Friday, May 12, 2023     10:15 AM – 12:15 PM ET     Room 201

Block Symposium

Findings from Amphibians, Fish, and Chickens to Mammals

Chairs

• Crystal L. Loving, ARS, USDA
• Ro Miller, Univ. of New Mexico

Speakers

• Jordan M. Sampson, Univ. of New Mexico, Evolution of the structure and organization of the mammalian immunoglobulin loci
• Luke S. Hebert, Univ. of Texas, Austin, Characterization of the B cell receptor repertoire and discovery of new immunoglobulin genes in the domestic ferret
• Aryana Razmara, Univ. of California, Davis, Single cell and genomic profiling of PBMC-expanded NK cells in first-in-dog clinical trial of allogeneic adoptive NK cell therapy for dogs with cancer
• Channakeshava Sokke Umeshappa, Dalhousie Univ., Canada, Computational prediction of highly conserved CD8⁺ and CD4⁺ T cell epitopes in bluetongue virus: A promising data for developing broad-spectrum bluetongue vaccine
• Judy L. Cannon, Univ. of New Mexico, Benefits of being big: how a T cell response can occur as rapidly in a human as a mouse