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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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? | |