IMMUNOLOGY2025™

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

Guest Symposia: Tuesday, May 6, 2025

Sun, May 4
MON, May 5

Tuesday, May 6, 2025 ⏐ 8:30 – 10:30 ⏐ Room 313C 

Human Immunology Project Consortium (HIPC) Symposium 

Systems-level Human Immune Profiling Data Resources and Analysis 

Chairs:

  • Bjoern Peters, La Jolla Inst. for Immunol., USA 
  • Carmen Mikacenic, Benaroya Res. Inst., USA 

Speakers:

  • Alessandro Sette, La Jolla Inst. for Immunol., USA, Evolution of adaptive responses following multiple SARS-CoV-2 exposures 
  • Carmen Mikacenic, Benaroya Res. Inst., USA, Altered mucosal immune responses to acute respiratory viral infections in rheumatoid arthritis 
  • Thomas Hagan, Cincinnati Children’s Hosp. Med. Ctr., USA, Defining vaccine and adjuvant fingerprints from the Immune Signatures Data Resource 
  • Victoria Zyulina, Icahn Sch. of Med. at Mount Sinai, USA, Phenotypic analyses of human responses to SARS-CoV-2, influenza, and Dengue virus vaccinations 

Tuesday, May 6, 2025 ⏐ 8:45 – 10:15 ⏐ Room 313B 

Korean Association of Immunologists and Association of Korean Immunologists in America (KAI & AKIA) Symposium 

Immune Aging 

Chairs:

  • Hye Young Young, Seoul Natl. Univ. Col. of Med., Pathology, KOR 
  • Youn Jung (Chloe) Choi, Cedars-Sinai Med. Ctr., USA 

Speakers:

  • Insoo Kang, Yale Sch. of Med., USA, Human CD8+ T cell senescence in health and disease 
  • You Jeong Lee, Seoul Natl. Univ., KOR, Human MAIT cells undergo clonal selection and expansion during thymic maturation and aging 
  • Minji Byun, Univ. of California, Irvine, USA, DNMT3A mutations: epigenetic drivers of immune dysfunction in aging 
  • Jong-Eun Park, Korea Advanced Inst. of Sci. and Technol., KOR, Lifetime dynamics of immune cells and the immune repertoire revealed by integrative single-cell analysis 

Tuesday, May 6, 2025 ⏐ 11:45 – 13:15 ⏐ Room 314 

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Division of Allergy, Immunology, and Transplantation (NIH, NIAID, DAIT) Symposium 

Breaches in Immune Regulation: Unforeseen Outcomes of Combatting Infection 

Chairs:

  • Moriah Castleman, Div. of Allergy Immunol. & Transplantation, Basic Immunol. Branch, Natl. Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, USA 
  • Julie Zikherman, UCSF, USA 

Speakers:

  • Julie Zikherman, UCSF, USA, Setting the stage: what is peripheral tolerance and what is healthy immune regulation  
  • Ignacio Sanz, Emory Univ., USA, Shared effector B cell responses in human autoimmunity and infection 
  • Nicole Baumgarth, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Sch. of Public Hlth., USA, Live and Let Live: immune dysregulation during persistent infection with the Lyme disease agent Borrelia burgdorferi 
  • Arup Chakraborty, MIT, USA, How persistent infections can overcome peripheral tolerance mechanisms to cause T cell mediated autoimmunity 

Tuesday, May 6, 2025 ⏐ 11:45 – 13:15 ⏐ Room 313B 

Chinese Society of Immunology, Taiwan (CSIT) Symposium 

Therapeutic Microenvironmental Orchestrators of Inflammation: Metabolites Microbes and Immune Dynamics  and Development 

Chairs:

  • Chien-Kuo Lee, Natl. Taiwan Univ., TWN 
  • Chia-Lin Hsu, Nat. Yang Ming Chiao Tung Univ. TWN 

Speakers:

  • Chia-Lin Hsu, Nat. Yang Ming Chiao Tung Univ. TWN, Thymic macrophages — the mediators of efferocytosis and metabolite recycling in the thymus  
  • Jian-Da Lin, Natl. Taiwan Univ. TWN, Dynamics of the immune system and gut microbiome in metabolic diseases progression  
  • Cheung-Lung Ku, Chang Gung Univ. TWN, Targeting autoimmunity: anti-IFNγ autoantibodies and CAR T therapy for vitiligo and beyond  

Tuesday, May 6, 2025 ⏐ 11:45 – 13:15 ⏐ Room 313C 

International Society for Immunology of Reproduction (ISIR) Symposium 

Next Gen Reproductive Immunology: Innovations and Insights Shaping the Future

Chairs:

  • Joanne Kwak-Kim, Chicago Med. Sch., USA 
  • Nardhy Gomez-Lopez, Washington Univ. Sch. of Med., St. Louis, USA 

Speakers:

  • Nathan Schuldt, Univ. of Minnesota, USA, Using ‘dirty mice’ to better model the immunology of the human maternal fetal interface 
  • Lachlan Moldenhauer, Univ. of Adelaide, AUS, Insulin resistance is associated with altered Treg cell phenotype in recurrent pregnancy loss patients 
  • Nardhy Gomez-Lopez, Washington Univ. Sch. of Med., St. Louis, USA, In utero inflammation causes preterm birth and adverse neonatal outcomes 
  • Ioannis Belios, Univ. Med. Ctr. Hamburg-Eppendorf, DEU, Maternal IgG1 allotypes determine the efficiency of the transplacental transfer of antibodies 
  • Brice Gaudilliere, Stanford Univ. Med. Sch., USA, Multi-omics monitoring across space and time for the prediction of pregnancy complications