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Sunday June 23
Monday, June 24
Tuesday, June 25
Wednesday, June 26
Please join us at Oak Cafe for Registration and Welcome Reception
Dinner Rachel Carson Dining Hall (6:30-7:#0 p.m.)
Welcome reception at Oak Cafe (7:30 - 10 p.m.)
After registering for your rooms and dinner at Rachel Carson Dining Hall, please join us for our welcome reception at Oak Cafe.
Beers and hors d'oeuvres will be served.
Time | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
09:00 - 09:20 | Faith Boyer | Auburn University | Immunological Characterization of the American Cockroach: A Flow Cytometric Approach |
09:20 - 09:40 | Lisa D. Brown | Georgia Southern University | Local and Systemic Immune Responses in the Cat Flea (Ctenocephalides Felis) |
09:40 - 10:00 | Shany Klara Barkan | Ben Gurion University | Heat Stress Increases Immune Cell Function in Hexacorallia |
10:00 - 10:40 | Coffee Break | ||
10:40 - 11:00 | Mirzabek Kazbekov | University of Alberta | Duck Riplet Activates RIG-I Signaling in Chicken Cells |
11:00 - 11:20 | Kristianna Felch | University of Mississippi Medical Center | Assessment of TLR5 cellular localization in channel catfish, Ictalurus punctatus |
11:20 - 11:40 | Christina Bowhay | Univeristy of Alberta | The Importance of TLR Expression in Snail Haemocytes and Tissues |
11:40 - 12:00 | Amelia Williams | Auburn University | Echinoderm Genomes Encode Sophisticated Systems to Detect Intracellular Microbes |
12:00 - 13:30 | Lunch | ||
13:30 - 14:50 | Kimberly Mulligan | Auburn University | Broadening Participation in Comparative Immunology |
14:50 - 15:40 | Coffee break | ||
15:40 - 16:00 | Ayelet Voskoboynik | Stanford University | Two distinct evolutionary conserved neural degeneration pathways characterized in a colonial chordate |
16:00 - 16:20 | Gregory Maniero | Stonehill College | CD4 as an Ancestral Receptor for the Cytokine IL-16; Evidence from the Frog, Xenopus laevis. |
16:20 - 16:40 | Francisco Fontenla-Iglesias | Emory University | Identification and characterization of novel variable lymphocyte receptors in lampreys |
16:40 - 17:00 | Jonathan Rast | Emory University | Developmental and genomic approaches to characterizing the variable lymphocyte receptor system of sea lamprey |
Time | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
09:00 - 09:20 | Tom Levy | Stanford University | The Colonial Tunicate Botryllus schlosseri - A Marine Model for Germline Stem Cell Competition |
09:20 - 09:40 | Amir Mani | University of New Mexico | A brain microbiome in salmonids |
09:40 - 10:00 | Megan Maloney | Auburn University | Mucus provides a first line a defense for the Florida false coral as a unique microbial niche |
10:00 - 10:40 | Coffee Break | ||
10:40 - 11:00 | Karina Hissen | Texas A&M University | Glycine Supplementation Effects on Immune Gene Expression in Hybrid Striped Bass |
11:00 - 11:20 | Nithin Muliya Sankappa | USDA-ARS, Aquatic Animal Health Research Unit | Fish Immune Responses oo Natural Infection with Carp Edema Virus (Koi Sleepy Disease): An Emerging Fish Disease |
11:20 - 11:40 | Emily Churchman | Auburn University | The Expression of Recombinant Monoclonal Antibodies from Existing Hybridoma Cell Lines |
11:40 - 12:00 | Reema Joshi | University of Alberta | Anti-Pyresis During Infection Induces Molecular Changes in Goldfish Thrombocytes |
12:00 - 13:30 | Lunch | ||
13:30 - 13:50 | Dionysia Dimitrakopoulou | University of Rochester | Role of Glycopeptidolipid (GPL) and Phenazine (PHZ) Production in Immunopathogenicity of Mycobacterium abscessus (Mab) in the Xenopus laevis tadpole model |
13:50 - 14:10 | Jacques Robert | University of Rochester Medical Center | Microplastic Water Contaminants Impact on Amphibian Xenopus Development and Immunity |
14:10 - 14:30 | Louise Rollins-Smith | Vanderbilt University School of Medicine | Inhibition of Amphibian Lymphocytes by Cell Wall Components of Chytrid Fungi |
14:30 - 15:00 | Coffee Break | ||
15:00 - 16:00 | Business Meeting |
Download the Detailed Schedule for NACI 2024 here!
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