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  • Wednesday, Jun 21st
    1:25 PM – 1:40 PM  
    Pathophysiological Mechanisms and Molecular Indicators of IPEX Disease and Their Implications for the Development of New Therapies
    Location: Salon H-K
    Presenting Author: Šimon Borna, Ph.D. – Stanford University
    Autoimmune Diseases
  • Wednesday, Jun 21st
    3:15 PM – 3:30 PM  
    The Roles of CD4+ and CD8+ Regulatory T Cells in Controlling Autoimmune Response in the Human Tonsil Organoid System
    Location: Salon F-G
    Presenting Author: Xin Chen – Stanford University
    Autoimmune Diseases
  • Wednesday, Jun 21st
    3:30 PM – 3:45 PM  
    Single Cell Sequencing Suggests Enteric Origins of Putative Pathogenic T Cells in hla-b27-associated Inflammation
    Location: Salon F-G
    Presenting Author: Michael A. Paley, MD PhD – Washington University School of Medicine
    Autoimmune Diseases
  • Wednesday, Jun 21st
    4:45 PM – 5:00 PM  
    Pathogenic Autoreactive Th Cells Are Identified in Autoimmune Neuroinflammation by Expression of neuropilin-1 (NRP1)
    Location: Salon F-G
    Presenting Author: Ben JE Raveney, Ph.D. – National Institute of Neuroscience, NCNP
    Autoimmune Diseases
  • Wednesday, Jun 21st
    3:45 PM – 4:00 PM  
    Dermatomyositis skin inflammation is associated with type-I IFN response and the presence of PD1-high, CXCR5-, CXCL13+ CD4+ T cells, which expands in response to UVB irradiation
    Location: Salon H-K
    Presenting Author: Khashayar Afshari – UMass Chan Medical School
    Autoimmune Diseases
  • Wednesday, Jun 21st
    3:45 PM – 4:00 PM  
    Unique Cellular and Autoantibody Signatures in Patients with Iraes Revealed by Longitudinal Immune Tracking
    Location: Salon A-D
    Presenting Author: Sokratis Apostolidis, MD – University of Pennsylvania
    Autoimmune Diseases
  • Wednesday, Jun 21st
    4:15 PM – 4:30 PM  
    Natural killer cells as immunological signatures of long-term stable remission in Rheumatoid Arthritis
    Location: Salon H-K
    Presenting Author: Carl Coyle, PhD – King's College London
    Autoimmune Diseases
  • Thursday, Jun 22nd
    3:15 PM – 3:30 PM  
    Genetic Variants Associated with Immune Cell Population Abundances in Single-cell Data
    Location: Salon H-K
    Presenting Author: Laurie Rumker – Harvard University
    Autoimmune Diseases
  • Thursday, Jun 22nd
    4:00 PM – 4:15 PM  
    Leveraging Single Cell Transcriptomics to Identify Pathogenic Cell Lineages
    Location: Salon H-K
    Presenting Author: Giorgio Gaglia, Ph.D. – Precision Medicine and Computational Biology, Sanofi US R&D
    Autoimmune Diseases
  • Thursday, Jun 22nd
    4:45 PM – 5:00 PM  
    Effects of Latent EBV on Responses to anti-cd3 Mab (teplizumab) in Type 1 Diabetes
    Location: Salon A-D
    Presenting Author: Ana Maria Lledó Delgado – Yale University
    Autoimmune Diseases
  • Thursday, Jun 22nd
    4:45 PM – 5:00 PM  
    Role of fam83h in Immune System Homeostasis
    Location: Salon H-K
    Presenting Author: Betul Melike Ogan, MSc – Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of Sciences
    Autoimmune Diseases
  • Thursday, Jun 22nd
    3:15 PM – 3:30 PM  
    A Search for Post-translationally-modified Trichohyalin Epitopes: Potential Triggers of Autoimmunity to Hair Follicles in Alopecia Areata
    Location: Salon F-G
    Presenting Author: Shahnawaz Jadeja, MSc, PhD – University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland
    Autoimmune Diseases
  • Thursday, Jun 22nd
    4:15 PM – 4:30 PM  
    Deep Immunophenotyping Reveals Cellular Phenotypes in Peripheral Blood Associated with Specific Patterns of Kidney Injury in Lupus Nephritis
    Location: Salon F-G
    Presenting Author: Alice Horisberger, MD – Brigham and Woman's Hospital
    Autoimmune Diseases
  • Thursday, Jun 22nd
    4:30 PM – 4:45 PM  
    Correlation of Urine Immune Cells with Renal Histological Features in Lupus Nephritis: Lessons from the Accelerating Medicines Partnership (AMP) in SLE Consortium
    Location: Salon F-G
    Presenting Author: Rayan Najjar, MD, MPH – University of Washington
    Autoimmune Diseases