Saturday, May 13, 2023 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM ET Room 207B
Block Symposium
Controlling Immune Responses to Microbial, Parasitic, and Fungal Infections: Inflammation and Vaccination
Chairs
- Bolaji N. Thomas, Rochester Inst. of Tech.
- Richard Lee Reinhardt, Nat. Jewish Hlth.
Speakers
- Jessica R. Taddeo, Lewis Katz Sch. of Med., Temple Univ., Investigating the lipid-immune signaling axis in modulating the inflammatory response to Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium infections
- Albersy Armina-Rodriguez, Univ. of Puerto Rico Med. Sci. Campus, Fasciola hepatica Fh15 promote survival in a mouse septic shock model and downregulates inflammatory cytokines
- Som G. Nanjappa, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Sialophorin is an essential host element for vaccine immunity against pulmonary fungal infections
- Bridget Alexander, Univ. of Colorado Anschutz Med. Campus, Neonatal helminth infection and chronic type 2 inflammation promotes immune suppression through FcγRIIb
- Andrew W. Simonson, Univ. of Pittsburgh Sch. of Med., CD8+ lymphocytes contribute to immunologic bottlenecks in Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection
- Blanda Di Luccia, Stanford Univ. Sch. of Med., Gut regulatory T cells mediate immunological tolerance in Salmonella-infected super-spreader hosts
- Om Prakash Singh, Banaras Hindu Univ., India, CD4+ T cells show a cytolytic phenotype functions in human visceral leishmaniasis
- Joselyn Natasha Allen, Walter Reed Army Inst. of Res., Plasmodium falciparum liver stage antigens as mRNA vaccine induce divergent B cell and CD4 T cell responses in mice
