CCTI Presenters at the 2024 FOCIS Annual Meeting
Annually, the Center for Translational Immunology is well represented at the Federation of Clinical Immunology Societies (FOCIS) and 2024 is no different. This year's FOCIS meeting is being held June 18-21 at the San Francisco Marriot Marquis in San Francisco, CA. Here is a comprehensive list of CCTI presenters including date, location and time slots.
Time Zone: Pacific Daylight Time (PDT)
TUESDAY, JUNE 18TH
6– 7:30 PM – Opening Reception: Exhibits & Poster Presentations
Location: Salon 9
Presenter: Dr. Jianing Fu
Talk Title: “Developing an Immunological Toolset to Investigate the Roles of T Cells in Rejection and Infection, and to Facilitate Rejection Diagnosis After Human Lung Transplantation”
Presenter: Dr. Jianing Fu
Talk Title: “Donor γδ T Cells May Contribute to Lymphohematopoietic Graft-versus-host Responses After Human Intestinal Transplantation”
Presenter: Benjamin Vermette
Talk Title: “Genetically-controlled Differences in Thymocyte Development in Type 1 Diabetic Immune Systems”
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19TH
5 – 5:15 PM – Late-Breaking Abstracts
Presenter: Dr. Sameena Nikhat (Dr. Mohsen Khosravi Maharlooei)
Oral Presentation Title: “Engineering Stable and Lymphodepletion-resistant T Regulatory Cells for Inducing Immune Tolerance During Transplantation”
Location: Salons 3-6
7:30 – 7:30 PM – Exhibition & Poster Hall Open (authors optional)
Location: Salon 9
Presenter: Dr. Mohsen Khosravi Maharlooei
Talk Title: “Overcoming Obstacles to Porcine Thymic Transplantation for Xenograft Tolerance of Human T Cells”
Presenter: Dr. Jianing Fu
Talk Title: “The Role of Recipient γδ T Cells in Graft Rejection After Human Intestinal Transplantation”
Presenter: Dr. Matthieu Paiola
Talk Title: “NK-like CD8 T Cells Are Essential to Immune-related Adverse Events Pathogenesis of Cancer Immunotherapy”
Presenter: Amber Wolabaugh
Talk Title: “Human Immune Cells Promote SARS-CoV-2 Dissemination and T Cells Promote Lung Pathology”
Presenter: Dr. Daniel Wolbrom
Talk Title: “Intra-Bone Bone Marrow Transplant from Human CD47 Transgenic Swine as an Approach to Tolerance in Nonhuman Primates”
Presenter: Dr. Farshid Fathi
Talk Title: “Donor-specific T Cell Activation and Expansion Following a Pig-to-human Decedent Kidney Transplant”3:15 – 5:15 PM - Session: Autoimmunity and Transplantation (Oral Presentations)
Location: Salon 8
3:15 – 3:30 PM: “The Role of Recipient γδ T Cells in Graft Rejection After Human Intestinal Transplantation” By Dr. Jianing Fu
5 – 5:15 PM: “Donor-specific T Cell Activation and Expansion Following a Pig-to-human Decedent Kidney Transplant” by Dr. Farshid Fathi
5:30 – 6:15 PM - Keynote Address, Robert. B. Nussenblatt Presidential Lecture
Presenter: Dr. Megan Sykes
Oral Presentation Title: “Human Auto-, Allo- and Xeno-reactive T Cell Repertoire Dynamics and Transcriptomics”
Location: Salon 8
THURSDAY, JUNE 20TH
7:30 – 7:45 PM – Exhibition & Poster Hall Open (authors Optional)
Location: Salon 9
Presenter: Dr. Remi Creusot
Talk Title: “Tissue-Engineered Lymph Node Fibroblastic Reticula for Localized Immunomodulation of Diabetogenic T Cells”
Presenter: Dr. Matthieu Paiola
Talk Title: “Exclusion of PD-1 from the Immune Synapse: A Novel Strategy to Modulate T Cell Function”
Presenter: Dr. Vrushali Agashe
Talk Title: “TCR repertoire analysis in Human Immune System Mice Derived from Type 1 Diabetic and Healthy Control Hematopoietic Cells”
4:45 – 5 PM – Session: Immuno-oncology
Presenter: Dr. Matthieu Paiola
Oral Presentation Title: “Exclusion of PD-1 from the Immune Synapse: A Novel Strategy to Modulate T Cell Function”
Location: Salons 3-6
5:30 – 5:45 PM – State of FOCIS Address
Presenter: Dr. Megan Sykes
Location: Salon 8
