Annual Immunology Conference

Center for Immunology Conference

Program: October 20–21, 2025

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Monday, October 20, 2025

8:00–9:30 a.m.

Arrival, coffee, and continental breakfast

9:30–9:45 a.m.

Opening remarks

• Marc Jenkins

9:45–10:00 a.m.

Opening remarks

• Carla Rothlin

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Scientific Session 1 (10:00–11:45 a.m.)

10:00–10:15 a.m.

Taylor DePauw (Jameson Lab)
“KLF2 restrains the resident memory CD8 T cell differentiation program, in opposition to KLF3.”

10:15–10:30 a.m.

William Kanagy (Freedman Lab)
“Particle surface area regulates ITAM-coupled receptor signaling in myeloid cells.”

10:30–10:45 a.m.

Break

10:45–11:00 a.m.

Jenny Krause (Masopust Lab)
“Antigen dependency defines memory and exhausted CD8 T cell fates.”

11:00–11:15 a.m.

Rocio Amaro Marquez (Blazar Lab)
“Targeting mannose receptor (CD206)–positive, pro-fibrotic macrophages to halt lung fibrosis progression in chronic graft-versus-host disease.”

11:15–11:30 a.m.

Emma Kozurek (Griffith Lab)
“Quantifying bacterial founding population and dissemination to characterize host response mechanisms.”

11:30–11:40 a.m.

Bio-Techne presentation

11:40 a.m.–1:15 p.m.

Lunch

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Scientific Session 2 (1:15–2:15 p.m.)

1:15–1:30 p.m.

Michael Manoharan Valerio (Hogquist Lab)
“When do thymocytes perceive interferon signaling during development?”

1:30–1:45 p.m.

Andrew Hakeem (Revelo Lab)
“Macrophage Perilipin-2 accelerates liver inflammation and fibrosis in metabolic dysfunction–associated steatohepatitis (MASH).”

1:45–2:00 p.m.

Eduardo Cruz (Stromnes Lab)
“CD4 T cell adoptive cell therapy controls pancreatic tumors via CD40 ligand signaling.”

2:00–2:10 p.m.

Group photograph

2:10–2:20 p.m.

Break

2:20–2:40 p.m.

Alexa Weingarden
“Microbiota as modulators of food-specific regulatory T cells.”

2:40–2:55 p.m.

Enoc Granados Centeno (Farrar Lab)
“CD4 T cell dysfunction promotes immune tolerance in acute lymphoblastic leukemia.”

2:55–5:15 p.m.

Free time

5:15–5:45 p.m.

Sourav Ghosh

5:45–5:55 p.m.

STEMCELL Technologies presentation

6:00–7:30 p.m.

Dinner

7:30–9:00 p.m.

Poster session

9:00–11:00 p.m.

Social event

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Tuesday, October 21, 2025

6:30–9:00 a.m.

Breakfast

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Scientific Session 3 (9:00–11:40 a.m.)

9:00–9:30 a.m.

Carla Rothlin

9:30–9:45 a.m.

Courtney Matson (Masopust Lab)
“Dissecting transcription factor networks for tissue-resident CD8 T cell differentiation and maintenance.”

9:45–10:00 a.m.

Linhui Hao (Gale Lab)
Title to be announced

10:00–10:30 a.m.

Break

10:30–10:45 a.m.

Olivia Kannas (Kuckhahn) (Schwertfeger Lab)
“STAT5-mediated anti-tumor functions of macrophages in breast cancer.”

10:45–11:00 a.m.

Trevor Tankersley (Hamilton-Hart Lab)
“NKG2D on long-lived effector CD8-positive T cells supports effector function.”

11:00–11:15 a.m.

Maryah Glover (Bold Lab)
“OX40 agonism affects production of key inflammatory cytokines during mouse Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection.”

11:15–11:30 a.m.

Concluding remarks

• Carla Rothlin

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Sponsors

Thank you to our sponsors. We could not do this without your support.

• BD Biosciences

• BioLegend (Revvity)

• Bio-Techne

• Cytek

• Miltenyi Biotec

• STEMCELL Technologies

• Transnetyx