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  • Wednesday, April 15, 2026
  • 12:30 PM - 3:30 PM US ET
    AAI Committee on Public Affairs Meeting (invitation only)
  • 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM US ET
    First Things First: Your Smart Start to IMMUNOLOGY2026™ (ticketed event), Sponsored by the AAI Membership Comm.
  • 2:45 PM - 4:15 PM US ET
    Immunological -omics Analysis
    Moderator: Andrew S. Koh, PhD – University of Chicago
    Moderator: Sadiya Parveen-Nesson (she/her/hers) – Louisiana State Univ. Hlth., Shreveport
  • 2:45 PM - 4:15 PM US ET
    Immunology of the Respiratory Tract
    Moderator: Priyadharshini Devarajan – Stony Brook Univ., SUNY
    Moderator: Ashley Moseman – Duke University
  • 2:45 PM - 4:15 PM US ET
    T Cells in Cancer I
    Moderator: Yongxia Wu, MD, PhD (she/her/hers) – Medical College of Wisconsin
  • 2:45 PM - 4:45 PM US ET
    AAI Program Committee Session: Back to School: A Review of Four Fast-Moving Fields, sponsored by the AAI Program Committee
  • 2:45 PM - 4:45 PM US ET
    Host Immune Response and Pathogenesis in Viral Respiratory Infections, Sponsored by the Intl. Soc. for Respiratory Viruses (ISRV)
  • 2:55 PM - 3:30 PM US ET
    Host Immune Response and Pathogenesis in Viral Respiratory Infections, Sponsored by the Intl. Soc. for Respiratory Viruses (ISRV)
  • 3:15 PM - 4:45 PM US ET
    Orchestration of the Adaptive Immune Response
    Moderator: Katayoun Ayasoufi, PhD – Duke University
    Moderator: Hazem E. Ghoneim, PhD – Ohio State Univ. Col. of Med.
  • 3:15 PM - 4:45 PM US ET
    T Cell Development
    Moderator: Brian Rudd, MPH, PhD – Cornell University
  • 3:30 PM - 4:05 PM US ET
    Host Immune Response and Pathogenesis in Viral Respiratory Infections, Sponsored by the Intl. Soc. for Respiratory Viruses (ISRV)
  • 4:05 PM - 4:40 PM US ET
    Host Immune Response and Pathogenesis in Viral Respiratory Infections, Sponsored by the Intl. Soc. for Respiratory Viruses (ISRV)
  • 5:00 PM - 6:15 PM US ET
    AAI Lifetime Achievement Award Presentation
  • 5:00 PM - 6:15 PM US ET
    Distinguished Fellows of AAI Class of 2026 Acknowledgment

    Chair: Ulrich H. von Andrian – Edward Mallinckrodt Jr. Professor of Immunopathology; Department of Immunology—Harvard Medical School

  • 5:00 PM - 6:15 PM US ET
    President's Address: Immunology in Space and Time
  • 6:15 PM - 7:30 PM US ET
    Opening Night Reception
  • Thursday, April 16, 2026
  • 7:00 AM - 7:45 AM US ET
    Rewriting Autoimmunity: New Immunologic Insights Transforming T1D Therapy Development
  • 7:00 AM - 8:00 AM US ET
    A Deeper Dive with Ulrich von Andrian (registration required)
  • 7:00 AM - 8:00 AM US ET
    AAI Committee on the Status of Women Meeting (invitation only)
  • 7:00 AM - 8:00 AM US ET
    Rewriting Autoimmunity: New Immunological Insights Transforming T1D Therapy Development
  • 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM US ET
    AAI ASPIRE Awards Symposium
  • 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM US ET
    Artificial Intelligence Approaches in Immune-Mediated Disease, Sponsored by DAIT, AMIB, NIAID, NIH
  • 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM US ET
    Cellular & Molecular Mechanisms of Autoreactivity
    Moderator: Yongqiang Feng – St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
    Moderator: Dimitry Krementsov – Univ. of Vermont
  • 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM US ET
    How to Have a Successful Postdoctoral Experience
  • 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM US ET
    Microbial Pathogenesis
    Moderator: Bolaji Thomas – Rochester Institute of Technology
    Moderator: Som Nanjapp – University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  • 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM US ET
    New Insights into the Role of Ion Channels and Transporters in Immunity, Sponsored by the Society of General Physiologists
  • 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM US ET
    T Cells in Cancer II
    Moderator: Michael Lotze – University of Pittsburgh
    Moderator: Shikhar Mehrotra – Medical Univ of South Carolina
  • 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM US ET
    Targeting B Cells and Innate Immune Functions in Autoimmunity
    Moderator: John D. Mountz, PhD MD – Univ. of Alabama, Birmingham
  • 8:00 AM - 11:15 AM US ET
    Major Symposium A: Early Life Immune Development and Function
    Chair: Chrysothemis C. Brown, MD, PhD – HHMI, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Ctr.
    Chair: Petter Brodin, MD, PhD (he/him/his) – Imperial College & Karolinska Institute
    Speaker: Petter Brodin, MD, PhD (he/him/his) – Imperial College & Karolinska Institute
    Speaker: Chrysothemis C. Brown, MD, PhD – HHMI, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Ctr.
    Speaker: Irah King, PhD – Research Institute of the McGill Univ Hlth. Ctr.
    Speaker: Jian Miao, PhD (he/him/his) – Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
    Speaker: Ai Ing Lim – HHMI, Princeton Univ.
    Speaker: Aneta Pankow, MS – Univ. of Oklahoma Hlth. Sci. Ctr.
    Speaker: Meghan A. Koch, PhD – Fred Hutchinson Cancer Ctr.
    Hematopoiesis and Immune System Development (HEM)
  • 8:00 AM - 11:15 AM US ET
    Major Symposium B: Microbiome Influence on Epithelial-immune Crosstalk
    Chair: Tiffany C. Scharschmidt, MD (she/her/hers) – UCSF
    Chair: Ramnik J. Xavier – Harvard Med. Sch., Broad Inst.
    Speaker: Christopher D. Johnston, PhD – Univ. of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Cntr.
    Speaker: Laura L. Kiessling – MIT
    Speaker: Tiffany C. Scharschmidt, MD (she/her/hers) – UCSF
    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)
  • 9:30 AM - 10:15 AM US ET
    Exhibitor Workshop: Meridian Life Science, Inc. - Animal-Free Strategies for Mitigating Antibody Interference in Modern Immunoassays
  • 9:30 AM - 10:15 AM US ET
    Exhibitor Workshop: Sony Biotechnology, Inc. - Age-Dependent Layering of Lymphocytes Bifurcates Infection Response
  • 9:30 AM - 10:15 AM US ET
    Exhibitor Workshop: Thermo Fisher Scientific - The Fastest Path to Discovery: High-speed Spectral Flow Cytometry and Spectral Imaging
  • 9:45 AM - 9:47 AM US ET
    Underappreciated Functions of B Cells in Cytokine Production and Antigen Presentation, Sponsored by NIAID, NIH
  • 9:45 AM - 11:15 AM US ET
    Bridging Immunology and Drug Safety: A New Paradigm, Sponsored by the Health and Environmental Sciences Institute (HESI) Immuno-Safety Technical Committee
  • 9:45 AM - 11:15 AM US ET
    Epigenetics and Post-Transcriptional Regulation
    Moderator: Connie Krawczyk, PhD – Van Andel Inst.
    Moderator: Devdoot Majumdar – Univ. of Vermont Larner Col. of Med.
  • 9:45 AM - 11:15 AM US ET
    Immunology Education and Communication
    Moderator: Rebekah Taylor, PhD (she/her/hers) – Frostburg State Univ.
  • 9:45 AM - 11:15 AM US ET
    Innate Immune Defenses in the Epithelium
    Moderator: Sebastian Joyce, PhD – Vanderbilt University Medical Center
    Moderator: Trung Pham, MD PhD (he/him/his) – Stanford University
  • 9:45 AM - 11:15 AM US ET
    Novel Tumor Therapies
    Moderator: Pablo Penaloza-MacMaster – BIDMC
    Moderator: Nicole Baumgarth
  • 9:45 AM - 11:15 AM US ET
    Underappreciated Functions of B Cells in Cytokine Production and Antigen Presentation, Sponsored by NIAID, NIH

    Chair: Moriah Castleman – NIAID

    Chair: Lauren Rodda – Oregon Health and Science University

  • 9:45 AM - 11:15 AM US ET
    Understanding Immune Responses to Optimize Immune Intervention
    Moderator: Eduardo Davila – University of Colorado, Denver
    Moderator: Juliet Williams – Kymera Therapeutics
    Translational and Interventional Immunology (TI)
  • 9:47 AM - 10:07 AM US ET
    Underappreciated Functions of B Cells in Cytokine Production and Antigen Presentation, Sponsored by NIAID, NIH
  • 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM US ET
    How to Convert Your CV into a Résumé
  • 10:07 AM - 10:27 AM US ET
    Underappreciated Functions of B Cells in Cytokine Production and Antigen Presentation, Sponsored by NIAID, NIH
  • 10:27 AM - 10:47 AM US ET
    Underappreciated Functions of B Cells in Cytokine Production and Antigen Presentation, Sponsored by NIAID, NIH
  • 10:30 AM - 10:55 AM US ET
    How to be the Reviewer You Want to Have, Sponsored by the AAI Publications Comm.
  • 10:30 AM - 11:15 AM US ET
    Exhibitor Workshop: Beckman Coulter, Inc. - Optimizing a 22-Color Multicolor Panel Using the New CytoFLEX LX + Mosaic 88 Module: Application to Asthma Samples
  • 10:30 AM - 11:15 AM US ET
    Exhibitor Workshop: Immudex USA, LLC - From Epitope to Therapeutics
  • 10:30 AM - 11:15 AM US ET
    Exhibitor Workshop: Parse Biosciences - Scaling Precision Immunology Through Functional Immune Mapping with Single Cell Resolution
  • 10:47 AM - 11:07 AM US ET
    Underappreciated Functions of B Cells in Cytokine Production and Antigen Presentation, Sponsored by NIAID, NIH
  • 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM US ET
    PPFP: Where Scientists Become Policy Advocates, Sponsored by the Comm. on Public Affairs
  • 11:45 AM - 12:15 PM US ET
    Guided Poster Walk
  • 12:45 PM - 12:50 PM US ET
    Accelerating CAR-based Approaches for Autoimmunity and Cancer, Sponsored by the Society For Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC)
  • 12:45 PM - 1:30 PM US ET
    Exhibitor Workshop: BioLegend from Revvity - Precision in Every Color: Unlocking Cell Insights with an Optimized 46-color Spectral Flow Panel
  • 12:45 PM - 1:30 PM US ET
    Exhibitor Workshop: Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. - Bio-Rad StarBright Dyes Expanded Imaging Capabilities of 4-channel Fluorescence Microscopy to at least 6-channels
  • 12:45 PM - 1:30 PM US ET
    Exhibitor Workshop: Cytek Biosciences, Inc. - Streamlining Identification And In-Depth Assessment Of Human T-Cells Using The Cytek® cFluor® 21-Color Human T-Cell Kit
  • 12:45 PM - 1:30 PM US ET
    Exhibitor Workshop: STEMCELL Technologies Inc. - Reliable Cell Preparations Begin with Automated STEMprep™ Tissue Processing
  • 12:45 PM - 1:45 PM US ET
    Career Roundtables and Speed Networking (ticketed event), Sponsored by the AAI Minority Affairs Committee
  • 12:45 PM - 2:15 PM US ET
    Accelerating CAR-based Approaches for Autoimmunity and Cancer, Sponsored by the Society For Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC)
  • 12:45 PM - 2:15 PM US ET
    Antigen Presentation in Immunity, Pathology, and Tolerance
    Moderator: Robin Orozco – Univ. of Kansas
    Moderator: Amar Singh, PhD – University of Minnesota
  • 12:45 PM - 2:15 PM US ET
    CD8+ T Cell and NK Cell Mediated Antiviral Immunity
    Speaker: Lavanya  Visvabharathy – University of Chicago
    Speaker: Aaron Johnson – Mayo Clinic
  • 12:45 PM - 2:15 PM US ET
    Homeostasis
    Moderator: Paul De Figueiredo, PhD – Univ. of Missouri School of Medicine
  • 12:45 PM - 2:15 PM US ET
    Humoral-innate Immune Crosstalk
    Moderator: Michal Tal – MIT
    Moderator: Hongxu Xian, PhD – Versiti Blood Res. Inst.
  • 12:45 PM - 2:15 PM US ET
    Immune responses to mirror molecules and organisms, Sponsored by the Mirror Biology Dialogues Fund (MBDF)
  • 12:45 PM - 2:15 PM US ET
    Innovations in Bench Techniques
    Moderator: Claire Gustafson – The Allen Institute
    Moderator: Yuri Sykulev – Thomas Jefferson University
  • 12:45 PM - 2:15 PM US ET
    Learning about Human Immune Responses from Vaccination and Immunotherapy
    Moderator: Ramireddy Bommireddy – Emory University
    Moderator: Catarina Hioe – Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai
    Vaccines and Immunotherapy (VAC)
  • 12:45 PM - 2:15 PM US ET
    Therapeutic Modulation of T Cells for Autoimmune Diseases
    Moderator: Dimitry Krementsov – Univ. of Vermont
  • 12:45 PM - 2:45 PM US ET
    How to Convert Your CV into a Resume: Individual Consulting
  • 1:00 PM - 1:45 PM US ET
    Connect with Me Networking (ticketed event)
  • 1:45 PM - 2:30 PM US ET
    Exhibitor Workshop: Allen Institute - Open human immunology tools and data from the Allen Institute
  • 1:45 PM - 2:30 PM US ET
    Exhibitor Workshop: VectorBuilder Inc. - Optimizing IVT mRNA Design for Therapeutic Performance
  • 1:45 PM - 2:30 PM US ET
    Exhibitor Workshop: Waters Biosciences (formerly BD Biosciences) - More than just Fluorescence: A Step-by-Step Guide to High-Dimensional Cytometric Analysis Integrating Spatial and Morphological Insights
  • 1:50 PM - 2:15 PM US ET
    Accelerating CAR-based Approaches for Autoimmunity and Cancer, Sponsored by the Society For Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC)
  • 2:45 PM - 3:15 PM US ET
    How to Write a Scientific Paper
  • 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM US ET
    AAI-BD Biosciences Investigator Award Presentation and Lecture, generously supported by Waters Biosciences (formerly BD Biosciences)
  • 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM US ET
    AAI-BD Biosciences Investigator Award Presentation and Lecture
  • 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM US ET
    Resource Highlight: immgenT: A Community Reference Atlas for Mouse T Cells

    Speaker: Antoine Freuchet – Univ. of Chicago

    Speaker: Giovanni Galletti – UCSD

    Speaker: Ziang Zhang – Univ. of Chicago

    Speaker: Odhran Casey – Harvard Univ.

    Speaker: Erin Lucas, PhD – University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

    Speaker: David Zemmour – Univ. of Chicago

    Chair: David Zemmour – Univ. of Chicago

  • 3:45 PM - 5:15 PM US ET
    Crosstalk of the environment and the immune system – challenges and opportunities, Sponsored by the German Soc. For Immunol. (DGfl)
  • 3:45 PM - 5:15 PM US ET
    Immunometabolism in Autoimmunity
    Moderator: Stefania Gallucci – Univ Massachusetts Chan Medical School
    Moderator: Laurence Morel – University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio
  • 3:45 PM - 5:15 PM US ET
    Innovations Targeting Adaptive Immune Mechanisms against Viral Pathogens
    Moderator: Rachel Bonami – Vanderbilt University Medical Center
    Moderator: Robin Orozco – Univ. of Kansas
  • 3:45 PM - 5:15 PM US ET
    Pathogen Sensing and Innate Immune Responses
    Moderator: Tammy Kielian – University of Nebraska Medical Center
    Moderator: Hernandez Moura Silva, PhD (he/him/his) – Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • 3:45 PM - 5:45 PM US ET
    Interactive Workshop: Navigating the NIH Funding Process
  • 4:15 PM - 5:15 PM US ET
    Crosstalk of the environment and the immune system – challenges and opportunities, Sponsored by the German Soc. For Immunol. (DGfl)
  • 4:15 PM - 5:45 PM US ET
    Bone Marrow Hematopoiesis
    Moderator: Susan Kovats, PhD (she/her/hers) – Oklahoma Med. Res. Fndn.
  • 4:15 PM - 5:45 PM US ET
    Immune Checkpoints and Beyond I

    Moderator: Judith Agudo – Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

    Moderator: Judith Lieberman – Boston Childrens

  • 4:15 PM - 5:45 PM US ET
    Molecular Mechanisms of T Cell Differentiation and Function
    Moderator: Boyoung Shin – Emory University
    Moderator: Tuoqi Wu, PhD (he/him/his) – Univ. of Texas Southwestern Med. Ctr.
  • 4:45 PM - 5:45 PM US ET
    AAI Lancefield Mid-Career Achievement Award Presentation and Lecture

    Chair: Claudia Kemper – NHLBI, NIH

    Speaker: Carla V. Rothlin – Univ. of Minnesota, Twin Cities

  • 6:00 PM - 6:45 PM US ET
    Distinguished Lecture - Shane Crotty
  • 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM US ET
    AAI IE Ambassadors Reception
  • 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM US ET
    AAI Editors Dinner Meeting
  • Friday, April 17, 2026
  • 7:00 AM - 8:00 AM US ET
    A Deeper Dive with Shane Crotty (registration required)
  • 7:00 AM - 8:00 AM US ET
    AAI Minority Affairs Committee Meeting (invitation only)
  • 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM US ET
    AAI ASPIRE Awards Symposium
  • 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM US ET
    Cytokines and Inflammation in Antiviral Immunity
    Speaker: Todd Bradley, PhD (he/him/his) – Children's Mercy Research Institute
    Speaker: Maria Guerrero-Plata – Louisiana State University
  • 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM US ET
    Mechanisms of Innate Immunity
    Moderator: Michael Elliott – University of South Alabama
    Moderator: Jie Sun – University of Viginia
  • 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM US ET
    The Immunology of Xenotransplantation: From Bench Discovery to Clinical Translation, Sponsored by the Amer. Soc. of Transplantation (AST)
  • 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM US ET
    Immunology Teaching Interest Group: Enhancing Your Immunology Teaching

    Chair: Viviana P. Ferreira

    Chair: Matthew D. Woolard

    Speaker: Louis B. Justement – Univ. of Alabama at Birmingham

    Speaker: Aimee Pugh-Bernard – Univ. of Colorado Anschutz

    Speaker: Raffaella Ghittoni – University of Southern California

    Speaker: Nurcan Kilic – University of North Dakota

    Speaker: Ivo Boudakov – Med. Col. of Georgia; Augusta Univ

    Breakout Leader: Rebecca Clements – Kenyon Col.

    Breakout Leader: Crystal Walline – Univ. of North Carolina, Pembroke

    Breakout Leader: Manoj K. Mishra – Alabama State Univ.

    Breakout Leader: Parameswaran Ramakrishnan – Case Western Reserve Univ.

  • 8:00 AM - 11:15 AM US ET
    Major Symposium C: Epigenetic Modifiers as Drivers of Immune Function
    Chair: Maziar Divangahi – McGill Univ.
    Chair: Anjana Rao – La Jolla Inst. for Immunol.
    Speaker: Maziar Divangahi – McGill Univ.
    Speaker: Luis Barreiro – Univ. of Chicago
    Speaker: Gargi Mishra, PHD – University of Washington
    Speaker: Patrick G. Hogan, PhD – La Jolla Inst. for Immunol. and Moores Cancer Ctr. at UCSD
    Speaker: Junji Zhu, PhD – Florida Research and Innovation Center, Cleveland Clinic
    Speaker: Edward Chuong – Univ. of Colorado, Boulder
    Speaker: Aki Minoda, PhD – Radboud Univ.
    Innate Immune Responses and Host Defense: Molecular Mechanisms (INM)
  • 8:00 AM - 11:15 AM US ET
    Major Symposium D: Obesity, Environment, and Immunity, Sponsored by Eli Lilly and Company
    Chair: Andrew Hogan, PhD – Maynooth University
    Chair: Barbara S. Nikolajczyk, PhD (she/her/hers) – Univ. of Kentucky
    Speaker: Lydia Lynch, PhD – Princeton University, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research
    Speaker: Emily Goldberg, PhD (she/her/hers) – UCSF
    Speaker: Julio Ayala Angulo – Univ. of California, Irvine
    Speaker: Barbara S. Nikolajczyk, PhD (she/her/hers) – Univ. of Kentucky
    Speaker: Motoyoshi Nagai, PhD (he/him/his) – National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health
    Speaker: Jonathan Schertzer, PhD – McMaster University
    Speaker: Andrew Hogan, PhD – Maynooth University
    Cellular Adhesion, Migration, and Inflammation (CAM)
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM US ET
    The Future of Vaccination and the Critical Need for Evidence-Based Policies - Sponsored by the AAI Committee on Public Affairs
  • 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM US ET
    Sip and Learn: Speed Networking with Immunology Educators
  • 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM US ET
    NextGen Day (registration required), Sponsored by the AAI Edu. Comm.
  • 9:15 AM - 10:15 AM US ET
    Interviewing for a Job
  • 9:30 AM - 10:15 AM US ET
    Exhibitor Workshop: IVIM Technology - Real-Time Intravital Microscopy for Translational Immune Cell Imaging
  • 9:30 AM - 10:15 AM US ET
    Exhibitor Workshop: Olink Proteomics, Inc. - From Discovery to Precision Medicine: Deciphering the Immune Biology of Long COVID
  • 9:30 AM - 10:15 AM US ET
    Exhibitor Workshop: Thermo Fisher Scientific - Specificity by Design: Validation Strategies for Recombinant Monoclonal Antibodies
  • 9:30 AM - 5:30 PM US ET
    NIH Resource Room
  • 9:45 AM - 11:15 AM US ET
    Lymphocyte and Innate Leukocyte Mastery of Heat, Migration, and Inflammation
    Moderator: Catharine Bosio, PhD (she/her/hers) – National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health
    Moderator: Andrew Luster – Massachusetts General Hospital 
  • 9:45 AM - 11:15 AM US ET
    New Paradigms in T Cell Regulation
    Moderator: Booki Min, DVM PhD – Northwestern Univ. Feinberg Sch. of Med.
    Moderator: Sade W. Clayton, PhD (she/her/hers) – Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis
  • 9:45 AM - 11:15 AM US ET
    Translating Human Immunology Through Cytokine Research, Sponsored by the Intl. Cytokine and Interferon Soc. (ICIS)
  • 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM US ET
    AAI ASPIRE Awards Presentations
  • 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM US ET
    AAI Business Meeting and Awards
  • 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM US ET
    AAI Distinguished Service Awards Presentation
  • 10:30 AM - 10:55 AM US ET
    Making the most of Your AAI Membership, Sponsored by AAI Membership Comm.
  • 10:30 AM - 11:15 AM US ET
    Exhibitor Workshop: Miltenyi Biotec - Seeing Suppression: Spatial Imaging Reveals Endothelial Control of T Cell Memory
  • 10:30 AM - 11:15 AM US ET
    Exhibitor Workshop: The Health and Environmental Sciences Institute - One Target, Many Risks: Immunosafety Challenges from Mechanism to Medicine
  • 10:30 AM - 11:15 AM US ET
    Exhibitor Workshop: Waters Biosciences (formerly BD Biosciences) - High-Resolution Immune Insights with Spectral and Imaging Cytometry: From Optimized Panel Performance to Visualizing Neutrophil–Macrophage Interactions in Tumors
  • 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM US ET
    How to Talk to Legislators, Sponsored by the Comm. on Public Affairs
  • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM US ET
    The Immunology Podcast Presents: Emerging Therapies for Solid Tumors, Sponsored by STEMCELL Technologies, Inc.
    Speaker: Brenda Raud – The Immunology Podcast
    Speaker: Jason Goldsmith – The Immunology Podcast
    Speaker: Charles Sentman – Dartmouth Col.
    Speaker: Giulia Escobar
  • 11:45 AM - 12:15 PM US ET
    Guided Poster Walk
  • 12:30 PM - 2:30 PM US ET
    Building disease resistance (through innovative approaches) in the context of changing societal norms and evading pathogens, Spon. by the Veterinary Immunology Committee
  • 12:30 PM - 2:30 PM US ET
    Emerging Therapeutics for Human Disease, Sponsored by AAI Clin. Immunol. Comm.
    Chair: Samik Basu, MD (he/him/his) – Cabaletta Bio
    Chair: H. Kiyomi Komori, PhD (she/her/hers) – Uniquity Bio
  • 12:45 PM - 1:30 PM US ET
    Exhibitor Workshop: Beckman Coulter, Inc. - High-Dimensional Spectral Cytometry Uncovers Immune Features
  • 12:45 PM - 1:30 PM US ET
    Exhibitor Workshop: Miltenyi Biotec - Reprogramming Immunity: B Cell Vaccines as Emerging Cancer Therapies
  • 12:45 PM - 1:30 PM US ET
    Exhibitor Workshop: STEMCELL Technologies Inc. - Enabling Gentle T Cell Workflows with the Highway1™ Cell Sorter
  • 12:45 PM - 1:45 PM US ET
    AAI-BioLegend Herzenberg Award Presentation and Lecture
  • 12:45 PM - 1:45 PM US ET
    Careers in Science Roundtables (ticketed event), Sponsored by AAI Comm. on the Status of Women
  • 12:45 PM - 2:15 PM US ET
    Adaptive Immune Responses to Microbial Infections
    Moderator: Tammy Kielian – University of Nebraska Medical Center
    Moderator: Markus Bosmann – Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
  • 12:45 PM - 2:15 PM US ET
    Inflammatory Mechanisms in Systemic Autoimmunity
    Moderator: Kerstin Nundel, PhD (she/her/hers) – UMass Chan Med. Sch.
    Moderator: Tobias Lanz – Stanford Univ. Sch. of Med.
  • 12:45 PM - 2:15 PM US ET
    Interrogation of Chronic Immunity and Interventional Approaches
    Moderator: Daniela Cipolletta, PhD – Seismic Therapeutic
    Moderator: Gerald Morris – University of California, San Diego
    Translational and Interventional Immunology (TI)
  • 12:45 PM - 2:15 PM US ET
    Novel Insights into Innate Lymphocyte Research: Challenges and Opportunities Across Human Health and Disease, Sponsored by NCI, NIH
  • 12:45 PM - 2:15 PM US ET
    T Cell Responses to the Gut Microbiota
    Moderator: Mandy J. McGeachy, PhD – Cornell Univ.
    Moderator: Wendy Goodman – Case Western Reserve University
  • 12:45 PM - 2:15 PM US ET
    Targeting Adaptive Immune Responses against Cancer and Other Pathologies
    Moderator: Diana Gil Pages, Dr – University of Missouri, Columbia
    Moderator: Larry Pease – Mayo Clinic
  • 12:45 PM - 2:15 PM US ET
    Trouble with the Ex: exTregs and Beyond
    Moderator: Nicholas Jarjour, PhD – Versiti Blood Res. Inst.
    Moderator: Klaus Ley – Med. Col. of Georgia, Augusta Univ.
  • 1:00 PM - 1:45 PM US ET
    Connect with Me Networking (ticketed event)
  • 1:45 PM - 2:15 PM US ET
    Careers in Science Keynote Lecture, Sponsored by AAI Comm. on the Status of Women
  • 1:45 PM - 2:30 PM US ET
    Exhibitor Workshop: Abcam - Enabling Disease and Immunology Insights Through High-Sensitivity Fluid Biomarker Detection and Integrated Cellular Analysis
  • 1:45 PM - 2:30 PM US ET
    Exhibitor Workshop: BioLegend from Revvity - High-dimensional Immune Profiling: Characterizing the Alloreactive Immune Response with Novel, State-of-the-art Technologies
  • 1:45 PM - 2:30 PM US ET
    Exhibitor Workshop: Cellecta, Inc. - Next-Generation Screening and Functional Validation of Antigen-Specific TCRs
  • 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM US ET
    NextGen Poster Session
  • 2:45 PM - 3:15 PM US ET
    Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Scientific Publishing: Uses and Guidance for Authors, Sponsored by the AAI Publications Comm.
  • 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM US ET
    AAI Meritorious Career Award Presentation and Lecture
  • 3:30 PM - 5:45 PM US ET
    Resource Highlight: Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Research

    Chair: Arup Chakraborty, PhD – MIT

    Chair: Harinder Singh – Univ. of Pittsburgh

    Speaker: Paul Thomas, PhD – Fred Hutchinson Cancer Res. Ctr.

    Speaker: Christina Leslie – Sloan Kettering

    Speaker: Harinder Singh – Univ. of Pittsburgh

    Speaker: Arup Chakraborty, PhD – MIT

    Speaker: Jimmie Ye – Genentech

  • 3:45 PM - 5:15 PM US ET
    From A to X: Next-Gen Targets & Interventions for Alloimmunity, GVHD, and Xenotransplantation
    Moderator: Jaebok Choi, PhD, MA (he/him/his) – Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
    Moderator: Geoffrey Camirand – University of Pittsburgh
  • 3:45 PM - 5:15 PM US ET
    NK cells and innate lymphoid cells in health and disease, Sponsored by the Soc. For Natural Immunity (SNI)
  • 3:45 PM - 5:15 PM US ET
    Regulation of Immunity and Inflammation in the Genital Tract
    Moderator: Alison Kohlmeier, PhD – Emory Univ. Sch. of Med.
    Moderator: Tamara Tilburgs, PhD (she/her/hers) – Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical center
  • 4:15 PM - 5:45 PM US ET
    Airway Hypersensitivity and Asthma
    Moderator: Mitchell Grayson, MD – Nationwide Children's Hospital - The Ohio State University
    Moderator: Nicola M. Heller, PhD (she/her/hers) – AstraZeneca
  • 4:15 PM - 5:45 PM US ET
    Cellular Responses and the Tumor Microenvironment
    Moderator: Justin Taylor – University of Virginia
    Moderator: Hongji Zhang, MD, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Virginia
  • 4:15 PM - 5:45 PM US ET
    Learning from Others - Immunity from the Jawless to Paws and Hooves
  • 4:15 PM - 5:45 PM US ET
    Regulation of Immune Cell Differentiation, Sponsored by the Korean Assoc. of Immunologists (KAI) and the Assoc. of Korean Immunologists in America (AKIA)
  • 4:15 PM - 5:45 PM US ET
    Signaling Pathways Modulating Immune Responses to Microbial Infections
    Moderator: Mary Markiewicz, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Kansas Medical Center
    Moderator: Lanre Morenikeji – Virginia State University
  • 4:45 PM - 5:45 PM US ET
    AAI Vanguard Award Presentation and Lecture
  • 6:00 PM - 6:45 PM US ET
    Distinguished Lecture - Frances E. Lund
  • 7:30 PM - 10:00 PM US ET
    President's Service Appreciation Reception (PSAR) (invitation only), generously supported by BioLegend from Revvity
  • Saturday, April 18, 2026
  • 7:00 AM - 8:00 AM US ET
    A Deeper Dive with Frances Lund (registration required)
  • 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM US ET
    AAI Education Committee Meeting (invitation only)
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM US ET
    AAI ASPIRE Awards Symposium
  • 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM US ET
    Tumor and Immune Cell Crosstalk
    Moderator: Mary Markiewicz, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Kansas Medical Center
    Moderator: Yongliang Zhang, PhD (he/him/his) – Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, NUS
  • 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM US ET
    Conversations that Connect: Helping the Public Understand, Trust, and Engage with Science, Sponsored by the AAI Public Communications Comm.
  • 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM US ET
    Neurodegenerative & Autoimmune Disorders
    Moderator: Rafael Rezende, PhD (he/him/his) – Harvard Med. Sch.
    Moderator: Uma Sriram, PHD – Temple Univ. Katz Sch. of Med.
  • 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM US ET
    Surprising Insights on Human Immunology from the Study of Monogenic Inborn Errors of Immunity, Sponsored by the Clin. Immunol. Soc. (CIS)
  • 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM US ET
    Systems-level Human Immune Profiling Data Resources and Analysis, Sponsored by the Human Immunol. Project Consortium (HIPC), La Jolla Inst. for Immunology
  • 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM US ET
    Tissue and Mucosal Immunity
    Moderator: Peter Morawski, PhD – Benaroya Research Institute
    Moderator: Murugesan Rajaram
  • 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM US ET
    Tumor and Immune Cell Crosstalk
  • 8:00 AM - 11:15 AM US ET
    Major Symposium E: Neuroimmune Landscapes Across the Body: Circuitry and Cytokines
    Chair: Daniel H. Kaplan – Univ. of Pittsburgh
    Chair: Brian S. Kim – Icahn Sch. of Med. at Mount Sinai
    Speaker: Brian S. Kim – Icahn Sch. of Med. at Mount Sinai
    Speaker: David Artis, Doctor of Philosophy (he/him/his) – Weill Cornell Med. Sch.
    Speaker: Ademi Zhakyp (she/her/hers) – Harvard Medical School
    Speaker: Daniel H. Kaplan – Univ. of Pittsburgh
    Speaker: Pavel Hanc, PhD (he/him/his) – GIMM
    Speaker: Caroline Sokol – Massachusetts General Hosp.
    Speaker: Kevin J. Tracey, MD (he/him/his) – Feinstein Inst. at Northwell
    Neuroimmunology (NEUR)
  • 8:00 AM - 11:15 AM US ET
    Major Symposium F: 20 Years of Th17 Cells: Discovery and Clinical Impact
    Chair: Sarah L. Gaffen, PhD (she/her/hers) – Univ. of Pittsburgh
    Chair: Vijay K. Kuchroo, DVM, PhD – Gene Lay Inst. of Immunol. and Inflammation
    Speaker: Vijay K. Kuchroo, DVM, PhD – Gene Lay Inst. of Immunol. and Inflammation
    Speaker: Daniel Cua – Johnson & Johnson
    Speaker: Shreya Das, Shreya Das PhD – Albany Med. Col.
    Speaker: Sarah L. Gaffen, PhD (she/her/hers) – Univ. of Pittsburgh
    Speaker: Jun R. Huh, PhD – Harvard Med. Sch.
    Speaker: Dan R. Littman, MD, PhD (he/him/his) – HHMI, NYU Sch. of Med.
    Speaker: Mandy J. McGeachy, PhD – Cornell Univ.
    Speaker: Alice Emma Taliento, PhD – Massachusetts Gen. Hosp.
    Lymphocyte Differentiation and Peripheral Maintenance (LYM)
  • 9:15 AM - 9:45 AM US ET
    Modeling the Human Immune Response, Sponsored by AAI Clin. Immunol. Comm.
  • 9:15 AM - 11:15 AM US ET
    Modeling the Human Immune Response, Sponsored by AAI Clin. Immunol. Comm.
  • 9:15 AM - 11:15 AM US ET
    Professions in Biotech: Panel Discussion and Networking (ticketed event), Sponsored by the AAI Edu. Comm.
  • 9:30 AM - 10:15 AM US ET
    Exhibitor Workshop: BioTechne - Small Molecule Drug Discovery utilizing a Multiplex Cytokine Detection Platform
  • 9:30 AM - 5:30 PM US ET
    NIH Resource Room
  • 9:45 AM - 10:15 AM US ET
    Modeling the Human Immune Response, Sponsored by AAI Clin. Immunol. Comm.
  • 9:45 AM - 11:15 AM US ET
    A New Era in Interdisciplinary Immunotherapy, Sponsored by the Chinese Soc. for Immunol. (CSI)
  • 9:45 AM - 11:15 AM US ET
    Animal Models and Multi-omics Technology
    Moderator: Jichang Han, PhD – Washington Univ. Sch. of Med., St. Louis
    Moderator: Haley E. Randolph, PhD (she/her/hers) – Columbia University
  • 9:45 AM - 11:15 AM US ET
    Complement - Key Modulator of Tissue Autoimmunity and Inflammation, Sponsored by the Intl. Complement Soc. (ICS)
  • 9:45 AM - 11:15 AM US ET
    Immediate Hypersensitivity
    Moderator: Yee Wu – Loyola University Chicago
    Moderator: Becca Martin – Virginia Commonwealth University
  • 9:45 AM - 11:15 AM US ET
    Immediate Hypersensitivity, Asthma, and Allergic Responses (HYP)
  • 9:45 AM - 11:15 AM US ET
    Immediate Hypersensitivity

    Moderator: Yee Wu – Loyola University Chicago

    Moderator: Becca Martin – Virginia Commonwealth University

  • 9:45 AM - 11:15 AM US ET
    Immune Cells in the Tumor Microenvironment I
    Moderator: Mary Philip – Vanderbilt University Medical Center
    Moderator: Arya Biragyn, PhD – National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health
  • 9:45 AM - 11:15 AM US ET
    Immunity at CNS Barriers and Borders
    Moderator: Aaron Johnson – Mayo Clinic
    Moderator: Dorian McGavern – National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health
  • 9:45 AM - 11:15 AM US ET
    Mechanistic Insights into Determinants of Vaccine Immunogenicity
    Moderator: Ashley Moseman – Duke University
    Moderator: Pamela Wong – University of Michigan
  • 10:30 AM - 10:55 AM US ET
    Five Things You Should Know About Advocacy, Sponsored by the Comm. on Public Affairs
  • 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM US ET
    AAI Veterinary Immunology Committee Meeting (by invitation only)
  • 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM US ET
    Why Talk About Science? Creating a Culture Where Communication Thrives, Sponsored by the AAI Public Communications Comm.
  • 11:45 AM - 12:15 PM US ET
    Guided Poster Walk
  • 12:30 PM - 2:30 PM US ET
    Autoimmunity, Neurodegeneration and Aging
  • 12:45 PM - 1:45 PM US ET
    AAI-Steinman Award for Human Immunology Research Presentation and Lecture
  • 12:45 PM - 1:45 PM US ET
    AAI-Steinman Award for Human Immunology Research Presentation and Lecture, generously supported by BioLegend from Revvity
  • 12:45 PM - 2:15 PM US ET
    Computational Tool Development
    Moderator: Rachel Bonami – Vanderbilt University Medical Center
  • 12:45 PM - 2:15 PM US ET
    Emerging Topics in Mucosal Immunology
    Moderator: Ta-Chiang Liu, MD, PhD – Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis
    Moderator: Cathryn Nagler – University of Chicago
  • 12:45 PM - 2:15 PM US ET
    Microenvironmental Influences on Innate Immunity
    Moderator: Xu Zhou, PhD (he/him/his) – Boston Children's Hosp., Harvard Med. Sch.
  • 12:45 PM - 2:15 PM US ET
    Molecular Mechanisms of Tumor Immunity
    Moderator: David E. Sanin, PhD (he/him/his) – Johns Hopkins Univ. Sch. of Med.
    Moderator: Paul Thomas, PhD (he/him/his) – Fred Hutchinson Cancer Res. Ctr.
  • 12:45 PM - 2:15 PM US ET
    Pathophysiology of Cytokines and Chemokines
  • 12:45 PM - 2:15 PM US ET
    Peripheral & Central Neuroimmune Interactions
    Moderator: Paul Kubes, PhD (he/him/his) – Queen's University
    Moderator: Katayoun Ayasoufi, PhD – Duke University
  • 12:45 PM - 2:15 PM US ET
    Regulating Adaptive Responses
    Moderator: Jim Song – Texas A&M University Health Science Center
  • 12:45 PM - 2:15 PM US ET
    Technical Innovations for Therapies
    Moderator: David Dowling – Boston Children's Hospital/Harvard
    Moderator: Eda Holl – Beckman
  • 1:00 PM - 1:45 PM US ET
    Connect with Me Networking
  • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM US ET
    AAI Membership Committee Meeting (invitation only)
  • 2:45 PM - 3:15 PM US ET
    AAI Education: Recommended Immunology Learning Objectives for MedEd, Sponsored by the AAI Edu. Comm.
  • 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM US ET
    President's Symposium: Going Places: The Multi-Step Adhesion Cascade - 35 Years and Counting
  • 3:45 PM - 5:45 PM US ET
    President's Symposium: Going Places: The Multi-Step Adhesion Cascade - 35 Years and Counting
  • 6:00 PM - 6:45 PM US ET
    Distinguished Lecture - Mark H. Kaplan
  • 7:30 PM - 10:00 PM US ET
    IMMUNOLOGY2026™ Gala (ticketed event)
  • Sunday, April 19, 2026
  • 7:00 AM - 8:00 AM US ET
    A Deeper Dive with Mark Kaplan (registration required)
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM US ET
    CME - Clinical Immunology Update: Immunizations
  • 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM US ET
    CD4+ T Cell and B Cell Mediated Immunity against Viruses
    Moderator: Camila H. Coelho, PhD MBA – Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
    Moderator: Laura Snell – Indiana University School of Medicine
  • 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM US ET
    Developmental Exposures in Early Life that Impact Immune Development and Function, Sponsored by NIEHS, NIAID, NIH
  • 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM US ET
    Dynamic Control of T Cell Activation
    Moderator: Yina Huang – Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine
    Moderator: Stephen Jameson, PhD – Univ. of Minnesota
  • 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM US ET
    Immune Cells in the Tumor Microenvironment II
    Moderator: Weiping Zou – University of Michigan
    Moderator: Qiwei Wang – University of Virginia
  • 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM US ET
    Remember Me! – Exploration of the full spectrum of immune memory, Sponsored by the Canadian Society of Immunology (CSI)
  • 8:00 AM - 9:31 AM US ET
    Development of Statistical, Machine Learning, and Genetic Models
    Moderator: Keith Reeves – Duke Univ.
  • 8:00 AM - 11:15 AM US ET
    Major Symposium G: Therapeutic and Translational Immunology
    Chair: Jane Grogan – Biogen
    Chair: Jamie Spangler – Johns Hopkins Univ.
    Speaker: Donna Flesher – Biogen
    Speaker: Sai Reddy – ETH Zurich
    Speaker: Faez Amokrane Nait Mohamed – Harvard Med. Sch.
    Speaker: Jamie Spangler – Johns Hopkins Univ.
    Speaker: James A. Torchia, MD, PhD – Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School
    Speaker: John E. Harris – Mass Gen. Brigham
    Speaker: Michael Birnbaum, PhD – MIT
  • 8:00 AM - 11:15 AM US ET
    Major Symposium H: Resolution of Inflammation
    Chair: Ruslan Medzhitov – HHMI, Yale Univ. School of Med.
    Chair: Charles Nicholas Serhan, PhD DSc. (he/him/his) – Brigham & Women's Hosp.; Harvard Univ.
    Speaker: Ruslan Medzhitov – HHMI, Yale Univ. School of Med.
    Speaker: Charles Nicholas Serhan, PhD DSc. (he/him/his) – Brigham & Women's Hosp.; Harvard Univ.
    Speaker: Gabrielle Fredman – Albany Med. Col.
    Speaker: Yaqiu Wang, PhD (he/him/his) – St. Jude Children’s Res. Hosp.
    Speaker: Patricia J. Sime – Virginia Commonwealth Univ.
    Speaker: Zachary White, PhD – University of Illinois, Chicago
    Speaker: Ashish K. Sharma, MBBS, PhD – University of Florida
  • 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM US ET
    CME - Clinical Immunology Update: Immunizations
  • 9:45 AM - 11:15 AM US ET
    Immune Cells in the Tumor Microenvironment III
    Moderator: Benjamin Youngblood – St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
    Moderator: Chaofan Li, PhD – University of Virginia
  • 9:45 AM - 11:15 AM US ET
    Innate Defenses against Pathogens
    Moderator: Amanda Jamieson – Brown University
    Moderator: Amali E. Samarasinghe, PhD – University of Wisconsin, Madison
  • 9:45 AM - 11:15 AM US ET
    Innovations in Vaccine Adjuvants and Immune Modulation
    Moderator: Theresa L. Chang, PhD – Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
    Moderator: Michael W. Cho, PhD – Iowa State Univ.
  • 9:45 AM - 11:15 AM US ET
    Primary Immune Deficiency and Immune Dysregulation
    Moderator: Aharon G. Freud, MD, PhD – The Ohio State University
    Moderator: Jennifer Grier – University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville
  • 9:45 AM - 11:15 AM US ET
    Regulation of B Cell Responses
    Moderator: Nichol Holodick, PhD – Western Michigan Univ. Homer Stryker MD Sch. of Med.
  • 11:45 AM - 1:30 PM US ET
    AAI Program Committee Meeting (invitation only)