May 10–15, 2021
Now Virtual
AAI will hold a fully online annual meeting experience in 2021!
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- Cutting-edge data in interactive poster sessions and block symposia
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2021 AAI President’s Program
AAI President’s Address
Monday, May 10, 2021
10:30 am – 1:00 pm
Jenny P. Ting
Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
AAI President (2020–2021)
The all-encompassing importance of innate immunity
Jeffrey A. Frelinger, Univ. of Arizona and Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Introduction
Due to the cancellation of IMMUNOLOGY2020™, both Dr. Ting and Dr. Boss will have a president’s program at Virtual IMMUNOLOGY2021™.
2021 AAI President’s Symposium
The Impact of Immunology on Health and Diseases:
As Far as the Eye Can See
Wednesday, May 12, 2021
3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Etty (Tika) N. Benveniste
Univ. of Alabama, Birmingham,
Sch. of Med.
Neutrophil involvement in autoimmune neuroinflammation
Blossom A. Damania
Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Modulation of host immunity by human herpesviruses
Mary N. Carrington
NCI, NIH
The impact of immunogenetic variation on functional characteristics of the immune response
Laurie H. Glimcher
Dana Farber Cancer Inst.
Stressed out: a novel approach to cancer immunotherapy
2020 AAI President’s Program
AAI President’s Address
Monday, May 10, 2021
10:30 Am – 1:00 pm
Jeremy M. Boss
Emory Univ. Sch. of Med.
AAI President (2019–2020)
The regulation of immunity
Peter E. Jensen, Univ. of Utah
Introduction
Due to the cancellation of IMMUNOLOGY2020™, both Dr. Ting and Dr. Boss will have a president’s program at Virtual IMMUNOLOGY2021™.
2020 AAI President’s Symposium
Genes and Genomes in Healthy and Autoimmune Lymphocytes
Thursday, May 13, 2021
3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Michael S. Krangel
Duke Univ. Med. Ctr.
RAG expression and TCR repertoire formation in double positive thymocytes
Eugene M. Oltz
The Ohio State Univ. Col. of Med.
Wiring schemes for innate and adaptive lymphoid cells
Frances E. Lund
Univ. of Alabama, Birmingham
Inflammatory cytokine-mediated control of effector memory B cell development and function
Max D. Cooper
Emory Univ. Sch. of Med.
The evolution of T and B cells
Special Lecture
COVID-19 and the Science of Pandemics—Lessons Learned
Friday, May 14, 2021
12:00 pm – 2:00 pm
AAI Distinguished Lectures
Tuesday, May 11, 2021
12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
Michael P. Cancro
Univ. of Pennsylvania Perelman
Sch. of Med.
A tale of two subsets: rethinking B cell selection, homeostasis, and memory
Wednesday, May 12, 2021
12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
Dario A.A. Vignali
Univ. of Pittsburgh Sch. of Med.
Immune inhibitory mechanisms in cancer
Thursday, May 13, 2021
12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
Donna L. Farber
Columbia Univ. Med. Ctr.
Human immunity in space and time
Career Awards
AAI Lifetime
Achievement Award
Monday, May 10, 2021
10:30 am
Presented prior to Dr. Boss’s President’s Address
Marc K. Jenkins
Univ. of Minnesota Ctr. for Immunology
AAI Distinguished
Service Award
Saturday, May 15, 2021
2:00 pm
Presented at the
Business Meeting
Juan Carlos Zúñiga-Pflücker
Univ. of Toronto, and Sunnybrook Res. Inst., Canada
AAI Excellence in
Mentoring Award
Thursday, May 13, 2021
3:00 pm
Presented prior to Dr. Boss’s President’s Symposium
Jeffrey A. Bluestone
Univ. of California, San Francisco, and Sonoma Biotherapeutics
AAI-Steinman Award for Human Immunology Research
Saturday, May 15, 2021
12:00 Pm – 1:00 pm
Michael J. Lenardo
NIAID, NIH
Identification of novel gene defects leads to precision therapies for congenital immune diseases
AAI-BD Biosciences Investigator Award
Wednesday, May 12, 2021
1:45 pm – 2:45 pm
Erika L. Pearce
Bloomberg-Kimmel Inst. for Cancer Immunotherapy, Johns Hopkins Univ.
Metabolic regulation of T cell function
AAI-BioLegend Herzenberg Award
Friday, May 14, 2021
10:00 am – 11:00 am
Susan K. Pierce
NIAID, NIH
Regulators and influencers of B cell affinity discrimination
AAI-Thermo Fisher Meritorious Career Award
Thursday, May 13, 2021
1:45 pm – 2:45 pm
Alexander Y. Rudensky
HHMI, Mem. Sloan Kettering Cancer Ctr., Rockefeller Univ., and Weill Cornell Med.
The virtue of restraint in adaptive immunity
Important Dates
Abstracts
Submissions Open
December 18, 2020
Submissions Close
January 26, 2021
Meeting Awards
Applications Open
December 18, 2020
Applications Close
January 26, 2021
Registration
Opens
December 18, 2020
Early Reg. Discount Ends
April 20, 2021
All dates subject to change.
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