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DAY 1 – Monday, June 3, 2024
Bus Loading & Departure from Weill Cornell Campus to Cornell Ithaca Campus ( for Weill 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 (Symposia 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)
1:55-2:20pm Andrew Grimson (Ithaca)
2:20-2:35pm Trainee talk
2.35-2:45pm Coffee break
Session 2 – Immune Influencers
2:45-3:10pm Greg Sonnenberg (NYC)
Title: “Innate immune determinants of intestinal physiology, tolerance, and inflammation.”
3:10-3:35pm Nick Collins (NYC)
3:35-4:00pm Pam Chang (Ithaca)
4:05-4:20pm Trainee talk
4:20-4:35pm Trainee talk
5-6pm Keynote: Donna Farber, Ph.D., Columbia University
Title: “Tissue-specific regulation of human immune responses”
6-9.30 dinner (location TBD, incl table discussion topics) and 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)
9:45-10:10am Emilie Grasset (NYC)
10:10-10:25am Trainee talk
10:25-10:40am Trainee talk
10:40-11:00 Coffee Break, set up posters
11am-noon Trainee 3-minute elevator pitches (app for prizes)
Noon – 4:30 pm Boxed lunch and free/social/outdoor time – Taughannock Falls trip and others
Session 4 – Host-microbe interactions and mucosal immune regulation
4:30 – 4:55pm Randy Longman (NYC)
4:55-5:20pm Elizabeth Johnson (Ithaca)
5:20-5:45pm Iwjin De Vlaminck (Ithaca)
5:45-6:00pm Trainee talk
6:00-6:15pm Trainee talk
6:30-8pm Poster session with light dinner
8:00-9:30pm 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: TBA
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)
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
10:50-11am Coffee break
11am-noon Keynote: Greg M. Delgoffe Ph.D, University of Pittsburgh
Title: “Leveraging immunometabolism to improve cancer therapy”
Noon-1pm Lunch
1-2:30pm Past inter-campus grant supported projects: TBD
2:30-3pm Announcement of 3-minute thesis winner, poster prize winners
Summary, Concluding Remarks (Co-Chairs)
3-4:00pm Social time, group photo
3:30pm Boxed meals available for traveling guests only
4:00pm Bus departure
