Program at a Glance
Wednesday, May 10
Thursday, May 11
2:00 PM–4:00 PM
1. Back to School: A Review of Four Fast-Moving Fields
Sponsored by the AAI Program Committee
Room 202A
2:00 PM–4:00 PM
2. Block Symposium
B Cell and T Helper Cell Responses During Viral Infections
Room 102AB
2:00 PM–4:00 PM
4. Block Symposium
Immune Responses to Microbial, Parasitic, and Fungal Infections
Room 209ABC
2:00 PM–4:00 PM
10. Block Symposium
Vaccination and Vaccine-induced Responses against Pathogens at Target Sites
Room 204ABC
4:00 PM–4:45 PM
New Member Reception
By invitation only
Sponsored by the AAI Membership Committee
Generously supported by BD Biosciences
5:00 PM–6:15 PM
11. President’s Address
My Immunology Adventures
Generously supported by GSK
Ballroom AB
5:00 PM–6:15 PM
11. AAI Lifetime Achievement Award Presentation—Lewis L. Lanier
Presented prior to the start of the President's Addres
Ballroom AB
5:00 PM–6:15 PM
11. Distinguished Fellows of AAI Class of 2023 Acknowledgment
Prior to the start of the President's Address
Ballroom AB
7:30 PM–10:00 PM
AAI Public Policy Fellows Dinner
By invitation only
Sponsored by the AAI Committee on Public Affairs
Friday, May 12
8:00 AM–9:30 AM
12. AAI Distinguished Service Award Presentations—Cherié L. Butts & Clifford V. Harding
Presented during the AAI Business Meeting
Room 202B
8:00 AM–9:30 AM
12. Pfizer-Showell Travel Award
Acknowledged during the AAI Business Meeting
Room 202B
8:00 AM–9:30 AM
12. Lustgarten-Thermo Fisher Scientific Memorial Award
Acknowledged during the AAI Business Meeting
Room 202B
8:00 AM–9:30 AM
12. Lefrançois-BioLegend Memorial Award
Acknowledged during the AAI Business Meeting
Room 202B
8:00 AM–9:30 AM
12. Chambers-Thermo Fisher Scientific Memorial Award
Acknowledged during the AAI Business Meeting
Room 202B
8:00 AM–9:30 AM
12. AAI-Thermo Fisher Trainee Achievement Awards
Acknowledged during the AAI Business Meeting
Room 202B
8:00 AM–10:00 AM
16. Block Symposium
Approaches to Improve Vaccination and Immunotherapy Against Pathogens
Room 207A
8:00 AM–10:00 AM
18. Block Symposium
Epigenetic, Transcriptional, and Post-transciptional Regulation of Autoimmunity
Room 204ABC
8:00 AM–10:00 AM
20. Block Symposium
Technological Innovations in Immunology: Immune Responses and Tissue Microenvironments
Room 206
8:00 AM–10:00 AM
21. Block Symposium
Transplant Immunology: from Alloreactivity to Immunoregulation
Room 207B
10:00 AM–10:45 AM
24. Exhibitor Workshop: Luminex—A Diasorin Co.
Measuring Immune Activation with the Amnis® High-Throughput Imaging Flow Cytometers and Advanced Machine-Learning Analysis Tools
Exhibit Hall D
Room 1
10:00 AM–10:45 AM
25. Exhibitor Workshop: 10x Genomics
Fast-Track Antigen Specific B and T Cell Discovery
Exhibit Hall D
Room 2
10:00 AM–10:45 AM
26. Exhibitor Workshop: Akoya Bio
Spatial Phenotyping: Rapid, Comprehensive Phenotyping for Immune Disorders
Exhibit Hall D
Room 3
10:15 AM–12:15 PM
27. Human Immunological Diseases and Pathologies: Current Standard of Care, Mechanisms of Action, and Unmet Needs
Sponsored by the AAI Clinical Immunology Committee
Room 202B
10:15 AM–12:15 PM
28. My Lab is Recruiting Postdocs: Policy Approaches to Address the Needs of Today’s Biomedical Research Workforce
Sponsored by the AAI Committee on Public Affairs
Room 207B
10:15 AM–12:15 PM
29. National Institute on Aging (NIA, NIH) Symposium
Mucosal Immunity, Microbiome, and Aging
Room 101
10:15 AM–12:15 PM
31. Block Symposium
Findings from Amphibians, Fish, and Chickens to Mammals
Room 201
11:00 AM–1:00 PM
36. Immunology Teaching Interest Group: Enhancing Your Immunology Teaching
Sponsored by the AAI Education Committee
Room 209ABC
11:15 AM–12:00 PM
37. Exhibitor Workshop: Miltenyi Biotec
Spatial Characterization and Deep Phenotyping of CD8+ Tumor-Infiltrating Lymphocytes in the Tumor Microenvironment
Exhibit Hall D
Room 1
11:15 AM–12:00 PM
38. Exhibitor Workshop: Luminex—A Diasorin Co.
Designing Custom Multiplex Assays to Support Vaccine Development
Exhibit Hall D
Room 2
11:15 AM–12:00 PM
39. Exhibitor Workshop: MilliporeSigma
Multi-Platform Biomarker Analysis with MILLIPLEX® Multiplex Immunoassays and Single Molecule Counting (SMC®) Technology for Ultrasensitive Protein Detection
Exhibit Hall D
Room 3
12:00 PM–2:15 PM
40. Careers Roundtables and Speed Networking Session
Sponsored by the AAI Minority Affairs Committee
Generously supported by the Department of Immunobiology, Yale School of Medicine
West Salon GH
12:30 PM–1:15 PM
41. Exhibitor Workshop: Miltenyi Biotec
Unlock the Full Potential for Your CAR NK Cells
Exhibit Hall D
Room 1
12:30 PM–1:15 PM
42. Exhibitor Workshop: BD Biosciences
FlowJo™ Software for High-Dimensional Analysis: New Approaches to Expedite Discovery
Exhibit Hall D
Room 2
12:30 PM–1:15 PM
43. Exhibitor Workshop: Bio-Rad Laboratories
Improve Your Flow Data in 10 Easy Steps
Exhibit Hall D
Room 3
12:30 PM–1:30 PM
44. AAI-BioLegend Herzenberg Award Presentation and Lecture—Shane Crotty
Long-lived and high-quality antibody and memory B cell responses regulated by Tfh cells and germinal centers
Generously supported by BioLegend
Room 202A
12:30 PM–2:30 PM
45. Immunological Approaches to (Re)emerging and Global Zoonotic Threats
Sponsored by the AAI Veterinary Immunology Committee
Room 207B
12:30 PM–2:30 PM
46. German Society for Immunology (DGfI) Symposium
Immune Competence in Tissues
Room 202B
12:30 PM–2:30 PM
47. International Society of Neuroimmunology (ISNI) Symposium
Neuroimmune Interactions in CNS Development, Repair, and Disease
Room 101
12:30 PM–2:30 PM
48. Society for Mucosal Immunology (SMI) Symposium
Protecting the Barrier from Invaders
Ballroom B
12:30 PM–2:30 PM
49. Society for Natural Immunity (SNI) Symposium
NK Cells and ILCs in Cancer
Room 102AB
12:30 PM–2:30 PM
52. Block Symposium
Express Yourself: Molecular Events in Antigen Presentation
Room 207A
1:00 PM–2:00 PM
54. Giving an Effective Media Interview
Sponsored by the AAI Public Communications Committee
Room 205
1:30 PM–2:30 PM
55. FASEB Excellence in Science Early-Career Investigator Award Presentation and Lecture—Smita Krishnaswamy
Deep geometric and topological analyses characterizing and predicting immune responses
Ballroom A
1:45 PM–2:30 PM
56. Exhibitor Workshop: Thermo Fisher Scientific
Ventures Into the Fluorosphere—What Spectral Cytometry Teaches Us About Conventional Cytometry and the Everchanging Topography of the Immunological Landscape
Exhibit Hall D
Room 1
1:45 PM–2:30 PM
57. Exhibitor Workshop: BioLegend
Modulating Levels of Cell Surface CD6 Regulates Effector T Cell Activity and Treg Development
Exhibit Hall D
Room 2
1:45 PM–2:30 PM
58. Exhibitor Workshop: Alamar Biosciences
Expanding the Limits of Immune Profiling with Automated, Highly-Sensitive, Multiplexed Analysis
Exhibit Hall D
Room 3
2:30 PM–3:45 PM
Special Activities at the AAI Booth
Meet Immunohorizons EIC Mark H. Kaplan, talk with the AAI Membership Committee, meet the AAI Public Policy Fellows
Booth 5025
3:45 PM–5:45 PM
90. International Complement Society (ICS) Symposium
Location Matters: The Evolving Roles of Cell-autonomous and Local Complement
Room 101
3:45 PM–5:45 PM
91. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID, NIH) Symposium
Improved Tools for Modeling Human Immunity In Vitro and In Vivo—Organoid Cultures and Novel Mouse Models
Room 207B
3:45 PM–5:45 PM
92. National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS, NIH) Symposium
Somatic Mutations in Non-malignant Diseases
Room 102AB
3:45 PM–5:45 PM
93. Block Symposium
Being Schooled: New Strategies for Immunology Education
Room 202A
4:30 PM–5:30 PM
100. AAI-BD Biosciences Investigator Award Presentation and Lecture—Gregory F. Sonnenberg
Innate regulation of immunity, inflammation, tolerance, and cancer
Generously supported by BD Biosciences
Ballroom AB
6:00 PM–6:45 PM
101. Distinguished Lecture—Douglas R. Green
Start me up: early events in T cell activation influence long-term cell fate
Generously supported by BD Biosciences
Ballroom AB
7:00 PM–8:00 PM
102. Special Session—Anthony S. Fauci
Pandemic Preparedness and Response: Lessons from COVID-19
Ballroom AB
7:45 PM–10:00 PM
AAI Journals Editorial Dinner and Meeting
By invitation only
Generously supported by KnowledgeWorks Global Ltd.
8:15 PM–9:45 PM
Minority Affairs Committee (MAC) Social Hour
By Invitation Only
Sponsored by the AAI Minority Affairs Committee
Saturday, May 13
8:00 AM–11:30 AM
103. Major Symposium C
Mechanisms of Innate Immune Memory and Tissue Adaptation
Generously supported by PerkinElmer Health Sciences, Inc. & Honeycomb Biotechnologies
Ballroom A
8:00 AM–10:00 AM
105. Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC) Symposium
Building the Antitumor Repertoire
Room 207A
8:00 AM–10:00 AM
106. Block Symposium
Cellular Mechanisms of Immune Response Regulation: B Cell Responses and Immunity in the Skin
Room 209ABC
8:00 AM–10:00 AM
107. Block Symposium
Controlling Immune Responses to Microbial, Parasitic, and Fungal Infections: Inflammation and Vaccination
Room 207B
8:00 AM–10:00 AM
109. Block Symposium
Regulation of B Cells and Role of Antibodies in Autoimmunity
Room 202B
10:00 AM–10:45 AM
110. Exhibitor Workshop: Sony Biotechnology, Inc.
TAC-T Cells Elicit Durable Anti-Tumor Responses in Preclinical Models of Solid Tumors
Exhibit Hall D
Room 1
10:00 AM–10:45 AM
111. Exhibitor Workshop: Canopy Biosciences–A Bruker Company
Quantitative Single-Cell Spatial Immune Profiling with ChipCytometry™
Exhibit Hall D
Room 2
10:00 AM–10:45 AM
112. Exhibitor Workshop: 10x Genomics
Spatial transcriptomics of pancreatic premalignancies reveals cellular and molecular alterations of progression to pancreatic ductal carcinoma
Exhibit Hall D
Room 3
10:15 AM–12:15 PM
114. Spotlight on AAI Journals
Sponsored by the AAI Publications Committee
Room 202B
10:15 AM–12:15 PM
115. International Cytokine and Interferon Society (ICIS) Symposium
Understanding and Modulating Cytokine Activity through Structural Knowledge
Room 102AB
10:15 AM–12:15 PM
116. Chinese Society of Immunology, Taiwan (CSIT) Symposium
Novel Strategies for the Prevention and Therapy of SARS-CoV-2 Infection
Room 101
10:15 AM–12:15 PM
117. Block Symposium
Wasting Thyme: Thymus Function in Health and Disease
Room 207A
10:15 AM–12:15 PM
120. Block Symposium
Metabolic and Migratory Pathways of Leukocytes in Inflammation
Room 207B
10:15 AM–12:15 PM
121. Block Symposium
The Tumor Microenvironment: Novel Immune Checkpoints and Mechanisms of Immune Suppression
Room 206
11:15 AM–12:00 PM
122. Exhibitor Workshop: STEMCELL Technologies, Inc.
Next-Generation Tools for NK Cell Research
Exhibit Hall D
Room 1
11:15 AM–12:00 PM
123. Exhibitor Workshop: BD Biosciences
Optimization of a High-Parameter Spectral Flow Cytometry Panel to Investigate Human Immune Diversity
Exhibit Hall D
Room 2
11:15 AM–12:00 PM
124. Exhibitor Workshop: NanoCellect
Identifying and Isolating Highly Functional Cell Therapy Agents with the Gentle and Sterile WOLF Microfluidic Cell Sorter
Exhibit Hall D
Room 3
11:45 AM–1:15 PM
126. Careers in Science Lecture and Roundtables
Sponsored by the AAI Education Committee and AAI Committee on the Status of Women
West Salon GH
12:30 PM–1:15 PM
127. Exhibitor Workshop: Thermo Fisher Scientific
High-Speed Image-Enhanced Acoustic Flow Cytometry Offers New Insights into Old Protocols
Exhibit Hall D
Room 1
12:30 PM–1:15 PM
128. Exhibitor Workshop: BioLegend
Stimulation with a Superagonistic Anti-CD28 Antibody Shows Treg Expansion and Provides an In Vitro Model for Immunotherapeutic Research
Exhibit Hall D
Room 2
12:30 PM–1:15 PM
129. Exhibitor Workshop: Cytek Biosciences
Accelerate Immune Research with Pre-optimized Cytek Panels and Reagent Kits
Exhibit Hall D
Room 3
12:30 PM–2:30 PM
Room 209ABC
12:30 PM–2:30 PM
131. Canadian Society for Immunology (CSI) Symposium
The Ontogeny and Functioning of the Immune System: Lessons from Non-mammalian Systems
Room 101
12:30 PM–2:30 PM
133. Block Symposium
Location, Location, Location: Cancer, Skin, Neurology, and Immunology
Room 207B
12:30 PM–2:30 PM
134. Block Symposium
Mechanisms of Viral Sensing and Innate Immune Responses
Room 202B
12:30 PM–2:30 PM
136. Block Symposium
Technological Innovations in Immunology: Identifying, Modulating, and Modeling Immune Responses
Room 206
1:30 PM–2:30 PM
137. FASEB Excellence in Science Lifetime Achievement Award Presentation and Lecture—Arlene H. Sharpe
The biology behind PD-1 blockade
Ballroom A
1:45 PM–2:30 PM
138. Exhibitor Workshop: Lunaphore Technologies
The Immunopathology of COVID-19 Placentitis: A Spatial Multi-omic Approach
Exhibit Hall D
Room 1
1:45 PM–2:30 PM
139. Exhibitor Workshop: peptides&elephants GmbH
Peptide Pools— Design, Manufacturing, and Application
Exhibit Hall D
Room 2
1:45 PM–2:30 PM
140. Exhibitor Workshop: Fortis Life Sciences
Validating Antibodies for Better Science and Better Medicine
Exhibit Hall D
Room 3
2:30 PM–3:45 PM
Special Activities at the AAI Booth
Meet Journal of Immunology EIC Eugene M. Oltz, discuss new session ideas with AAI Clinical Immunology Committee
Booth 5025
3:45 PM–5:45 PM
177. Korean Association of Immunology and Association of Korean Immunologists in America (KAI & AKIA) Symposium
Immune Cell Communications in Cancer and Inflammation
Room 101
3:45 PM–5:45 PM
180. Block Symposium
Innate Immune Signal Transduction Pathways during Infection
Room 204ABC
3:45 PM–5:45 PM
182. Block Symposium
Innovations in the Manipulation of T Cells for Treating Autoimmune Diseases
Generously supported by JDRF
Room 207B
3:45 PM–5:45 PM
184. Block Symposium
Novel Therapeutic Targets for Controlling Immune Responses and Dampening Inflammation
Room 206
3:45 PM–5:45 PM
185. Block Symposium
Regulatory T Cell and Macrophage Function in Health and Disease
Room 201
3:45 PM–5:45 PM
186. Block Symposium
Vaccination against Pathogens at Different Stages of Life and Disease
Room 202A
4:30 PM–5:30 PM
187. AAI-Thermo Fisher Meritorious Career Award Presentation and Lecture—Hao Wu
Generously supported by Thermo Fisher Scientific
Inner workings on the inflammasome engine
Ballroom AB
6:00 PM–6:45 PM
188. Distinguished Lecture—Carla V. Rothlin
Principles of resolving and non-resolving inflammation
Generously supported by BD Biosciences
Ballroom AB
7:30 PM–10:00 PM
AAI President’s Service Appreciation Reception
By Invitation Only
Generously supported by BioLegend
Sunday, May 14
8:00 AM–11:30 AM
189. Major Symposium E
Engineering at the Interface of Immunology and Immunotherapy
Ballroom A
8:00 AM–10:00 AM
192. Block Symposium
Cellular Responses to Microbial, Parasitic, and Fungal Infection
Room 202B
8:00 AM–10:00 AM
195. Block Symposium
T Cell Responses in Autotimmune Disease
Generously supported by JDRF
Room 204ABC
8:30 AM–10:00 AM
196. Sip and Learn: Speed Networking with Immunology Educators
Sponsored by the AAI Education Committee and ImmunoHorizons
West Salon GH
10:00 AM–10:45 AM
197. Exhibitor Workshop: MBL International Corporation
Making Custom MHC Tetramers at the Lab Bench Using the QuickSwitch Kit
Exhibit Hall D
Room 1
10:00 AM–10:45 AM
198. Exhibitor Workshop: Sartorius
Comparing Tumor Killing Mechanisms of Antibody Drug Conjugates (ADC’s) with the iQue® Flow Cytometry System
Exhibit Hall D
Room 2
10:15 AM–12:15 PM
200. American Society of Transplantation (AST) Symposium
Cutting Edge Research in Transplantation Tolerance, Rejection, and Infection
Room 202A
10:15 AM–12:15 PM
201. American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) Symposium
Immunoparasitology: Perspectives by Top Trainees, Early Career, and Established ASTMH Researchers
Room 102AB
10:15 AM–12:15 PM
202. Careers in Biotech: Panel Discussion and Networking
Sponsored by the AAI Education Committee
Generously supported by BD Biosciences
Room 209ABC
10:15 AM–12:15 PM
206. Block Symposium
Responses: Differentiation, Age, Exhaustion, and Memory
Room 204ABC
11:15 AM–12:00 PM
207. Exhibitor Workshop: STEMCELL Technologies, Inc.
Streamline Your B Cell Research from Isolation to Expansion
Exhibit Hall D
Room 1
11:15 AM–12:00 PM
208. Exhibitor Workshop: Cellecta, Inc.
TCR and BCR Repertoire Analysis and Other Approaches for the Discovery of Drug Targets, Resistance Mechanisms, and Biomarkers
Exhibit Hall D
Room 2
11:15 AM–12:00 PM
209. Exhibitor Workshop: Parse Biosciences
Expanding Capabilities in Single-Cell RNA Sequencing
Exhibit Hall D
Room 3
11:15 AM–12:15 PM
210. AAI Vanguard Award Presentation and Lecture—Robert J. Binder
Key pathways in immunosurveillance of cancer
Sponsored by the AAI Minority Affairs Committee
Generously supported by BD Biosciences
Room 202B
12:30 PM–2:30 PM
211. President's Symposium
Frontiers of Human Immunology
Generously supported by BD Biosciences
Ballroom AB
12:30 PM–2:30 PM
211. AAI Excellence in Mentoring Award Presentation—Yasmine Belkaid
Presented prior to the start of the President’s Symposium
Ballroom AB
12:30 PM–1:15 PM
212. Exhibitor Workshop: Thermo Fisher Scientific
Practical Considerations for Spatial Phenotyping
Exhibit Hall D
Room 1
2:30 PM–3:45 PM
Special Activities at the AAI Booth
Meet the AAI Public Policy Fellows, meet members of the AAI Minority Affairs Committee, suggest session ideas with members of the AAI Program Committee
Booth 5025
3:45 PM–5:45 PM
254. European Federation of Immunological Societies (EFIS) Symposium
Fundamental Lessons Learned from the Clinic
Room 204ABC
3:45 PM–5:45 PM
255. National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS, NIH) Symposium
How the Latest Advances in Immunology Inform the Field of Developmental Immunotoxicology: A Panel Discussion
Room 209ABC
3:45 PM–5:45 PM
256. Block Symposium
Environmental Influences: Sex, Pregnancy, Diet, and T Cells
Room 207B
3:45 PM–5:45 PM
257. Block Symposium
Immune Checkpoint Blockade and CAR T/T Cell Therapy for Cancer Treatment
Room 202A
3:45 PM–5:45 PM
259. Block Symposium
Innate Immune Activities in the Tissue Microenvironment
Room 201
3:45 PM–5:45 PM
261. Block Symposium
Metabolic and Dietary Strategies to Treat Immune Diseases
Room 102AB
3:45 PM–5:45 PM
263. Block Symposium
The Tumor Microenvironment: Mechanisms of Tumor Growth and Metastasis
Room 202B
4:30 PM–5:30 PM
264. AAI-Steinman Award for Human Immunology Research Presentation and Lecture—David A. Hafler
Treg biology: insights into immunology by the study of human disease
Ballroom AB
6:00 PM–6:45 PM
265. Distinguished Lecture—Leslie J. Berg
Linking variations in T cell receptor signaling to changes in gene expression and T cell function
Generously supported by BD Biosciences
Ballroom AB
7:00 PM–10:00 PM
IMMUNOLOGY2023™ Gala
Badge and ticket are required.
Generously supported by BioLegend
National Museum of American History
Monday, May 15
8:00 AM–11:30 AM
267. Major Symposium H
Immunity to Emerging Pathogens: COVID-19 and Beyond
Ballroom B
