The 3rd Annual Autumn AIM Workshop on Immune Homeostasis

15 Nov 2015, 09:00 → 16 Nov 2015, 13:00 Asia/Seoul

182 (POSTECH Biotech Center)

November 15-16, 2015

POSTECH Biotech Center, Pohang, Korea

Please join us for the annual workshop of AIM featuring sessions from outstanding immunologist overseas, together with selected speakers from AIM at IBS and POSTECH. The workshop will appeal to investigators working immunology and related areas.

 

Organizing Committee

Charles D. Surh / Director, AIM

Sin-Hyeog Im / Group Leader, AIM

Invited Speakers

Andrew D. Weinberg/ Providence Cancer Center

Chang Duk Jun/ GIST

Hun Taeg Chung/ University of Ulsan

Jonathan Sprent/ Garvan Institute of Medical Research

Joseph Sun/ Memorial Sloan Ketterig Cancer Center

Jun Huh/ University of Massachusetts Medical School

Kathleen D. McCoy/ University of Bern

Seung-Woo Lee/ POSTECH

Stephen Hedrick/ University of California San Diego

You-Me Kim/ POSTECH

Poster POSTER_AIM.pdf

Program Program

Sunday 15 November

09:00 → 12:00 SESSION I: Innate – adoptive immunity

Convener: Sin-Hyeog Im

09:00 Welcome&Overview of AIM

09:10 Commensal-induced inflammatory cytokines control steady state expansion of hematopoietic multipotent progenitors

Speaker: Seung-Woo Lee (POSTECH)

09:35 Carbon Monoxide Regulates Metabolic Homeostasis via Innate Immune Response

Speaker: Hun Taeg Chung (Univ. of Ulsan, Korea)

10:00 BREAK

10:20 Ets1 regulates T cell activation through alternative splicing

Speaker: Gi-Cheon Kim (IBS, Korea)

10:40 Genome-wide analyses of transcription factor Ets1-mediated gene regulation in CD4+ T Cells

Speaker: Choong-Gu Lee (IBS, Korea)

11:05 Control of Systemic and Organ-specific Inflammation by Foxp3-associated Transcription Factors

Speaker: Dipayan Rudra (IBS, Korea)

11:30 Immunological memory in NK cells

Speaker: Joseph Sun (MSKCC, USA)

12:00 → 13:20 LUNCH

13:20 → 18:30 SESSION II: T cell Biology and Mucosal Immunology

Convener: Charles Surh

13:20 Impact of intestinal microbes in shaping innate immunity early in life

Speaker: Kathleen McCoy (Univ. Bern, Switzerland)

13:50 Generation of inducible regulatory T cells by commensal probiotics

Speaker: Ravi Verma (IBS, Korea)

14:15 Dietary antigens limit mucosal immune responses through local induction of regulatory T cells

Speaker: Kwang Soon Kim (IBS, Korea)

14:40 BREAK

15:00 Influence of commensal microbiota and dietary antigens on the development and function of antigen presenting cells in intestinal homeostasis

Speaker: Sophie Ko (IBS, Korea)

15:25 Regulation of IgE production by commensal microbiota and food antigens

Speaker: Sungwook Hong (IBS, Korea)

15:50 Unexpected function of the IL-17a pathway in inducing neurodevelopmental disorders

Speaker: Jun Huh (U. Mass, Worcester, USA)

16:20 BREAK

16:40 Zymosan induces Th17 cell differentiation by promoting IL-6 secretion from small intestinal dendritic cells

Speaker: You-Me Kim (POSTEHC, Korea)

17:05 Immunomodulation of food allergy using Bifidobacterium longum by targeting of mast cell activity

Speaker: Jung-Hwan Kim (IBS, Korea)

17:30 RECEPTION

Monday 16 November

09:00 → 12:20 SESSION III: Immune memory and function

Convener: Dipayan Rudra (IBS, Korea)

09:00 Transgelin2 is a new actin regulator for T cell and macrophage activation

Speaker: Chang Duk Jun (GIST, Korea)

09:25 T cell survival following acute and chronic infections

Speaker: Stephen Hedrick (UCSD, USA)

09:55 Divergent immune responses of phenotypically distinct naive CD8 T cell subsets

Speaker: Jaeho Cho (IBS, Korea)

10:25 BREAK

10:45 CD8 Resident Memory Tumor Infiltrating Lymphocytes: Good, Bad, or Indifferent

Speaker: Andrew D. Weinberg (Providence Cancer Center, USA)

11:15 Immunotherapy with DC nanovesicles

Speaker: Jonathan Sprent (Garvan Institute, Australia)

11:45 TRAF6 expression in DCs is essential for tolerance to dietary antigens

Speaker: Daehee Han (IBS, Korea)

12:10 CLOSING COMMENTS