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FULL PROGRAM FORTHCOMING (June 12 – 15, 2017)
Day 1
12 Jun 2017
16:00 - 19:00
Aloft Raleigh
Registration
ALOFT RALEIGH: 2100 Hillsborough Street, Raleigh, NC, 27607
19:00 - 20.00
Aloft Raleigh
Keynote Presentation #1 POLYDNAVIRUSES AS MUTUALISTS AND IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS OF INSECT
Michael Strand, University of Georgia
Day 2
13 Jun 2017
09:00 - 10:00
Mountains Ballroom
KEYNOTE PRESENTATION #2 LIVE AND LET DIE: A DEFENSE STRATEGY IN PLANTS
Xinnian Dong, Duke University
10:00 - 10:15
Mountains Ballroom
BROADENING THE SCOPE OF GASTROPOD IMMUNITY: INSIGHTS FROM A NEW SNAIL HOST/PARASITE MODEL
Jonathan Schultz, University of New Mexico
10:15 - 10:45
Mountains Ballroom
Coffee Break
10:45 - 11:00
Mountains Ballroom
THE SpTRANSFORMER GENE FAMILY HAS COMPLEX PATERNS OF REPEATS, DUPLICATIONS, AND SHARED SEQUENCES CONSISTENT WITH GENOMIC INSTABILITY
Megan Barela-Hudgell, George Washington University
11:00 - 11:15
Mountains Ballroom
AID/APOBEC -LIKE CYTIDINE DEAMINASES ARE ANCIENT INNATE IMMUNE MEDIATORS IN INVERTEBRATES
Mei-Chen Liu, Chang Gung University
11:15 - 11:30
Mountains Ballroom
DIVERSIFICATION OF CHEMOKINE CCL19 GENES IN SALMONIDS AND THEIR ROLE IN RAINBOW TROUT NASAL IMMUNITY
Ali Sepahi, University of New Mexico
11:30 - 11:45
Mountains Ballroom
EVOLUTION OF THREE TANDEM COPIES OF THE INTERLEUKIN-1 RECEPTOR-LIKE 1 GENE IN SALMONID FISH AND THEIR CONTRIBUTION TO RAINBOW TROUT BACTERIAL COLD WATER DISEASE RESISTANT PHENOTYPE
Cassidy Shaw, National Center for Cool and Cold Water Aquaculture, USDA
11:45 - 12:00
Mountains Ballroom
GENOMIC CHARACTERIZATION OF NOVEL IMMUNOGLOBULIN-LIKE TRANSCRIPTS (NILTS) IN TELEOSTS
Dustin Wcisel, North Carolina State University
12:00 - 12:15
Mountains Ballroom
WIDESPREAD STRUCTURAL AND CODING SEQUENCE VARIATION HIGHLIGHT RAPID AND ONGOING EVOLUTION OF ZEBRAFISH IMMUNE GENES
Sean McConnell, University of Chicago
12:15 - 13:30
Hatteras/Ocracoke
Lunch
13:30 - 13:45
Mountains Ballroom
CHARACTERIZATION OF THE MOST EVOLUTIONARILY CONSERVED NATURAL KILLER RECEPTOR, NKp30, IN EARLY VERTEBRATES
Yuko Ota, University of Maryland
13:45 - 14:00
Mountains Ballroom
REANALYSIS OF THE EVOLUTION OF TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR SUPERFAMILY IN VERTEBRATES
Ryan Heimroth, University of New Mexico
14:00 - 14:15
Mountains Ballroom
CCTA-1 AND CCTA-2 ARE CANINE CANCER/TESTIS ANTIGENS
Paige Nemec, North Carolina State University
14:15 - 14:30
Mountains Ballroom
TRANSCRIPTIONAL CONTROL OF A GUT-ASSOCIATED INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE IN A SIMPLE INVERTEBRATE DEUTEROSTOME
Kate Buckley, George Washington University
14:30 - 14:45
Mountains Ballroom
IDENTIFICATION OF NOVEL IMMUNE MEDIATORS IN THE TRANSCRIPTOME OF STRONGYLOCENTROTUS PURPURATUS COELOMOCYTES
Sebastian Fugmann, Chang Gung University
14:45 - 15:00
Mountains Ballroom
GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS AND THE EVOLUTION OF IMMUNE CELL DEVELOPMENT
Jonathan Rast, University of Toronto
15:00 - 16:00
Mountains Ballroom
Coffee Break with Poster Session #1
16:00 - 16:15
Mountains Ballroom
GENOTYPE-SPECIFIC EXPRESSION OF UNCLE FESTER SUGGESTS A ROLE IN ALLORECOGNITION EDUCATION IN A BASAL CHORDATE
Anthony De Tomaso, University of California, Santa Barbara
16:15 - 16:30
Mountains Ballroom
BHF ALELIC POLYMORPHISM DETERMINES CHIMERIC STATE STABILITY IN BOTRYLLUS SCHOLSSERI
Ayelet Voskoboynik, Stanford University
16:30 - 16:45
Mountains Ballroom
SOMATIC HYPERMUTATION OF TCRa CONTRIBUTES TO THYMIC POSITIVE SELECTION IN SHARKS
Jeannine Ott, Texas A&M
16:45 - 17:00
Mountains Ballroom
EXPLORING THE ROLES OF XENOPUS MHC CLASS I-LIKE MOLECULES AND INNATE-LIKE T CELLS IN TUMOR IMMUNITY
Maureen Banach, University of Rochester Medical Center
17:00 - 17:15
Mountains Ballroom
TGF-b2 DOWNREGULATES CONSTITUTIVE AND IFN-g-INDUCED MHC SURFACE EXPRESSION ON EQUINE BONE MARROW-DERIVED MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS
Alix Berglund, North Carolina State University
17:15 - 17:30
Mountains Ballroom
MR1 RECOGNITION BY HUMAN gd T CELLS
Jerome Le Nours, Monash University
Day 3
14 Jun 2017
08:00 - 09:00
Mountains Ballroom
REGISTRATION
Mountains Ballroom: TALLEY STUDENT UNION: North Carolina State University 2610 Cates Ave., Raleigh, NC 27695
09:00 - 10:00
Mountains Ballroom
Keynote Presentation #3 FUNCTIONS AND APPLICATIONS OF CRISPR-CAS IMMUNE SYSTEMS
Rodolphe Barrangou, North Carolina State University
10:00 - 10:15
Mountains Ballroom
SOMATIC DIVERSIFICATION OF THE SpTRANSFORMER GENES; A SEA URCHIN IMMUNE GENE FAMILY
Matan Ore, George Washington University
10:15 - 10:30
Mountains Ballroom
THE FLORIDA MANATEE (TRICHECHUS MANATUS LATIROSTRIS) IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN SUGGESTS THE IMPORTANCE OF CLAN III VARIABLE SEGMENTS IN REPERTOIRE DIVERSITY
Breanna Breaux, Texas A&M
10:30 - 11:00
Mountains Ballroom
Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:15
Mountains Ballroom
IMMUNE FUNCTION IN SMALLMOUTH BASS (MICROPTERUS DOLOMIEU) FROM THE CHESAPEAKE BAY WATERSHED
Cheyenne Smith, National Fish Health Research Laboratory
11:15 - 11:30
Mountains Ballroom
IDENTIFYING CYTOPLASMIC NUCLEIC ACID SENSORS, DHX9 AND DDX3, IN RAINBOW TROUT
Shanee Herrington-Krause, Wilfrid Laurier University
11:30 - 11:45
Mountains Ballroom
AN ESSENTIAL ROLE OF IgT IN HOST-MICROBIOAL HOMEOSTASIS
Yasuhiro Shibasaki, University of Pennsylvania
11:45 - 12:00
Mountains Ballroom
INTERACTIONS BETWEEN MICROBIOTA AND THE TELEOST IMMUNE SYSTEM IN HEALTH AND DISEASE
Irene Salinas, University of New Mexico
12:00 - 12:15
Mountains Ballroom
AVIAN INFLUENZA IMMUNE EVASION – SPECIES-SPECIFIC NS1 PROTEIN INTERACTIONS IN HUMAN AND DUCK HOSTS
Danyel Evseev, University of Alberta
12:15 - 12:30
Mountains Ballroom
INDIRECT ACTIVATION OF DENDRITIC CELLS DURING STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS SEROTYPE 2 INFECTION IN A MURINE MODEL
Corinne Letendre, University of Montreal
12:30 - 13:30
Hatteras/Ocracoke
Lunch
13:30 - 13:45
Mountains Ballroom
THE PROTEIN PROHIBITIN DISPLAYS SYSTEMIC ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AND ORGAN-PROTECTIVE EFFECTS DURING SEPSIS
Christine Psaltis, East Carolina University
13:45 - 14:00
Mountains Ballroom
DIFFERENTIATION-DEPENDENT ANTIVIRAL CAPACITIES OF AMPHIBIAN (XENOPUS LAEVIS) MACROPHAGES
Amulya Yaparla, George Washington University
14:00 - 14:15
Mountains Ballroom
VISUALIZING HOST MACROPHAGES-MICROBIAL PATHOGENS INTERACTIONS IN THE AMPHIBIAN XENOPUS
Jacques Robert, University of Rochester Medical Center
14:15 - 14:30
Mountains Ballroom
EXAMINING TELEOST LEUKOCYTE IMMUNE-TYPE RECEPTOR MEDIATED INDUCTION OF PHAGOCYTIC TENTACLES
Dustin Lillico, University of Alberta
14:30 - 14;45
Mountains Ballroom
AN EVOLUTIONARILY ANCIENT INNATE IMMUNE ROLE IDENTIFIED IN PLASMA CELLS
Oriol Sunyer, University of Pennsylvania
14:45 - 15:00
Mountains Ballroom
OPSONIC ACTIVITY AND IMMUNOHISTOCHEMICAL LOCALIZATION OF SeC3, A COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C3-LIKE PROTEIN FROM SWIFTIA EXSERTA
Lorenzo Menzel, Florida International University
15:00 - 16:00
Mountains Ballroom
Coffee Break with Poster Session #2
16:00 = 16:15
Mountains Ballroom
Ig ISOTYPE BINDING BY POLYMERIC IG RECEPTORS (plgRs) IN XENOPUS
Emily Flowers, University of Maryland
16:15 - 16:30
Mountains Ballroom
EVOLUTIONARY CONSERVATION OF CD4 AS A RECEPTOR FOR IL-16: PRELIMINARY EVIDENCE FROM XENOPUS LAEVIS
Greg Maniero, Stonehill College
16:30 - 16:45
Mountains Ballroom
DEFINING THE MECHANISMS BY WHICH TRIM9, A UBIQUITIN LIGASE, MEDIATES INNATE IMMUNE CELL FUNCTIO
Amanda Kortum, North Carolina State University College of Veterinary Medicine
16:45 - 17:00
Mountains Ballroom
EXAMINATION OF FISH IMMUNOREGULATORY RECEPTOR-MEDIATED SIGNALING EVENTS
Myron Zwozdesky, University of Alberta
17:00 - 17:15
Mountains Ballroom
“MARCO” “POLO”: HOW RAINBOW TROUT CELLS FIND BACTERIA USING A CLASS A SCAVENGER RECEPTOR
Sarah Poynter, University of Waterloo
17:15 - 17:30
Mountains Ballroom
THE ROLE OF TMEM150A AS A NOVEL REGULATOR OF CYTOKINE SIGNALING
Jessica Romanet, North Carolina State College of Veterinary Medicine
17:30 - 19:00
Free Time
19:00 - 22:00
Mitch's Tavern
Banquet
Mitch’s Tavern 2426 Hillsborough St, Raleigh, NC 27607
Day 4
15 Jun 2017
09:00 - 09:15
Mountains Ballroom
KNOCKDOWN OF USF LEADS TO LONG-TERM CHANGES IN THE GENE EXPRESSION RESPONSE TO DNA DAMAGE
Kimberly Bellingham-Johnstun, North Carolina State University
09:15 - 09:30
Mountains Ballroom
MHC CLASS I LIKE RESTRICTED INNATE-LIKE T CELL LINEAGES WITH ANTI-MYCOBACTERIAL IMMUNE FUNCTIONS IN THE AMPHIBIAN XENOPUS
Eva-Stina Edholm, University of Rochester Medical Center
10:00 - 10:30
Mountains Ballroom
Coffee Break
10:30 - 12:30
Mountains Ballroom
“Town Hall” Meeting
12:30
Mountains Ballroom
Boxed Lunch Pickup