Previous Speakers

2021

Keynote Address

Facundo Batista, Director of Ragon Institute, HMS

Galit Alter - Ragon Institute, Harvard Medical School

 

Session I. New Insights on SARS-Cov2

Jeremy Luban - U. Mass. Medical School

Nahid Bhadella – Boston U. School of Medicine

Florian Krammer – Mount Sinai

Jason Botten – U. Vermont

 

Session II. Barrier defenses and tissue-specific immunity

Jay Mizgerd – Boston U. School of Medicine

Pilar Alcaide – Tufts 

Alissa Rothchild – U. Mass. Amherst 

Issac Chiu – Harvard Medical School

 

Session III. Mechanisms of Innate and Adaptive Immunity

Neal Silverman – U. Mass. Medical School

Sivapriya Kailasan Vanaja – U. Connecticut

Grace Chen – Yale University

Shipra Vaishnava – Brown University

 

2019

Innate Immune Triggers of Immunity

  1. Lee Quinton (Boston University)

  2. Vijay Rathinam (U. Conn. Health Center)

  3. Julie Blander (Cornell University)

New Insights into Adaptive Immune Regulation

  1. Andrew Wang (Yale University)

  2. Mark Shlomchik (University of Pittsburgh)

  3. Joao Pereira (Yale University)

  4. Donna Farber (Columbia University)

Immune and Inflammatory Responses to Cancer

  1. Michelle Kelliher (University of Massachusetts Medical School)

  2. Nikhil Joshi (Yale University)

  3. Kai Wucherpfennig (Danna Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School)

  4. Hidde Ploegh (Boston Children’s Hospital)

Keynote Lecture: Kate Fitzgerald (University of Massachusetts Medical School)

2018

Optimal Protective Immunity and How to Generate It

  1. Darrell Irvine (MIT)

  2. Rachael Clark (Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard)

  3. Susan Swain (UMMS)

Immunity to Pathogens

  1. Alex K Shalek (MIT)

  2. Benjamin Gewurz (Harvard, Brigham and Women’s Hospital)

  3. Sam Behar (UMMS)

  4. Robert Wheeler (Univ. of Maine)

Immunity in Context

  1. Carla Rothlin (Yale)

  2. Vijay Kuchroo (Harvard)

  3. Antony Rosen (Johns Hopkins)

  4. Kate Jeffrey (MGH)

2017

Immune Mechanisms at Distinct Sites

  1. Uli von Andrian, Harvard Medical School

  2. Randy Noelle, Dartmouth Medical School

  3. Stephanie Eisenbarth, Yale Medical School

Gut, Brain, and Beyond...

  1. Javier Irazoqui, UMMS

  2. Ramnik Xavier, MGH, HMS

  3. Beth McCormick, UMMS

  4. Jun Huh, HMS

  5. Francisco Quintana, BWH, HMS

New Directions in Autoimmunity

  1. Ann Rothstein, UMMS

  2. Mike Carroll, HMS

  3. John Harris, UMMS

  4. Nir Hacohen, MIT

2016

Myeloid Cells

  1. Boris Reizis, New York University

  2. Xu Yu, Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, and HMS

  3. Basak Cicek, UConn Health

T cell migration and function

  1. Judy Lieberman, Children's Hospital Boston, HMS

  2. Daniel Kaplan, University of Pittsburgh

  3. Susan Schwab, New York University

State of the (Translation Immuno-) Art Mark Cobbold, MGH, HMS

  1. Douglas Kwon, Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, and Harvard

  2. Arup Chakraborty, Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, and Harvard

  3. Alfred Bothwell, Yale University

2015

Immunotech 2.0

  1. Hidde Ploegh

  2. Susan Swain

  3. William Green

  4. Darrell Irvine

Lymphocyte Dynamics & Differentiation in vivo

  1. Kai Wucherpfennig

  2. Gabriel Victora

  3. Ming Li

  4. Stephan Kissler

Why Treg stop working in Autoimmunity and Cancer

  1. Margarita Dominguez-Villar

  2. Arlene Sharpe

  3. Dario Vignali

  4. David Hafler

2014

Age, Chronic Disease and Immunity

  1. Ranjan Sen

  2. Joseph El Khoury

  3. Peter Libby

  4. Bruce Spiegelman

T cell migration & function

  1. Andrew Luster

  2. Peter Savage

  3. James Moon

  4. Deborah Fowell

T and B Cells in the Normal and Autoreactive Germinal Center and Beyond

  1. Joe Craft,

  2. Arlene Sharpe

  3. Anne Davidson

  4. Kevin O’Connor

2013

Mucosal immunity and tolerance

  1. Daniel Mucida

  2. Ivaylo (Ivo) Ivanov

  3. M. Cecilia Berin

  4. Wayne Shreffler

Lymphocyte signaling and differentiation

  1. Stephen Bunnell

  2. Fernando Macian

  3. Uli von Andrian

  4. Jo Viney

21st Century Vaccines (Infectious Diseases & Cancer): 

  1. Samuel Behar

  2. Galit Alter

  3. Glenn Dranoff

  4. Richard Junghans

2012

Immune Tolerance at the Barriers / Mucosal Immune Tolerance

  1. Michael Carroll

  2. Scott Snapper

  3. Juan Lafaille

  4. Francisco Quintana

How Immune Cells Talk to Each Other

  1. Adrian Erlebacher

  2. Morgan Huse

  3. Protul Shrikant (cancelled)

  4. Adam Lacy-Hulbert

Inflammatory Immunology: Cancer and Infection

  1. R. Paul Johnson

  2. Mark Exley

  3. Lieping Chen (cancelled)

  4. Madhav Dhodapkar

2011

Molecular Control of Immunity:

  1. Rodrigo Mora

  2. Kamal Khanna

  3. Tony Coyle

  4. Laurent Brossay

Translational Human Immunology:

  1. Juan Salazar

  2. Clara Abraham

  3. Nick Haining

  4. Wendy Garrett

Manipulating the Immune System

  1. MaryJo Turk

  2. Jose-Conejo Garcia

  3. Glenn Dranoff (storm cancelled)

  4. Joel Weinstock

2010

Witch way to go: Triggering of the innate immune system

  1. Tony Vella

  2. Egil Lien

  3. Mark Exley

  4. Akiko Iwasaki

Haunted and hunted: Infection and immunity

  1. Miguel Stadecker

  2. Gary Winslow

  3. Mike Starnbach

  4. Liisa Selin

Ghosts in the machine: Regulation of self-reactivity

  1. Dave Serreze

  2. Mark Mamula

  3. Rob Clark

  4. Thorsten Mempel

2009

Stem Cells and the Immune System

  1. Leonardo Aguila (U. Conn. Health Center, Farmington, CT)

  2. Trista North (Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, HMS)

  3. Boris Reizis (Columbia University, New York, NY)

  4. David Scadden (Massachusetts General Hospital, HMS)

Life and Death in the Immune System

  1. Francis K. Chan (U. Mass. Medical School, Worcester, MA)

  2. Ralph Budd (University of Vermont, Burlington, VT)

  3. Barbara Osborne (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA)

  4. Susan Kaech (Yale University, New Haven, CT)

Innate Immunity

  1. Anthony Coyle (MedImmune, Gaithersburg, MD)

  2. Charles Sentman (Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH)

  3. Barbara Nikolajczyk (Boston University, Boston, MA)

  4. Christine Biron (Brown University, Providence, RI)

2008

Driving Cell Migration and Localization

  1. Gwen Randolph,

  2. Hans-Christian Reinecker

  3. Tim Hla

  4. Troy Randall

Ins and Outs of Antigen Presentation

  1. Brent Berwin

  2. Ken Rock

  3. Lynda Stuart

  4. Pete Cresswell

Balance Between Tolerance and Autoimmunity

  1. Ann Rothstein

  2. Christophe Benoist

  3. Leo LeFrancois

  4. Randy Noelle

2007

Development of Immune Competence

  1. Lynn Puddington (University of Connecticut Health Center)

  2. Nancy H. Ruddle (Yale University)

  3. Elizabeth Bonney (University of Vermont)

  4. Adrian Erlebacher (New York University School of Medicine)

Mucosal Immunity

  1. Daniel Podolsky (Massachusetts General Hospital)

  2. Andrea Cerutti (Cornell University)

  3. Paul Rennert (Biogen-IDEC)

  4. Dennis Metzger (Albany Medical College)

Imaging the Immune Response

  1. Uli von Andrian (Harvard Medical School)

  2. Ann M. Haberman (Yale University)

  3. Darrell Irvine (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

  4. Leo Lefrançois (University of Connecticut Health Center)