th
    1:30 PM - 1:45 PM US ET
    Immune Cell Derived 1,25(OH)2D3: A Critical Defense Against Influenza Infection
    Location: 104AB
    Author: Nicole Froelich, BS – Penn State
    Viral Immunology (VIR)
  • Thursday, Apr 16th
    1:45 PM - 2:00 PM US ET
    Regulatory maturation of cDC1 accelerates effector CD8 T cell contraction after severe influenza A virus infection.
    Location: 104AB
    Author: Xinran Wang, MD, MA – Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA.
    Viral Immunology (VIR)
  • Thursday, Apr 16th
    2:00 PM - 2:15 PM US ET
    Antigen-specific CD8 T cells are primed in the bone marrow by migratory myeloid DCs bringing antigen from the brain following inflammatory injuries
    Location: 104AB
    Author: Eliese Moelker – Duke Univ.
    Viral Immunology (VIR)
  • Friday, Apr 17th
    8:00 AM - 8:15 AM US ET
    Infection history and cellular origin shape long-term alveolar macrophage reprogramming
    Location: 104AB
    Author: Lucia Rodriguez, MS – University of Liege
    Viral Immunology (VIR)
  • Friday, Apr 17th
    8:15 AM - 8:30 AM US ET
    Macrophage metabolic reprogramming facilitates viral entry and pyroptosis
    Location: 104AB
    Author: Sara E. Cahill (she/her/hers) – University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
    Viral Immunology (VIR)
  • Friday, Apr 17th
    8:30 AM - 8:45 AM US ET
    Protective Role of Interferon Omega in Human Airway Epithelium During Human Metapneumovirus Infection
    Location: 104AB
    Author: PIUS BABAWALE, DVM (he/him/his) – Louisiana State University Baton Rouge
    Viral Immunology (VIR)
  • Friday, Apr 17th
    8:45 AM - 9:00 AM US ET
    Inflammatory monocyte recruitment depends on adventitial fibroblast-derived CCL2 following influenza A virus infection
    Location: 104AB
    Author: Shally Saini, BS, MS (she/her/hers) – University of California Santa Cruz
    Viral Immunology (VIR)
  • Friday, Apr 17th
    9:00 AM - 9:15 AM US ET
    Loss of the Vitamin D Receptor Exacerbates Influenza Severity Through Dysregulated Immunity and Elevated Parathyroid Hormone
    Location: 104AB
    Author: Mengzhu Tang – Penn State
    Viral Immunology (VIR)
  • Friday, Apr 17th
    9:15 AM - 9:30 AM US ET
    Defining viral-host mechanisms of neuroinflammation after human metapneumovirus infection
    Location: 104AB
    Author: Todd Bradley, PhD (he/him/his) – Children's Mercy Research Institute
    Viral Immunology (VIR)
  • Sunday, Apr 19th
    8:00 AM - 8:15 AM US ET
    IgA is necessary and sufficient to protect against norovirus infection
    Location: 104AB
    Author: Arya B. Ökten (she/her/hers) – Yale University
    Viral Immunology (VIR)
  • Sunday, Apr 19th
    8:15 AM - 8:30 AM US ET
    Characterising humoral and airway immunity following Respiratory Syncytial Virus infection challenge in older adults
    Location: 104AB
    Author: Pete Dayananda, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Cambridge
    Viral Immunology (VIR)
  • Sunday, Apr 19th
    8:30 AM - 8:45 AM US ET
    IgM antibodies and B cells are early responders during acute secondary viral infections and contribute to protection from severe disease
    Location: 104AB
    Author: Tulika Singh, PhD, MPH (she/her/hers) – University of California, Berkeley
    Viral Immunology (VIR)
  • Sunday, Apr 19th
    8:45 AM - 9:00 AM US ET
    Ptpn22 Restricts Antiviral B cell Response by Modulating BCR Signaling
    Location: 104AB
    Author: Macie Proctor-Roser (she/her/hers) – Univ. of Kansas
    Viral Immunology (VIR)
  • Sunday, Apr 19th
    9:00 AM - 9:15 AM US ET
    Functional Dynamics of Cytotoxic CD4+ T cells in Acute and Chronic Viral Infections
    Location: 104AB
    Author: Prakash K. Sahoo, PhD (he/him/his) – Indiana Univ. Sch. of Med.
    Viral Immunology (VIR)
  • Sunday, Apr 19th
    9:15 AM - 9:30 AM US ET
    Immune checkpoint blockade enhances CD4 effector function to control persistent viral infection
    Location: 104AB
    Author: Prajakta Warang (she/her/hers) – The Scripps Research Institute
    Viral Immunology (VIR)