Preliminary Program
as of August 2020
Structure-Function and Systems Biology of Cytokines
DAY 1 – SUNDAY 1ST NOVEMBER 2020
DAY 2 – MONDAY 2ND NOVEMBER 2020
DAY 3 – TUESDAY 3RD NOVEMBER 2020
DAY 4 – WEDNESDAY 4TH NOVEMBER 2020
DAY 1 – SUNDAY 1ST NOVEMBER 2020
Opening Ceremony (1h15)
- Welcome and opening remarks – Michael Gale (5 minutes)
- President’s address and presentation of ICIS Awards – Kate Fitzgerald (10 minutes)
- Milstein Award Lecture – Warren Leonard (20 minutes)
- ICIS BioLegend William E. Paul Awardee 1 – Sarah Gaffen (20 minutes)
- ICIS BioLegend William E. Paul Awardee 2 – Vijay Kucharoo (20 minutes)
Plenary 1: Cytokines and COVID19 (sponsored by Lilly) (1h55)
- Keynote 1 – Michael Diamond (25 minutes)
- Helen Chu (20 minutes)
- Ralph Baric (20 minutes)
- Eleanor Fish (20 minutes)
- Venkatesh Krishnan (20 minutes)
- Nikaia Smith [CYT20-1143] (10 minutes)
Poster session 1 (2h00)
DAY 2 – MONDAY 2ND NOVEMBER 2020
Plenary 2: Cytokines in bacterial diseases (1h45)
- Keynote 2 – Lalita Ramakrishnan (25 minutes)
- Kate Fitzgerald (20 minutes)
- Joshua Woodward (20 minutes)
- Igor Brodsky (20 minutes)
- Kate Jeffrey [CYT20-1060] (10 minutes)
- Ana Gamero [CYT20-1315] (10 minutes)
Symposium 1: Cytokines in microbiome dynamics (1h40)
- Stephen Jameson (20 minutes)
- Selinda Orr (20 minutes)
- Nikki Klatt (20 minutes)
- Barbara Rehermann (20 minutes)
- TBD short talk (10 minutes)
- TBD short talk (10 minutes)
Symposium 2: Inflammation (sponsored by Gilead) (1h40)
- Fiona Powrie (20 minutes)
- Jenny Ting (20 minutes)
- Naeha Subramanian (20 minutes)
- Anne Puel (20 minutes)
- Zhenyu Zhong [CYT20-1096] – Milstein Young Investigator Awardee (20 minutes)
Symposium 3: Interferon stimulated genes (1h40)
- John Schoggins (20 minutes)
- Jennifer Hyde (20 minutes)
- Jörn Coers (20 minutes)
- Prashant Rai [CYT20-1229] (10 minutes)
- Adil Mohamed [CYT20-1139] (10 minutes)
- Frank Soveg [CYT20-1314] (10 minutes)
- TBD short talk (10 minutes)
Poster session 2
DAY 3 – TUESDAY 3RD NOVEMBER 2020
Plenary 3: Inflammation and barrier integrity (1h40)
- Keynote 3 – Judith Allen (25 minutes)
- P’ng Loke (20 minutes)
- Elia Tait-Wojno – Milstein Young Investigator Awardee (20 minutes)
- Ivan Zanoni (20 minutes)
- Timothy Nice (20 minutes)
- Brian Nickoloff (10 minutes)
- Subhashini Srivatsan (10 minutes)
Symposium 4: Regulators of interferons – Philip I. Marcus Symposium (1h40)
- George Stark (20 minutes)
- David Levy (20 minutes)
- Curt Horvath (20 minutes)
- Jonathan Kagan (20 minutes)
- Rosa C. Coldbeck-Shackley [CYT20-1240] (10 minutes)
- TBC – Rebecca Casazza [CYT20-1300] 10 minutes)
Symposium 5: Host response to SARS-CoV-2 (sponsored by Gilead) (1h40)
- Benjamin TenOever (20 minutes)
- Mehul Suthar (20 minutes)
- Catherine Blish (20 minutes)
- TBC
- Katrina B. Mar [CYT20-1155] (10 minutes)
- Alison Kell [CYT20-1260] (10 minutes)
Symposium 6: Cytokine and gene regulation and non-coding RNA (1h40)
- Stacy Horner (20 minutes)
- Jorge Henao-Mejia (20 minutes)
- Monika Wolkers (20 minutes)
- Maninjay Atianand (20 minutes)
- Rami Bechara [CYT20-1118] (10 minutes)
- Yifat Ofir-Birin [CYT20-1200] (10 minutes)
Symposium 7: Cytokines in cancer (1h40)
- TBC
- Shannon Turley (20 minutes)
- Glen Barber (20 minutes)
- Daniel McVicar (20 minutes)
- Tobias Suske [CYT20-1095] (10 minutes)
- Kwan T Chow [CYT20-1162] (10 minutes)
Symposium 8: Innate immunity (1h40)
- Dan Stetson (20 minutes)
- Sonja Best (20 minutes)
- Chandrashekhar Pasare (20 minutes)
- Marlène Dreux (20 minutes)
- TBC – Jack Major [CYT20-1173] – Pestka Graduate Awardee (10 minutes)
- TBC – TBD short talk (10 minutes)
Poster session 3
DAY 4 – WEDNESDAY 4TH NOVEMBER 2020
Plenary 4: Systems biology in cytokine actions and vaccinology (2h05)
- Keynote 4 – Ellen Rothenberg (25 minutes)
- Dan Barouch (20 minutes)
- Louis Picker (20 minutes)
- Rafik-Pierre Sékaly (20 minutes)
- Kathleen Neuzil (20 minutes)
- Christopher Hunter (20 minutes)
Symposium 9: Structure and function of cytokines (1h40)
- Chris Garcia (20 minutes)
- Aaron Ring – Milstein Young Investigator Awardee (20 minutes)
- Kristin Hoquist (20 minutes)
- Jay Fine [CYT20-1058] (20 minutes)
- Matteo Massara – Amanda Proudfoot Tribute Awardee (10 minutes)
- Autumn York – Pestka Post-graduate Awardee (10 minutes)
Symposium 10: Cytokines in neurobiology (1h40)
- Robyn Klein (20 minutes)
- Ruaidhri Jackson (20 minutes)
- Anna Molofsky (20 minutes)
- Kristina Adams-Waldorf (20 minutes)
- Barney Viengkhou [CYT20-1217] (10 minutes)
- Jennifer Go [CYT20-1322] (10 minutes)
Symposium 11: Immune cell fate and function (1h40)
- Andrew McKenzie (20 minutes)
- Gwendalyn Randolph (20 minutes)
- Jennifer Lund (20 minutes)
- Thomas Krausgruber [CYT20-1102] (10 minutes)
- Claire McCoy [CYT20-1068] (10 minutes)
- Kun He [CYT20-1283] (10 minutes)
- Emily Rapp [CYT20-1032] (10 minutes)
Symposium 12: Cytokines in autoimmunity (1h40)
- Boris Reizis (20 minutes)
- Betsy Barnes (20 minutes)
- Mandy McGeachy (20 minutes)
- Estelle Bettelli (20 minutes)
- Carrie Lucas [CYT20-1078] – Christina Fleischmann Awardee (20 minutes)
Symposium 13: Japanese Interferon Society symposium (1h40)
- Reiko Tanaka (20 minutes)
- Antonio del Sol (20 minutes)
- Mariko Okada (20 minutes)
- Eiryo Kawakami (20 minutes)
- Ang Cui [CYT20-1228] (10 minutes)
- Daniel Newhouse [CYT20-1190] (10 minutes)
Symposium 14: Cytokines in HIV cure (1h40)
- TBC
Closing Ceremony (25 minutes)
- Meeting wrap up – Ram Savan (15 minutes)
- Invitation to ICIS 2021 in Cardiff, UK – Simon Jones (10 minutes)