Tuesday, May 10

Major Symposium G

Immunology of COVID-19: Mechanisms of Pathology and Protection

Chairs

• Ali H. Ellebedy, Washington Univ. Sch. of Med. in St. Louis
• Deepta Bhattacharya, Univ. of Arizona

Speakers

• Ali H. Ellebedy, Washington Univ. Sch. of Med. in St. Louis, Germinal center B cell response to SARS-CoV-2
• Ivan Zanoni, Harvard Univ., Interferons: friends or foes in COVID-19?
• Michela Locci, Perelman Sch. of Med. at the Univ. of Pennsylvania, Immunological mechanisms of messenger RNA vaccines
• Paul G. Thomas, St. Jude Children’s Res. Hosp., Deconstructing the form and function of T cell responses to SARS-CoV-2
• Taia T. Wang, Stanford Univ., Structurally and functionally distinct antibody responses predict COVID-19 disease trajectory and mRNA vaccine response
• Deepta Bhattacharya, Univ. of Arizona, Antibody recall responses to heterologous SARS-CoV-2 infections

Major Symposium H

New Insights into Autoimmunity and Immune Tolerance

Chairs

• Hongbo Chi, St. Jude Children’s Res. Hosp.
• Vijay K. Kuchroo, Brigham and Women’s Hosp.

Speakers

• Mandy J. McGeachy, Univ. of Pittsburgh, IL-17 from translation to function
• Vijay K. Kuchroo, Brigham and Women’s Hosp., Role of gut-resident stem-like Th17 cells in inducing tissue inflammation and autoimmunity
• Qizhi Tang, Univ. of California, San Francisco, Human Treg response to inflammation
• Hongbo Chi, St. Jude Children’s Res. Hosp., Nutrients: signal 4 for licensing T cell immunity and tolerance
• Vanja Lazarevic, NCI, NIH, Transcriptional regulation of CD4⁺ T cells that mediate neuroinflammation
• Richard A. Flavell, Yale Univ. Sch. of Med., Lessons from a humanized mouse model of COVID-19

Block Symposia

• Antigen Processing and Presentation II

   Room A107–109

• B Cell Differentiation, Regulation, and Function

   Room B117–119

• Cytokine and Chemokine Control of Cellular Immunity

   Room C123–124

• Immunoregulation—Innate Immune Responses

   Room B110–112

• Non-Immune Therapies in Cancer

   Room B113–116

Block Symposia

• Adaptive Immunity in Inflammation

   Room C123–124

• Cells of the Innate Immune System

   Room A107–109

• Immunity to Microbial, Parasitic, and Fungal Infections I

   Room B117–119

• Lymphocyte Homeostasis and Regulation

   Room B110–112

• Molecular Mechanisms of T Cell Signaling

   Room A105–106

• Tumor Microenvironment (TME) II

   Room B113–116