The Richard A. Flavell Symposium
September 10, 2015
8:30am
Welcome Remarks
Dean Robert Alpern
Session 1: Molecular Control of Gene
Expression and Cell Signaling
8:50am
9:10am
9:30am
9:50am
10:10am
Of Gene Structure and Expression
Frank Grosveld
Telomeres: From Gimme Shelter to
Stuck in the Middle with You
Titia de Lange
Metabolic Stress Signaling by JNK
Roger Davis
Wnt Signaling in the Liver
Roel Nusse
Birth of the Cool Acari
Erol Fikrig
Session 2: B Lymphocyte Development and Function
Topological Associated Chromosomal
Domains and Genomic Rearrangements
Frederick Alt
11:20am Transcriptional Control of Plasma Cell
Development and Function
Meinrad Busslinger
11:40am Molecular Mechanisms Regulating
B Cell Survival in Health and Disease
Idit Shachar
12:00pm The HIV Problem
Michel Nussenzweig
September 11, 2015
Session 3: T Lymphocyte Development and Function
1:40pm
Session 5: Microbiota, Mucosal Immunity and Inflammation
8:30am
Innate Brilliance and Adaptive Grandeur
Cheong-Hee Chang
2:00pm Regulatory T Cells
8:50am
Alexander Rudensky
2:20pm Metabolic Reprograming of T Cell Responses
Hongbo Chi
9:10am
2:40am
Molecular Mechanisms of T Cell Differentiation
Chen Dong
9:30am
Session 4: Gene Regulation and Cell Signaling in
Innate Immunity
9:50am
3:30pm
3:50pm
11:00am
4:10pm
4:30am
4:50pm
5:10pm
Recognition of Self-Derived Molecules by
Innate Receptors in Inflammation and
Tumor Immunity
Tada Taniguchi
In Vivo Roles of lincRNAs in the Immune
System Using CRISPR/Cas9
Jorge Henao-Mejia
CITA and CIITA: Regulation of MHC Gene
Expression
Koichi Kobayashi
NF-kB in Immunity and Inflammation
Sankar Ghosh
Interplay of Nucleic Acid Sensing-TLRs
and Lupus Autoimmunity
Lena Alexopoulou
Innate Immunity in Alzheimer’s Disease
Terrence Town
Dysbionts in Health and Disease:
are they Birds of the Same Feather?
Dan Littman
Intestinal Microbiota-Mediated Defense
Against Bacterial Infections
Eric Pamer
Host Microbiome Interactions in Health
and Disease
Eran Elinav
Mucosal Anti-Viral Immunity
Shomyseh Sanjabi
IL-6 Twenty Years Later
Mercedes Rincon
Session 6: Breaking Bad: Autoimmunity and Tumor Immunology
10:30am
Circling Back to our (Mutual)
Immunological Roots
Diane Mathis
10:50am TWEAKing Fibrosis: A Renal Tale
Linda Burkly
11:10am New Insights into the Pathology of Type 1
and 2 Diabetes
Matthias von Herrath
11:30am Synthetic Drug Combinations for Cancer
Rene Bernards
11:50am Immunity and Tolerance in Cancer
Ming Li
12:10pm The Mechanistic Basis of Cancer Immunotherapy
Ira Mellman