T Cell Differentiation in Tissue Microenvironments (J7)
February 2-5, 2025  | Fairmont Hotel Vancouver, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Greg M Delgoffe, Amanda Lund, Nikhil S Joshi and Laura K. Mackay
Scholarship Deadline: Nov. 6, 2024 | Abstract Deadline: Jan. 10, 2025 | Early Registration Deadline: Dec. 13, 2024
* Session Chair † Invited but not yet accepted | Program current as of August 23, 2025 4 AM | For the most up-to-date details, visit https://www.keystonesymposia.org
Sunday, February 2, 2025
4:00–8:00 PM Registration British/Columbia Foyer
6:00–8:00 PM Welcome Mixer British/Columbia Foyer
Monday, February 3, 2025
7:30–8:30 AM Breakfast Pacific Ballroom, Vancouver Island Room
8:00–8:30 AM Poster Setup Pacific Ballroom, Vancouver Island Room
8:00–5:00 PM Poster Viewing Pacific Ballroom, Vancouver Island Room
8:30–9:30 AM Welcome and Keynote Address (Joint) Columbia Ballroom
  * Nikhil S Joshi, Yale University School of Medicine
Session Chair
 
  * Shruti Naik, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Session Chair
 
  Yasmine Belkaid, Pasteur Institut
Inflammatory Memory and Heterologous Protection
 
9:30–11:30 AM Vaccines and Anti-Pathogen Responses (Joint) Columbia Ballroom
  * Amanda Lund, New York University
Session Chair
 
  * Renato Ostuni, Ospedale San Raffaele S.r.l.
Session Chair
 
  Bana Jabri, University of Chicago
Exploring the Drivers of Viral Pathogenicity
 
  David B Masopust, University of Minnesota
Resident Memory in Infection and Vaccination
 
  Mihai G. Netea, Radboud University
Trained Immunity in Infection
 
10:00–10:20 AM Coffee Break British/Columbia Foyer
10:20–10:25 AM Award Recipient Acknowledgement Columbia Ballroom
11:30–12:30 PM Lunch Pacific Ballroom, Vancouver Island Room
12:00–2:30 PM Poster Session 1 Pacific Ballroom, Vancouver Island Room
2:30–4:30 PM Symposia Spotlight 1: Late-breaking research presentations selected from abstract submissions Columbia Ballroom
  * Pamela Rosato, Dartmouth College
Session Chair
 
  Derek Bangs, University of Washington
Tertiary Lymphoid Structures Provide a Tissue Niche for Lung-Resident TCF1+ CD4+ Progenitors During Allergic Asthma
 
  Aybuke Garipcan, CSHL
Epithelial YAP orchestrates epithelial – immune crosstalk to facilitate intestinal immune surveillance
 
  Elliot Akama-Garren, Harvard Medical School
Stromal Cell PD-L1 Limits T Follicular Regulatory Cell Differentiation
 
  Erica Culberson, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Intestinal microbiota program protective CD8+ T cell responses against influenza infection in newborns
 
  Mark A. Travis, University of Manchester
A Subset of CD4+ Effector Memory T Cells Limit Immunity to Pulmonary Viral Infection and Prevent Tissue Pathology Via Activation of Latent TGF-Beta
 
  Daniel Campbell, Benaroya Research Institute
An IL-2 Mutein Increases Regulatory T Cell Suppression of Dendritic Cells Via IL-10 and CTLA-4 to Promote T Cell Anergy
 
  Laure Le Corre, Université de Montréal
Notch-Driven BATF Activity Promotes the Differentiation of Terminal Effector CD8 T Cells
 
  Michel DuPage, University of California, Berkeley
H3k27me3 Chromatin Modifications Act as a Rheostat for Treg Function in Inflamed Tissues
 
4:30–5:00 PM Coffee Available British/Columbia Foyer
5:00–7:00 PM Metabolic Control of T Cell Differentiation in Tissues Columbia Ballroom
  * Robert L Eil, Oregon Health & Science University
Session Chair
 
  Diane Mathis, Harvard Medical School
T Cell Differentiation in Metabolic Tissues
 
  * Greg M Delgoffe, University of Pittsburgh
Metabolic Regulation of T Cell Differentiation
 
  Roberta Zappasodi, Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University
Metabolic Control of Tissue-Infiltrating Regulatory T Cells
 
  Will Bailis, University of Pennsylvania
Coordinating T Cell Adaptation During Nutrient Stress
 
7:00–8:00 PM On Own for Dinner
Tuesday, February 4, 2025
7:30–8:30 AM Breakfast Pacific Ballroom, Vancouver Island Room
7:35–8:25 AM Meet the Editors (Joint) Pacific Ballroom, Vancouver Island Room
  * Montserrat Cols Vidal, Journal of Experimental Medicine
Senior Scientific Editor
 
  * Ursula Weiss, Nature
Senior Editor
 
  * Laurie A. Dempsey, Springer Nature
Senior Editor, Nature Immunology
 
  * Lucy A Bird, Springer Nature
Senior Editor, Nature Reviews Immunology
 
  * Cheri Sirois, Cell Press
Senior Scientific Editor, Cell
 
  * Jodi Gullicksrud, Cell Press
Scientific Editor, Immunity
 
  * Claire Olingy, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Senior Editor, Science Immunology
 
8:30–11:30 AM T Cell Trafficking In, Around, and Out of Tissues Columbia Ballroom
  * Tessa Bergsbaken, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
Session Chair
 
  * Amanda Lund, New York University
Lymphatics and T Cell Tissue Egress in Health and Disease
 
  Pilar Alcaide, Tufts University School of Medicine
T Cell Migration and Function in Cardiac Tissue
 
  Judith N. Mandl, McGill University
Migration of T Cells Through Challenging Microenvironments
 
  Donna L Farber, Columbia University Medical Center
Resident Memory T Cells Across Human Tissues
 
  Roham Parsa, Chan Zuckerberg Biohub New York
Short Talk: Tracking Polyclonal CD4+ T Cells Reveals Organ-Specific Selection and Function During Infection
 
  Valentina Venzin, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
Short Talk: CD4+T Cells License Kupffer Cells to Revert the CD8+T Cell Dysfunction Induced by Hepatocellular Priming
 
9:30–9:50 AM Coffee Break British/Columbia Foyer
11:30–1:00 PM Poster Setup Pacific Ballroom, Vancouver Island Room
11:30–1:30 PM On Own for Lunch
1:00–10:00 PM Poster Viewing Pacific Ballroom, Vancouver Island Room
1:30–3:30 PM Symposia Spotlight 2: Emerging Technologies (Joint) Columbia Ballroom
  * Priyadharshini Devarajan, Stony Brook University School of Medicine
Session Chair
 
  Zoltan Maliga, Harvard Medical School
Single Cell Spatial Atlas of T-Cell Phenotypes in Patient Tumors, Inflamed Tissues and Neoadjuvant Response
 
  Whitney Harrington, University of Washington
The Impact of Age on T Cell Phenotype in the Lower Female Genital Tract
 
  Jia Zhu, University of Washington
Spatial Immune Profiling Reveals T-cell Landscape and Local Interactions Associated with Disease Expression in Human Herpesvirus Infection
 
  Kelli A McCord, Baylor College of Medicine
Phenotypic Analysis and Spatial Profiling of Antigen-Specific T Cells in Head and Neck Cancer
 
  Iain D Fraser, NIAID, National Institutes of Health
Endogenous Cytokine Reporter Macrophages Facilitate Identification of Novel Innate Immune Training Compounds that can Reactivate Latent HIV
 
  * Hannah R Knight, University of Chicago
High-Throughput Screen Identifies Non-Inflammatory Small Molecule Inducers of Trained Immunity
 
  Zoe Schaefer, University of Florida
Multi-Level Proteomics Reveals Epigenetic Signatures in BCG-mediated Macrophage Activation
 
3:30–4:30 PM Career Roundtable (Joint) British Ballroom
  Megan K. MacLeod, Glasgow University
Associate Professor
 
  Charles E. Whitehurst, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Distinguished Research Fellow, Immunology & Respiratory Discovery Sciences
 
  Ai Ing Lim, Princeton University
Assistant Professor
 
  Maximilian Heeg, Allen Institute
Assistant Investigator
 
4:30–5:00 PM Coffee Available British/Columbia Foyer
5:00–7:00 PM Perspectives: T Cell Residence vs. Exhaustion Columbia Ballroom
  * Justin Milner, UNC
Session Chair
 
  * Laura K. Mackay, University of Melbourne
Deconvoluting Tissue-Resident and Exhausted T Cells in Tissues and Tumors
 
  Sharanya Wijesinghe, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity/ The University of Melbourne
Short Talk: Induction of TRM Programming by Tumor Residing Stem-Like CD8+ T Cells Limit Anti-Cancer Immunity
 
  Will D Green, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Short Talk: Molecular Architecture of CD8 T Cell Adaptation to Tissue and Tumor Microenvironments
 
  Hanna N Degefu, Dartmouth College
Short Talk: Resident Memory T Cell Heterogeneity in the Human Brain
 
  E. John Wherry, University of Pennsylvania
Exhaustion and Residency of CD8+ T Cells
 
7:00–8:00 PM Social Hour with Lite Bites Pacific Ballroom, Vancouver Island Room
7:30–10:00 PM Poster Session 2 Pacific Ballroom, Vancouver Island Room
Wednesday, February 5, 2025
7:30–8:30 AM Breakfast Pacific Ballroom, Vancouver Island Room
8:30–11:30 AM Differentiation of T Cells Within Tissues in Disease Columbia Ballroom
  * Michel DuPage, University of California, Berkeley
Session Chair
 
  Christine Carine Moussion, Genentech, Inc.
T Cell Function in Tumor Tissue, in situ Tumor Arrays
 
  Stephen C Jameson, University of Minnesota Medical School
T Cell Differentiation in Tissues
 
  * Nikhil S Joshi, Yale University School of Medicine
Tissue Cues of T Cell Differentiation in Autoimmunity and Cancer
 
  Fiona M. Powrie, University of Oxford
Tissue Instruction of T Cell Differentiation
 
  Niklas Beumer, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Short Talk: Transposable Elements Become Demethylated During the Differentiation of Human Regulatory T Cells in Skin Tissue
 
  Jie Sun, University of Virginia
Short Talk: Blimp-1-expressing respiratory Th1 effector cells help mucosal IgA production
 
9:30–9:50 AM Coffee Break British/Columbia Foyer
11:30–1:00 PM Poster Setup Pacific Ballroom, Vancouver Island Room
11:30–5:00 PM On Own for Lunch
1:00–10:00 PM Poster Viewing Pacific Ballroom, Vancouver Island Room
2:30–4:30 PM Symposia Spotlight 3 Columbia Ballroom
  * Simone L Park, University of Pennsylvania
Session Chair
 
  * Lalit K Beura, Brown University
Session Chair
 
  Upasana Das Adhikari, Massachusetts General Hospital/ Harvard med School
Immunometabolic Dysregulation of Intestinal CD8+ T Cells Results in Loss of Intestinal Barrier Integrity in People with HIV
 
  Robert L Eil, Oregon Health & Science University
Ionic Imbalances in the TME Shape T Cell Metabolism Through Nutrient Processing and Consumption
 
  Tessa Bergsbaken, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
GPR132 Regulates the Magnitude of T cell Responses During Infection and Cancer
 
  Nicole Scharping, UCSD
Proteostasis Enables T Cell Differentiation Potential and Sustains TIL Function in Cancer
 
  Sagar P Bapat, University of California, San Francisco
Diet on Disease Onset is a Critical Modifier of Inflammatory Disease Trajectory
 
  Sydney Ramirez, La Jolla Institute for Immunology
Longitudinal Tracking of Human Upper Airway T Cells
 
  Leticia Monin Aldama, Imperial College London
Regulation Of Gut Γδ T Cell Activation by Innate and Adaptive TCR Engagement
 
4:30–5:00 PM Coffee Available British/Columbia Foyer
5:00–6:45 PM Epigenetic Training of Innate-like and Adaptive Lymphocytes (Joint) Columbia Ballroom
  * Greg M Delgoffe, University of Pittsburgh
Session Chair
 
  Ananda W. Goldrath, University of California, San Diego
Epigenetic Regulation of CD8 T Cell Differentiation and Function
 
  * Colleen Lau, Cornell University
AP-1 Factors Epigenetically Regulate Innate and Adaptive Immune Memory Formation During Viral Infection
 
  Maziar Divangahi, McGill University
Innate and Adaptive Cross-Talk in Infection
 
6:45–7:00 PM Meeting Wrap-Up: Outcomes and Future Directions (Organizers) (Joint) Columbia Ballroom
7:00–8:00 PM Social Hour with Lite Bites Pacific Ballroom, Vancouver Island Room
7:30–10:00 PM Poster Session 3 Pacific Ballroom, Vancouver Island Room
Thursday, February 6, 2025
12:00–11:59 PM Departure