Saturday, June 22, 2013
Place: Alys Robinson Stephens Performing Arts Center, Sirote Theater
7:30 - 8:10 am | Pick up badges |
8:10 – 8:25 a.m. | Welcome Harry W. Schroeder, Jr, MD, PhD Professor of Medicine Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology Director, UAB Program in Immunology UAB |
Session 1
Chairs: Dr. Casey Weaver (UAB) and Dr. Linda Myers (University of Tennessee Memphis)
8:25 – 8:45 a.m | Hubert Tse, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology, UAB Title: The Impact of Oxidative Stress on Autoimmune Responses in Type 1 Diabetes |
8:45 – 9:15 a.m. | Etty (Tika) Benveniste, PhD Professor & Chair, Department of Cell, Developmental and Integrative Biology, UAB Title: Therapeutic Intervention of the JAK/STAT Pathway in Models of Neuroinflammation |
9:15 – 10:00 a.m. |
Keynote Speaker: |
10:00 – 10:15 a.m. | Coffee Break |
10:15 – 10:45 a.m. | Andrew Mellor, PhD Professor, Medical College of Georgia Director, Immunotherapy CenterGeorgia Regents University Title: A Tale with a STING: Inducing IDO to Control Autoimmunity |
10:45 – 11:00 a.m. |
Anupam Agarwal, MD |
11:00 – 11:15 a.m. |
Immunology Trainee 1 Han Dong and Timothy N.J. Bullock. Human Immune Therapy Center, Department of Pathology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22908 Title: CD27 costimulation enhances IL-7 receptor re-expression on CD8+ T cells during viral infection and promotes CD8+ T cell memory |
11:15 – 11:30 a.m. |
Immunology Trainee 2 Tahseen H. Nasti1, Kyle Rudemiller1, George Twitty1, Hee Kyung Kim 1,2, Yuko Tsuruta 1,2, Mohammad Athar 1,2, Craig Elmets 1,2 and Laura Timares 1,2 , 1 The Department of Dermatology, 2 The UAB Skin Diseases Research Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine. Title: An immune prevention strategy for protection against chemical carcinogenesis. |
11:30 – 11:45 a.m |
Immunology Trainee 3 Ying Yi Zheng, Laurence Morel. Department of Pathology, Immunology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610. Title: Contribution of marginal zone B cells to autoimmunity in the B6.Sle1.Sle2.Sle3 lupus prone mouse model. |
11:45 – 12:00 p.m. |
Immunology Trainee 4 J Stewart New, Brian LP Dizon, M.D. Ph.D., John F Kearney Ph.D. Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham AL Title: Modulation of autoimmune diabetes by antibodies specific for N-acetyl-D-glucosamine |
12:00 - 1:30 p.m. | Lunch |
Session 2
Chairs: Dr. Frances Lund (UAB) and Sebastian Joyce (Vanderbilt University Medical Center)
1:30 – 2:00 p.m. | Laurence Morel, PhD Professor and Director, Experimental Pathology, Department of Pathology, University of Florida, College of Medicine Title: CD4 T Cell Metabolism in Lupus |
2:00 - 2:20 p.m. |
Laurie E. Harrington, PhD |
2:20 - 2:40 p.m. | Jacob Kohlmeier, PhD Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Immunology Emory University Title: Maintenance and recall of lung airway resident memory CD8 T cells |
2:40 - 3:00 p.m. | Phillip D. Smith, MD Mary J. Bradford Professor in Gastroenterology Professor of Medicine and Microbiology UAB Title: Macrophages in Mucosal Homeostasis and Viral Infections |
3:00 - 3:20 p.m. |
Coffee Break |
3:20 - 3:40 p.m. |
Chad Steele, PhD |
3:40 - 4:00 p.m. |
Devin Absher, PhD |
4:00 - 5:00 p.m. |
Keynote Speaker |
5:15 - 5:45 p.m. | Immunology trainees meet with Nobel Prize for Medicine Laureate, Prof. Dr. med Rolf Zinkernagel |
6:00 - 8:00 p.m. | Reception and Poster Session Place: Alys Robinson Stephens Performing Arts Center, Daniel Lower Lobby and Abroms Patrons Lounge |
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Sunday, June 23, 2013
Place: Alys Robinson Stephens Performing Arts Center, Sirote Theater
Session 3
Chairs: Dr. James (Tom) W Thomas, II, Vanderbilt and Dr. Robin Lorenz (UAB)
8:15 – 8:30 a.m. | Welcome Robert P. Kimberly, MD Howard L. Holley Professor of Medicine UAB Director, UAB Center for Clinical and Translational Science |
8:30 - 9:00 a.m. | Sebastian Joyce, PhD Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology Vanderbilt University Medical Center Title: The limbic immune system according to natural killer T cells |
9:00 - 9:30 a.m. |
James (Tom) W. Thomas, MD |
9:30 - 10:00 a.m. |
Linda K. Myers, MD |
10:00 - 10:30 A.M. |
Arnold E. Postlethwaite, M.D. |
10:30 – 11:00 a.m. | Coffee Break |
11:00 – 11:20 a.m. |
Allan J. Zajac, PhD |
11:20 – 11:40 a.m. |
Timothy Denning, PhD |
11:40 – 12:00 a.m. |
Paul Goepfert, MD |
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. |
Keynote Speaker |
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