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The Annual Meeting of the AAI (Located in Chicago)

May 3 May 7

Kristin Anderson

Will be presenting in the SITC session titled: Translating Cancer Immunology Discovery into Personalized Immunotherapy
Title of her poster: The development of TCR gene therapy
Author Line: Kristin G. Anderson
Date/Time: May 6, 2024 8:00-10:00 CT


Patrick Andrews

Title: Mice harboring a human Mediterranean G6PD gene variant causing G6PD deficiency have decreased B1b cells and atheroprotective IgM, and increased atherosclerosis.
Authors: Patrick Andrews, Prasad Srikakulapu, Yilun Zhou, Brett Ransegnola, Cassidy Blackburn, Emily Dennis, Skyler Loeb, Maria Ozsvar, Christoph Binder, James Zimring, & Coleen McNamara
Day/Time: 5/6/2024, 11:30-12:45 PM CT
Board: B589


In Su Cheon

Title of your poster: Function of tissue-resident helper T cells in chronic lung sequelae following viral pneumonia
Author line: In Su Cheon, Youngmin Son, Harish Narasimhan, Jun-sub Im, Robert Vassallo, Jie Sun
Day and time you will present: 5/6/2024  11:30 AM – 12:45 PM


Emily Dennis

Poster Title: Loss of TET2 increases cell number and reduces immunoglobulin CDR3 diversity in B-1 cells
Presentation Date/Time: 5/5/2024 11:30-12:45
Board Number: B563
Author Line: Emily Dennis, Maria Murach, Cassidy M.R. Blackburn, Melissa Marshall, Katherine Root, Tanyaporn Pattarabanjird, Loren Erickson, Christoph Binder, Stefan Bekiranov, and Coleen McNamara


Maile Hollinger

Presentation: “IL-33 downregulates human IL-33 expression in the pulmonary vasculature during allergic airway inflammation”
Authors: Chanie L Howard, University of Chicago; Donna C Decker, University of Chicago; Kelly M Blaine, University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering; Cara L Hrusch, AbbVie, Inc.; Emily M Grayson, University of Virginia; Ivy Aneas, University of Chicago; Daniel F Camacho, Yale School of Medicine; Nathan Schoettler, University of Chicago; Carole Ober, University of Chicago; Marcelo Nobrega, University of Chicago; Anne I Sperling, University of Virginia School of Medicine
Date and Time: 05/04/24 5:45 PM, Room W187

Poster 1: “IL-33 downregulates human IL-33 expression in the pulmonary vasculature during allergic airway inflammation”
Authors: Chanie L Howard, University of Chicago; Donna C Decker, University of Chicago; Kelly M Blaine, University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering; Cara L Hrusch, AbbVie, Inc.; Emily M Grayson, University of Virginia; Ivy Aneas, University of Chicago; Daniel F Camacho, Yale School of Medicine; Nathan Schoettler, University of Chicago; Carole Ober, University of Chicago; Marcelo Nobrega, University of Chicago; Anne I Sperling, University of Virginia School of Medicine
Date and time: 05/05/24 11:30-12:45
Poster board number: B1013

Poster 2: “Probiotic-derived exopolysaccharide interferes with Th2 priming and inhibits allergic inflammation”
Authors: Tania E Velez, University of Virginia School of Medicine; Emily M Grayson, University of Virginia School of Medicine; Rishi Sureshkumar, University of Virginia; Jesus Zamora-Pineda, Loyola University Chicago; Katherine L Knight, Loyola University Chicago; Anne I Sperling, University of Virginia School of Medicine
Date and time: 05/05/24 11:30-12:45
Poster board number: B867


Alexis Johnson

Title of your poster/presentation: Microglial SYK signaling exacerbates tau-mediated neurodegeneration
Author line: Alexis Johnson & John Lukens
Day and time you will present: Poster #B621, 5/5/2024 11:30 AM – 12:45 PM CT
Inflammation, Immune Signaling, and Immunomodulation Poster session


Harish Narasimhan

Title: Proximal immune-epithelial progenitor interactions drive chronic tissue sequelae post COVID-19
Authors: Harish Narasimhan, In Su Cheon, Wei Qian…..Jie Sun
Day/time: 5/5/2024, 9:45AM (Talk);  5/5/2024, B218 (poster)


Jie Sun

Title of your poster/presentation: Spatial immune-epithelial interactions drive respiratory sequelae post acute COVID-19
Author line: Jie Sun
Day and time you will present: 5/6/2024 | 12:45 PM – 2:15 PM | Room W187
Society for Mucosal Immunology (SMI) Symposium
Immunity and Immunopathology at Mucosal Surfaces


Tania Velez

Major symposium talk: “Major Symposium B- Recent Breakthroughs and emerging Therapeutic Strategies for Chronic Inflammatory and Fibrotic Diseases”
Title of your poster/presentation: Expanded GATA3+ T regulatory cells fail to control germinal center responses during pulmonary fibrosis in humans and mice.
Author line: Tania E. Velez
Day and time you will present: 5/4/2024 8:00am -11:30am (5th speaker of 7)
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American Association of Immunologists (AAI)

McCormick Place

Skyline Ballroom
Chicago, IL 60616 United States