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  • Wednesday, Jun 19th
    1:25 PM – 1:40 PM PT
    Epigenetic Signature and Key Transcriptional Regulators of Human Antigen-inducible Regulatory T Cells
    Location: Salon 8
    Presenting Author: Alma-Martina Cepika, MD, PhD – Stanford University
    Oral
  • Wednesday, Jun 19th
    1:25 PM – 1:40 PM PT
    PanTreg: A Cell-therapy, System-biology - Based Approach for Therapy of Autoimmunity
    Location: Salon 7
    Presenting Author: Salvatore Albani, MD, PhD – Translational Immunology Institute, SingHealth
    Oral
  • Wednesday, Jun 19th
    1:25 PM – 1:40 PM PT
    STAT1 Gain-of-function Leads to Dysfunctional T Regulatory Cells
    Location: Salons 3-6
    Presenting Author: Martin Thelin, MD, PhD – University of California San Francisco
    Oral
  • Wednesday, Jun 19th
    2:05 PM – 2:20 PM PT
    CAR-Ts Are Getting Viral! a New Method for Allogenic CAR-T Cell Therapy Development
    Location: Salon 7
    Presenting Author: Mario Vazquez – IDIBAPS
    Oral
  • Wednesday, Jun 19th
    2:05 PM – 2:20 PM PT
    Human OTULIN Mutations Can Cause Distinct Inflammatory Disease Phenotypes Depending on the Protein Domain That Is Mutated
    Location: Salons 3-6
    Presenting Author: Hwi Gil – Vanderbilt University Medical Center
    Oral
  • Wednesday, Jun 19th
    2:05 PM – 2:20 PM PT
    Unsupervised and Supervised Machine Learning Promotes Translational Research of Autoimmune Diseases
    Location: Salon 8
    Presenting Author: Martin Wasser, PhD – Translational Immunology Institute/Singhealth DukeNUS Academic Medical Centre
    Oral
  • Thursday, Jun 20th
    1:25 PM – 1:40 PM PT
    SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination Provides Boosted Mucosal Protection in Previously Infected Young Children
    Location: Salon 8
    Presenting Author: Ying Tang, Ph.D. – Boston Children's Hospital
    Oral
  • Thursday, Jun 20th
    1:25 PM – 1:40 PM PT
    Tissue-specific Sex Differences in Pediatric and Adult Immune Cell Composition and Function
    Location: Salons 3-6
    Presenting Author: Mahina Tabassum Mitul, MSc. – University of California Irvine
    Oral
  • Thursday, Jun 20th
    1:25 PM – 1:40 PM PT
    Type-2 Functionality in Sustaining CAR T Cell Longevity Linked to 8-year Leukemia Remission
    Location: Salon 7
    Presenting Author: Zhiliang Bai, PhD – Yale University
    Oral
  • Thursday, Jun 20th
    2:05 PM – 2:20 PM PT
    Patient-derived Lung Cancer Organoids as 3d-testing Platform for Advanced Personalized Therapies
    Location: Salons 3-6
    Presenting Author: Martí Farrera-Sal, PhD – Berlin Institute of Health (BIH) at Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, BIH Center for Regenerative Therapies (BCRT)
    Oral
  • Thursday, Jun 20th
    2:05 PM – 2:20 PM PT
    Sequential Phases of Follicular Helper T Cell Development and Their Impact on Humoral Immune Responses to Vaccination
    Location: Salon 8
    Presenting Author: Manuel A. Podestà, MD – Brigham and Women's Hospital
    Oral
  • Thursday, Jun 20th
    2:05 PM – 2:20 PM PT
    TCR Avidity Influences Signaling and Function of Engineered Treg
    Location: Salon 7
    Presenting Author: Soo Jung Yang, Ph.D. – Benaroya Research Institute
    Oral
  • Friday, Jun 21st
    2:25 PM – 2:40 PM PT
    Human Tolerogenic Dendritic Cells Used in Clinic Regulate CD8+ T Cell Population
    Location: Salons 3-6
    Presenting Author: Maaike Suuring, PhD – CR2TI UMR1064
    Oral
  • Friday, Jun 21st
    2:25 PM – 2:40 PM PT
    Longitudinal Analysis of Immune Cell Changes in FUS-ALS Patients Treated with a FUS Antisense Oligonucleotide
    Location: Salon 8
    Presenting Author: Olivia M. Rifai, PhD – Columbia University
    Oral
  • Friday, Jun 21st
    2:25 PM – 2:40 PM PT
    Pre-existing Skin-resident CD8 and γδ T Cell Circuits Mediate Immune Response in Merkel Cell Carcinoma and Predict Immunotherapy Efficacy
    Location: Salon 7
    Presenting Author: Zachary Zale Reinstein – Northwestern University
    Oral
  • Friday, Jun 21st
    3:05 PM – 3:20 PM PT
    Aire-expressing Tumor-associated Macrophages Promote Cancer Immune Evasion
    Location: Salon 7
    Presenting Author: Matthew Arvedson – University of California, San Francisco
    Oral
  • Friday, Jun 21st
    3:05 PM – 3:20 PM PT
    Greater Composite Confirmed Disability Progression in Non-Hispanic Black and Hispanic or Latino Individuals with Relapsing Multiple Sclerosis: Analysis of Self-reported Identity and Genetic Ancestry in the OPERA I and II Trials
    Location: Salon 8
    Presenting Author: Xiaoming Jia, MD, MEng – Genentech
    Oral
  • Friday, Jun 21st
    3:05 PM – 3:20 PM PT
    Skeletal Muscle DUPD1 Links Gut Inflammation with Obesity-associated Metabolic Diseases
    Location: Salons 3-6
    Presenting Author: Alberto Martin, PhD – University of Toronto
    Oral