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Saturday, Nov 16th
9:00 AM – 10:00 AM Eastern Time
Mitochondria: Fueling Autoimmunity
Location: Room 102AB
Moderator: Christian Lood, PhD – University of Washington
Immunobiology
CME 1 hours
Saturday, Nov 16th
9:00 AM – 9:30 AM Eastern Time
Mitochondria on the Move
Location: Room 102AB
Speaker: Eric Boilard, PhD – University of Laval
Immunobiology
Saturday, Nov 16th
9:30 AM – 10:00 AM Eastern Time
Mitochondrial Nucleic Acids in Inflammation and Autoimmunity
Location: Room 102AB
Speaker: Michael Karin, PhD – University of California San Diego
Immunobiology
Saturday, Nov 16th
2:15 PM – 3:15 PM Eastern Time
From Womb to Rheum: Nonredundant Roles for Innate Lymphoid Cells in Inflammation
Location: Room 152B
Moderator: Caroline Jefferies, PhD – Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Moderator: Betsy Barnes, PhD – Feinstein Institutes for Medical Science
Immunobiology
CME 1 hours
Saturday, Nov 16th
2:15 PM – 2:45 PM Eastern Time
Type 3 Innate Lymphoid Cells in Inflammatory Gut and Joint Disease
Location: Room 152B
Speaker: Jenny Mjösberg, PhD – Karolinska Institutet
Immunobiology
Saturday, Nov 16th
2:45 PM – 3:15 PM Eastern Time
Type 2 Immune Responses in the Uterus During Early Pregnancy in Mice
Location: Room 152B
Speaker: Aimee Beaulieu, PhD – Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
Immunobiology
Saturday, Nov 16th
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM Eastern Time
Immunology Bootcamp I
Location: Room 207AB
Moderator: Janet Bahr, NP – Retired -Gundersen Health
Immunobiology
CME 1 hours
Saturday, Nov 16th
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM Eastern Time
Immunobiology
Location: Room 207AB
Speaker: Troy Torgerson, MD,PhD – Allen Institute for Immunology
Immunobiology
Saturday, Nov 16th
3:00 PM – 4:30 PM Eastern Time
A Case of Miscommunication: Perturbed Host-Microbe Crosstalk
Location: Room 102AB
Moderator: Tejpal Gill, PhD – OHSU
Moderator: Gregg Silverman, MD – NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Immunobiology
CME 1.5 hours
Saturday, Nov 16th
3:00 PM – 3:30 PM Eastern Time
Immune Regulation of Gut Microbes in IBD-SpA
Location: Room 102AB
Speaker: Randy Longman – Weill Cornell Medicine
Immunobiology
Saturday, Nov 16th
3:30 PM – 4:00 PM Eastern Time
Host Immune Regulation of Infection
Location: Room 102AB
Speaker: Keisuke Nagao, MD,PhD – NIAMS
Immunobiology
Saturday, Nov 16th
4:00 PM – 4:30 PM Eastern Time
Microbial Butyrate Regulation of Type II Immunity
Location: Room 102AB
Speaker: Theresa Alenghat, PhD, DVM – Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Immunobiology
Sunday, Nov 17th
9:00 AM – 10:00 AM Eastern Time
SOTA: Living at the Synapse: It's Time to Embrace Neuroimmune Cross Talk
Location: Room 146C
Moderator: Yike Jiang, MD PhD (No preference) – Duke Univerisity
Immunobiology
CME 1 hours
Sunday, Nov 17th
9:00 AM – 10:00 AM Eastern Time
Neurotransmitter and Enteric Nervous System Regulation of Immunity
Location: Room 146C
Speaker: Christoph Thaiss, PhD – University of Pennsylvania
Immunobiology
Sunday, Nov 17th
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM Eastern Time
Immunology for the Rheumatologist: Case-Based Illustrations of Key Pathways
Location: Room 147AB
Moderator: May Choi, MD, FRCPC, MPH – University of Calgary
Moderator: J. Michelle Kahlenberg, MD;PhD – University of Michigan
Immunobiology
CME 1.5 hours
Sunday, Nov 17th
10:00 AM – 10:20 AM Eastern Time
Interferons and Rheumatic Skin Disease
Location: Room 147AB
Speaker: Victoria Werth, MD – University of Pennsylvania
Immunobiology
Sunday, Nov 17th
10:20 AM – 10:40 AM Eastern Time
Complement Medicated Disease
Location: Room 147AB
Speaker: Christoph Licht, MD – The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON
Immunobiology
Sunday, Nov 17th
10:40 AM – 11:00 AM Eastern Time
APLS Pathogenesis
Location: Room 147AB
Speaker: Jason Knight, MD, PhD – University of Michigan
Immunobiology
Sunday, Nov 17th
11:00 AM – 11:30 AM Eastern Time
Panel Discussion
Location: Room 147AB
Panelist: Jason Knight, MD, PhD – University of Michigan
Panelist: Christoph Licht, MD – The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON
Panelist: Victoria Werth, MD – University of Pennsylvania
Immunobiology
Sunday, Nov 17th
10:30 AM – 11:30 AM Eastern Time
Immunology Bootcamp II
Location: Room 103AB
Moderator: Janet Bahr, NP – Retired -Gundersen Health
Immunobiology
CME 1 hours
Sunday, Nov 17th
10:30 AM – 11:30 AM Eastern Time
SOTA: Complement-Ary Functions for a T-Cell Enzyme: New Insights into Granzyme K
Location: Ballroom A
Moderator: Joe Craft, MD – Yale University
Moderator: George Tsokos, MD – BIDMC
Immunobiology
CME 1 hours
Sunday, Nov 17th
10:30 AM – 11:00 AM Eastern Time
A New Pathway for Complement Activation: Novel Functions of Granzyme K
Location: Ballroom A
Speaker: Carlos Donado, PhD – Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Immunobiology
Sunday, Nov 17th
10:30 AM – 11:30 AM Eastern Time
Ambient Listening in a Rheumatology Practice
Location: Room 103AB
Speaker: Troy Torgerson, MD,PhD – Allen Institute for Immunology
Immunobiology
Sunday, Nov 17th
11:00 AM – 11:30 AM Eastern Time
Granzyme K-Expressing Cells in Autoimmunity
Location: Ballroom A
Speaker: Anna Helena Jonsson, MD;PhD – University of Colorado School of Medicine
Immunobiology
Sunday, Nov 17th
1:00 PM – 2:30 PM Eastern Time
The Untouchable B Cell: Novel Insights into Antibody-Secreting Cells
Location: Room 144ABC
Moderator: Jennifer Barnas, MD;PhD;BS – University of Rochester
Moderator: Anne Davidson, MBBS;FRACP – Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research
Immunobiology
CME 1.5 hours
Sunday, Nov 17th
1:00 PM – 1:30 PM Eastern Time
The Functional Plasma Cell Repertoire
Location: Room 144ABC
Speaker: George Georgiou, PhD,MS – The University of Texas at Austin
Immunobiology
Sunday, Nov 17th
1:30 PM – 2:00 PM Eastern Time
Human Plasma Cell Subsets
Location: Room 144ABC
Speaker: F. Eun-Hyung Lee, MD – Emory University
Immunobiology
Sunday, Nov 17th
2:00 PM – 2:30 PM Eastern Time
Extrafollicular B Cell Responses
Location: Room 144ABC
Speaker: Matthew Woodruff, PhD – Emory University
Immunobiology
Monday, Nov 18th
9:00 AM – 10:00 AM Eastern Time
Genetic Testing in the Era of Inborn Errors of Immunuity: Who to Test and How to Interpret
Location: Room 202AB
Moderator: Fatma Dedeoglu, MD – Boston Children's Hospital
Moderator: Maria Gutierrez, MD,MBA,MHS – Johns Hopkins University
Immunobiology
CME 1 hours
Monday, Nov 18th
9:00 AM – 9:30 AM Eastern Time
Clinical Clues in Pediatric Rheumatic Diseases: Driving Genetic Testing
Location: Room 202AB
Interactive Speaker: Troy Torgerson, MD,PhD – Allen Institute for Immunology
Immunobiology
Monday, Nov 18th
9:30 AM – 10:00 AM Eastern Time
Genetic Testing: The Tricks of the Trade - Analyzing the Good, Bad, and the Ugly
Location: Room 202AB
Interactive Speaker: Ivona Aksentijevich, MD – National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH
Immunobiology
Monday, Nov 18th
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM Eastern Time
Delivering the Goods at Nanoscale: Novel Biomaterials as Therapies for Autoimmune Diseases
Location: Room 103AB
Moderator: Antonio La Cava – University of California Los Angeles
Immunobiology
CME 1 hours
Monday, Nov 18th
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM Eastern Time
Are We Putting the CAR-T Before the Horse?
Location: Ballroom A
Moderator: Roberto Caricchio, MD – University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Moderator: Saira Sheikh, MD – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Immunobiology
CME 1 hours
Monday, Nov 18th
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM Eastern Time
Infectious Mimics of Pediatric Rheumatic Disease in Children: An Interactive Discussion
Location: Room 201
Moderator: Nayimisha Balmuri, MD – Johns Hopkins Hospital
Moderator: Tova Ronis, MD – Children's National Hospital
Immunobiology
CME 1 hours
Monday, Nov 18th
1:00 PM – 1:20 PM Eastern Time
History of Cell Therapies in Rheumatic Diseases
Location: Ballroom A
Speaker: George Tsokos, MD – BIDMC
Immunobiology
Monday, Nov 18th
1:00 PM – 1:30 PM Eastern Time
Hyper-Inflammation in the Critically Ill Pediatric Patient: Teasing Out Infectious Mimics of Rheumatic Diseases
Location: Room 201
Interactive Speaker: Roberta DeBiasi, MD;MS;FAAP – Children's National Hospital and Research Institute
Immunobiology
Monday, Nov 18th
1:00 PM – 1:30 PM Eastern Time
Strategies for Drug Delivery Using Biomaterials
Location: Room 103AB
Speaker: Nisarg Shah, PhD – University of California, San Diego
Immunobiology
Monday, Nov 18th
1:20 PM – 1:40 PM Eastern Time
Is the Promise of CAR-T Too Good to Be True for Most Patients with Rheumatic Diseases?
Location: Ballroom A
Speaker: Anca Askanase, MD, MPH – Columbia University Medical Center
Immunobiology
Monday, Nov 18th
1:30 PM – 2:00 PM Eastern Time
Case Discussions: Infectious Mimics of Rheumatic Conditions
Location: Room 201
Interactive Speaker: Sangeeta Sule, MD;PhD – Children's National Hospital
Immunobiology
Monday, Nov 18th
1:30 PM – 2:00 PM Eastern Time
Developing Nanomedicines for Autoimmune Disease
Location: Room 103AB
Speaker: Pere Santamaria, MD,PhD – University of Calgary
Immunobiology
Monday, Nov 18th
1:40 PM – 2:00 PM Eastern Time
Panel Discussion: What Needs to Happen in Trials Before We Can Accept Cellular Therapy as Mainstream Treatment for Severe PTS with Autoimmune Rheumatic Diseases?
Location: Ballroom A
Panelist: Anca Askanase, MD, MPH – Columbia University Medical Center
Panelist: George Tsokos, MD – BIDMC
Immunobiology
Monday, Nov 18th
2:15 PM – 3:15 PM Eastern Time
Don't Bug Me: Microbial Metabolites Underlying Disease
Location: Room 102AB
Moderator: Tejpal Gill, PhD – OHSU
Moderator: Renuka Nayak, MD;PhD – University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)
Immunobiology
CME 1 hours
Monday, Nov 18th
2:15 PM – 2:45 PM Eastern Time
Indole Metabolites in Inflammatory Arthritis
Location: Room 102AB
Speaker: Kristi Kuhn, MD,PhD – 2022 - 2023 / Adult/ University of Colorado
Immunobiology
Monday, Nov 18th
2:45 PM – 3:15 PM Eastern Time
Targeting Tryptophan Metabolism in Rheumatoid Arthritis
Location: Room 102AB
Speaker: David Moulin, PhD – University of Lorraine
Immunobiology
Monday, Nov 18th
3:00 PM – 4:30 PM Eastern Time
BiKEs, TriKEs, and Exotic CARs: Riding Therapy Into the Next Generation of Treatment
Location: Hall D/E
Moderator: Jason Weinstein, PhD – Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
Moderator: Marko Radic, PhD – University of Tennessee HSC
Immunobiology
CME 1.5 hours
Monday, Nov 18th
3:00 PM – 3:30 PM Eastern Time
CAR-T Cells and Exotic “Precision” Vehicles for Cell Therapies
Location: Hall D/E
Speaker: Maximilian F. Konig, MD – The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Immunobiology
Monday, Nov 18th
3:30 PM – 4:00 PM Eastern Time
A Novel CAR Containing JAK-STAT Intracellular Domains of Cytokine Receptors: Signaling Domain Mediates Superior Effects
Location: Hall D/E
Speaker: Naoto Hirano, MD,PhD – University Health Network
Immunobiology
Monday, Nov 18th
4:00 PM – 4:30 PM Eastern Time
Developing NK Cell Therapeutics: Off-the-Self NK-CARs and Trispecific Killer Engagers (TriKEs)
Location: Hall D/E
Speaker: Jeffrey Miller, MD – Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota
Immunobiology