Scientific Program CXLD

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)

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

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

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)