Thursday, May 11, 2023 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM ET Room 101
Block Symposium
Innate Immune Responses and Host Defense
Speakers
- Christine Youn, Johns Hopkins Univ. Sch. of Med., TNF receptors orchestrate differential neutrophil responses critical to immunity against Staphylococcus aureus skin infection
- Kimberly Oliva, Univ. of Georgia, Inflammation-induced development and migration of a novel monocyte-like dendritic cell population that regulates antiviral CD8 T cell immunity
- Skyler V. Hendrix, Washington Univ. in St Louis Sch. of Med., Investigating the role of BHLHE40 in host responses to Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection and myeloid cell development
- Eden Faneuff, Vanderbilt Univ. Med. Ctr., Myeloid PTEN inhibits innate host defense during methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus-induced sepsis
- Helen Eva Adams Rich, Univ. of Michigan, Epithelial TLR9 upregulation by respiratory viruses impairs pulmonary antibacterial immunity
- Roshan Ghimire, Oklahoma State Univ., Differential role of TLR7 signaling in SARS-CoV-2-induced antiviral and inflammatory responses
- Lindsey D. Hughes, Yale Univ. Sch. of Med., Effector response to necroptotic cell death: an ensemble of immune and stromal cells
- Aaron P. Esser-Kahn, Univ. of Chicago, Identifying and targeting a subpopulation of dendritic cells with enhanced activation of adaptive responses—identifying first responders
