March 7, 2023

Day 1

1:30-2:00         Registration and poster set-up

 2:00-2:05         Welcome
David Corry, MD, Baylor College of Medicine
Suzanne Tomlinson, PhD, MBA, Gulf Coast Consortia

Keynote introduction
David B. Corry, MD, Baylor College of Medicine

2:05-2:50         Keynote Presentation
Mast Cells and IgE Orchestrating the “Good Side” of Allergy: Defense Against Venoms and Staphylococcus aureus
Stephen J. Galli, MD
Stanford Univ.

Session 1:      Mast Cells and Organ Specific Immunity

Convenors:    Cynthia Ju, PhD Univ. of Texas Health Science Center
Kelsey Mauk, BS Baylor College of Medicine

2:50-3:10         IL7R Marks Embryo-derived Mast Cells
Michihiro Kobayashi, PhD
Univ. of Texas Health Sciences Center Houston

3:10-3:30         Host Gastric Microenvironment Facilitates Ascaris Suum Larval Infection
Jill Weatherhead, MD, PhD
Baylor College of Medicine

3:30-3:50         Macrophages in Vitamin E Acetate Induced Lung Injury
Yun “Alex” Zhang, BS
Baylor College of Medicine

3:50-4:10         Developing a Chronic Model of Candida albicans Cerebral Mycosis through Gut Colonization
Lynn Bimler, PhD
Baylor College of Medicine

4:10-5:15 pm  Poster session (event hall)

March 8, 2023

Day 2

8:30                 Welcome

David Corry, MD, Baylor College of Medicine

 Session 2:      Molecular Control of Immunity

Convenors: Roza Nurieva, PhD, MD Anderson Cancer Center
Dominique Armstrong, BS, Baylor College of Medicine

 Keynote introduction
Roza Nurieva, PhD, MD Anderson Cancer Center

8:35-9:20         Keynote Presentation

Ligand-dependent Regulation of Nuclear Receptors in Inflammation
Laura Solt, PhD
Univ. of Florida Scripps Biomedical Research

9:20-9:40         Epigenetic Changes in Hematopoietic Stem and Progenitor Cells as the Basis for Trained Immunity
Brandon Tran, BS
Baylor College of Medicine

9:40-10:00       The let-7 microRNA is a Multi-Faceted Regulator of Chronic Lung Inflammation, Lung Injury and Advanced Lung Disease
Antony Rodriguez, PhD
Baylor College of Medicine

10:00-10:20    Platelet Derived Dickkopf-1 (Dkk-1) Mediates T Cell Responses in Severe COVID-19
Yifan Wu, MD, PhD
Baylor College of Medicine

10:20-10:40    The Immunological Effect of DAS181 in Smoking
Cheng-Yen Chang, PhD
Baylor College of Medicine

10:40-11:00    Break

Session 3:      Cancer Immunobiology

Convenors:    Max Mamonkin, PhD, Baylor College of Medicine
Lynn Bimler, PhD, Baylor College of Medicine

11:00-11:20    Clinically Translatable Cytokine Factories for Cancer Immunotherapy
Omid Veiseh, PhD
Rice Univ.

11:20-11:40    Comparative Effects of Combustible Cigarette versus Electronic Cigarette Exposures on Lung Microenvironment and Microbiome of Kras Mutant Lung Cancer
Seyed Javad Moghaddam, MD, ATSF
MD Anderson Cancer Center

11:40-12:00    MAGE-A4 Induces Tumor-Promoting Plasma Cells in NSCLC
Dominique Armstrong, BS
Baylor College of Medicine

12:00-12:20    The Role of Nucleophosmin 1 Mediated Caspase-2 Activation in Acute Myeloid Leukemia
Dharaniya Sakthivel, BS
Baylor College of Medicine

12:20-1:30       Lunch

Session 4:      General Immunology-Part I

Convenors:  Jin Wang, PhD, Houston Methodist Research Institute
Bashir Uddin, PhD, Univ. of Texas Medical Branch

1:30-1:50         Clearance of HIV Infection by Selective Elimination of Host Cells Capable of Producing HIV
Min Li, PhD
Houston Methodist Research Institute

1:50-2:10         Elevated Plasma Cytokines/Chemokines Predict and Provide Evidence of a Persistent Inflammatory Basis for Breast Cancer-Related Lymphedema
Melissa Aldrich, PhD
Univ. of Texas Health Sciences Center Houston

2:10-2:30         A Parasite Derived Protein that can Inhibit Human IL-5 and Host Immune Activation
Rojelio Mejia, PhD
Baylor College of Medicine

2:30-2:50         Of Stress, Inflammation and Programmed Cell Death
Parimal Samir, PhD
Univ. of Texas Medical Branch

2:50-3:05         Break

General Immunology-Part II

Convenors: Momoko Yoshimoto, PhD, Univ of Texas Health Science Center
Cheng-Yen Chang, PhD, Baylor College of Medicine

3:05-3:25         Lipid Dysregulation of Immune Responses to Intestinal Injury
Andrea McAlester, PhD
Baylor College of Medicine

3:25-3:45        Long-Term Persistence of Candida albicans in the Murine Gastrointestinal Tract
Kelsey Mauk, BS
Baylor College of Medicine

3:45-4:05         Let-7 microRNA controls AT2 Progenitor Stemness and Prevents Interstitial Lung Disease
Matthew Seasock, BS
Baylor College of Medicine

4:05                 Closing remarks