Registration and breakfast (8:00 AM)
Keynote Speaker (8:20 AM)
Richard Blumberg (Brigham and Women’s Hospital)
Regulation of Intestinal Epithelial Cell Function by X-box binding protein-1.
Session I. Innate immunity at mucosal surfaces (9:40AM)
Expression and function of Bactericidal/permeability-increasing protein (BPI) in mucosal
epithelia. Geraldine Canny (Brigham and Women’s Hospital)
MyD88-mediated innate immunity to intestinal protozoa. Honorine Ward (Tufts-NEMC)
Role of innate recognition in antiviral immunity at the genital mucosa. Akiko Iwasaki
(Yale University)
Monitoring the T cell response to genital tract infection. Michael Starnbach (Harvard
Medical School)
Session II. Inflammation, surveillance, and tolerance in the intestinal mucosa
(11:20 AM)
Host-Pathogen interactions: New insights underlying mechanisms of inflammation. Beth
McCormick (Mass General Hospital)
Mucosal Adjuvant and Regulatory Effects of Subclinical Helicobacter hepaticus infection
in Mice Megan McBee (MIT)
Immune Surveillance and Defense in the Intestine. Hans-Christian Reinecker (Mass
General Hospital)
Tolerance induction to gut associated self-antigens. Michael Turner (UConn Health
Sciences Center)
Lunch and poster session ( 12:40- 2:00 PM)

Session III. Antibody-mediated clearance of mucosal pathogens (2:00PM)
IgG-mediated expulsion of parasitic nematodes from the intestinal epithelium. Judy
Appleton (Cornell University)
Role of the complement system in mucosal infections. Lyn Bry (Brigham and Women’s
Hospital)
B cells: Friend or Foe to the intracellular bacterium Francisella tularensis? Garish
Kirimanjeswara (Albany Medical Center)
Periodontal Disease: A Nonmucosal, Mucosal Disease Triggered by Host-Microbial
Interaction. Martin Taubman (Forsyth Institute)
Mucosal Immunity to Dental Caries Pathogens. Daniel Smith (Forsyth Institute)
A Novel Effector Function of SIgA. Nicholas Mantis (Wadsworth Center)
Closing Remarks