2018 Spring Scientific Symposium
Mechanisms of Inflammation in Health and Disease
Tuesday, April 10, 2018
9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Location: Folkman Auditorium, Boston Children's Hospital, 320 Longwood Avenue
Scientific Host: Jonathan C. Kagan, PhD
Free On-Line Registration is available now
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Agenda
9:00 am Introductory Remarks
9:15 am Edward Miao, MD, PhD, UNC School of Medicine
“Infectious models reveal unique role for caspase-7 after cytotoxic lymphocyte attack”
9:45 am Janelle Ayres, PhD, Salk Institute
“Host-microbe interactions: Harnessing co-evolution to treat disease”
10:15 am Jonathan C. Kagan, PhD, Harvard Medical School
“Regulation of Innate Immunity”
10:45 am Chandrashekhar Pasare, DVM, PhD, UTSouthwestern Medical Center
“Innate mechanisms of regulation of T cell effector functions”
11:15 am Break - coffee and cookies will be available at 12:45
1:00 pm Greg Barton, PhD, University of California - Berkeley
“Regulation of CD4 T cell responses to the microbiota”
1:30 pm Andrea Ablasser, PhD, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
“Physiological roles of innate DNA sensing mechanisms”
2:00 pm Tiffany Horng, PhD, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
“Metabolic control of Macrophage Activation”
2:30 pm Coffee Break
3:00 pm Douglas Green, PhD, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
“Targeting LAP: LC3 associated phagocytosis, inflammation, and immunity”
3:30 pm Ivan Zanoni, PhD, Harvard Medical School
“Type III interferons control intestinal inflammation”
4:00 pm Veit Hornung, MD, Gene Center and Dept. of Biochemistry – University of Munich
“Inflammasome signaling in the human system”
4:30 pm “Closing Remarks”
Jonathan C. Kagan, PhD, Scientific Host
Wayne I. Lencer, MD, and Richard S. Blumberg, MD, Co-Hosts
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