Guest Symposia
Based on feedback from AAI members and meeting attendees, AAI is pleased to announce an open call for Guest Symposia proposals!
Proposals for a Guest Symposium may be submitted on behalf of a professional society or association, NIH institute, or other nonprofit organization. For-profit exhibiting companies are encouraged to take advantage of exhibitor workshops held in the exhibit hall. The AAI Program Committee encourages symposia that address the following suggested topics:
- Sex Differences in Immune Responses (includes immune interactions at the maternal:fetal interface)
- Peripheral Tolerance and Immune Regulation (excludes tumor microenvironment; includes responses outside organized lymphoid tissue)
- Microenvironmental Triggers of Inflammation (includes consequences of microbial diversity, metabolites, fibroblasts, and stromal cells)
- Innate Immunology and Host:Pathogen Interactions (includes neutrophils, macrophages, and innate memory)
- New Techniques and Approaches in Immunological Research
- Immunology Across the Ages (includes early life/pediatric immunology, aging, and senescence)
- Immune Mechanisms of Fibrosis
- Therapeutic Discovery and Development (includes clinical research in humans, translational, pre-clinical, and clinical studies for vaccine responses, infectious disease, autoimmunity, allergy, transplant, T1D, etc.)
- And more!
Submissions must include the name and location of the submitting organization, topic, session title and description, a main contact for the session, proposed chairs and speakers, and the preferred time for the session (all sessions will be scheduled for 1.5-hours). Please do not invite chairs or speakers until the session has been reviewed and approved by AAI. For more information, please refer to this document.
Proposals can be submitted online. The call for Guest Symposia proposals will close on December 4, 2024.