37th Annual Meeting

Autumn Immunology Conference continues its long tradition of excellent symposia presented by world-reknown scientists. The meeting will be held 21-24 November 2008 at the Chicago Marriott Downtown and chaired by Dr. Jerold Woodward. Visit us often for updates to the AIC2008 program. Click on the speaker's name to see a brief biosketch.

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Symposia, Speakers, & Events:

Friday, 21 November 2008

Keynote Address:
7:30 - 8:30 PM
Mark Davis
Stanford Medical School, Palo Alto
Safety in Numbers:
My close encounters with lymphocytes
Wine & Cheese Reception
8:30 - 9:30 PM
Saturday, 22 November 2008

Symposium I:
Innate immunity, inflammation, and infection
convened by Jenny Ting
9:00 AM - Noon
Jenny Ting University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill NLR functions beyond innate immunity
Warren Strober NIH/NIAID, Bethesda The immunology of the CIAS1-mutated knock-in mouse
John Hiscott McGill University, Montreal Regulation of type 1 interferon response to virus
Edward Clark University of Washington, Seattle C-type lectins and innate immunity
Workshop Block I
2:00 - 4:00 PM
Poster presentations
& reception I

4:00 - 6:00 PM
Sunday, 23 November 2008

Symposium II:
Autoimmunity and tolerance
convened by Jerry Woodward
9:00 AM - Noon
Joan Goverman University of Washington, Seattle CD8+ T cell-mediated autoimmunity in the central nervous system
Abul Abbas University of California, San Francisco The surprising biology of interleukin-2
Arlene Sharpe Harvard Medical School, Boston PD1 and autoimmunity
Silvia Bolland NIH/NIAID, Bethesda Mechanisms underlying B cell autoreactivity
Careers in Immunology
12:30 - 2:00 PM An undergraduate workshop
moderated by
Sandra Burnett
Workshop Block II
2:00 - 4:00 PM
Poster presentations
& reception II

4:00 - 6:00 PM
Monday, 24 November 2008

Symposium III:
New approaches in vaccine development
convened by Richard Koup
9:00 AM - Noon
Richard Koup NIH, Vaccine Research Center, Bethesda HIV T cell vaccine strategies in the post-STEP era
Fidel Zavala Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore CD8 T cell responses in malaria
Bali Pulendran Emory University, Atlanta Adjuvants and vaccine development
JoAnne Flynn University of Pittsburgh Primary vs latent tuberculosis: what are the important factors?