Last updated 5/3/2024
DAY 1 – Monday, June 3, 2024
Bus Loading & Departure from Weill Cornell Campus to Cornell Ithaca Campus ( for Weill Cornell Medicine participants only)
7-11am: Bus departure from Weill Cornell (arrival at Ithaca, NY host campus about 11am)
11:30am -1pm Lunch
1pm Welcome and Introductions (Symposium Co-Chairs Dr. Melody Zeng and Dr. Mandy McGeachy, Center for Immunology director Dr. Deb Fowell)
Session 1 – Genomic profiling of immune cells in infection and inflammation
1:05-1.30pm Virginia Pascual (NYC)
1:30-1:55pm Colleen Lau (Ithaca)
Title: “Epigenetic control of innate and adaptive immune memory”
1:55-2:20pm Andrew Grimson (Ithaca)
2:20-2:35pm Trainee talk
2:35-2:50pm Trainee talk
2:45-3pm Coffee break
Session 2 – Immune Influencers
3:00-3:25pm Greg Sonnenberg (NYC)
Title: “Innate immune determinants of intestinal physiology, tolerance, and inflammation”
3:25-3:50pm Nick Collins (NYC)
Title: “Nutritional optimization of anti-tumor immunity”
4:50-5:05pm Trainee talk
5:05-5:20pm Trainee talk
Coffee break 5:20-6pm
5-6pm Keynote: Donna Farber, Ph.D., Columbia University
Title: “Tissue-specific regulation of human immune responses”
6-7:30 Poster Session 1 and buffet dinner
7:30-9:00pm social activities
DAY 2 – Tuesday, June 4, 2024
7:30am Breakfast
Session 3 – B cell regulation and function in infection and inflammatory disease
8:30-8:55am Andrew Flyak (Ithaca)
8:55-9:20am Sarah Caddy (Ithaca)
9:20-9:45am Patrick Wilson (NYC)
Title: “Exploiting immune imprinting to improve influenza vaccines”
9:45-10:10am Emilie Grasset (NYC)
10:10-10:25am Trainee talk
Coffee Break 10:25-10:45am
10:45-11:30am Trainee 3-minute elevator pitches (app for prizes)
11:30– 4:00 pm Boxed lunch and free/social/outdoor time – Taughannock Falls trip and others
Session 4 – Host-microbe interactions and mucosal immune regulation
4:00-4:25pm Pam Cheng (Ithaca)
4:25 – 4:50pm Randy Longman (NYC)
4:50-5:15pm Elizabeth Johnson (Ithaca)
5:15-5:40pm Iwjin De Vlaminck (Ithaca)
5:40-5:55 pm Trainee talk
6:00-7:30 pm Poster Session 2 and buffet dinner
7:30-9:00pm Social activities organized by trainee committee
Day 3 – Wednesday, June 5, 2024
7:30am Breakfast
Session 5: Immune regulation and immunotherapies in cancer
8:30-9:05am Plenary tallk: Taha Merghoub (NYC)
– Deputy Director of the Meyer Cancer Center at Weill Cornell Medicine
Title: “Developing means to overcome resistance to immune based therapies”
9:05-9:30am Juan Cubilos-Ruiz (NYC)
Title: “Cytoskeletal control of intratumoral T cell metabolism and fate”
9:30-9:55am Roberta Zappasodi (NYC)
Title: “Tumor metabolism-driven cancer (immuno)therapies”
9:55-10:20am Abigail Overacre-Delgoffe (U. of Pittsburgh)
Title: “Diet and microbiota control of the tumor microenvironment”
10:20-10:35 am Trainee talk
10:35-10:50am Trainee talk
10:50-11:15 am Coffee break
11:15am-12:15pm Keynote: Greg M. Delgoffe Ph.D, University of Pittsburgh
Title: “Leveraging immunometabolism to improve cancer therapy”
12:15-1:15pm Lunch
1:15-2:15pm Past inter-campus grant supported projects: TBD
2:15-3pm Announcement of 3-minute thesis winner, poster prize winners
Summary, Concluding Remarks (Co-Chairs)
3:00pm Bus departure
