Tissue Immunity at Barrier Sites

 Saturday, May 7, 2022     10:15 AM – 12:15 PM ET     Oregon Ballroom 204

Tissue Immunity at Barrier Sites

Chairs

• Gianna E. Hammer, Duke Univ.
• Shipra Vaishnava, Brown Univ.

Speakers

• Michael Stolley, Univ. of Minnesota, Leveraging resident memory t cells to fortify oral immunity
• Gabriel Antonio Ascui-Gac, La Jolla Inst. for Immunology, RAMP3 unexplored relevance for innate-T cell immunity
• Colette Matysiak, Harvard Med. Sch., Intranasal, not parenteral, vaccination induces the formation of tissue-resident memory CD8 T cells in nasal mucosa that rapidly clear influenza virus infection
• Tanvi Arkatkar, Univ. of Washington, Bystander CD8 T cell memory responses partially protect mice against lethal vaginal HSV-2 challenge
• Vineet Joag, Univ. of Minnesota, Sensing and alarm function of vaccine-elicited SIV-gag specific CD8 T_RM in the reproductive mucosa of rhesus macaques
• Elaine Kouame, Univ. of Chicago, The miseducation of T cells in autoimmunity
• Ziqi Chen, Harvard Med. Sch., Parenteral vaccination strategies target protective immunity to the small and large intestine mucosa
• Gowri Kalugotla, Washington Univ. in St Louis Sch. of Med., The autophagy gene Epg5 promotes susceptibility to enteric viral infection