Saturday, May 15, 2021

Poster Session

Interviewing for a Job

Speaker:

• Derek Haseltine, Hertz Foundation

This session will be focused on tips and techniques to help you successfully navigate the interview process. Emphasis will be on how you can present yourself in the best possible light. You will also learn how to respond to unexpected questions. This session is open to anyone but is especially intended for student and postdoctoral attendees.

Transforming the Study of Human Disease through Systems Immunology

Sponsored by the AAI Clinical Immunology Committee

Single-cell analytics are changing the way we interpret and understand immunology. In this session sponsored by the AAI Clinical Immunology Committee, top researchers will highlight the use of single-cell analytics to explore human immunology and how such techniques will open doors to tomorrow’s therapeutics.

Chair:

• Jennifer Anolik, Univ. of Rochester Med. Ctr., AAI Clinical Immunology Committee Chair 

Speakers:

• Paul Thomas, St. Jude Children’s Res. Hosp., Decoding T cell receptor specificity in viral infections and tumors
• Bana Jabri, Univ. of Chicago, Tissue-resident T cells in health and disease
• Ali Ellebedy, Washington Univ. Sch. Of Med., St. Louis, Lessons from the odyssey of human B cell response to vaccination
• Maromit Singer, Harvard Univ., Elucidating systemic immune characteristics in melanoma with single-cell transcriptomics

Block Symposia

AAI-Steinman Award for Human Immunology Research Presentation and Lecture

Chair:

• Jeremy M. Boss, Emory Univ. Sch. of Med., AAI President (2019–2020)

Award Recipient:

Michael J. Lenardo
NIAID, NIH
Identification of novel gene defects leads to precision therapies for congenital immune diseases

Recognizes an individual who has made significant contributions to the understanding of immune processes underlying human disease pathogenesis, prevention, and therapies

Major Symposium G: B Cell Lineage Signals in Protective vs. Maladaptive Antibody Responses

Chairs:

• Mark R. Boothby, Vanderbilt Univ. Med. Ctr.
• Roberta Pelanda, Univ. of Colorado, Denver

Speakers:

• Roberta Pelanda, Univ. of Colorado, Denver, Molecular control of central B cell tolerance: is it one for all?
• Julie Zikherman, Univ. of California, San Francisco, Negative feedback regulation of normal and autoimmune B cell responses
• João P. Pereira, Yale Univ., B cell circuits in homeostasis and disease
• Pamela L. Schwartzberg, NIAID, NIH, Modulation of B cell responses by activated PI3K-delta
• Mark R. Boothby, Vanderbilt Univ. Med. Ctr., Imag(in)ing a fusion of nutrients, metabolism, and function as B cells effect antibody responses
• Michel C. Nussenzweig, Rockefeller Univ., Human antibody responses to viral pathogens

Major Symposium H: The Stromal Cell Underpinning of Immune Cell Development and Function

Chairs:

• Susan R. Schwab, New York Univ. Grossman Sch. of Med.
• Juan Carlos Zúñiga-Pflücker, Univ. of Toronto, and Sunnybrook Res. Inst., Canada

Speakers:

• Juan Carlos Zúñiga-Pflücker, Univ. of Toronto, and Sunnybrook Res. Inst., Canada, Thymus stromal cells are plastic
• Mark S. Anderson, Univ. of California, San Francisco, Maintenance of immune tolerance by thymic stromal cells
• Burkhard Ludewig, Kantonsspital St. Gallen, Switzerland, Fibroblastic reticular cells: subsets and functions
• Susan R. Schwab, New York Univ. Grossman Sch. of Med., Exit strategies: S1P and immune cell migration
• Theresa T.-S. Lu, Hosp. for Special Surgery Res. Inst., Langerhans cells and stromal regulation in lupus
• Melody A. Swartz, Univ. of Chicago, Antigen presentation by lymphatic endothelial cells and T cell memory

AAI Business Meeting and Awards Presentation

AAI reports on the “state of the association” to its members at every AAI annual meeting. Members will hear from the Executive Director, the Secretary-Treasurer, the Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Immunology (The JI), and the Chair of the Committee on Public Affairs on the financial standing of AAI, the status of The JI, important public policy issues, and other items of interest for the membership. Special AAI awards will also be presented during this session.

AAI Distinguished Fellows Class of 2020 and Class of 2021 Acknowledgment

Acknowledged at the AAI Business Meeting.

The Distinguished Fellows of AAI program annually recognizes members for distinguished careers and outstanding scientific contributions as well as their service to AAI and the immunology community. It honors active, long-term members (25 or more years) who have demonstrated one or more of the following: excellence in research accomplishment in the field of immunology; exceptional leadership to the immunology community in academia, foundations, nonprofits, industry, or government at a national or international level; notable distinction as an educator. Election as a Distinguished Fellow is among the highest honors bestowed by AAI.

AAI Distinguished Service Award Presentation

Presented at the Business Meeting

Award Recipient:

Juan Carlos Zúñiga-Pflücker
Univ. of Toronto, and Sunnybrook Res. Inst., Canada
For outstanding service to AAI and the immunology community as director of the AAI Introductory Course in Immunology, 2014–2019

Recognizes a member for outstanding service to the AAI community

Pfizer-Showell Award

This award recognizes the professional promise of an early career investigator (assistant professor or equivalent) by assisting the award recipient with registration for the AAI annual meeting to present their research. This award is supported through an endowment from Henry J. Showell and Pfizer, Inc.

AAI Executive Director M. Michele Hogan will introduce the awardee and present the award during the AAI Business Meeting.

Lefrançois-BioLegend Memorial Award

Established to honor the memory of AAI Member Dr. Leo Lefrançois, this award is intended to advance the career of a trainee who attends the AAI annual meeting and presents an outstanding abstract specifically in the area of mucosal immunology. This award is generously supported by BioLegend and donations from friends and colleagues of Dr. Lefrançois.

AAI Executive Director M. Michele Hogan and Gene Lay, CEO, BioLegend, will introduce the awardee and present the award during the AAI Business Meeting.

Lustgarten-Thermo Fisher Scientific Memorial Award

Established to honor the memory of AAI Member Dr. Joseph Lustgarten, this award is intended to advance the career of a mid-career scientist who attends the AAI annual meeting and presents an outstanding abstract specifically in the area of immune regulation. This award is generously supported by Thermo Fisher Scientific.

AAI Executive Director M. Michele Hogan and David Piper, Senior Director of Research and Development, Thermo Fisher Scientific, will introduce the awardee and present the award during the AAI Business Meeting.

Chambers-Thermo Fisher Scientific Memorial Award

Established to honor the memory of AAI Member Dr. Cynthia Chambers, this award is intended to advance the career of an early career scientist who attends the AAI annual meeting and presents an outstanding abstract specifically in the area of cancer biology. This award is generously supported by Thermo Fisher Scientific.

AAI Executive Director M. Michele Hogan and David Piper, Senior Director of Research and Development, Thermo Fisher Scientific, will introduce the awardee and present the award during the AAI Business Meeting.

AAI-Thermo Fisher Trainee Achievement Awards

This award recognizes up to six promising trainees in the field of immunology. Selection is based on career promise and presentation of an outstanding first-author abstract selected for a Block Symposium. This award is generously supported by Thermo Fisher Scientific.

AAI Executive Director M. Michele Hogan and David Piper, Senior Director of Research and Development, Thermo Fisher Scientific, will introduce the awardees and present the awards during the AAI Business Meeting.

Bock Symposia