1st Session: CANCER
Chair: Jill Slansky, Ph.D. 

• Curtis Henry, Ph.D. | "Delineating the Impact of Cancer-promoting Comorbidities and Anti-tumor Immunity"
• Traci Lyons, Ph.D | "Mechanisms of immunosuppression during mammary gland remodeling and tumorigenesis"
• Eduardo Davila, Ph.D |"Creating ‘Mighty’ T cells to Overcome Challenges Associated with T cell-based Cancer Therapies"
• Steve Dow, DVM, Ph.D. |  "Targeting Myeloid Cells in Cancer:  Lessons from Our Canine Companions"
  

2nd Session Viral Immunology
Chair: Linda van Dyk, Ph.D.

• Eric Clambey- Title Pending
• Mario L. Santiago, Ph.D. | "The Biology of HIV-1 in Gut CD4+ T cells"
  

THE SCHAACK AND STONEHOUSE KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
Seema Lakdawala, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Emory University School of Medicine
“Every Breath You Take: Transmission of Influenza Viruses”

3rd Session: Innate Immunity/Allergy/inflammation
Chair:  Andy Getahun, Ph.D.

• Magdalena Gorska, M.D., Ph.D. | “Maternal environmental programming of asthma susceptibility”
  
• Jordan Jacobelli, Ph.D. | "Regulation of T cell migration and trafficking in autoimmunity and cancer"
  
• Kristi Kuhn, M.D., Ph.D. | "Bacterial drivers of autoimmune arthritis"
  
• Laurent Gapin, Ph.D. | "Thymic development of iNKT and MAIT cells in mice and humans"
  

4th Session: Mechanisms of immune evasion and modulation by bacterial pathogens
Chair: Sarah Clark, Ph.D.

• Cristina Penaranda, Ph.D. | "Understanding host-pathogen interactions using dual transcriptional analysis"
  
• Lilliana Radoshevich - Title Pending
  
• Laurel Lenz, Ph.D. | "Microbial targeting of dendritic cells to dampen inflammation" 
  
• Andres Vazquez-Torres, PhD | "Nuances of oxidative stress in Salmonella pathogenesis"