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Full Schedule

Full Schedule

  • Monday, June 17, 2024
  • 7:00 AM – 5:00 PM PT
    Registration Desk Open
  • 8:00 AM – 4:30 PM PT
    Systems Immunology Course (Separate Registration Required)
  • Tuesday, June 18, 2024
  • 7:00 AM – 5:00 PM PT
    Registration Desk Open
  • 8:00 AM – 11:30 AM PT
    Member Society Symposia
  • 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM PT
    Big Data in Immunology Workshop (Separate Registration Required)
  • 8:30 AM – 5:30 PM PT
    Basic Immunology in Medicine Course (Separate Registration Required)
  • 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM PT
    Sponsor Lunch
  • 1:30 PM – 5:00 PM PT
    Member Society Symposia
  • 5:30 PM – 6:15 PM PT
    Keynote Session
  • 6:15 PM – 7:30 PM PT
    Opening Reception: Exhibits & Poster Presentations
  • Wednesday, June 19, 2024
  • 7:00 AM – 5:00 PM PT
    Registration Desk Open
  • 7:30 AM – 8:00 AM PT
    Coffee with the Exhibitors
  • 7:30 AM – 7:30 PM PT
    Exhibition & Poster Hall Open (authors optional)
  • 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM PT
    Novel Pathways and Approaches in Allergic Disease

    Chair: Stephanie C. Eisenbarth, MD, PhD – Northwestern University

  • 9:30 AM – 10:00 AM PT
    Coffee Break
  • 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM PT
    Precision Therapeutics in Mucosal Disorders
  • 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM PT
    Industry and Partner Lunch Programs
  • 1:00 PM – 2:45 PM PT
    Immune Responses to GT/Therapeutics

    Chair: Megan K. Levings, PhD – University of British Columbia

  • 1:00 PM – 2:45 PM PT
    Inborn Errors of Immunity

    Chair: Elena WY Hsieh, MD – University of Colorado

  • 1:00 PM – 2:45 PM PT
    Systems Immunology & AI

    Chair: Deepak A. Rao, MD, PhD – Brigham and Women's Hospital

  • 2:45 PM – 3:15 PM PT
    Coffee Break
  • 3:15 PM – 5:15 PM PT
    Autoimmunity and Transplantation

    Chair: Olivier Boyer, MD, PhD – University of Rouen Normandy

  • 3:15 PM – 5:15 PM PT
    Flow Cytometry Course: Day 1
  • 3:15 PM – 5:15 PM PT
    Immunogenetics

    Chair: Elaine F. Reed, PhD – University of California, Los Angeles

  • 3:15 PM – 5:15 PM PT
    Late-Breaking Abstracts (Announced in May)
  • 5:30 PM – 6:15 PM PT
    Keynote Session - Robert B. Nussenblatt Presidential Lecture
  • 6:15 PM – 7:30 PM PT
    Exhibits & Poster Presentations Reception
  • 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM PT
    FOCIS Member Reception (FOCIS members only)
  • Thursday, June 20, 2024
  • 7:00 AM – 8:00 AM PT
    Working Towards Inclusion and Belonging at FOCIS and Beyond
  • 7:00 AM – 5:00 PM PT
    Registration Desk Open
  • 7:30 AM – 8:00 AM PT
    Coffee with the Exhibitors
  • 7:30 AM – 7:45 PM PT
    Exhibition & Poster Hall Open (authors optional)
  • 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM PT
    Neuroimmunology

    Chair: Catalina Abad, PhD – Inserm U1234, FCE PAn'THER

  • 9:30 AM – 10:00 AM PT
    Coffee Break
  • 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM PT
    Immunology in Reproductive Health

    Chair: Rubén D. Motrich – National University of Cordoba, CIBICI-CONICET

  • 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM PT
    Industry and Partner Lunch Programs
  • 1:00 PM – 2:45 PM PT
    Cellular & Stem Cell Therapeutics

    Chair: Ignacio Anegon – Nantes University

  • 1:00 PM – 2:45 PM PT
    Host Defense and Vaccinology

    Chair: Galit Alter, PhD – Moderna

  • 1:00 PM – 2:45 PM PT
    Organoid Modeling & Therapeutics

    Chair: Dimitrios L. Wagner, MD, PhD – Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin

  • 2:45 PM – 3:15 PM PT
    Coffee Break
  • 3:15 PM – 5:15 PM PT
    Flow Cytometry Course: Day 2
  • 3:15 PM – 5:15 PM PT
    Immune Mechanisms

    Chair: Todd Brusko, MD – University of Florida

  • 3:15 PM – 5:15 PM PT
    Immunoengineering and Therapeutics

    Chair: Ricardo Pujol Borrell, MD, PhD – Hospital Universitario Vall d'Hebron, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

  • 3:15 PM – 5:15 PM PT
    Immuno-oncology
  • 5:30 PM – 5:45 PM PT
    State of FOCIS
  • 5:45 PM – 6:30 PM PT
    Keynote Address
  • 6:30 PM – 7:45 PM PT
    Exhibits & Poster Presentations Reception
  • Friday, June 21, 2024
  • 7:00 AM – 3:45 PM PT
    Registration Desk Open
  • 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM PT
    Somatic Mosaicism, Clonal Populations and Immune Disorders

    Chair: Salvatore Albani, MD, PhD – SingHealth Duke-NUS Academic Medical Centre

  • 9:30 AM – 10:00 AM PT
    Coffee Break
  • 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM PT
    Mechanisms & Treatment of Autoimmunity

    Chair: Michael M. Paley – Washington University in St. Louis

  • 11:45 AM – 12:30 PM PT
    Keynote Session
  • 12:45 PM – 2:00 PM PT
    Industry and Partner Lunch Programs
  • 2:00 PM – 3:45 PM PT
    Behavioral Immunology and Neuroimmunology

    Chair: Jesse Gitaka, MD, MTM, PhD – Mount Kenya University

  • 2:00 PM – 3:45 PM PT
    Immuno-oncology
  • 2:00 PM – 3:45 PM PT
    Metabolic Regulation of Inflammation