Immunometabolism in Tissue Homeostasis and Diseases (Q2)
February 10-13, 2025  | Keystone Resort, Keystone, CO, United States
Ping-Chih Ho, María Mittelbrunn and Stanley Huang
Scholarship Deadline: Dec. 6, 2024 | Abstract Deadline: Jan. 22, 2025 | Early Registration Deadline: Dec. 19, 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
Monday, February 10, 2025
4:00–8:00 PM Registration Longs Peak Foyer
6:00–8:00 PM Welcome Mixer Longs Peak Foyer
Tuesday, February 11, 2025
7:00–8:00 AM Breakfast Quandary Peak
8:00–9:00 AM Welcome and Keynote Address (Joint) Grays/Longs Peak
  * María Mittelbrunn, Molecular Biology Center, CSIC
 
  * Joseph A. Hill, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
 
  Kathryn J Moore, New York University Medical Center
Immunometabolism in Cardiovascular Disease
 
9:00–11:30 AM Immunometabolism in Heart Failure and Vascular Diseases (Joint) Grays/Longs Peak
  * Ronald J Vagnozzi, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
 
  Chiara Giannarelli, NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Immune Mechanisms of Vascular Disease
 
  Kathleen Martin, Yale School of Medicine
Novel Smooth Muscle Mechanisms in Transplant Vasculopathy
 
  Xing Li Wang, Fosun Pharma
Challenges and Opportunities for Cardiovascular Drug Development
 
  Esther Lutgens, Mayo Clinic
Co-Stimulatory Immune Checkpoints: Maintaining Immune Cell Homeostasis
 
9:30–9:50 AM Coffee Break Longs Peak Foyer
9:50–9:55 AM Award Recipient Acknowledgement Grays/Longs Peak
11:30–1:00 PM Poster Setup Quandary Peak
11:30–5:00 PM On Own for Lunch
1:00–10:00 PM Poster Viewing Quandary Peak
4:30–5:00 PM Coffee Available Longs Peak Foyer
5:00–7:00 PM Immunometabolism in Tissue and Systemic Aging Longs Peak
  Katrin Andreasson, Stanford University
Declining Immune Metabolism Promotes Age-Associated Inflammation and Cognitive Decline
 
  María Mittelbrunn, Molecular Biology Center, CSIC
T Cell Metabolism in Inflammaging and Senescence
 
  Marcia C. Haigis, Harvard Medical School
Immunometabolic Modulations, Aging, and Diet in Orchestating Immune Responses in the TME
 
  * Mariana Borsa, University of Oxford
Short Talk: DamAged Memories: How Autophagy-Dependent Mitochondrial Inheritance Controls T Cell Fate Decisions.
 
  Jue Feng, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Short Talk: Haplodeficiency of the Mtap/Cdkn2 Locus Drives Immunometabolic Dysregulation And Stromal Cell Alterations Leading To Myelodysplastic Syndromes-Like Disease
 
7:00–8:00 PM Social Hour with Lite Bites Quandary Peak
7:00–8:00 PM Women in Science Networking Event Quandary Peak Foyer
  * Gemma A Figtree, Kolling Institute, University of Sydney
Session Chair
 
  * Esther Lutgens, Mayo Clinic
Session Chair
 
  * Pilar Alcaide, Tufts University School of Medicine
Session Chair
 
  * Kathryn E. Wellen, University of Pennsylvania
Session Chair
 
  * Chiara Giannarelli, NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Session Chair
 
  * María Mittelbrunn, Molecular Biology Center, CSIC
Session Chair
 
  * Marlies Meisel, University of Pittsburgh
Session Chair
 
7:30–10:00 PM Poster Session 1 Quandary Peak
Wednesday, February 12, 2025
7:00–8:00 AM Breakfast Quandary Peak
8:00–11:00 AM Immunometabolism in Cancer Immunology and Immunotherapy Longs Peak
  Jonathan D. Powell, Calico Life Sciences
Metabolic Targeting for Cancer Immunotherapy
 
  Stanley Huang, The Ohio State University
Amino Acid Metabolism and UPR Responses in Macrophage Immunity
 
  David Sancho, Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares, CNIC
Microbiota and Host Dialogue: Mechanisms Driving Bone Marrow Training and Atherosclerosis
 
  Nicole Walker, Weill Cornell Graduate School
Short Talk: Metabolic-Epigenetic Mechanisms of T Cell Dysfunction and DJ-1 Enhancements in CAR-T Therapy
 
  Isabel Shen, University of California, San Francisco
Short Talk: Elucidating the Role of Metabolic Regulation in Immune Cell Composition and Function within the Tumor Microenvironment.
 
  * Gang Xin, OSU
Short Talk: The Neddylation Operates as A PTM Checkpoint for Regulating Metabolism in CD8+ T Cells
 
  Chen Yao, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Short Talk: KEAP1-NRF2 Axis Balances Stemness and Exhaustion in CD8+ T Cells
 
9:00–9:20 AM Coffee Break Longs Peak Foyer
11:00–5:00 PM On Own for Lunch
11:15–1:00 PM Poster Setup Quandary Peak
1:00–10:00 PM Poster Viewing Quandary Peak
3:00–4:30 PM Career Roundtable (Joint) Grays Peak
  James Priest, Tenaya Therapeutics
Senior Director of Cardiovascular Genetics
 
  Maria Rescigno, Humanitas University
Professor, Group Leader, and Deputy Scientific Director
 
  Meng-Ju Wu, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Assistant Professor
 
  Anne N Murphy, Cytokinetics, Inc.
Vice President, Scientific Affairs
 
4:30–5:00 PM Coffee Available Longs Peak Foyer
5:00–7:00 PM Immunometabolic Exposome in HFpEF (Joint) Grays/Longs Peak
  * Matthew J Feinstein, Northwestern University
 
  Edward Thorp, Northwestern University
Myeloid Metabolism in the Amplification and Resolution of Cardiac Inflammation
 
  Geneviève Derumeaux, INSERM U955, Université Paris-Est Creteil
HFpEF: Obesity-Induced Immuno-Inflammation
 
  Pilar Alcaide, Tufts University School of Medicine
Immune Crosstalk in HFpEF
 
  Joseph A. Hill, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Immuno-Metabolic Mechanisms of HFpEF
 
7:00–8:00 PM Social Hour with Lite Bites Quandary Peak
7:30–10:00 PM Poster Session 2 Quandary Peak
Thursday, February 13, 2025
7:00–8:00 AM Breakfast Quandary Peak
8:00–11:30 AM Metabolites-Guided Signaling Regulations in Immune Responses Longs Peak
  Kathryn E. Wellen, University of Pennsylvania
Acetyl-CoA Metabolism in Tissue Homeostasis and Systemic Lipid Regulation
 
  Ping-Chih Ho, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research
Heme-Mediated T Cell Exhaustion
 
  Tiffany Horng, ShanghaiTech University
Metabolite-Guided Immune Activation in Innate Immune Responses
 
  Yajing Gao, University of California, Los Angeles
Short Talk: T Cell Cholesterol Transport Is A Metabolic Checkpoint That Links Intestinal Immune Responses To Dietary Lipid Absorption
 
  Guang Sheng Ling, University of Hong Kong
Short Talk: Hyperglycemia-Triggered Lipid Peroxidation Destabilizes STAT4 and Impairs Anti-Viral Th1 Responses in Type 2 Diabetes
 
  Julia Sauer, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co KG/ University of Constanze
Short Talk: Redox-Active Macrophages Confer Ferroptosis Protection to Bystander Cancer Cells Via IL4i1
 
  * Meng-Ju Wu, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Short Talk: R-2-Hydroxyglutarate Shapes the Tumor Microenvironment and Reveals Metabolic Vulnerabilities in Mutant IDH1 Cholangiocarcinoma
 
  Jordy Saravia, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Short Talk: Lysosomal Signaling Dictates Heterogeneous Metabolic States of Treg Cells to Limit Immunopathology
 
  Kim Rewitz, University of Copenhagen
Short Talk: Decoding the Interactions Between Gut Immune Responses and Systemic Metabolic and Behavioral Dynamics
 
9:00–9:20 AM Coffee Break Longs Peak Foyer
11:30–4:30 PM On Own for Lunch
3:00–4:30 PM Dialogue with Journal Editors (Joint) Grays Peak
  Joseph A. Hill, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
*Session Chair, Editor in Chief, Circulation
 
  Gabriele G Schiattarella, Charité University Medical Center
*Session Chair, Associate Editor, Circulation
 
  Vesna Todorovic, Springer Nature
Chief Editor, Nature Cardiovascular Research
 
  Bruce D. Koppelman, Cell Press
Scientific Editor, Immunity
 
4:30–5:00 PM Coffee Available Longs Peak Foyer
5:00–6:30 PM Microbiota-Derived Metabolic Regulations Longs Peak
  * Guang Sheng Ling, University of Hong Kong
 
  Marlies Meisel, University of Pittsburgh
Exercise-induced microbiota metabolite enhances cancer immunotherapy efficacy
 
  Maria Rescigno, Humanitas University
Microbiome-Guided metabolic control of cancer treatment
 
  Upasana Das Adhikari, Massachusetts General Hospital/ Harvard med School
Short Talk: Immunometabolic Dysregulation in Colonic CD8+ T Cells Results In Epithelial Barrier Disruption In People With HIV On Antiretroviral Therapy
 
6:30–6:45 PM Meeting Wrap-Up: Outcomes and Future Directions (Organizers) Longs Peak
6:45–8:00 PM Social Hour with Lite Bites Quandary Peak
8:00–9:00 PM Entertainment Quandary Peak Foyer
8:00–9:00 PM Cash Bar Quandary Peak
Friday, February 14, 2025
12:00–11:59 PM Departure