4:00–8:00 PM | Registration |
6:00–8:00 PM | Welcome Mixer |
8:00–9:00 AM | Breakfast |
8:30–9:00 AM | Poster Setup |
8:45–5:00 PM | Poster Viewing |
9:00–10:00 AM | Welcome and Keynote Address |
Kate A Fitzgerald, University of Massachusetts Medical School Molecular Mechanisms of Antiviral Innate Immunity and Inflammation |
10:00–12:15 PM | Host-Virus Interactions in Innate Immunity |
Michaela U. Gack, Cleveland Clinic Foundation Innate Immune Sensing and Viral Escape Mechanisms |
John W. Schoggins, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Evolutionary Forces that Underlie ISG Antiviral Mechanisms |
Kellie Ann Jurado, University of Pennsylvania Fetal Immune Responses and their Influence on Life-Long Health |
Short Talk(s) Chosen from Abstracts |
10:30–10:50 AM | Coffee Break |
12:15–1:15 PM | Lunch |
12:30–2:30 PM | Poster Session 1 |
2:30–4:30 PM | Symposia Spotlight 1: Late-breaking research presentations selected from abstract submissions |
Short Talks Chosen from Abstracts |
4:30–5:00 PM | Coffee Available |
5:00–7:00 PM | Species Expansion of (re)Emerging Viruses and Associated Immunity |
Michael S. Diamond, Washington University School of Medicine Evolutionary Relationships of Entry Receptors and Arboviral Pathogenesis |
Maria-Carla Saleh, Institut Pasteur RNA Interference and Viral Immunity in Insects |
Jonathan Abraham, Harvard University Entry Factors Determining Alphavirus Infection |
Short Talk(s) Chosen from Abstracts |
7:00–8:00 PM | Social Hour with Dinner |
8:00–9:00 AM | Breakfast |
9:00–12:00 PM | Success and Failures of Adaptive Immunity to Acute and Persistent Virus Infections |
Taia T Wang, Stanford University Antibody Signaling through Fc gamma Receptors as Key Driver of Infection and Inflammation Outcome |
David Veesler, University of Washington TMPRSS2-mediated Coronavirus Spike Activation and Inhibition |
Daniela Weiskopf, La Jolla Institute for Immunology Adaptive Cell-Mediated Immune Responses to Vaccination and Natural RNA Virus Infection |
Ted C. Pierson, NIAID, National Institutes of Health Humoral Immunity to Arboviruses |
Short Talk(s) Chosen from Abstracts |
10:00–10:20 AM | Coffee Break |
11:00–1:00 PM | Poster Setup |
12:00–1:00 PM | Lunch |
12:30–2:30 PM | Poster Session 2 |
1:00–10:00 PM | Poster Viewing |
3:00–4:30 PM | Career Roundtable |
4:30–5:00 PM | Coffee Available |
5:00–7:00 PM | Genetic and Acquired Immune Factors Modulating Viral Susceptibility |
Shen-Ying Zhang, Rockefeller University Human Genetic and Immunological Determinants of Viral Encephalitis |
Trine Mogensen, Aarhus University Hospital VZV/herpesvirus and Innate Immunity Defects |
Charles Agoti, KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme Epidemiological Insights into Mechanisms of Respiratory Virus Reinfections |
Short Talk(s) Chosen from Abstracts |
7:00–8:00 PM | Social Hour with Dinner |
8:00–9:00 AM | Breakfast |
9:00–12:00 PM | Novel Approaches of Host-Directed and Immune-based Therapies to Virus Infections |
Pei-Yong Shi, GSK Prophylactic and Therapeutic Viral Vaccines |
Liang Shan, Washington University in St. Louis CARD8 Inflammasome Sensitization as Novel Antiviral Therapeutics Approach for HIV |
Lisa Purcell, Third Rock Ventures Monoclonal Antibody Development and Technologies for Acute and Persistent Viral Infections |
Gong Cheng, Tsinghua University Novel Antiviral Approaches to Control Mosquito-Borne Viruses |
Short Talk(s) Chosen from Abstracts |
10:00–10:20 AM | Coffee Break |
12:00–1:00 PM | Lunch |
2:30–4:30 PM | Symposia Spotlight 2: Late-breaking research presentations selected from abstract submissions |
Short Talks Chosen from Abstracts |
4:30–5:00 PM | Coffee Available |
5:00–6:45 PM | New Approaches to Optimizing Vaccine-Induced Immunity to Viral Pathogens |
Volker Thiel, University of Bern Translating Viruses into Vaccines |
Penny L Moore, University of the Witwatersrand and National Institute for Communicable Diseases Novel Platforms and Technologies for Vaccine Development and Boosting |
Andrea Carfi, Moderna New Vaccination Approaches for Viruses |
Short Talk(s) Chosen from Abstracts |
6:45–7:00 PM | Meeting Wrap-Up: Outcomes and Future Directions (Organizers) |
7:00–8:00 PM | Social Hour with Dinner |
8:00–11:00 PM | Entertainment |
8:00–11:00 PM | Cash Bar |
12:00–11:59 PM | Departure |