Signaling Pathways Modulating Immune Responses to Microbial Infections

Moderator(s)

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  Mary Markiewicz, PhD (she/her/hers)

  Associate Professor
  Microbiology, Molecular Genetics & Immunology
  University of Kansas Medical Center
  Kansas City, Kansas, United States
• LM

  Lanre Morenikeji

  Virginia State University

Presentations:

• 4:30 PM - 4:45 PM US ET

  LOX-1 promotes efferocytosis and oxLDL-mediated immune reprogramming of alveolar macrophages during pneumonia.
  

  Author: Filiz Korkmaz, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Iowa
• 4:45 PM - 5:00 PM US ET

  Hyperglycemia-induced HIF-1α dysregulation drives epithelial barrier dysfunction and increases susceptibility to oral candidiasis
  

  Author: Jinendiran Sekar, PhD (he/him/his) – Harbor-UCLA Med. Ctr.
• 5:00 PM - 5:15 PM US ET

  Critical role of 4-1BB:4-1BBL axis in humoral immune responses against Plasmodium
  

  Author: Carolina Caloba, MS (she/her/hers) – Rosalind Franklin Univ. of Med. and Sci.
• 5:15 PM - 5:30 PM US ET

  Centrosome-associated assembly and trafficking coordinate spatial activation of the NLRP3 inflammasome in primary human monocytes
  

  Author: Melissa Lodoen, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of California, Irvine
• 5:30 PM - 5:45 PM US ET

  Absence of the “Don’t Eat Me” signal results in aberrant T cell responses to Leishmania major
  

  Author: Hanna Paton, PhD Candidate – University of Iowa