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Thursday, April 16, 2026
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
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
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

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 – 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 – 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
Understanding Immune Responses to Optimize Immune Intervention
Moderator: Eduardo Davila – University of Colorado, Denver
Moderator: Juliet Williams – Kymera Therapeutics

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
Moderator: Aaron Johnson – Mayo Clinic
Moderator: Lavanya Visvabharathy – University of Chicago

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
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

12:45 PM - 2:15 PM US ET
Therapeutic Modulation of T Cells for Autoimmune Diseases
Moderator: Dimitry Krementsov – Univ. of Vermont

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 – Massachusetts Institute of Technology

4:15 PM - 5:45 PM US ET
Bone Marrow Hematopoiesis
Moderator: Susan Kovats, PhD – 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 – Univ. of Texas Southwestern Med. Ctr.