Past Programs Page
AIC2011 |
| Friday, 18 November 2011 |
| FlowJo hosted workshop |
2:30 - 5:30 PM | Getting started in flow cytometry | |||
| Keynote address: 7:30 - 8:30 PM |
Rolf Zinkernagel University of Zurich |
On immunity against infections |
Keynote address sponsored by:   | ||
Wine & cheese reception |
8:30 - 9:30 PM | reception sponsored by:
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| Saturday, 19 November 2011 |
| Symposium I: |
Mucosal immunology 9:00 AM - Noon |
convened by:Beth Garvy University of Kentucky |
| Dennis Metzger | Albany Medical College |
Approaches to mucosal vaccination using IL-12 as an adjuvant | |
| Marsha Wills-Karp |
University of Cincinnati | Innate and adaptive immune responses to allergens | |
| Bana Jabri |
University of Chicago |
IL-15-mediated control of tissue immunity | |
| Michael Starnbach |
Harvard Medical School Boston |
Chlamydia trachomatis manipulates host immunity in the genital mucosa | |
| eBioscience hosted workshop |
Noon - 1:00 PM | Multicolor flow cytometry: Optimizing surface and intracellular staining with focus on T cell biology | |
| St Jude hosted workshop |
12:30 - 1:30 PM | Finding the perfect postdoctoral position: A perspective from St Jude | |
| BD Biosciences hosted workshop |
1:30 - 2:00 PM | The detection of cytokines by flow cytometry | |
| Workshop block I |
2:00 - 4:15 PM | Workshops 1 - 10 | |
| Posters & reception I |
4:15 - 6:15 PM | Posters 1 - 108 |
| Sunday, 20 November 2011 |
| Symposium II: |
B cell effector functions
9:00 AM - Noon |
convened by: Frances Lund
sponsored by:  | ||
| Patrick Wilson | University of Chicago |
Perspectives on autoreactivity of human B cells | |
| Frances Lund | University of Rochester |
Regulation of innate, cellular and humoral immune responses by cytokine-producing "effector" B cells | |
| Jennifer Gommerman | University of Toronto |
Exploring novel B cell effector functions in anti-microbial responses | |
| Ann Marshak-Rothstein | University of Massachusetts Worcester |
B cell activation in SLE − TLR9 vs TLR7 | |
| AIC sponsored workshop |
12:30 - 2:00 PM | Careers in Immunology Workshop [for undergraduates] moderated by Sandra Burnett and Heather Bruns |
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| NIH & AIC cosponsored workshop |
12:30 - 1:30 PM | NIH Grant writing tips and mock study section | |
| Amnis hosted workshop |
12:30 - 1:30 PM | Introducing the new FlowSight Imaging Flow Cytometer | |
| Workshop block II |
2:00 - 4:15 PM | Workshops 11-21 | |
| Posters & reception II |
4:15 - 6:15 PM | Posters 109 - 213 |
| Monday, 21 November 2011 |
| Symposium III: |
AIC 40th Anniversary symposium 8:30 AM - Noon |
convened by Katherine Knight Loyola University |
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| Gail A Bishop | University of Iowa Iowa City |
The multifaceted roles of TRAF molecules in immune cell regulation | |
| Eduardo Davila | University of Maryland Greenebaum Cancer Center Baltimore |
Immunotherapeutic strategies for advanced cancers: Redirecting T cells | |
| Marc Jenkins | University of Minnesota Minneapolis |
Origins of CD4+ memory T cells | |
| Arthur Weiss | University of California San Francisco |
Turning T cells off or on with small molecule genetically specific kinase inhibitors | |
| Katherine Knight | Loyola University Chicago |
Host-microbe interactions and B cell development |