Full Schedule

7:00 AM – 5:00 PM

Registration Desk Open

Location: Registration Desk

7:30 AM – 8:00 AM

Coffee with the Exhibitors

Location: Salon E

7:30 AM – 7:45 PM

Exhibition & Poster Hall Open (authors optional)

Location: Salon E

8:00 AM – 9:30 AM

Fibrosis and Wound Healing

Location: Salon F-G

Chair: – Yale School of Medicine

8:00 AM – 8:30 AM

Lung Fibroblast Heterogeneity in Health and Disease

Location: Salon F-G

Speaker: – University of California, San Francisco

8:30 AM – 9:00 AM

Title TBD

Location: Salon F-G

Speaker: – Regeneron

9:00 AM – 9:30 AM

Advances, Challenges, and New Therapeutic Strategies for Fibrotic Disease

Location: Salon F-G

Speaker: – Pfizer, Inc.

9:35 AM – 10:00 AM

Coffee Break

Location: Salon E

10:00 AM – 10:30 AM

Metabolic Causes and Consequences of Post-viral Syndromes

Location: Salon F-G

Speaker: – University of Pennsylvania

10:30 AM – 11:00 AM

TBD

Location: Salon F-G

Speaker: – Stanford University

11:00 AM – 11:30 AM

Viral Persistence, Immune Dysregulation and Inflammation Following COVID-19 - A New Paradigm?

Location: Salon F-G

Speaker: – University of California, San Francisco

11:30 AM – 1:00 PM

Partner Program: History of Women in FOCIS: Navigating Your Way into a Leadership Role

Location: Gloucester Room, 3rd Floor

Speaker: – Stanford University

Co-Chair: – UCLA

Co-Chair: – University of Pennsylvania

Co-Chair: – University of British Columbia

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1:00 PM – 2:45 PM

Disorders of Innate Immunity

Location: Salon A-D

Chair: – San Raffaele Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy (SR-Tiget), San Raffaele Scientific Institute

1:00 PM – 1:25 PM

Role of Functional Programming of Alveolar Macrophages in the Susceptibility to Pneumonia and Cancer After Acute Inflammation

Location: Salon A-D

Speaker: – Nantes University

1:25 PM – 1:40 PM

Establishing Leptomeninges Immune Dynamics and Regulatory Control of T Cell Infiltration in the Degenerating Human Brain

Location: Salon A-D

Presenting Author: – Columbia University

Disorders of Innate Immunity

1:40 PM – 2:05 PM

Inborn Errors of Pattern-triggered Immunity

Location: Salon A-D

Speaker: – Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich

2:05 PM – 2:20 PM

Virus Infection Causes Intestinal Dysbiosis to Promote Type 1 Diabetes Development

Location: Salon A-D

Presenting Author: – University of British Columbia

Disorders of Innate Immunity

2:20 PM – 2:45 PM

The Two Faces of Autoinflammatory Skin Disorders

Location: Salon A-D

Speaker: – University of California, San Diego

1:00 PM – 2:45 PM

Engineered Cell Therapy - Non-oncology

Location: Salon F-G

Chair:

1:00 PM – 1:25 PM

Enhancing Engineered Treg Therapies

Location: Salon F-G

Speaker: – Sonoma Biotherapeutics

1:25 PM – 1:40 PM

Crispr-mediated Deletion of PD1 to Enhance the Efficacy of Human CAR Tregs

Location: Salon F-G

Presenting Author: – The University of British Columbia

Engineered Cell Therapy - Non-Oncology

1:40 PM – 2:05 PM

Engineering Tcr-tregs for Autoimmune Disease

Location: Salon F-G

Speaker: – Abata Therapeutics

2:05 PM – 2:20 PM

GNTI-122 Is a Stable Engineered Regulatory T Cell Therapy for Type 1 Diabetes That Is Specific, Expandable, and Efficacious in in Vivo Models

Location: Salon F-G

Presenting Author: – GentiBio, Inc

Engineered Cell Therapy - Non-Oncology

2:20 PM – 2:45 PM

Rescuing Primary Immundeficiencies by Advanced Genetic Engineering of Hematopoietic Stem Cells and T cells

Location: Salon F-G

Speaker: – San Raffaele Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy (SR-Tiget)

1:00 PM – 2:45 PM

Microbiome/Mucosal Immunity

Location: Salon H-K

Chair: – Instituto de Biotecnologia/ UNAM & MEXTIRG FCE

1:00 PM – 1:25 PM

Unveiling the Complexity of IgE and Food Allergy: Beyond Clinical Reactions

Location: Salon H-K

Speaker: – King's College London

1:25 PM – 1:40 PM

Molecular Underpinnings and Significance of Regulatory T-cell Plasticity in Cancer

Location: Salon H-K

Presenting Author: – Mayo Clinic

Microbiome / Mucosal Immunity

1:40 PM – 2:05 PM

Small Intestinal Tuft Cells: Sentinels and Effectors of Type 2 Immunity

Location: Salon H-K

Speaker: – University of Washington

2:05 PM – 2:20 PM

Mapping the Impact of Vaccination and Viral Strain on sars-cov-2 Infection and Host Response in the Human Nasal Mucosa

Location: Salon H-K

Presenting Author: – Harvard Medical School / Boston Children's Hospital

Microbiome / Mucosal Immunity

2:20 PM – 2:45 PM

Extracellular Vesicles Isolated from Prevotella Histicola Induce a Population of Inflammation Resolving CD4 T Cells

Location: Salon H-K

Speaker: – Evelo Biosciences

2:45 PM – 3:15 PM

Coffee Break

Location: Salon E

3:15 PM – 5:15 PM

COVID and Infectious Diseases

Location: Salon A-D

Chair:

3:15 PM – 3:30 PM

Similarities and Differences Between Myocarditis Following COVID-19 Mrna Vaccine and Multiple Inflammatory Syndrome with Cardiac Involvement in Children

Location: Salon A-D

Presenting Author: – Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital

COVID-19

3:30 PM – 3:45 PM

3rd and 4th Doses of Mrna Vaccines Broaden and Prolong Immune Responses to sars-cov-2 in Immunocompromised Patients with Immune-mediated Inflammatory Diseases

Location: Salon A-D

Presenting Author: – University of Toronto

COVID-19

3:45 PM – 4:00 PM

Longitudinal Antigen-specific Immune Profiling During sars-cov-2 Breakthrough Infection Highlights Early Activation of Memory CD8 T Cells Followed by Later Activation of Memory B Cells

Location: Salon A-D

Presenting Author: – University of Pennsylvania

COVID-19

4:00 PM – 4:15 PM

Heme Oxygenase 1 (HO-1) Expression in Dendritic Cells Promotes Antiviral Immunity Against Herpes Simplex Virus Skin Infection

Location: Salon A-D

Presenting Author: – P. Universidad Católica de Chile

Infectious Diseases

4:15 PM – 4:30 PM

Characterization of novel Nematode Pan Allergen (NPA)

Location: Salon A-D

Presenting Author: – University of Illinois Chicago, College of Medicine Rockford

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: – Yale University

Autoimmune Diseases

5:00 PM – 5:15 PM

Serological Assessment of Patients Undergoing Peanut Oral Immunotherapy: The Role of IgG4

Location: Salon A-D

Presenting Author: – McGill University

3:15 PM – 5:15 PM

Flow Cytometry Course: Day 2

Location: Provincetown Room

Chair: – Stanford University

Speaker: – Stanford University

Speaker: – Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

3:15 PM – 5:15 PM

Immunogenetics

Location: Salon H-K

Chair: – Division of Stem Cell Transplantation and Regenerative Medicine, Department of Pediatrics and Institute of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine

3:15 PM – 3:30 PM

Genetic Variants Associated with Immune Cell Population Abundances in Single-cell Data

Location: Salon H-K

Presenting Author: – Harvard University

Autoimmune Diseases

3:30 PM – 3:45 PM

Chromatin Conformation During CD4+ T Cell Activation Implicates Autoimmune Disease Candidate Genes

Location: Salon H-K

Presenting Author: – The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Immunogenetics

3:45 PM – 4:00 PM

The FAM72 Gene Family Promotes Cancer Development by Disabling the Base Excision Repair System

Location: Salon H-K

Presenting Author: – University of Toronto

Immuno-oncology

4:00 PM – 4:15 PM

Leveraging Single Cell Transcriptomics to Identify Pathogenic Cell Lineages

Location: Salon H-K

Presenting Author: – Precision Medicine and Computational Biology, Sanofi US R&D

Autoimmune Diseases

4:15 PM – 4:30 PM

Overactive STAT3 Drives Dysregulated Accumulation of Self-reactive and Autoimmune-associated cd21low cd23low B Cells

Location: Salon H-K

Presenting Author: – Garvan Institute of Medical Research

Immunogenetics

4:30 PM – 4:45 PM

Genome-wide Crispr-interference Screens Connect Non-coding Autoimmune Risk Variants to T Cell Functions

Location: Salon H-K

Presenting Author: – Benaroya Research Institute

Immunogenetics

4:45 PM – 5:00 PM

Role of fam83h in Immune System Homeostasis

Location: Salon H-K

Presenting Author: – Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of Sciences

Autoimmune Diseases

5:00 PM – 5:15 PM

Integrative Functional Genomics Points to Natural Killer Cells as Key Drivers in Pathogenesis of Ankylosing Spondylitis

Location: Salon H-K

Presenting Author: – Boston Children's Hospital

3:15 PM – 5:30 PM

Allergy and Autoantigens

Location: Salon F-G

Chair: – Brigham and Women's Hospital

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: – University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland

Autoimmune Diseases

3:30 PM – 3:45 PM

A Biosensor of Immunologic Synapse Formation for Multiplexed T Cell Antigen Discovery

Location: Salon F-G

Presenting Author: – University of California, San Francisco

Immuno-engineering and Cellular Therapies

3:45 PM – 4:00 PM

Transforming Growth factor-β3 Maintains Intestinal Tolerance

Location: Salon F-G

Presenting Author: – UT Southwestern

Mucosal Immunology

4:00 PM – 4:15 PM

interleukin-4 Activates Olfactory Sensory Neurons and Induces Loss of Smell in Mice Through Distinct Molecular Signatures

Location: Salon F-G

Presenting Author: – Sanofi

Inflammatory Diseases

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: – Brigham and Woman's Hospital

Autoimmune Diseases

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: – University of Washington

Autoimmune Diseases

4:45 PM – 5:00 PM

Sialic Acids on House Dust Mite (HDM) Allergen, Der P 2, Shift Immune Responses Towards a Regulatory Profile

Location: Salon F-G

Presenting Author: – Amsterdam University Medical Center

Allergy

5:00 PM – 5:15 PM

Understanding the Plausible Implications of Dysregulated Interferon Signaling on Esophageal Epithelial Cell Function

Location: Salon F-G

Presenting Author: – Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Allergy

5:15 PM – 5:30 PM

Rhinovirus Infected Epithelial Cells Drive Genetic Susceptibility to Childhood-Onset Asthma

Location: Salon F-G

Presenting Author: – Boston Children's Hospital

Allergy

5:30 PM – 5:40 PM

State of FOCIS

Location: Salon F-G

Speaker: – Columbia University

5:40 PM – 6:25 PM

Keynote Address - CAR T cells for Oncology and Beyond

Location: Salon F-G

Speaker: – University of Pennsylvania

Chair: – Graphite Bio

6:30 PM – 7:45 PM

Exhibits & Poster Presentations Reception

Location: Salon E

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