Symposia, Speakers, & Events
| Friday, 20 November 2009 |
| Keynote Address: 7:30 - 8:30 PM |
Philippa Marrack
National Jewish Health, Denver |
Gender and B cells |
Lecture and reception sponsored by: |
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| Wine & Cheese Reception |
8:30 - 9:30 PM |
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| Saturday, 21 November 2009 |
| Symposium I: |
B cells as regulators of immune responses 9:00 AM - Noon |
convened by Bonnie Dittel sponsored by  |
| Michael Cancro | University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia |
Managing B cells: A continuum of cross talk and competition | |
| Jerry Niederkorn | University of Texas Southwest Medical Center, Dallas |
Role of B cells in ocular immune privilege | |
| Bonnie Dittel | BloodCenter of Wisconsin, Milwaukee | Regulatory B cells in autoimmunity | |
| Nicole Baumgarth | University of California, Davis |
Innate regulation of B-1 cell responses during influenza infection | |
| eBioscience/The Jackson Laboratory Dual Lunchtime Workshop |
12:30 - 1:45 PM | eBioscience: eFluor™ technologies: Robust reagents for multi-parameter flow cytometry moderated by Jerry Alutz The Jackson Laboratory: Pathways to Discovery: Autoimmune Disease moderated by Brandy Wilkinson |
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| Workshop Block I |
2:00 - 4:15 PM | Abstracts 1 - 106 | |
| Posters & Reception I |
4:15 - 6:15 PM | Workshop sessions 1 - 100 |
| Sunday, 22 November 2009 |
| Symposium II: |
Regulatory myeloid suppressor cells 9:00 AM - Noon |
convened by Dmitry Gabrilovich jointly sponsored by |
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| Dmitry Gabrilovich | H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa |
Regulation of myeloid cell differentiation in pathological conditions | |
| Shu-Hsia Chen | Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York |
Cross-talk between regulatory myeloid cells and regulatory T cells | |
| Marco Colonna | Washington University, St. Louis |
ITAM signaling in myeloid cell functions | |
| Weiping Zou | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor |
Myeloid antigen presenting cells in the tumor microenvironment | |
| Careers in Immunology |
12:00 - 2:00 PM | An undergraduate workshop moderated by Sandra Burnett |
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| NIH Lunchtime Workshop |
12:30 - 1:30 PM | NIH funding opportunities for post-doctoral fellows and new investigators moderated by Dr. Helen Quill and Dr. Larry Prograis | |
| BD Biosciences Lunchtime Workshop |
12:30 - 1:30 PM | Multicolor Flow Cytometry − Principles and Examples of Panel Design moderated by Darci Gorgone | |
| Workshop Block II |
2:00 - 4:15 PM | Abstracts 107 - 207 | |
| Posters & Reception II |
4:15 - 6:15 PM | Workshop sessions 107 - 207 |
| Monday, 23 November 2009 |
| Symposium III: |
TGF-β and Tregulatory cells 9:00 AM - Noon |
convened by Richard Flavell sponsored by | |
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Genentech |
| Alexander 'Sasha' Rudensky | Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York | Molecular mechanisms of the regulatory T cell fate determination | |
| Yasmine Belkaid | NIAID, NIH Bethesda |
Control of regulatory T cells by commensals | |
| Alexander 'Sasha' Chervonsky | University of Chicago | Commensal bacteria and immunity | |
| Richard Flavell | Yale University, New Haven |
Regulation of immune response by TGF-β |