Joint with: T Cell Differentiation in Tissue Microenvironments
Innate Immune Memory: Mechanisms and Consequences

Feb 02–05, 2025 | Fairmont Hotel Vancouver, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Scientific Organizers: Shruti Naik, Keke C. Fairfax and Renato Ostuni

  In Person
  On Demand

Feb 02–05, 2025 | Fairmont Hotel Vancouver, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Scientific Organizers: Shruti Naik, Keke C. Fairfax and Renato Ostuni

Available Formats:   = In Person     = On Demand
Sunday, February 2, 2025
Registration
4:00–8:00 PM
 British/Columbia Foyer
Welcome Mixer
6:00–8:00 PM
 British/Columbia Foyer
Monday, February 3, 2025
Breakfast
7:30–8:30 AM
 Pacific Ballroom, Vancouver Island Room
Poster Setup
8:00–8:30 AM
 Pacific Ballroom, Vancouver Island Room
Poster Viewing
8:00–5:00 PM
 Pacific Ballroom, Vancouver Island Room
Welcome and Keynote Address (Joint)
8:30–9:30 AM
 Columbia Ballroom
Yasmine Belkaid, Pasteur Institut
Inflammatory Memory and Heterologous Protection
Vaccines and Anti-Pathogen Responses (Joint)
9:30–11:30 AM
 Columbia Ballroom
Bana Jabri, University of Chicago
Talk Title to be Announced
David B Masopust, University of Minnesota
Resident Memory in Infection and Vaccination
Mihai G. Netea, Radboud University
Trained Immunity in Infection
Coffee Break
10:00–10:20 AM
 British/Columbia Foyer
Lunch
11:45–12:45 PM
 Pacific Ballroom, Vancouver Island Room
Posters 1
12:00–2:30 PM
 Pacific Ballroom, Vancouver Island Room
Symposia Spotlight 1: Late Breaking Research
2:30–4:30 PM
 British Ballroom
Payal Damani-Yokota, NYU Langone Medical Center
Helminth-Driven NAM Reprogramming Confers Disease Tolerance Against Subsequent Respiratory Viral Infection
M. Carrie Miceli, University of California, Los Angeles
Transcriptomics Reveals DMD Driven Cell Dynamics and Mechanisms of Fibroblast Inflammatory Tissue Priming in Human Dystrophic Muscle
Roni Nowarski, BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL
A Metabolic Switch Orchestrated by Il-18 and Cgamp Programs Tolerogenic Memory in the Gut
Alexander Lercher, The Rockefeller University
Antiviral Innate Immune Memory in Alveolar Macrophages Following SARS-Cov-2 Infection
Vanessa Cristaldi, NYU Langone
A Persistent Vascular Endothelial Inflammatory State Maintains Local Immune Surveillance in Skin Post Infection
In Su Cheon, University of Virginia
Infection-Experienced Alveolar Macrophages Sustain Airway T Cell Memory
Quen J. Cheng, University of California, Los Angeles
IRF1 Cooperates with ISGF3 or GAF To Regulate Specificity of De Novo Enhancers
Coffee Available
4:30–5:00 PM
 British/Columbia Foyer
Mechanisms of Innate Immune Memory
5:00–7:00 PM
 British Ballroom
Diana Hargreaves, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Talk Title to be Announced
Renato Ostuni, Ospedale San Raffaele S.r.l.
Mechanisms of Response and Memory to Stimulation in Macrophages
Amanda G. Fisher, University of Oxford
Epigenetic Inheritance in Development and Disease
Aoife O'Farrell, University of Pennsylvania
Short Talk: Long Term Stimulus Specificity of Memory in Human Macrophages
Aleksandr Gorin, University of California, Los Angeles
Short Talk: Interferon Gamma Induced Innate Immune Memory in Macrophages is Dependent on Sustained JAK/STAT Signaling
On Own for Dinner
7:00–8:00 PM
Tuesday, February 4, 2025
Breakfast
7:30–8:30 AM
 Pacific Ballroom, Vancouver Island Room
Inflammatory Memory and Disease
8:30–11:30 AM
 British Ballroom
Kari C Nadeau, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Exposome, Inflammatory Training and Allergic Disease
Przemyslaw Sapieha, University of Montreal
Obesity, Innate Immune Training, and Neuroinflammation
Kathryn J Moore, New York University Medical Center
Inflammatory Memory in Cardiovascular Disease and Cancer
Dusan Bogunovic, Columbia University
Post-Translational Governance of Innate Immune Memory
Cassia Braga, Yale University
Short Talk: Chronic Lung Inflammation in Cystic Fibrosis Drives Maladaptive Innate Immune Memory in Hematopoietic Stem Cells
Helene M Liu, National Taiwan University
Short Talk: Dysregulated MDA5-Mediated Innate Immune Memory and M5c RNA Modification in Autoimmune Disease
Coffee Break
9:30–9:50 AM
 British/Columbia Foyer
Poster Setup
11:30–1:00 PM
 Pacific Ballroom, Vancouver Island Room
On Own for Lunch
11:30–1:30 PM
Poster Viewing
1:00–10:00 PM
 Pacific Ballroom, Vancouver Island Room
Symposia Spotlight 2: Emerging Technologies (Joint)
1:30–3:30 PM
 Columbia Ballroom
Zoltan Maliga, Harvard Medical School
Single Cell Spatial Atlas of T-Cell Phenotypes in Patient Tumors, Inflamed Tissues and Neoadjuvant Response
Whitney Harrington, University of Washington
The Impact of Age on T Cell Phenotype in the Lower Female Genital Tract
Jia Zhu, University of Washington
Spatial Immune Profiling Reveals T-cell Landscape and Local Interactions Associated with Disease Expression in Human Herpesvirus Infection
Kelli A McCord, Baylor College of Medicine
Phenotypic Analysis and Spatial Profiling of Antigen-Specific T Cells in Head and Neck Cancer
Iain D Fraser, NIAID, National Institutes of Health
Endogenous Cytokine Reporter Macrophages Facilitate Identification of Novel Innate Immune Training Compounds that can Reactivate Latent HIV
Hannah R Knight, University of Chicago
High-Throughput Screen Identifies Non-Inflammatory Small Molecule Inducers of Trained Immunity
Zoe Schaefer, University of Florida
Multi-Level Proteomics Reveals Epigenetic Signatures in BCG-mediated Macrophage Activation
Career Roundtable (Joint)
3:30–4:30 PM
 British Ballroom
Coffee Available
4:30–5:00 PM
 British/Columbia Foyer
Inflammatory Memory in Long-Lived Tissue Progenitor Cells
5:00–7:00 PM
 British Ballroom
Shruti Naik, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Inflammatory Memory in Epithelial Stem Cells
Semir Beyaz, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Metabolic Training of Intestinal Stem Cells
Steven Z. Josefowicz, Weill Cornell Medical College
Epigenetic Regulation of Inflammation
Megan K. MacLeod, Glasgow University
Short Talk: Lung Structural Cells are Altered by Influenza Virus Leading to Rapid Immune Protection Following Re-Challenge
Phoenix P Miao, The University of Chicago
Short Talk: Aging-Associated Chronic Inflammation Induces Epigenetic Scars in Epithelial Stem Cells
Social Hour with Lite Bites
7:00–8:00 PM
 Pacific Ballroom, Vancouver Island Room
Posters 2
7:30–10:00 PM
 Pacific Ballroom, Vancouver Island Room
Wednesday, February 5, 2025
Breakfast
7:30–8:30 AM
 Pacific Ballroom, Vancouver Island Room
Intergenerational, Transgenerational and Early Life Training
8:30–11:30 AM
 British Ballroom
Keke C. Fairfax, University of Utah
Maternal Inflammation and Hematopoietic Stem Cell Priming
Colin C. Conine, University of Pennsylvania
Transgenerational Inheritance of Host-Microbe Crosstalk
Ai Ing Lim, Princeton University
Maternal-Offspring Immune Partnership
Petter Brodin, Karolinska Institutet
Early Life Imprinting of Human Immune System
Jonas Schulte-Schrepping †, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) / LIMES Institute
Short Talk: A Journey of Resilience: Investigating Hematopoietic Adaptations to Early-Life Stress and their Impact on Neurodegenerative Disease Development
Taylor Miller-Ensminger, University of Pennsylvania
Short Talk: Paternal Immune Activation Confers Epigenetically Inherited Protection to Offspring During Viral Infection
Coffee Break
9:30–9:50 AM
 British/Columbia Foyer
Poster Setup
11:30–1:00 PM
 Pacific Ballroom, Vancouver Island Room
On Own for Lunch
11:30–2:30 PM
Poster Viewing
1:00–10:00 PM
 Pacific Ballroom, Vancouver Island Room
Health Equity Forum
2:30–4:30 PM
 British Ballroom
Jed Friedman, University of Oklahoma
Colonization with Enterobacteriaceae Strain from Human Neonates Born to Mothers with Obesity Promotes Immune Cell Remodeling in Mice
Graeme J Koelwyn, Simon Fraser University
Myocardial Infarction Imprints Long-Term Dysfunctional Monocyte Reprogramming
Eva Kaufmann, Queen's University
Deciphering the Influence of the Immune Environment on Trained Immunity Induction
Sarah Crome †, University Health Network & University of Toronto
Natural Killer Cells Exhibit Resistance to Immunosuppression and Develop a Memory-Like Phenotype in Kidney Antibody-Mediated Rejection
Iris K Gratz, University of Salzburg
Skin Cancer in Patients With Recessive Dystrophic Epidermolysis Bullosa Is Associated With Dysregulated T Cells
Stephanie Z Xie, University Health Network
A Human Blood Stem Cell Subset That Retains Memory of Inflammatory Stress
Coffee Available
4:30–5:00 PM
 British/Columbia Foyer
Epigenetic Training of Innate-like and Adaptive Lymphocytes (Joint)
5:00–6:45 PM
 Columbia Ballroom
Ananda W. Goldrath, University of California, San Diego
Epigenetic Regulation of CD8 T Cell Differentiation and Function
Chiara Romagnani, German Rheumatism Research Centre
Cognate and Non-Cognate NK Cell Memory
Maziar Divangahi, McGill University
Trained Immunity in Anti-Pathogen Responses
Meeting Wrap-Up: Outcomes and Future Directions (Organizers) (Joint)
6:45–7:00 PM
 Columbia Ballroom
Social Hour with Lite Bites
7:00–8:00 PM
 Pacific Ballroom, Vancouver Island Room
Posters 3
7:30–10:00 PM
 Pacific Ballroom, Vancouver Island Room
Thursday, February 6, 2025
Departure
12:00–11:59 PM

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