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i3D Faculty Retreat

March 3, 2022



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March 3

Zoom
8:00
Breakfast and Check-in
9:00
Opening Remarks: Edelblum/Gause
Session I    Chair: Lisa Denzin
  9:10
Chaoyang Xue
Understanding fungal pathogenesis, tales from the Crypt
  9:20
Neeraj Chauhan
The Cellular landscape and regulatory mechanisms of lysine acetylation in Candida species
  9:30
Daniel Fine
Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans; How I got attached to a bug and how a bug got attached to me!!!!
  9:40
Scott Kachlany
A bacterial protein for the treatment of immune-mediated diseases
  9:50
Steven Brant
Investigations on the Genetic Etiologies of Inflammatory Bowel Disease
10:00
Karen Edelblum
Role of gamma delta intraepithelial lymphocytes in intestinal health and disease
10:10
Derek Sant’Angelo
A distinct Treg subset controls intestinal homeostasis
10:20
Sergei Kotenko
Role of interferons in homeostasis and disease
10:30
William Gause
The double edged sword of type 2 immunity
10:40
Mark Siracusa
Type 2 Immunity: Protecting the Barrier
10:50
Break
Session II Chair: Dane Parker
11:10
Amariliz Rivera
New discoveries in pulmonary anti-fungal immunity
11:20
Matthew Neiditch
Bacterial signaling and development
11:30
Xilin Zhao
Common mechanisms of bacterial cell death
11:40
Vasileios Petrou
Structural studies of small transmembrane proteins by cryo- electron microscopy
11:50
Dane Parker
Bacterial-host interactions
12:00
Roger Strair
Clinical Blood & Marrow Transplantation at Rutgers University
12:10
Keri Lunsford
Role of Pre-Transplant Immune Dysfunction in Predicting Futile Outcomes Among Liver Transplant Recipients
12:20
Ping Xie
TRAF3 is a novel regulator of myeloid-derived suppressor cell expansion
12:30
Lunch Break
Session III Chair: Derek Sant’Angelo
1:40
Stephan Schwander
Fine Particulates and M. tuberculosis – Pathways to Double trouble
1:50
David Alland
A taste of three TB projects
2:00
G Marcela Rodriguez
The role of nutritional immunity in the pathogenesis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
2:10
Padmini Salgame
Tuberculosis: Biomarkers and Protective Immunity
2:20
Jason Yang
Systems insights into the microenvironment of infection
2:30
Maria Gennaro
Macrophage lipid metabolism in tuberculosis: we keep bumping into mTORC
2:40
Raymond Birge
Efferocytosis and Immune Escape in Cancer
2:50
Shin-Heng Chiou
Comprehensive antigen specificity profiling of tumor-infiltrating T cells in human lung cancer
3:00
Yosuke Kumamoto
Role of Dendritic Cell Subsets in T helper Cell Priming
3:10
Dongfang Liu
Role of Immunologic Synapse in Predicting the Efficacy of CAR Immunotherapy
3:20
Break
Session IV Chair: Purnima Bhanot
3:40
Patricia Fitzgerald-Bocarsly
Senescence of human immune cells
3:50
Shobha Swaminathan
HIV Clinical Research Program
4:00
Yuan-Xiang Tao
Molecular mechanisms underlying neuropathic pain genesis
4:10
Huijuan Hu
Role of store-operated calcium channels in pain plasticity
4:20
Amy Davidow
What biostatistics can do for you, your lab, your research
4:30
Jeanne Salje
Rickettsia and the obligate intracellular bacterial lifestyle
4:40
Nikhat Parveen
Immunosuppression by a tick-transmitted parasite Babesia microti results in severity and persistence of Lyme disease
5:00
Reception