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  • Saturday, Nov 16th
    1:00 PM – 2:30 PM Eastern Time
    16S31: ACE-ing the Test: Mechanistic Studies Enhance Clinical Trials - The Autoimmunity Centers of Excellence Experience
    Location: Room 102AB
    Moderator: Anne Davidson, MBBS;FRACP – Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research
    Moderator: Jeffrey Rice, PhD – National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIH/NIAID)
    Genetics, genomics and proteomics
     CME 1.5 hours
  • Saturday, Nov 16th
    1:00 PM – 1:30 PM Eastern Time
    Predicting Responses to Therapy in SLE
    Location: Room 102AB
    Speaker: Judith James, MD,PhD – Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation
    Genetics, genomics and proteomics
  • Saturday, Nov 16th
    1:30 PM – 2:00 PM Eastern Time
    Predicting Progression to RA
    Location: Room 102AB
    Speaker: Kevin Deane, MD,PhD – University of Colorado Denver Anschutz Medical Campus
    Genetics, genomics and proteomics
  • Saturday, Nov 16th
    2:00 PM – 2:30 PM Eastern Time
    Monitoring Disease Activity with Exosomes
    Location: Room 102AB
    Speaker: Irina Matei, PhD – Weill Cornell Medicine
    Genetics, genomics and proteomics
  • Sunday, Nov 17th
    9:00 AM – 10:00 AM Eastern Time
    17S05: Genetically Transitional Disease: A New Concept in Genomic Medicine with Applicability to Rheumatic Disease
    Location: Room 150AB
    Moderator: David Fernandez, MD, PhD – Hospital for Special Surgery
    Moderator: Grant Schulert, MD,PhD – Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
    Genetics, genomics and proteomics
     CME 1 hours
  • Sunday, Nov 17th
    9:00 AM – 9:30 AM Eastern Time
    Defining Genetically Transitional Diseases
    Location: Room 150AB
    Speaker: Ivona Aksentijevich, MD – National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH
    Genetics, genomics and proteomics
  • Sunday, Nov 17th
    9:30 AM – 10:00 AM Eastern Time
    Genetically Transitional Disease in Autoinflammatory Conditions
    Location: Room 150AB
    Speaker: Joshua Milner, MD – Columbia University Medical Center
    Genetics, genomics and proteomics
  • Sunday, Nov 17th
    10:30 AM – 12:30 PM Eastern Time
    Genetics, Genomics & Proteomics Poster
    Genetics, genomics and proteomics
     CME 0 hours
  • Sunday, Nov 17th
    10:30 AM – 12:30 PM Eastern Time
    0884: Genetic Architecture Divergence in Sjögren's Disease Subphenotypes and Populations: Genome-wide Association Study of Ro/SSA+ and Ro/SSA- Cases in European Populations
    Abstract Poster Presenter: Christopher Lessard, PhD – Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation
    Genetics, genomics and proteomics
  • Sunday, Nov 17th
    10:30 AM – 12:30 PM Eastern Time
    0885: Reproducible Single Cell Annotation of Programs Underlying T-cell Subsets, Activation States, and Functions
    Abstract Poster Presenter: Dylan Kotliar, MD,PhD – Brigham and Women's Hospital
    Genetics, genomics and proteomics
  • Sunday, Nov 17th
    10:30 AM – 12:30 PM Eastern Time
    0886: A Longitudinal Cohort Study Uncovers Plasma Protein Biomarkers Predating Clinical Onset and Treatment Response of Rheumatoid Arthritis
    Abstract Poster Presenter: Chenxi Zhu, PhD,MD (she/her/hers) – sichuan university
    Genetics, genomics and proteomics
  • Sunday, Nov 17th
    10:30 AM – 12:30 PM Eastern Time
    0887: Identification of Rare Variants in Lupus-causing Genes in a Mixed Paediatric and Adult Connective Tissue Disease Cohort
    Abstract Poster Presenter: Anastasia Madenidou, MD, MSc, MRCP – The University of Manchester
    Genetics, genomics and proteomics
  • Sunday, Nov 17th
    10:30 AM – 12:30 PM Eastern Time
    0888: Genetically Determined Peptidylglycine Alpha-amidating Monooxygenase (PAM) Mediated Amidation Regulates Tissue Damage by Rheumatoid Arthritis Synovial Fibroblasts
    Abstract Poster Presenter: Kevin Sheridan, n/a – University College Dublin
    Genetics, genomics and proteomics
  • Sunday, Nov 17th
    10:30 AM – 12:30 PM Eastern Time
    0889: Unraveling the Progression of Sjögren’s Disease at the Cellular and Histological Level Using Single-cell and Spatial Transcriptomics
    Abstract Poster Presenter: Vasco C. Romao, MD, PhD – Rheumatology Department, ULS Santa Maria & Rheumatology Research Unit, Instituto Medicina Molecular, Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon
    Genetics, genomics and proteomics
  • Sunday, Nov 17th
    10:30 AM – 12:30 PM Eastern Time
    0890: Pervasive Inflammation Poisons Hematopoiesis and Drives Clonal Dominance in VEXAS Syndrome
    Abstract Poster Presenter: Corrado Campochiaro, MD – IRCCS San Raffaele Hospital. Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
    Genetics, genomics and proteomics
  • Sunday, Nov 17th
    10:30 AM – 12:30 PM Eastern Time
    0891: Shared and Disease-Specific Mechanisms of Autoimmunity Using Single Cell Sequencing of Peripheral Immune Cells
    Abstract Poster Presenter: Jacquelyn Nestor, MD,PhD – Massachusetts General Hospital
    Genetics, genomics and proteomics
  • Sunday, Nov 17th
    10:30 AM – 12:30 PM Eastern Time
    0892: Peptides from Candidate Sjögren’s Disease Autoantigens and Salivary Gland Tissue-Enriched Proteins Eluted from Human Salivary Gland HLA-DR
    Abstract Poster Presenter: A. Darise Farris, PhD – Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation
    Genetics, genomics and proteomics
  • Sunday, Nov 17th
    10:30 AM – 12:30 PM Eastern Time
    0893: Uncovering Common and Distinctive Molecular Profiles Between Early and Stablished Rheumatoid Arthritis Through Integrative Multi-omics Analysis and Its Association with Disease Status and Clinical Response
    Abstract Poster Presenter: Ismael Sánchez Pareja, Sr, MSc (he/him/his) – IMIBIC/Reina Sofia Hospital/University of Cordoba
    Genetics, genomics and proteomics
  • Sunday, Nov 17th
    10:30 AM – 12:30 PM Eastern Time
    0894: HOXD13 Regulation of Primary Cilia in Rheumatoid Arthritis Synovial Fibroblasts: Implications for Joint-Specific Pathogenesis
    Abstract Poster Presenter: Masoumeh Mirrahimi, MSc – Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
    Genetics, genomics and proteomics
  • Sunday, Nov 17th
    10:30 AM – 12:30 PM Eastern Time
    0895: Procoagulant Extracellular Vesicles in Patients with Livedo Reticularis
    Abstract Poster Presenter: Avital Baniel, DMSc – Perelman School of Medicine, UPENN
    Genetics, genomics and proteomics
  • Sunday, Nov 17th
    10:30 AM – 12:30 PM Eastern Time
    0896: Identification of Immune Pathways Regulated by a Non-Coding Variant at DNASE1L3/PXK/PDHB
    Abstract Poster Presenter: Michelle Morency, BSc (she/her/hers) – Harvard Medical School
    Genetics, genomics and proteomics
  • Sunday, Nov 17th
    10:30 AM – 12:30 PM Eastern Time
    0897: Dynamic eQTLs from Activated Human B Cells Suggest Cell-state Dependent Effects for GWAS Risk Variants in BLK
    Abstract Poster Presenter: Yao Fu, PhD (she/her/hers) – Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation
    Genetics, genomics and proteomics
  • Sunday, Nov 17th
    10:30 AM – 12:30 PM Eastern Time
    0898: A Blood Transcriptome Signature Distinguishes Between Diverse Systemic Autoimmune Diseases and Infection
    Abstract Poster Presenter: Petros Sfikakis, MD,PhD – NKUA - SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
    Genetics, genomics and proteomics
  • Sunday, Nov 17th
    10:30 AM – 12:30 PM Eastern Time
    0899: Proteomic Insights into JAK Inhibitor Therapeutic Response in Rheumatoid Arthritis
    Abstract Poster Presenter: Ting-Hsuan Wu, n/a – Chung Shan Medical University
    Genetics, genomics and proteomics
  • Sunday, Nov 17th
    10:30 AM – 12:30 PM Eastern Time
    0900: Association Between Serum Urate, Gout, and Prostatic Cancer in European Male Populations: A Mendelian Randomization Study
    Abstract Poster Presenter: Sumanth Chandrupatla, -none- – University of Alabama at Birmingham
    Genetics, genomics and proteomics
  • Sunday, Nov 17th
    10:30 AM – 12:30 PM Eastern Time
    0901: Intergenic Alu Elements Are Uniquely Expressed in Dermatomyositis and Correlate with Interferon Stimulated Genes
    Abstract Poster Presenter: Rayan Najjar, MD, MPH – University of Washington
    Genetics, genomics and proteomics
  • Sunday, Nov 17th
    10:30 AM – 12:30 PM Eastern Time
    0902: Novel Role of TYK2mechanism in SLE Pathogenesis via T Cell and B Cell Pathways
    Abstract Poster Presenter: Joshua Hoffman, PhD (he/him/his) – Alumis Inc
    Genetics, genomics and proteomics
  • Sunday, Nov 17th
    10:30 AM – 12:30 PM Eastern Time
    0903: Distinct Impacts of Mosaic Loss of Chromosome Y and Genetic Risk on the Age of Onset in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis
    Abstract Poster Presenter: Shunsuke Uchiyama, MD – Nippon Medical School
    Genetics, genomics and proteomics
  • Sunday, Nov 17th
    10:30 AM – 12:30 PM Eastern Time
    0905: High-Throughput Proteomic Profiling of Sera as a Non-Invasive Method for Identifying Lupus Nephritis Subtypes
    Abstract Poster Presenter: Joel Guthridge, PhD – Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation
    Genetics, genomics and proteomics
  • Sunday, Nov 17th
    10:30 AM – 12:30 PM Eastern Time
    0906: Proteomic Signatures of Difficult-to-Treat Rheumatoid Arthritis: Identifying Predictive Biomarkers
    Abstract Poster Presenter: Klara Mocova, BA – Institute of Rheumatology
    Genetics, genomics and proteomics
  • Sunday, Nov 17th
    10:30 AM – 12:30 PM Eastern Time
    0908: Clinical Characteristics of Patients with High SLE-specific and High Multitrait Polygenic Risk – an Investigation of SLE Risk Loci
    Abstract Poster Presenter: Nina Oparina, PhD – Uppsala University
    Genetics, genomics and proteomics
  • Sunday, Nov 17th
    10:30 AM – 12:30 PM Eastern Time
    0909: Identifying Predictive Serum Soluble Mediators Signatures Specific to ANA+ at Risk of SLE Individuals with Next Generation Proteomics
    Abstract Poster Presenter: Aleksandra Bylinska, MSc – Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation
    Genetics, genomics and proteomics
  • Sunday, Nov 17th
    10:30 AM – 12:30 PM Eastern Time
    0910: Reduced Adenosine-Mediated Regulatory Activity Exacerbated by an NT5E Loss of Function Mutation Is Linked to Tissue Inflammation and Hypertension in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
    Abstract Poster Presenter: Katherine Owen, PhD – RILITE
    Genetics, genomics and proteomics
  • Sunday, Nov 17th
    10:30 AM – 12:30 PM Eastern Time
    0911: Activating B Cells Facilitates the Discovery of Latent Disease-associated Variants
    Abstract Poster Presenter: David Murphy, PhD – Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation
    Genetics, genomics and proteomics
  • Sunday, Nov 17th
    10:30 AM – 12:30 PM Eastern Time
    0912: Next-Generation Sequencing in Molecular Genetics of Adult-Onset Still’s Disease: Data from 23 Patients and Literature Review
    Abstract Poster Presenter: Rafael Melero, MD – CHU Ourense
    Genetics, genomics and proteomics
  • Sunday, Nov 17th
    10:30 AM – 12:30 PM Eastern Time
    0913: The Association Between PTPN2 and Leukopenia in New Users of Azathioprine
    Abstract Poster Presenter: Laura Daniel, PhD – University of Miami
    Genetics, genomics and proteomics
  • Sunday, Nov 17th
    10:30 AM – 12:30 PM Eastern Time
    0914: RAB19 and Azathioprine-Associated Pancreatic Injury in Patients Taking Azathioprine
    Abstract Poster Presenter: Laura Daniel, PhD – University of Miami
    Genetics, genomics and proteomics
  • Sunday, Nov 17th
    10:30 AM – 12:30 PM Eastern Time
    0915: APOH Locus Associated with Higher Anti-Beta-2-Glycoprotein 1 Antibody Levels Paradoxically Protects Against Venous Thromboembolism
    Abstract Poster Presenter: Yiming Luo, MD, MHS – Columbia University Irving Medical Center
    Genetics, genomics and proteomics
  • Sunday, Nov 17th
    10:30 AM – 12:30 PM Eastern Time
    0916: Isocitrate Dehydrogenase 2 Mutations Are Associated with Autoimmune Rheumatologic Diseases in Chronic Myelomonocytic Leukemia
    Abstract Poster Presenter: Anuya Natu, MBBS – John H Stroger Jr Hospital of Cook County, Chicago
    Genetics, genomics and proteomics
  • Sunday, Nov 17th
    10:30 AM – 12:30 PM Eastern Time
    0917: Role of Mutual Information Profile Shifts in Assessing the Pathogenicity of Mutations on Protein Functions: The Case of Pyrin Mutations in Familial Mediterranean Fever
    Abstract Poster Presenter: Ahmet Gul, MD – Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Istanbul University, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey
    Genetics, genomics and proteomics
  • Monday, Nov 18th
    1:00 PM – 2:30 PM Eastern Time
    18M52: Abstracts: Genetics, Genomics & Proteomics
    Location: Room 147AB
    Abstract Moderator: Kim Simpfendorfer, PhD – Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research
    Abstract Moderator: David Beck, MD,PhD – New York University
    Alternate Moderator: Deepak Rao, MD;PhD – Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
    Alternate Moderator: Meghan Anderson, DO (she/her/hers) – New York University Langone Medical Center
    Genetics, genomics and proteomics
     CME 0 hours
  • Monday, Nov 18th
    1:00 PM – 1:15 PM Eastern Time
    2533: Genome-wide Association of Rheumatoid Arthritis in the African Ancestry Identifies HLA Amino Acid Polymorphisms of Risk
    Location: Room 147AB
    Presenting Author: Harrison Zhang, BA (he/him/his) – Brigham and Women's Hospital / Stanford University
    Genetics, genomics and proteomics
  • Monday, Nov 18th
    1:15 PM – 1:30 PM Eastern Time
    2534: Deciphering Complement-dependent Macrophage Phenotypes in Human Rheumatoid Arthritis Using Combined Computational-experimental Single-cell Omics
    Location: Room 147AB
    Presenting Author: Fan Zhang, PhD – The University of Colorado
    Genetics, genomics and proteomics
  • Monday, Nov 18th
    1:30 PM – 1:45 PM Eastern Time
    2535: The Lipidomic and Proteomic Profiles in Antiphospholipid Syndrome Patients Are Intricately Linked to Disease Pathogenesis and Modulated by Ubiquinol Supplementation
    Location: Room 147AB
    Presenting Author: Beatriz Vellón-García, MSc (she/her/hers) – Department of Cell Biology, University of Cordoba (UCO)-Rheumatology Service, Maimonides Institute of Biomedical Research of Cordoba (IMIBIC), Reina Sofia University Hospital
    Genetics, genomics and proteomics
  • Monday, Nov 18th
    1:45 PM – 2:00 PM Eastern Time
    2536: Trans-Disease Microbial Biomarkers of Protection and Pathogenesis in Autoimmune Conditions: Results from the AMP AIM Consortium
    Location: Room 147AB
    Presenting Author: Kevin Bu, MD, PhD – Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
    Genetics, genomics and proteomics
  • Monday, Nov 18th
    2:00 PM – 2:15 PM Eastern Time
    2537: Sjögren’s Disease and Non-Sjögren’s Sicca Patient Subsets Exhibit Cell Type-specific Transcriptional Dysregulations That May Identify Early Molecular Predictors of Disease Transition
    Location: Room 147AB
    Presenting Author: James Li, BA – Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation
    Genetics, genomics and proteomics
  • Monday, Nov 18th
    2:15 PM – 2:30 PM Eastern Time
    2538: HLA-DRB1 Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) Risk Alleles Preferentially Select TRBJ2-3-containing CD4 T Cells in RA Patients
    Location: Room 147AB
    Presenting Author: Amit Lakhanpal, MD, PhD – Hospital for Special Surgery
    Genetics, genomics and proteomics