Next Gen Immunology 2020 Program

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Program

Sunday, February 2

Time Session/Lecture info
08:30-10:45
Registration
 
10:45-11:30
Welcome and Introduction
 
10:45-11:30
On behalf of the Weizmann Institute of Science: Alon Chen, President
On behalf of the Weizmann Immunology Department: Michael Sela
On behalf of Nature: Ursula Weiss (editor, Nature) and Joao Monteiro (editor, Nature Medicine)
11:30-18:00
Session 1: Host-microbe and host-microbiome interactions
Chairs: Omry Koren (BIU, Israel); Yehudit Bergman (HUJI, Israel) 
11:30-12:10
Margaret McFall-Ngai, U Hawaii, USA
Keynote I: The complex molecular dialogue of host-symbiont communication: Initiating and maintaining a stable symbiosis
12:10-13:30
Lunch
13:30-14:00
Eric Pamer, University of Chicago, USA
Microbiota-mediated defense against intestinal infection
14:00-14:30
Noah Palm, Yale, USA
Illuminating the ’dark matter’ of the bioactive microbiota metabolome
14:30-15:00
Lalita Ramakrishnan, Cambridge, UK
Learning immunology from the tubercle bacillus
15:00-15:15
Petter Brodin, Karolinska, Sweden
Short talk: Human immune system development during the first weeks and months of life
15:15-15:45
Eran Elinav, Weizmann, Israel
Host-Microbiome interactions in health and disease
15:45-16:00
Naama Geva-Zatorsky, Technion, Israel
Short talk: Combinatorial gut microbiota-host interactions
16:00-16:30
Refreshment Break
16:30-16:45
Megha Basavappa, Upenn, USA
Short talk: Characterizing the role of long noncoding RNAs in innate antiviral responses
16:45-17:15
Rotem Sorek, Weizmann, Israel
Evolutionary origin of the cGAS-STING innate immunity pathway in microbial defense against phage
17:15-17:30
Shai Bel, BIU, Israel
Short talk: Autophagy and IBD: trickier than expected
17:30-18:00
Richard Flavell, Yale, USA
Tales of T cell tails
18:00-19:00
Poster Session 1 & Drinks Reception
 
19:00-21:30
Festive Dinner