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PROGRAM
AUTOIMMUNITY 2015
July 26–31, 2015
Eaglewood Resort, Itasca, IL
Co-Organizers:
Rachel Caspi
Senior Investigator, National Institutes of Health, National Eye Institute,
Bethesda, MD 20892
Joseph Craft
Professor, Internal Medicine and Immunobiology, Yale Univ.
School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
Sunday, 7/26 PM
Opening Social and Dinner
Keynote lecture: Alexander Rudensky – Sloan-Kettering, NY
Monday, 7/27
Session 1: Genetics and environment
Soumya Raychaudhuri – Broad Institute/Harvard B&W
Tim Behrens – Genentech Inc
Ward Wakeland – UT Southwestern
David Hafler – Yale
Two short talks selected from abstracts
Session 2: B cells in Autoimmunity
Claudia Mauri – UCL, London
Joe Craft - Yale
Mark Shlomchik – U Pitt
Virginia Pascual – Baylor Inst.
Two short talks selected from abstracts
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Tuesday, 7/28
Session 3: T cells in Autoimmunity
Vijay Kuchroo – Harvard B&W
Christophe Benoist – Harvard, Joslin
Alessandra Pernis – HSS/Cornell
Kristin Hogquist – U Minnesota
Two short talks selected from abstracts
Session 4: Tissue-specific autoimmunity
Joan Goverman – U Washington
Steve Miller – Northwestern U
Margaret Bynoe – Cornell
Bana Jabri - U Chicago
Two short talks selected from abstracts
Wednesday, 7/29
Session 5: Innate immune cells in pathogenesis
Marco Colonna – Wash U, St L
Melissa Brown – Northwestern U
Matthias Eberl – Cardiff U, UK
Albert Bendelac – U Chicago
Two short talks selected from abstracts
Session 6: Immunoregulatory cells and circuits
Mark Anderson - UCSF
Arlene Sharpe – Harvard
Jeff Bluestone - UCSF
Dario Vignali – U Pitt
Two short talks selected from abstracts
Thursday, 7/30
Session 7: Microbiome, metabolism and immunopathology
Alexander Chervonsky – U Chicago
Sin-Hyeog Im – GIST, Korea
Rachel Caspi - NIH
Nico Ghilardi – Genentech, Inc
Two short talks selected from abstracts
Session 8: Translational Research & immunotherapy
Marcus Clark – U Chicago
Dan Cua – Merck
Robert Nussenblatt – NIH
Howard Weiner – Harvard B&W
Two short talks selected from abstracts
Friday 7/31
Breakfast and departure