IMMUNOLOGY2025™

May 3–7, 2025 | Honolulu, Hawai’i, USA

Guest Symposia: Monday, May 5, 2025

Sun, May 4
TUE, May 6

Monday, May 5, 2025 ⏐ 7:00 – 8:30 ⏐ Room 315 

International Retroviral Association (IRVA) Symposium 

Retroviruses in Cancer and Immunity 

Chairs:

  • Lishomwa Ndhlovu, Weill Cornell Med. Col., USA 
  • Pooja Jain, Drexel Univ., USA 

Speakers:

  • Pooja Jain, Drexel Univ., USA, Introduction; EBV reactivation in people living with HIV/AID 
  • Lishomwa Ndhlovu, Weill Cornell Med. Col., USA, HERVs, immunology, cancer 
  • Luis Montaner, Univ. of Pennsylvania, USA, HIV immunology 
  • Douglas Nixon, North Shore Univ. Hospital, USA, HERVs and cancer 
  • Bobby Brooke Herrera, Rutgers Univ., USA, HTLV and cancer 

Monday, May 5, 2025 ⏐ 7:00 – 8:30 ⏐ Room 313C 

International Cytokine and Interferon Society (ICIS) Symposium 

RNA Regulation in Immunity 

Chairs:

  • Susan Carpenter, Univ. of California, Santa Cruz, USA 
  • Ram Savan, Univ. of Washington, USA 

Speakers:

  • Kristin L. Patrick, Vanderbilt Univ. Med. Ctr., USA, RNA binding proteins: concertmasters of antibacterial immunity 
  • Susan Carpenter, Univ. of California, Santa Cruz, USA, Long noncoding RNAs as regulators of innate immunity 
  • Naeha Subramanian, Inst. for Systems Biol., USA, From defense to dysfunction: RNA regulation at the edge of innate immunity and cancer 
  • Ram Savan, Univ. of Washington, USA, Host RNA regulate interferon responses 
  • Helene Liu, Natl. Taiwan Univ., USA, Aberrant self-RNA recognition and MDA5 activation in senescence and autoimmunity 

Monday, May 5, 2025 ⏐ 7:00 – 9:00 ⏐ Room 314 

National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIH, NIEHS) Symposium 

Immune Development in Early Life 

Chairs:

  • Michael Humble, NIEHS, NIH, USA 
  • Mercy PrabhuDas, NIEHS, NIH, USA 
  • Ofer Levy, Boston Children’s Hosp., USA 

Speakers:

  • Joshua Gray, Columbia Univ., USA, Development of tissue-specific adaptive immunity in early life 
  • Justine Levan, UCSF, USA, Transcriptional and TCR profiling reveals an expansion of cytotoxic, differentiated γδT cells following in utero CMV infection 
  • Andrea Reboldi, Univ. of Massachusetts Chan Med. Sch., USA, Infant skin immune system: new molecular insights 
  • Ofer Levy, Boston Children’s Hosp., USA, Immune development in early life impacts vaccines responsiveness, respiratory infection, & asthma 

Monday, May 5, 2025 ⏐ 8:45 – 10:15 ⏐ Room 315 

American Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) Symposium 

New Roles for Classic Players in Innate Immunity Against Parasites 

Chairs:

  • Pedro Gazzinelli-Guimaraes, George Washington Univ., USA 
  • Rafael Polidoro, Indiana Univ., USA 

Speakers:

  • Philip Scott, Univ. of Pennsylvania Sch. of Vet. Med., USA, How classic players in innate immunity promote disease in leishmaniasis 
  • Pedro Gazzinelli-Guimaraes, George Washington Univ., USA, IL-11 regulation in mucosal inflammation during helminth infection 
  • Prasida Holla, Indiana Univ. Sch. of Med., USA, Baseline innate immune activation is correlated with control of subsequent parasitemia in very young Malian children 
  • Lais Amorium Sacramento, Univ. of Pennsylvania, USA, Malnutrition drives an IL-1β-dependent systemic inflammation in visceral leishmaniasis 

Monday, May 5, 2025 ⏐ 8:45 – 10:15 ⏐ Room 313C 

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Autoimmunity and Mucosal Immunology Branch (NIH, NIAID, AMIB) Symposium

Sex Differences in Inflammation and Autoimmunity 

Chairs:

  • Deborah Hodge, Autoimmunity and Mucosal Immunol. Branch, NIAID, NIH, USA 
  • Laurence Morel, UT Hlth. Sci. Ctr., USA 

Speakers:

  • Diana Dou, Duke Univ., USA, A female conundrum: when 2 X’s need to Xist 
  • Yunlong Liang, Michigan State Univ., USA, Genetic and environmental regulation of sex differences in autoimmunity 
  • Meera Nair, Univ. of California, Riverside, USA, Sex-dependent innate immune mechanisms in type 2 immunity and obesity 
  • Jesse Williams, Univ. of Minnesota, USA, Sex dimorphisms in adrenal gland macrophage development and response to stress 

Monday, May 5, 2025 ⏐ 11:45 – 13:15 ⏐ Room 313A 

American Society of Transplantation (AST) Symposium 

Innate and Tissue Resident Immune Cells in Transplantation 

Chairs:

  • Jonathan Maltzman, Stanford Univ., USA 
  • Robert Fairchild, Cleveland Clin., USA 

Speakers:

  • Martin Oberbarnscheidt, Univ. of Pittsburgh, USA, Innate immune memory 
  • Robert Fairchild, Cleveland Clin., USA, NK cells in antibody-mediated rejection 
  • Jonathan Maltzman, Stanford Univ., USA, Tregs need more Foxps than Foxp3 

Monday, May 5, 2025 ⏐ 12:45 – 14:15 ⏐ Room 313B 

International Complement Society (ICS) Symposium 

Complement as a Responder System to Microenvironmental Cues 

Monday, May 5, 2025 ⏐ 15:30 – 17:00 ⏐ Room 314 

European Federation of Immunological Societies (EFIS) Symposium 

Myeloid Cells in Inflammation and Tissue Fibrosis 

Chairs:

  • Amiram Ariel, Univ. of Haifa, ISR 
  • Annabel Valledor-Fernandez, Univ. de Barcelona, ESP 

Speakers:

  • Andriano Rossi, Univ. of Edinburgh, SCT, Neutrophil function in repair following acute liver and lung injury 
  • Aline Bozec, Erlangen Univ., DEU, Eosinophil function in resolution of inflammatory arthritis 
  • Andreas Wigert, Goethe Univ., DEU, Interleukin-38 at the crossroads of auto-inflammation and anti-tumor immunity 
  • Amiram Ariel, Univ. of Haifa, ISR, Selective cross-talk between liver X receptors (LXRs) and C/EBPβ in the macrophage inflammatory response 
  • Annabel Valledor-Fernandez, Univ. de Barcelona, ESP, Novel effectors in the resolution of inflammation and tissue fibrosis 

Monday, May 5, 2025 ⏐ 15:30 – 17:00 ⏐ Room 315 

Society for Mucosal Immunology (SMI) and the Mucosal Immunology Studies Team (MIST) Symposium 

Tolerance and Immune Regulation at the Mucosa 

Chairs:

  • Gregory F. Sonnenberg, Weill Cornell Med., USA 
  • Carla V. Rothlin, Yale Univ., USA 

Speakers:

  • Gregory F. Sonnenberg, Weill Cornell Med., USA, Innate lymphoid cell mediated tolerance in the gut 
  • Marion Pepper, Univ. of Washington, USA, Tissue immunity in the lungs 
  • Rodney D. Newberry, Washington Univ. Sch. of Med., St. Louis, USA, New roles for goblet cells in intestinal immunity 
  • Carla V. Rothlin, Yale Univ., USA, Decoding the response to cell death 

Monday, May 5, 2025 ⏐ 15:30 – 17:00 ⏐ Room 313C 

Chinese Society for Immunology (CSI) Symposium 

Therapeutic Discovery and Development 

Chairs:

  • Yiwei Chu, Fudan Univ., CHN 
  • Thirumala-Devi Kanneganti, St. Jude Children’s Res. Hosp., USA 

Speakers:

  • Bing Sun, Shanghai Inst. of Biochemistry and Cell Biol., Chinese Acad. of Sci., CHN, GSDMD-p40 activation controls IL-33 release and ILC2 function in asthma disease 
  • Di Wang, Zhejiang Univ. Sch. of Med., CHN, Another face of the pyroptotic executor in regulating physiological and cellular homeostasis 
  • Yiwei Chu, Fudan Univ., CHN, Foxp3 confers long-term efficacy of CAR T cells via metabolic reprograming 
  • Hanjie Li, Shenzhen Inst. of Adv. Technol., Chinese Acad. of Sci., CHN, Peripheral microglia: discovery and beyond 
  • Yunlong Cao, BioMed. Pioneering Innovation Ctr. (BIOPIC) Peking Univ., CHN, Humoral immunity and antibodies at single-cell and molecular level 
  • Yi Zhang, First Affiliated Hosp., Zhengzhou Univ., CHN, Clinical practice of cellular immunotherapy for cancer