Distinguished Speaker

Stuart Orkin (Harvard Medical School)
"Mechanisms controlling blood cell development"

Session I
"Stem Cells & Hematopoiesis"

Keynote Speaker: Thomas Graf (Albert Einstein College of Medicine)
"How hematopoietic stem cells decide what to become"

Speaker: Kyunghee Choi (Washington University School of Medicine)
"Factors controlling hematopoietic and endothelial cell development"

Speaker: Todd Evans (Albert Einstein College of Medicine)
"Regulation of hematopoiesis by the BMPsignaling pathway: New animal models"

Speaker: Mitchell Weiss (The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia)
"Transcriptional control of red blood cell development"

Speaker: Paul Ney (St Jude Children's Research Hospital)
"Mechanisms of erythroid differentiation"

Session II
"Lymphocyte Development & Function I"

Chair: Andrew Henderson (Penn State)

Keynote Speaker: Stephen Smale (UCLA)
"Assembly of silent chromatin during thymocyte development"

Speaker: Kenneth. Dorshkind (UCLA School of Medicine)
"Dissecting Lymphoid Developmental Pathways From Embryogenesis Through Senescence"

Speaker: Christopher Klug (University of Alabama)
"Becoming a B cell: The role of EBF, Pax5, and IL-7 receptor at the earliest stage of B cell develpment"

Speaker: Harinder Singh (University of Chicago)
"Transcriptional control of lymphoid and myeloid cell fates"

Speaker: Kathryn Calame (Columbia University)
"Regulation of B cell commitment and terminal differentiation"

Distinguished Speaker

Harald von Boehmer (Harvard Medical School)
" Adaptation of the adaptive immune system: The role of cell death and lineage commitment"

Session III
"Lymphocyte Development & Function II"

Keynote Speaker: Larry Samelson (National Cancer Institute)
"Signaling via the T cell antigen receptor"

Speaker: Warren Pear (UPENN Medical Center)
"Notch signaling in lymphoid development"

Speaker: Pam Schwarzberg (NIH)
"Integrating T cell signals"

Speaker: Yongwon Choi (UPENN School of Medicine)
"TRAF6 in the immune system"

Speaker: Shao-Cong Sun (Penn State, Hershey)
"NF-kB signaling in the immune system"

Session IV
"Regulation of Inflammation"

Keynote Speaker: Alan Sher (NIH)
"Protecting the gut: T cell regulation of bacterial induced inflammation"

Speaker: Thomas Wynn (NIH)
"Regulation of IL-13 effector functions by the IL-13 receptor Alpha-2"

Speaker: David Mosser (University of Maryland)
"Biasing immune responses by manipulating antigen presenting cells"

Speaker: Glenn Matsushima (University of North Carolina)
"Function of a novel family of receptor tyrosine kinases on macrophages and autoimmunity"

Speaker: Kodi Ravichandran (University of Virginia)
"Signaling to engulfment: The beginnings of a good meal"