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Sessions |
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Saturday, October 24th |
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Session I. Stem Cells and the Immune System |
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| Session Chair: H.
Leonardo Aguila, UCONN Health Center |
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10:30 -11:05 |
H. Leonardo Aguila, Ph.D., UCONN Health Center, Farmington, CT
Title:
Hematopoietic niches and skeletogenesis |
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11:05 -11:40 |
Trista North, Ph.D., Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center,
Harvard Medical School
Title: Oceans of opportunity: Netting novel modifiers of
vertebrate hematopoietic stem cell regulation
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11:40 - 12:15 |
Boris Reizis, Ph.D., Columbia University, New York, NY
Title:
Transcriptional regulation of hematopoietic
stem cell self-renewal and differentiation |
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12:15 -12:50 |
David Scadden, M.D., Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard medical School, Boston, MA
Title:
Niche: Stem Cell Interaction |
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Session II. Life and Death in the Immune System |
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| Session Chair: Ralph
Budd, University of Vermont |
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2:45 - 3:20 |
Francis K. Chan, Ph.D., University of Massachusetts Medical School,
Worcester, MA
Title:
A kinase network
regulates necrotic cell injury and virus-induced inflammation |
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3:20 - 3:55 |
Ralph Budd, M.D., University of Vermont, Burlington, VT
Title:
Caspases in T cell
activation: the FLIP side |
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4:30 - 5:05 |
Barbara Osborne, Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
Title:
Notch signaling
and CD4+ T cell development |
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5:05 - 5:40 |
Susan Kaech, Ph.D., Yale University, New Haven, CT
Title:
Pathways of memory
T cell development |
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Poster Session 7:30 -
9:30 Swopes Center, upper floor |
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Sunday, October 25th |
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Session III. Innate Immunity |
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| Session Chair:
Anthony Vella, UCONN Health Center |
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9:00 - 9:35 |
Anthony Coyle, Ph.D., MedImmune, Gaithersburg, MD
Title:
Type I interferons and systemic autoimmune disease |
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9:35 - 10:10 |
Charles Sentman, Ph.D., Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH Title:
NK cells in
immunity |
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10:30 - 11:05 |
Barbara Nikolajczyk, Ph.D., Boston University, Boston, MA
Title:
The role of
Toll-like receptor 4 in type 2 diabetes |
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11:05- 11:40 |
Christine Biron, Ph.D., Brown University, Providence, RI
Title:
Pathways
regulating innate and adaptive responses to viral infections |
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