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Poster Set-up / Installation des affiches

Poster Set-up / Installation des affiche

Special Session for Trainees

"Strategies for Landing the Job After Grad School"

Dr. Nana Lee, Director and Lecturer Graduate Professional Development, University of Toronto

Keynote Address

"Immune Regulation at Barrier Surfaces"

Dr. David Artis, Michael Kors Professor in Immunology, Joan and Sanford I. Weill Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, USA

Opening Reception / Réception d’ouverture

Meet the Exhibitors / Rencontre des exposants

Poster Set-up Odd / Installation des affiches

 Sponsored by CIHR - Institute of Infection and Immunity

"The not so sweet side of immunoregulation"

Dr. Martin Richer, Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, McGill University, Quebec, Canada

"Tissue trafficking potential of memory CD8+ T cells"

Dr. Jeff Nolz, Assistant Professor, Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR, USA

"4-1BB critically regulates influenza-specific lung resident CD8 memory T cells"

Dr. Tania Watts, Director, Toronto Human Immunology Network, Professor, Department of Immunology, Sanofi Pasteur Chair in Human Immunology, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada

"Regulation of CD8 T cell memory by the purinergic receptor P2rx7"

Dr. Steve Jameson, Chairman's Fund Professor in Experimental Pathology, Center for Immunology, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA

"Tissue compartmentalization of memory T cell responses"

Dr. Donna Farber, Professor, Surgical Sciences and Microbiology and Immunology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, USA

"Contrasting roles for Notch signaling during acute and chronic CD8+ T cell responses"

Dr. Nathalie Labrecque, Associate Professor, Centre de recherche Hôpital Maisonneuve-Rosemont, University of Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Exhibits Close

"Lyophilized controls for surface and intracellular marker analysis by flow and mass cytometry"

Karen Morley, PhD, Applications Scientist 1, BioLegend

"Advances in immune cell isolation technology"

Amanda Vanden Hoek, Product Marketing Manager, Cell Separation, StemCell Technologies

Poster Set-up, Recreation / Installation des affiches, Pause

Sponsored by Miltenyi Biotec, StemCell Technologies Inc.

Workshop 1 / Atelier 1

Leukocyte Development, Activation and Signalling

Chairs: Dr. Bryan Heit, Western University; Dr. Judith Mandl, McGill University

Workshop 2 / Atelier 2

Host-Pathogen Interactions: Innate Immunity to Adaptive Immune Responses
Chairs: Dr. Markus Geuking, University of Calgary; Dr. Jude Uzonna, University of Manitoba

Mass Cytometry Workshop

"Harnessing the power of Mass Cytometry for functional immune profiling: a practical guide to getting started"

Dr. Cynthia Guidos, Senior Scientist, Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute, Professor, Dept. of Immunology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON

Followed by CHIC - Canadian Human Immunophenotyping Consortium Discussion 

Odd Numbered Posters / Affiches à numéros impairs

Cash bar / bar payant

Meet the Exhibitors / Rencontre des exposants

Remove Odd Numbered Posters / Affiches à numéros impairs

Breakfast / Déjeûner

Poster Set-up Even / Installation des affiches

Chairs: Dr. Jeanette Boudreau, Dalhousie University; Dr. Debby Burshtyn, University of Alberta

"Molecular mechanisms controlling natural killer cell fate and function"

Dr. Barbara Kee, Associate Professor, Department of Pathology, University of Chicago, IL, USA

"SLAM family receptors in NK cell education and activation"

Dr. André Veillette, Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Montreal; Director, Molecular Oncology Research Unit, IRCM, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

"Natural Killer cells mediate long-term antigen-specific memory responses via Class 1 MHC receptors"

Dr. Andrew Makrigiannis, Head and Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada

Refreshment Break / Pause
 

"Human NK cell education: a toolbox for diverse immune function"

Dr. Jeanette Boudreau, Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada

"Tracking Natural Killer cells during viral infection"

Dr. Lewis Lanier, J. Michael Bishop, MD, Distinguished Professor and Chair; Professor and Chair, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California San Francisco, CA, USA

"Memory of the Killer: harnessing NK cells for cancer immunotherapy"

Dr. Todd Fehniger, Associate Professor of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA

“Miltenyi Biotec: Biomedical instruments, reagents and services for research and cellular therapy”

Poster Set-up, Recreation / Installation des affiches, Pause

Sponsored by Miltenyi Biotec, StemCell Technologies Inc.

Workshop 3 / Atelier 3

Immune Mediated Diseases: Tolerance, Autoimmunity and Inflammation

Chairs: Dr. Paige Lacy, University of Alberta; Dr. Clint Robbins, University of Toronto

Workshop 4 / Atelier 4

Tumor Immunology, Immunotherapy and Vaccines

Chairs: Dr. Sherri Christian, Memorial University of Newfoundland; Dr. Brent Johnston, Dalhousie University

Even Numbered Posters / Affiches numéros pairs

Meet the Exhibitors / Rencontre des exposants

Cash bar / Bar payant

Remove Even Numbered Posters / Affiches à numéros pairs

Bernhard Cinader Award Lectureship / Conférence du prix Bernhard Cinader

Dr. Claude Perreault, Principal Investigator, Immunobiology Research Unit, IRIC;; Professor, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Université de Montréal; Hematologist, Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital

"Know Thyself"

Chairs: Dr. Derek McKay, University of Calgary; Dr. Kathy McCoy, University of Calgary

"Acute exposure to enteropathogens shapes the microbiota to induce post-infectious inflammation"

Dr. Andre Buret, Associate Vice-President (Research), Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, AB, Canada

"The chemical language of gastrointestinal nematodes as potential immunotherapy"

Dr. Mary Stevenson, Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

“Alternatively activated macrophages during helminth infections”

Dr. P’ng Loke, Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology (Parasitology), New York University School of Medicine, NY, USA

Refreshment Break / Pause
 

“Coincidence detectors in the tissue repair response to helminth infection”

“Divergent roles for Ly6C⁺CCR2⁺CX3CR1⁺ inflammatory monocytes at cutaneous sites of infection with Leishmania”

Dr. Nathan Peters, Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Infectious Diseases, University of Calgary, AB, Canada