CD8⁺ T Cell Immunity to Viral Infections

 Sunday, May 8, 2022     3:45 PM – 5:45 PM ET     Oregon Ballroom 201

CD8⁺ T Cell Immunity to Viral Infections

Chairs

• Benjamin Youngblood, Saint Jude Children’s Res. Hosp.
• Erietta Stelekati, Miller Sch. of Med., Univ. of Miami

Speakers

• Blair K. Hardman, Univ. of British Columbia, Differential localization and kinetics of antiviral CD8⁺ T cell responses to chronic and acute murine norovirus infections from initiation onwards
• Jia Zhu, Univ. of Washington, In situ characterization of lesion-forming human HSV-2 reactivation reveals distinct innate and adaptive immune compartmentalization
• Adolfo B. Frias, St. Jude Children’s Res. Hosp., HIV-specific CD8⁺ T cells from elite controllers have an epigenetic imprint that preserves effector functions
• Blake Torrance, UConn Hlth., Role of p16 expressing cells in formation and function of T cell memory with age
• Xuebing Leng, Miller Sch. of Med., Univ. of Miami, MicroRNA-29a attenuates exhaustion and promotes memory-like CD8⁺ T cells
• Genevieve N. Mullins, Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, CD8⁺ T cell exhaustion is dynamically controlled by the chromatin regulator factor BRD4
• Roman Khadka, Mayo Clin., A novel approach to define contribution of microglia and brain endothelium in antigen specific CD8⁺ T cell-mediated blood brain barrier (BBB) disruption during virus infection
• Jennifer Berger, Univ. of Colorado Anschutz Med. Campus, A unique gammadelta T cell population in the brain during viral infection