Scientific Program
Thursday, January 23, 2025
16:00 - 18:00 | Registration Desk Professional Development Centre, Main Lobby Lounge |
17:30 - 19:00 | Welcome Reception Kinnear Centre, Room 105 |
19:00 | Dinner Kinnear Centre, Room 103 |
19:45
| KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Central role of the epithelium in gut health and disease Dr. Theresa Pizarro (Case Western Reserve University) |
Friday, January 24, 2025
07:00 - 08:30 | Breakfast Vistas Dining Room, Sally Borden Building |
08:00 - 10:00 | Registration Max Bell Central Foyer |
08:00 - 17:00 | Posters Kinnear Centre, Rooms 101/105 |
SCIENTIFIC SESSIONS WILL BE HELD IN THE MAX BELL AUDITORIUM
08:50 - 09:00 | Welcome: Dr. Wally MacNaughton (University of CAlgary) |
SESSION 1: MICROBIOME AND INFLAMMATORY DISEASE
Co-Chairs: Dr. Kim Barrett (University of California Davis); Dr. Lisa Reynolds (University of Victoria)
09:00 - 09:30 | The microbiome's role in critical illness Dr. Robert Dickson (University of Michigan) |
09:30 - 10:00 | Why do babies get sick? A systems biology approach to developing diagnostics and therapeutics for neonatal sepsis Dr. Amy Lee (Simon Fraser University) |
10:00 - 10:30 | Microbiota-immune interactions that promote health Dr. June Round (University of Utah) |
10:30 - 10:45 | Coffee Break |
10:45 - 11:15 | Exploring the microbiome of suppurative lung diseases Dr. Christina Thornton (University of Calgary) |
11:15 - 11:45 | Commensal microbiota promote γδ intraepithelial lymphocyte regulatory function Dr. Karen Edelblum (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai) |
12:00 - 13:00 | Lunch Kinnear Centre, Room 103 |
SESSION 2: NEW CONCEPTS IN UNDERSTANDING INFLAMMATORY DISEASE
Co-Chairs: Dr. Lisa Osborne (University of British Columbia); Dr. Roger Duffin (University of Edinburgh)
13:00 - 13:30 | Enabling phage therapy with bioengineering Dr. Zeinab Hosseinidoust (McMaster University) |
13:30 - 14:00 | The link between tubes of poo and tubes of blood Dr. Kathryn Howe (University of Toronto) |
14:00 - 14:30 | Circadian rhythms and colitis Dr. Philip Karpowicz (University of Windsor) |
14:30 - 14:45 | Break |
14:45 - 15:15
| Trainee Quick Talks 1 • Garrett Ainsworth-Cruickshank (University of Calgary) |
15:15 - 17:00 | Free Time |
17:00 - 18:30 | Poster Session 1 Kinnear Centre, Rooms 101/105 |
19:30 - 20:00 | Dinner Kinnear Centre, Room 103 |
Saturday, January 25, 2025
07:00 - 08:30 | Breakfast Vistas Dining Room, Sally Borden Building |
08:00 - 17:00 | Posters Kinnear Centre, Rooms 101 /105 |
SESSION 3: Neuroinflammation and Pain
Co-Chairs: Dr. Celine Deraison, INSERM; Dr. Stephen Keely, Royal College of Surgeons Ireland
09:00 - 09:30 | Enteric glia as modulators of visceral pain Dr. Brian Gulbransen (Michigan State University) |
09:30 - 10:00 | Meningeal immunity and its role in neuropathic pain Dr. Thiago Cunha (University of São Paulo) |
10:00 - 10:30 | A novel neuroimmune circuit that controls acute lung inflammation Dr. Colin Reardon (University of California Davis) |
10:30 - 10:45 | Coffee Break |
10:45 - 11:15 | Gut-brain-immune changes following prenatal alcohol exposure: Evidence from translational models Dr. Tamara Bodnar (University of Calgary) |
11:15 - 11:45 | Methionine intake in MS and EAE: impact on neuroinflammatory processes Dr. Catherine Larochelle (Université de Montréal) |
12:00 - 13:00 | Lunch Kinnear Centre, Room 103 |
SESSION 4: Mucosal Immunity and Barrier Function
Co-Chairs: Dr. Cormac Taylor (University College Dublin); Dr. Simon Keely (University of Newcastle)
13:00 - 13:30 | Lung repair during influenza virus infection: cytokine regulation and viral subversion Dr. Georgia Perona-Wright (University of Edinburgh) |
13:30 - 14:00 | Is intestinal barrier loss always harmful? Dr. Jerrold Turner (Harvard University) |
14:00 - 14:30 | Dissecting macrophage regulation of lung epithelial regeneration Dr. Christopher Lucas (University of Edinburgh) |
14:30 - 15:00 | Host-microbe interactions and mucosal barrier Dr. Sean Colgan (University of Colorada) |
15:00 - 15:15 | Break |
15:15 - 15:45 | EGFR/ErbB tyrosine kinase inhibitors as a potential new treatment for chronic inflammation Dr. Lynne Prince (University of Sheffield) |
15:45 - 16:15 | The yin and yang of directed neutrophil transmigration during mucosal injury and inflammatory disease Dr. Charles Parkos (University of Michigan) |
16:15 - 16:45 | Trainee Quick Talks 2 • Aye Ozmaeian (University of Calgary) |
16:45 - 17:30 | Free Time |
17:30 - 19:00 | Poster Session 2 Kinnear Centre, Rooms 101 /105 |
19:30 | Dinner and Awards Presentation Kinnear Centre, Room 103 |
Sunday, January 26, 2025
07:00 - 09:30 | Breakfast Vistas Dining Room, Sally Borden Building |
12:00 | Check-out |