Cells of the Innate Immune System

 Tuesday, May 10, 2022     10:15 AM – 12:15 PM ET     Room A107–109

Cells of the Innate Immune System

Chairs

• Maninjay Atianand, Univ. of Pittsburgh
• Dimitry Krementsov, Univ. of Vermont

Speakers

• Sarah J. Sun, Univ. of Chicago, BCG vaccination impacts the epigenetic landscape of progenitor cells in human bone marrow
• Dimitry N. Krementsov, Univ. of Vermont, LncRNA U90926 is induced in activated macrophages, encodes a novel secreted protein, and is protective in endotoxic shock
• Kevin E. Vergara, Univ. of Pittsburgh Sch. of Med., The long noncoding RNA LUCAT1 promotes immune gene expression in human macrophages
• Oscar A. Aguilar, Univ. of California, San Francisco, CD3ζ adaptor structure determines functional differences between human and mouse CD16 Fc-gamma receptor signaling in natural killer cells
• Fernando Souza-Fonseca-Guimaraes, Univ. of Queensland Diamantina Inst., TGF-β and CIS inhibition synergistically enhance natural killer cell-based immunity
• Zhenyu Zhong, Univ. of Texas Southwestern Med. Ctr., dNTP catabolism is a macrophage-intrinsic gatekeeper preventing NLRP3 inflammasome hyperactivation
• Heather L. Caslin, Vanderbilt Univ., Do adipose macrophages remember obesity? Innate immune memory in weight cycling