April 9-10, 2024
Day 1
1:30-2:00 Registration and poster set-up
2:00-2:05 Welcome
Autumn Marsden, PhD, Gulf Coast Consortia
David Corry, MD, Baylor College of Medicine
2:05-2:50 Keynote Presentation
Engineered Regulatory T Cells for Tolerance Induction
Megan Levings
Univ. of British Columbia
Session 1
Convenors: Weiyi Peng, Univ. of Houston
TBA
2:50-3:10 Exploration of a Novel Oncolytic Virus as a Unique Platform for Harnessing Cancer Immunotherapy
Shaun Zhang, MD, PhD
Univ. of Houston
3:10-3:30 Structural Modeling and Dynamic Contact Analysis of TCRpHLA Complexes
Dinler Antunes, DSc
Univ. of Houston
3:30-3:45 T-Cell Dysfunction Associated With The LRRK2 Mutation In The Pathogenesis Of Parkinson’s Disease
Ningbo Zheng, PhD
Univ. of Houston
3:45-4:15 Lightning poster talks- odd-numbered posters
4:15-5:15 Poster session odd-numbered posters (event hall)
April 10, 2024
Day 2
8:30 Welcome
David Corry, MD, Baylor College of Medicine
Convenors
8:35-9:20 Keynote Presentation
Exploiting Antigen Presentation Pathways for Precision Immune Engineering
Novalia Pishesha, PhD
Boston Children’s Hospital
Session 2 Univ. of Texas Medical Branch Galveston
Convenors: Alison Coady, Univ. of Texas Medical Branch Galveston
TBA
9:20-9:40 Role of IL-17 Pathways in Immunity and Immune Pathogenesis in TB and TB/HIV Co-infection
Janice Endsley, PhD
Univ. of Texas Medical Branch Galveston
9:40-10:00 Broad Protection and Host Immunity of mRNA Vaccines Against SARS-CoV-2 Variants
Haitao Hu, PhD
Univ. of Texas Medical Branch Galveston
10:00-10:15 Selected from Abstracts
A Complex Role of IFN-I on Antibacterial Immunity During Influenza A Virus and Streptococcus pneumoniae Co-pathogenesis
Sunil Palani, MS
Univ. of Texas Medical Branch Galveston
10:15-10:30 Break
Session 3 MD Anderson Cancer Center
Convenors: Roza Nurieva, MD Anderson Cancer Center
Mauro Di Pilato, MD Anderson Cancer Center
10:300-10:50 The Epigenetic Regulation of T Cell-Mediated Anti-Tumor Immunity
Sangeeta Goswami, MD, PhD
MD Anderson Cancer Center
10:50-11:10 Welcome to the 4th Dimension: Tracking Leukocyte Migration in Homeostasis and Inflammation
Jason M. Schenkel, MD, PhD
MD Anderson Cancer Center
11:10-11:25 Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor-Mediated Colitis: Mechanistic Insights and Therapeutic Targets
Naimah Turner, MS
MD Anderson Cancer Center
11:25-11:55 Lightning talks-even number posters
11:55-12:30 lunch (event hall)
12:30-1:30 posters-even number posters
Session 4 Baylor College of Medicine
Convenors: David Corry, Baylor College of Medicine
Max Mamonkin, Baylor College of Medicine
1:30-1:50 Cell-Based Therapeutic Vaccination as Adjuvant Therapy for Glioblastoma: Ongoing Phase I Analysis
William Decker, PhD
Baylor College of Medicine
1:50-2:10 Dietary Lipid Effects on Intestinal Macrophage Antimicrobial Responses to Intestinal Injury
Andrea McAlester, PhD
Baylor College of Medicine
2:10-2:25 Let-7 MicroRNA Maintains Lung Epithelial Stem Cell Homeostasis via EZH2 Histone Methylation
Matthew Seasock, BS
Baylor College of Medicine
2:25-2:40 Break
Session 5 UT Health Science Center/Rice University/ Houston Methodist Hospital
Convenors: Jin Wang, Methodist Hospital Houston
Pamela Wenzel, UT Health Science Center
2:40-3:00 Bone Marrow Mononuclear Cell Therapy Improves Traumatic Brain Injury Via IDO-Expressing Monocytes
Joanna Bianchi, PhD
University of Texas Health Sciences Center
3:00-3:20 Use of Biodegradable Pulsatile Release Microparticles to Enable Single-Injection Vaccination for Rabies Post-exposure Prophylaxis
Tyler P. Graf, ME
Rice University
3:20-3:35
A Th1 Cytokine Response Is Associated with Protection from Candida Gut Colonization in Critically Ill Patients
Max Adelman, MD
Houston Methodist Hospital
3:35 Closing remarks and award