Program
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Meeting Program
*All sessions will be held in the Berg Auditorium of the Life Sciences Building unless otherwise noted.
Tuesday, June 4, 2013
12:30-1:30 p.m. Registration: Lobby of Life Sciences Building
1:30 p.m. – 1:45 p.m. Welcome and Opening Remarks, Berg Auditorium
1:45 p.m. –
5:15 p.m. Session 1: The Mucosa Under Attack
Session
Chairs: Eric Harvill, Ed Dudley
1:45 p.m.
– 2:25 p.m.
"Influenza Disrupts Mucosal Antimicrobial Host Defense in Secondary
Bacterial Pneumonia"
John
Alcorn, Ph.D., Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, UPMC
2:25 p.m.
– 3:05 p.m.
“The Innate Immune Response to Respiratory Virus Infection Enhances Pseudomonas aeruginosa Biofilm Growth on Airway Epithelial Cells”
Jennifer
Bomberger, Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
3:05 p.m. – 3:20 p.m.
Short talk selected from submitted abstracts
3:20 p.m. – 3:35 p.m.
Short talk selected from submitted abstracts
3:35 p.m. – 3:55 p.m. Break
3:55 p.m. – 4:35 p.m.
“Preclinical Models
to Study Mucosal Papillomavirus Infections”
Neil
Christensen, Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University, College of Medicine
4:35 p.m. – 5:15 p.m.
“Determinants for the Development of
Successful Antiviral Immune Responses”
Carolina
López, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
5:15 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. Dinner on your own
6:30 p.m. –
9:00 p.m. Poster Session and Concurrent Reception,
*Gateway,
Life Sciences Building
Wednesday, June 5, 2013
7:15 a.m. – 8:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast, Lobby of Life Sciences Building
8:00 a.m. –
10:10 a.m. Session 2: Immune Signaling Across
the Mucosa
Session
Chair: Joanne Viney
8:00 a.m. –
8:50 a.m. Distinguished speaker
“Th17 Cells in the Regulation of Lung Immunity"
Jay K.
Kolls, M.D., University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
8:50 a.m. –
9:30 a.m.
“Foxp3 Expression and Regulatory T Cell Development in Mature T Cells”
JoAnne
Viney, Ph.D., Biogen Idec
9:30 a.m. –
10:10 a.m.
“Cross-Talk Between Muscularis Phagocytes and Enteric Nervous System Constitutively
Regulates Gastrointestinal Motility”
Milena
Bogunovic, Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University, Hershey Medical School
10:10 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Break
10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Session 3:
Epigenetic and Innate Signaling
Session
Chair: Yanming Wang
10:30 a.m. – 11:10 a.m.
"Role of Histone Citrullination
in Reproduction and Disease"
Scott Coonrod,
Ph.D., Cornell University
11:10 a.m.
– 11:50 a.m.
“Chromatin Signaling in Netosis and Autophagy”
Yanming
Wang, Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University
11:50 a.m.
– 12:30 p.m.
“Epigenetic Inheritance and Epigenetic Alterations in High Grade Pediatric Brain Tumors”
Zhiguo
Zhang, Ph.D., Mayo Clinic
12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Lunch on your own
1:30 p.m. –
5:05 p.m. Session 4: When Good Signaling Goes Bad
Chair:
Avery August
1:30 p.m. –
2:20 p.m. Distinguished speaker
“The IL-13 Decoy Receptor Tightly Controls Pathogenic Th17 and Th2 Responses in the Mucosa”
Thomas A.
Wynn, Ph.D., National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
2:20 p.m. –
3:00 p.m.
“Tuning Innate T Cell Populations and Lung Inflammation”
Avery
August, Ph.D., Cornell University
3:00 p.m. –
3:15 p.m.
Short talk selected from submitted abstracts
3:15 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Break
3:30 p.m. –
3:45 p.m.
Short talk selected from submitted abstracts
3:45 p.m. –
4:25 p.m.
“Early Life Viral Infection
Targets T Regs Crippling Neonatal Tolerance”
Anuradha
Ray, Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh
4:25 p.m.
– 5:05 p.m.
“Pulmonary Surfactant
Regulation of Mucosal Immunity”
Zissis C. Chroneos, Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University, College
of Medicine
5:05 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. Dinner on your own
*Location
Change: The Board Room, Nittany Lion Inn
7:00p.m. – 8:15 p.m. Keynote speaker
“Microbiota-Host Interactions in T Cell Homeostasis and Autoimmune Disease”
Dan
Littman, M.D., Ph.D., New York University, Langone Medical Center
8:15 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. Reception: Assembly Room, (lower level), Nittany Lion Inn
Thursday, June 6, 2013
7:15 a.m. – 8:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast, Lobby of Life Sciences Building
8:00 a.m. –
11:05 a.m. Session 5: Sensing the Environment
at the Mucosa
Session
Chair: Adam Glick
10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. Industrial Show sponsored by VWR, Gateway Bridge, Life Sciences Building
(Lunch provided at noon.)
8:00 a.m. –
8:50 a.m. Distinguished speaker
“Function of Tissue Resident Dendritic Cell Subsets"
Daniel
Kaplan, M.D., Ph.D., University of Minnesota
8:50 a.m. –
9:30 a.m.
"Regulation of Allergen-Specific IgA and IL-17 Responses by Intestinal Epithelial Cell
IKKβ Reshapes Allergic Inflammation at Distant Sites"
Prosper
Boyaka, Ph.D., The Ohio State University
9:30 a.m. –
9:45 a.m. Short talk selected from submitted abstracts
"CCR10 Regulates Maintenance and Function of Resident
Regulatory and Effector T Cells in the Skin"
Yaoyao Fu, The Pennsylvania State University
9:45 a.m. –
10:25 a.m.
“Vitamin D, the Microbiome and Immune Mediated Diseases”
Margherita
Cantorna, Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University
10:25 a.m.
– 11:05 a.m.
“Direct and Indirect Regulation of Mucosal T Cells by Retinoic Acid”
Chang H.
Kim, Ph.D., Purdue University College of Veterinary Medicine
11:05 a.m. – 11:20 a.m. Break
11:20 a.m.
– 1:05 p.m. Session 6: Sensing Friends at a Hostile Border
Session
Chair: Troy Ott
11:20 a.m.
– 12:00 p.m.
“Tolerogenic
Mediators and the Role of T-regulatory Cells in the Uterus”
Surendra
Sharma, M.D., Ph.D., Brown University and Women and Infants' Hospital of Rhode Island
12:00 p.m.
– 12:15 p.m.
Short talk selected from submitted abstracts
12:15 p.m.
– 1:05 p.m. Distinguished speaker
“Immunology
of the Maternal-Fetal Interface"
Adrian
Erlebacher, M.D., Ph.D., New York University School of Medicine, Langone
Medical Center
1:05 p.m. –
1:15 p.m.
Closing Remarks & Meeting Adjourned
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