Major Symposium D: Obesity, Environment, and Immunity, Sponsored by Eli Lilly and Company (Duplicate)

Friday, April 17, 2026

8:00 AM - 11:15 AM US ET

Location: Ballroom

Chair(s)

Andrew Hogan, PhD

Professor
Maynooth University , Ireland
Barbara Nikolajczyk, PhD (she/her/hers)

Professor
Univ. of Kentucky
Lexington, Kentucky, United States

Lydia Lynch, PhD

Professor
Princeton University, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research
Princeton, New Jersey, United States
Emily Goldberg, PhD (she/her/hers)

Assistant Professor
UCSF, United States
JA

Julio Angulo

Univ. of California, Irvine, USA
Barbara Nikolajczyk, PhD (she/her/hers)

Professor
Univ. of Kentucky
Lexington, Kentucky, United States
Motoyoshi Nagai, PhD (he/him/his)

Post Doctoral Fellow
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, Maryland, United States
Jonathan Schertzer, PhD

Professor
McMaster University, Canada
Andrew Hogan, PhD

Professor
Maynooth University , Ireland

Disclosure(s):

Andrew Hogan, PhD: No financial relationships to disclose

Barbara S. Nikolajczyk, PhD: No financial relationships to disclose

Lydia Lynch, PhD: No financial relationships to disclose

Emily Goldberg, PhD: No financial relationships to disclose

Motoyoshi Nagai, PhD: No financial relationships to disclose

Jonathan Schertzer, PhD: No financial relationships to disclose

8:33 AM - 9:06 AM US ET

Studying fat as a driver of inflammatory disease
Speaker: Emily Goldberg, PhD (she/her/hers) – UCSF
9:06 AM - 9:21 AM US ET

CD1a-Mediated T cell responses abrogates Insulin Resistance in High Fat Diet T2D Mouse Model
Author: Julio Ayala Angulo – University of California, Irvine
9:21 AM - 9:54 AM US ET

Mechanisms that support obesity-associated inflammation in human prediabetes
Speaker: Barbara S. Nikolajczyk, PhD (she/her/hers) – Univ. of Kentucky
9:54 AM - 10:09 AM US ET

Dietary exposure modulates cutaneous immunity and microbiota to facilitate wound healing
Author: Motoyoshi Nagai, PhD (he/him/his) – National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health
10:09 AM - 10:42 AM US ET

Postbiotics alter immunometabolism during metabolic disease
Speaker: Jonathan Schertzer, PhD – McMaster University
10:42 AM - 11:15 AM US ET

Environmental dysregulation of MAIT cells in obesity
Speaker: Andrew Hogan, PhD – Maynooth University