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  • 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 (he/him/his) – 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