Scientific Program

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Thursday, January 23, 2025

16:00 - 18:30Registration 
Professional Development Centre, Main Lobby Lounge                                                                                                
17:30 - 19:00Welcome Reception  
Kinnear Centre, Room 105
19:00Dinner  
Kinnear Centre, Room 103

19:45

 

KEYNOTE ADDRESS 
Dr. Theresa Pizarro (Case Western Reserve University)

Friday, January 24, 2025

07:00 - 08:30Breakfast 
Vistas Dining Room, Sally Borden Building                                                                                                                         
08:00 - 10:00Registration 
Max Bell Central Foyer              
08:00 - 17:00Posters 
Kinnear Centre, Rooms 101/105              

  SCIENTIFIC SESSIONS WILL BE HELD IN THE MAX BELL AUDITORIUM

08:50 - 09:00Welcome: Dr. Wally MacNaughton                                                                                                                                                              

SESSION 1: MICROBIOME AND INFLAMMATORY DISEASE 
Co-Chairs: Dr. Kim Barrett (University of California Davis); Dr. Lisa Reynolds (University of Victoria)

09:00 - 09:30The microbiome's role in critical illness
Dr. Robert Dickson (University of Michigan) 
09:30 - 10:00Why do babies get sick? A systems biology approach to developing diagnostics and therapeutics for neonatal sepsis
Dr. Amy Lee (Simon Fraser University) 
10:00 - 10:30Dr. June Round (University of Utah) 
10:30 - 10:45Coffee Break
10:45 - 11:15Dr. Christina Thornton (University of Calgary) 
11:15 - 11:45Commensal microbiota promote γδ intraepithelial lymphocyte regulatory function
Dr. Karen Edelblum (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai)
12:00 - 13:00Lunch 
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 - 13:30Dr. Zeinab Hosseinidoust (McMaster University)
13:30 - 14:00The link between tubes of poo and tubes of blood
Dr. Kathryn Howe (University of Toronto)
14:00 - 14:30Circadian rhythms and colitis
Dr. Philip Karpowicz (University of Windsor)
14:30 - 14:45Break
14:45 - 15:15Trainee Quick Talks
Chair: Dr. Mark Frey (University of Southern California)
15:15 - 17:00Break
17:00 - 18:30Poster Session 1 
Kinnear Centre, Rooms 101/105
19:30 - 20:00Dinner 
Kinnear Centre, Room 103                                                                                                                                             

Saturday, January 25, 2025

07:00 - 08:30Breakfast
Vistas Dining Room, Sally Borden Building                                                                                                                 
08:00 - 17:00Posters
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 - 09:30Enteric glia as modulators of visceral pain
Dr. Brian Gulbransen (Michigan State University)
09:30 - 10:00Meningeal immunity and its role in neuropathic pain
Dr. Thiago Cunha (University of São Paulo)
10:00 - 10:30A novel neuroimmune circuit that controls acute lung inflammation
Dr. Colin Reardon (University of California Davis)
10:30 - 10:45Coffee Break
10:45 - 11:15Gut-brain-immune changes following prenatal alcohol exposure: Evidence from translational models
Dr. Tamara Bodnar (University of Calgary)
11:15 - 11:45Dr. Catherine Larochelle (Université de Montréal)
12:00 - 13:00Lunch
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 - 13:30Lung repair during influenza virus infection: cytokine regulation and viral subversion
Dr. Georgia Perona-Wright (University of Edinburgh)
13:30 - 14:00Dr. Jerrold Turner (Harvard University)
14:00 - 14:30Dissecting macrophage regulation of lung epithelial regeneration
Dr. Chris Lucas (University of Edinburgh)
14:30 - 15:00Dr. Lara Campana (Resolution Therapeutics)
15:00 - 15:15Break
15:15 - 15:45Dr. Lynne Prince (University of Sheffield)
15:45 - 16:15Dr. Charles Parkos (University of Michigan)
16:15 - 16:45Trainee Quick Talks
Chair: Dr. Simon Hirota (University of Calgary)
16:45 - 17:30Break
17:30 - 19:00Poster Session 2
Kinnear Centre, Rooms 101 /105                                                                                     
19:30Dinner and Awards Presentation
Kinnear Centre, Room 103                                                                                                                                 

Sunday, January 26, 2025

07:00 - 09:30Breakfast 
Vistas Dining Room, Sally Borden Building                                                                                                                          
12:00Check-out