The Carter Immunology Center sponsors a variety of educational activities that benefit graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and faculty alike. These events provide a rich, intellectual environment for broadening exposure to scientific discoveries, innovations, and contemporary issues within the field of immunology.

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The Annual Meeting of the AAI (Located in Honolulu, Hawaii)

May 3 May 7

Kristin Anderson

Will be presenting at Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC) Symposium: Cellular Therapy for Solid Cancers: From Concepts to Approvals 
SITC Session Day/time: Sunday, May 4, 2025 ⏐ 7:00 AM – 8:30 AM
Title of your poster/presentation: TCR Therapy for Solid Tumors: Antigens, Advances and Approvals
Author line: Kristin G. Anderson
Any details or graphics you would like to include: Room 313C from 7:20-7:40 a.m.

Title of your poster/presentation: Triple checkpoint blockade but not anti-PD-1 alone enhances engineered adoptive T cell therapy in a mouse model of advanced ovarian cancer
Author line: Gabriel F. Alencar, Madison G. Burnett, Anders Nelson, Yapeng Su, Valentin Voillet, Breanna M. Bates, Magdalia L. Rodgers Suarez, Susan L. Ruskin, Stefan Bekiranov, Raphael Gottardo, Philip D. Greenberg, Kristin G. Anderson
Day and time you will present: Sunday, May 04
Any details or graphics you would like to include: Abstract Number: 2090


Simona Bajgai

Abstract Title: Commensal dysbiosis distally reprograms mammary tissue mast cells to promote HR+ breast cancer metastasis.
Abstract Number: 3436
Presentation Date: Monday, May 05
Session Start Time: 8:45 AM
Presentation Room: Room 313A


Jinyi Tang

Abstract Title: Mechanisms of superior respiratory IgA responses against SARS-CoV-2 after mucosal vaccination
Author: Jinyi Tang, Arka Sen Chaudhuri, Panke Qu, Yue Wu, Fangming Zhu, Takao Kobayashi, Justin J. Taylor, Hui Hu, Hirohito Kita, Nu Zhang, Haitao Hu, Shan-lu Liu, and Jie Sun
Presentation Date: Saturday, May 03
Session Start Time: 1:00 PM
Presentation Room: Room 313A


Xiaoqin Wei

Abstract Title: Macrophage peroxisomes guide alveolar regeneration and limit post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (PASC)
Abstract Number: 2101
Presentation Date: Sunday, May 04
Session Start Time: 7:15 AM
Presentation: 7:15-7:30 a.m
Presentation Room: Room 316A


Daniel Zegarra-Ruiz

Title of poster: Development of microbiota-specific T cells during systemic autoimmunity (ID: 3776)
Author line: Vaella-Alarcon, M., Davila-Paico, S., Saldana-Morales, KS., Din, J., Bache, O., Zegarra-Ruiz, DF.
Day and time you will present: Tuesday, May 06 (1:15 PM – 2:30 PM)


American Association of Immunologists (AAI)

Hawaii Convention Center

1801 Kalakaua Ave.
Honolulu, Hawaii United States
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