Society for Leukocyte Biology (SLB) 2020 - Bringing the Science to YOU

Society for Leukocyte Biology (SLB) 2020 - Bringing the Science to YOU is organized by Society for Leukocyte Biology (SLB).

Week of June 1st - Metabolic Disease and Immunity:
•  Thursday, June 4th, 11 am eastern - Host Versus Microbiome in Metabolic Disease, Kylie Kavanagh, Wake Forest University (LIVE ONLY)

Week of June 8th - Microbial Communities in Health and Disease:
•  Monday, June 8th, 1 pm eastern - Uninvited Guests in Undisclosed Locations: Microbes and Their Metabolites in the Cystic Fibrosis Airways, Katrine Whiteson, University of California, Irvine
•  Wednesday, June 10th, 11 am eastern - Resident Microbes that Induce Aggressive vs Protective Responses in Genetically Predisposed vs Normal Hosts, Balfour Sartor, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
•  Thursday, June 11th, 12 pm eastern - The Virtues of Simplicity: Vaginal Microbiome, Host Inflammation and Reproductive Outcomes, Doug Kwon, Harvard

Week of June 15th - Metabolic Regulation of Immunity and Impact on Disease:
•  Tuesday, June 16th, 1 pm eastern - Itaconate Regulating Macrophage Activation, Monika Bambouskova, WUSTL
•  Wednesday, June 17th, 12 pm eastern - Inflammaging in Tissue Resident Immune Cells, Christina Camell, University of Minnesota
•  Thursday, June 18th, 11 am eastern - Endogenous Oxidized Phospholipids Reprogram Cellular Metabolism and Boost Hyperinflammation, Ivan Zanoni, Harvard Medical School

Week of June 22nd - The Ying and Yang of Macrophages:
•  Tuesday, June 23rd, 12 pm eastern - Macrophages and RELM Proteins in Inflammation and Sepsis, Meera Nair, Uni.of California, Riverside
•  Thursday, June 25th, 11 am eastern - Colonic Macrophages Dynamically Orchestrate Intestinal Immunity Against Bacterial Pathogens, Xiaoyu Hu, Tsinghua University

Week of June 29th - Glycobiology:
•  Tuesday, June 30th, 11 am eastern - Sugar Switches in Antibody-Mediated Effector Functions: The COVID-19 Case, Gestur Vidarsson, Amsterdam UMC
•  Thursday, July 2nd, 12 pm eastern - The Emerging Role of Glyco-Checkpoints in Cancer, Autoimmunity and Infection: The Sweet Side of Immunotherapy, Gabriel Rabinovich, Institute of Biology and Experimental Medicine

Week of July 6th - Coronavirus:
•  Monday, July 6th, 12 pm eastern - Nonhuman Primate Models for COVID-19: A Critical Component of the Response to the Pandemic, Emmie de Wit, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, NIAID, NIH
•  Tuesday, July 7th, 2 pm eastern - ACE2 as a Rationale Therapy for COVID-19, Josef Penninger, University of British Columbia
•  Wednesday, July 8th, 11 am eastern - Immune Responses in Human CoV Infections: What Have We Learned from Common Cold, SARS and MERS CoV Infections?, Stanley Perlman, University of Iowa
•  Thursday, July 9th, 11 am eastern - Novel Mechanism of SARS-CoV-2 Entry, Wendy Maury, University of Iowa
•  Friday, July 10th, 11 am eastern - Leukocytes and Coronaviruses: Friends or Foes?, Tanya Miura, University of Idaho

Week of July 13th - Regulation of Innate and Adaptive Immunity:
•  Monday, July 13th, 11 am eastern - Control of Adaptive Immunity by Lymph Node Stromal Cells, Reina Mebius, Amsterdam University Medical Center
•  Wednesday, July 15th, 11 am eastern - Innate Control of Adaptive Immunity During Adulthood and Infancy, Beatriz Leon Ruiz, University of Alabama, Birmingham
•  Thursday, July 16th, 1 pm eastern - Maternal Antibodies Regulate Neonatal Immunity to the Microbiome, Meghan Koch, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
•  TBD - Applying Functional Genomics to Reveal New Paradigms in Innate Immunity, Sara Cherry, University of Pennsylvania

Week of July 20th - Subversion of Host Responses by Microbes:
•  Tuesday, July 21st, 12 pm eastern - Molecular Mechanisms of Chlamydia Subversion of Host Cellular Functions, Raphael Valdivia, Duke University (LIVE ONLY)
•  Wednesday, July 22nd, 12 pm eastern - Defining the Roles of Host Lipids in Microbial Infection, Fikadu Tafesse, Oregon Health and Science University
•  Thursday, July 23rd, 12 pm eastern - Mechanisms of Varicella-Zoster Virus Dissemination and Pathogenesis, Ilhem Messaoudi, University of California, Irvine
•  Friday, July 24th, 12 pm eastern - How the Ebola Virus VP35 Protein Modulates Innate and Adaptive Immunity to Promote Virulence, Christopher Basler, Georgia State University

Week of July 27th - Microbial Communities as Triggers of Auto-immunity:
•  Monday, July 27th, 12 pm eastern - Gene X Environment Interactions Govern Gut Microbiome Effects on Autoimmune Diabetes, Jayne Danska, Hospital for Sick Kids
•  Tuesday, July 28th, 11 am eastern - Chemokine Receptor CCR6 Signaling in Gut Inflammation and Autoimmunity, Girdhari Lal, National Centre for Cell Science, India
•  Thursday, July 30th, 11 am eastern - Persistent Triggers of Autoimmunity within the Microbiome, Martin Kriegel, Yale University

Week of August 3rd - Cross-talk between Parasites and the Immune System:
•  Tuesday, August 4th, 12 pm eastern - IL-4 Activated Macrophages During Helminth Infections, P’ng Loke, New York University
•  Wednesday, August 5th, 12 pm eastern - Helminths, Macrophages and the Control of Inflammation, Derek McKay, University of Calgary
•  Thursday, August 6th, 12 pm eastern - Neutrophils Cast NET Against the Parasite Entamoeba histolytica, Carlos Rosales, Univ Nacional Autonoma de Mexico

Week of August 10th - Metabolism and Microbes in the Tumor Environment:
•  Tuesday, August 11th, 11 am eastern - Metabolic Checkpoints in the Tumor Environment, Marina Kreutz, Universitat Regensburg
•  Wednesday, August 12th, 11 am eastern - Using Bugs as Anticancer Drugs: Effects of Attenuated Salmonella on Tumor Environment and Anti-tumor Immunity, Kendle Maslowski, University of Birmingham

Workshops:

Friday, October 2, 2020, 11:30 am - 1:00 pm
•  Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Workshop – Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Mentoring: Challenges and Opportunities

Saturday, October 3, 2020, 12:30 - 2:30pm eastern
•  Professional Development Workshop – Beyond Academia: Career Paths and Options