Friday, May 14, 2021

Morning Yoga

Join us every morning for a 30-minute yoga-and-mindfulness session. We experience distractions and stressors that pull our attention in many directions. This class will relax you and prepare you to be fully present before engaging in your selected sessions during the day ahead.

Meet the AAI Minority Affairs Committee

Meet AAI Minority Affairs Committee (MAC) members to learn about MAC activities.

Join us in the AAI booth.

Meet the AAI Public Policy Fellows

Meet the AAI Public Policy Fellows and discover why YOU should be our next Fellow!

Join us in the AAI booth.

Exhibitor Workshop

BD Biosciences

AAI-BioLegend Herzenberg Award Presentation and Lecture

Generously supported by BioLegend

Chairs:

• Jenny P.-Y. Ting, Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, AAI President (2020–2021)
• Jeremy M. Boss, Emory Univ. Sch. of Med., AAI President (2019–2020)

Award Recipient:

Susan K. Pierce
NIAID, NIH
Regulators and influencers of B cell affinity discrimination

Recognizes an individual who has made exemplary research contributions to the field of B cell biology

Lupus Research Alliance Symposium

Unraveling Lupus Heterogeneity Through the Nexus of Technology, Human Immunology, and Team Science

Chairs:

• Mariana J. Kaplan, NIAMS, NIH
• Judith A. James, Oklahoma Med. Res. Fndn.

Speakers:

• Nir Hacohen, Broad Inst., The immune milieu of the kidney in lupus nephritis patients and mice
• Judith A. James, Oklahoma Med. Res. Fndn., Deciphering molecular mechanisms of disease heterogeneity in SLE
• Andrea M. Knight, Univ. of Toronto, Canada, Multi-level approaches to understanding neuropsychiatric lupus
• Virginia Pascual, Weill Cornell Med., Stratification of pediatric SLE
• C. Jimmie Ye, Univ. of California San Francisco, Multiplexed multimodal single cell sequencing of SLE

Block Symposia

Pathogen Control and Evasion

Generously supported by Sony Biotechnology

Microbiota, Sex-Bias, and Aging in Autoimmunity

Antigen Processing and Presentation 1

Cytokine Signaling during Protective and Inflammatory Immune Responses

Lymphocyte Differentiation in the Thymus

Immune Regulation and Humoral Immunity

COVID-19 and the Science of Pandemics—Lessons Learned

Chairs:

• David Masopust, Univ. of Minnesota, AAI Program Committee Chair
• M. Michele Hogan, CEO, AAI

Speakers:

Exhibitor Workshops

Immunology Teaching Interest Group: Enhancing Your Immunology Teaching

Sponsored by the AAI Education Committee

Chairs:

• Edith Porter, California State Univ., Los Angeles
• Michelle A. Swanson-Mungerson, Midwestern Univ.

Speakers:

• Edith Porter, California State Univ., Los Angeles, Undergraduate curriculum guidelines
• Michelle A. Swanson-Mungerson, Midwestern Univ., Student application of immunology concepts and mechanisms through test-based learning on Canvas
• Gerald L. Buldak, Loyola Univ. Chicago, Toward an animated visual model for teaching immunology
• Pierette M. Appasamy, Chatham Univ., Avoiding the “can’t see the forest for the trees” problem in teaching immunology

Breakout Session Leaders:

• William H. Carr, Medgar Evers Col., CUNY, A hands-on workshop on using H5P as an active learning tool to build content-based critical thinking skills
• Sharon A. Stranford, Pomona Col., Active learning strategies
• Natalie C. Steinel, Univ. of Massachusetts, Lowell, and Abby L. Geis, Arkansas Col. of Osteopathic Med., Innovation in the medical immunology classroom
• Julie M. Jameson, California State Univ., San Marcos, and Paula Kavathas, Yale Univ. Sch. of Med., Virtual teaching strategies

Are you looking for new ideas or strategies to enliven and improve your teaching? If so, please join us for this special interest group which will focus on strategies that instructors can use to successfully convey immunology concepts to students at the undergraduate and graduate level. The session will explore the use of test-based learning, animated visual models, active learning strategies, and more through talks and structured breakout discussion groups. Current educators, new faculty, and trainees with an interest in teaching are welcome.

How to Write a Scientific Paper, Respond to Reviews, and Disseminate Your Findings

Sponsored by the AAI Publications Committee

Chairs:

• Tania H. Watts, Univ. of Toronto, Canada, AAI Publications Committee Chair
• Eugene M. Oltz, The Ohio State Univ. Col. of Med., Editor-in-Chief, The Journal of Immunology

Speakers:

• Tania H. Watts, Univ. of Toronto, Canada, What’s your punchline? How to write a compelling manuscript
• Gail A. Bishop, Univ. of Iowa, What to do when reviews arrive
• Deepta Bhattacharya, Univ. of Arizona, How to use Twitter to promote your publication
• Eugene M. Oltz, The Ohio State Univ. Col. of Med., Why you should publish in The JI – and ImmunoHorizons too!

In this session sponsored by the AAI Publications Committee, experienced editors and authors will provide valuable insights to the processes of preparing a manuscript, responding to reviewers’ comments, and how to use social media to spread the word about your work. In addition, the Editor-In-Chief of The Journal of Immunology will speak on the career benefits of publishing in The JI.

Block Symposia

Hematopoiesis

GUT and NERVES

Major Symposium E

Molecular Mechanisms of Tumor Immunity

Generously supported by Sony Biotechnology

Chairs:

• Thomas E. Gajewski, Univ. of Chicago
• Lisa H. Butterfield, Parker Inst. for Cancer Immunotherapy

Speakers:

• Thomas E. Gajewski, Univ. of Chicago, Mechanisms of cancer immunotherapy efficacy vs. resistance
• Lisa H. Butterfield, Parker Inst. for Cancer Immunotherapy, Cancer vaccines and what does and doesn't matter
• Weiping Zou, Univ. of Michigan, Metabolic impact on cancer immunity and therapy
• Jennifer A. Wargo, Univ. of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Ctr., The role of the microbiome in response and toxicity to therapy
• Arlene H. Sharpe, Harvard Med. Sch., Discovery of new immuno-oncology targets leveraging CRISPR

Major Symposium F

Engineering Immunity

Generously supported by STEMCELL Technologies, Inc.

Chairs:

• Dennis R. Burton, Scripps Res.
• Benjamin A. Youngblood, St. Jude Children’s Res. Hosp.

Speakers:

• Dennis R. Burton, Scripps Res., Neutralizing antibodies: neutralization and vaccines
• Laura M. Walker, Adimab, LLC, Longitudinal dynamics of the human B cell response to acute viral infection
• Darrell J. Irvine, MIT, The impact of vaccine kinetics on humoral immunity
• Alexander Marson, Univ. California, San Francisco, Reprogramming human T cells with CRISPR
• Benjamin A. Youngblood, St. Jude Children’s Res. Hosp., Epigenetic reprogramming of CD8⁺ T cell differentiation potential
• Anjana Rao, La Jolla Inst. for Immunology, Transcriptional and epigenetic regulation in anti-tumor responses

Block Symposia

Cellular Mechanisms of Innate Immunity in Surveillance, Inflammation and Tissue Repair

Metabolites, Diet, and Obesity

Pathogenesis of SARS-CoV-2 Infection

How to Convert Your CV into a Résumé

Chair:

• Mary T. Litzinger, Director of Educational and Career Development, AAI

Speaker:

• Derek Haseltine, Hertz Foundation

For anyone seeking a job outside of academe, how you present yourself on paper is critical. A well-prepared résumé can make all the difference in securing that interview. The focus of this session will be on the important elements of a résumé, the differences between a résumé and the standard academic curriculum vitae, and the information needed to make a good impression. In this special career development session, attendees will be instructed in how to transform their CVs into professional résumés.

Poster Sessions

Antigen Processing and Presentation 2

Cardiovascular Immunity

Investigations into Food Allergy, Asthma, and Atopic Dermatitis

Regulatory Mechanisms in Innate Immunity

Restraining Immune Responses

Peripheral Lymphocyte Regulation and Maintenance

Immunology of Infection 2

Microbiota-Immune Interactions

Macrophages, Myeloid and Dendritic Cells in Tumor Immunity and Immunotherapy

The Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of T Cells for the Enhancement of Immune Responses

T Cell Responses to Viruses