Friday, May 12, 2023 12:30 PM – 2:30 PM ET Room 207B
Immunological Approaches to (Re)emerging and Global Zoonotic Threats
Sponsored by the AAI Veterinary Immunology Committee
Chair
- Janice C. Telfer, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, AAI Veterinary Immunology Committee Chair
Speakers
- Joan Lunney, USDA, ARS, The pig as a biomedical model: importance for immunity, disease, and vaccine research
- Rudra Channappanavar, Oklahoma State Univ. Col. of Vet. Med., Role of dysregulated immunity in the pathogenesis of coronavirus infections
- Bronwyn M. Gunn, Washington State Univ. Col. of Vet. Med., Leveraging a systems serology approach to define antibody-mediated mechanisms of immunity against zoonotic viral infection
- Christopher A. Hunter, Univ. of Pennsylvania Sch. of Vet. Med., Understanding how mRNA vaccines promote CD8+ T cell responses
The modern hyper-mobile world, climate change, and increased contact between wildlife and humans has led to the increased incidence of emerging infectious disease (EID), which is defined as an infectious disease in which incidence has increased in the past 20 years and has potential for increasing further in the future. It is estimated that more than six out of every 10 known EIDS in people can be spread from animals, and three out of every four newly detected EIDs in people are transmitted from animal reservoirs. It is thus important to understand the pathogen–host immune response in all species. This symposium will highlight the study of swine as an important biomedical model species and reservoir as well as strategies to improve vaccines designed to combat EIDs in all species.
