Symposium Agenda

MIB/CIDID “Immunology and Evolution of Influenza” Symposium

 Whitehead Auditorium, Room G01, Whitehead Biomedical Research Building

 Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30329

Thursday 5/25 – Friday 5/26 noon, 2017

May 25 (Thursday) 

8:00 – 9.00                   Registration, breakfast, coffee (outside of the conference room)

9:00 –   9.15                 Welcome: M. Elizabeth Halloran,  University of Washington and Rustom Antia, Emory University

9:15 – 10.00                 Keynote: Jonathan Yewdell, NIH: “Antibody Immunodominance: The Key to Antigenic Drift?”

10.00 – 10.30               Paul Thomas, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital: “Tipping the scales: how a SNP affects influenza severity in humans”

10.30 – 11:00               Coffee break

11:00 – 11.30               Jessica Belser, CDC: “Complexities in Ferret Influenza Virus Pathogenesis and Transmission Models”

11.30 – 12.00               Trevor Bedford, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center: “Real-time tracking and prediction of influenza virus evolution”

12.00 – 12.30               Morning discussion session

12.30- 2:00                  Lunch – on own

2 – 2.30                        Jesse Bloom, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center:  “Complete mapping of viral escape from immunity”

2.30 – 3                        James Crowe, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine: “Genetic and structural determinants of antibody mediated influenza neutralization

3 – 3.30                        Katia Koelle, Duke University: “Capturing the Roles of Cellular Coinfection and Viral Complementation in the Within-host Dynamics of Influenza”

3.30 – 4                        Coffee Break

4 – 4.30                        Sarah Cobey, University of Chicago: “Three time scales of coevolution of influenza and human immunity”

4.30 – 5                        Tom Kepler, Boston University School of Medicine: “Clonal Selection Dynamics in the Humoral Response to Vaccination”

5 – 5.30                         Afternoon discussion session

5.30 – 6:30                   Poster Session & Social Hour with refreshments. 2nd floor elevator lobby of the Wayne Rollins Research Center. A list of posters can be found here.

 

 

May 26 (Friday)

8 – 9.00                        Breakfast, Coffee

9:00 – 9:30                   Amber Smith, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital: “Validating Immune Response Models of Influenza Virus Infection and Bacterial Coinfection”

9.30 – 10 :00                Jacob Kohlmeier, Emory University: “The rise and fall of cellular immunity to influenza virus

10 – 10.30                    Coffee Break

10.30 – 11                     Steve Kleinstein, Yale School of Medicine: “Systems Immunology of the Host Response to Influenza Infection and Vaccination”

11 – 11:45                     Keynote: Rafi Ahmed, Emory University School of Medicine: “Human B Cell Responses to Influenza Virus”

11:45-12:00                  Closing Remarks: Rustom Antia, Emory University and M. Elizabeth Halloran, University of Washington