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Sunday, June 23
Monday, June 24
Tuesday, June 25
Wednesday, June 26
Please join us for Registration and our Opening 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 Oakes Cafe.
Beers and hors d'oeuvres will be served.
Time | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
8:00 - 9:00 | Breakfast | ||
9:00 - 9:20 | Anthony De Tomaso | University of California, Santa Barbara | Allorecognition in Botryllus schlosseri |
9:20 - 9:40 | Ayelet Voskoboynik | Stanford University | BHF, the Botryllus schlosseri gene that predicts fusion rejection outcome via allelic polymorphism, aligning with mendelian inheritance of this trait. |
9:40 - 10:00 | Martin Flajnik | University of Maryland | Group Discussion |
10:00 - 10:20 | Coffee Break and Group Photo | ||
10:20 - 11:20 | Louise Rollins-Smith | Group Discussion on Promoting EDI in Comparative Immunology | |
11:20 - 11:40 | Amelia Williams | Auburn University | The purple sea urchin response to bacterial challenge examined via single-cell nuclei RNA-Sequencing |
11:40 - 12:00 | Younes Bouallegui | University of California, Santa Barbara | Molecular characterization of Botryllus schlosseri circulating blood cells based on single-cell RNA-seq analysis. |
12:00 - 12:20 | Tom Levy | Stanford University | Functional And Molecular Characterization of Germline Stem Cells in a Marine Tunicate and Their Role in Gonadal Regeneration. |
12:20 - 12:40 | Johanna Aldersey | ORISE and USDA Oak Ridge TN | Single-nuclei transcriptome analysis of channel catfish IgM-positive splenic fractions provides insight into the fish immunome from an aquaculture-relevant species. |
12:40 - 13:00 | Miles Lange | ORISE and USDA Auburn AL | The single-cell transcriptome analysis of channel catfish B and T cell lines. |
13:00 | Lunch | Rachel Carson Dining Hall |
Time | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
8:30 - 9:30 | Breakfast | ||
9:30 - 9:40 | Ayelet Voskoboynik | Welcome and opening remarks | |
9:40 - 10:00 | Katharine Magor | University of Alberta | Evolutionary Origins and Expression of Antiviral TRIM Proteins in the Duck |
10:00 - 10:20 | Jeff Yoder | North Carolina State University | Investigating the molecular and functional evolution of the CD300 family of innate immune receptors |
10:20 - 10:40 | Yuko Ota | University of Maryland | Characterization of an Ancient MHC-linked Nonrearranging Antibody and NK Receptor in Shark |
10:40 - 11:00 | Henry Rodriguez-Valbuena | University of California, Santa Barbara | Evolution of a histocompatibility locus in basal chordates. |
11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee Break | ||
11:30 - 12:15 | Julia Salzman | Stanford University | SPLASH: a statistical, reference-free genomic algorithm unifies biological discovery |
12:15 - 12:35 | Jonathan Rast | Emory University | Experimental and genomic strategies to characterize lymphocytes in the jawless vertebrates |
12:35 - 12:55 | Sebastian Fugmann | Chang Gung University | Conservation of cytokines in echinoderms and other invertebrates |
13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch | Rachel Carson Dining Hall | |
14:00 - 14:20 | Chew Chai | Stanford University | Ruptoblasts act as surveillance for hormonal dysregulation in planarian |
14:20 - 14:40 | Sebastian Joyce | Vanderbilt University Medical Center | A limbic immune system of vertebrates |
14:40 - 15:00 | Oriol Sunyer | University of Pennsylvania and Nihon University | The fishy origins of germinal centers |
14:40 - 15:00 | Martin Flajnik | University of Maryland. | Are canonical dendritic cells the original “follicular dendritic cells? |
15:00 - 15:20 | Coffee Break | ||
15:20 - 15:40 | Xiwei Peng | University of Maryland | Xenopus myeloid cells: Identification with monoclonal antibodies and the binding of Ig isotypes |
15:40 - 16:00 | Emily Churchman | Auburn University | Evaluation of Recombinant Flavobacterium covae Protein Vaccines in Channel Catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) |
16:00 - 16:20 | Stephanie DeWitte-Orr | Wilfrid Laurier University | Using a phytoglycogen nanoparticle to carry innate immune modulators to gut tissue in rainbow trout. |
16.20 - 16.40 | Nguyen Vo | Wilfred Laurier University | Towards the Development of an In Vitro Research-scale Bioreactor System to Mass-cultivate Massive Numbers of Autologous Fish Antigen-Presenting Cells |
16:30 - 18:30 | Poster Session & Wacky Poster Competition! | ||
18:30 - 19:30 | Dinner | Rachel Carson Dining Hall | |
20:00 | Brad Magor Beers | Santa Cruz Mountain Brewing |
Time | Speaker | Affilliation | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
8:30 - 9:30 | Breakfast | ||
9:30 - 9:50 | Louise Rollins-Smith | Vanderbilt University | Macrophages at the center of amphibian antifungal defenses and targets of fungal counter defenses. |
9:50 - 10:10 | Ryley Crow | The George Washington University | Exploring the functionalities of amphibian mast cells |
10:10 - 10:30 | Faith Boyer-Millander | Auburn University | Classical techniques in an unconventional system: Evaluation of the American Cockroach immune system from a flow cytometric perspective |
10:30 - 10:50 | Aaron Martin | Auburn University | Darkest before dawn: cellular and kinetic characteristics of melanization in the American Cockroach. |
10:50 - 11:30 | Coffee Break | ||
11:30 - 11:50 | Brian Dixon | University of Waterloo | Functional study of the endogenous antigen presentation pathway in Rainbow trout. |
11:50 - 12:10 | Ximena Fleming-Canepa | University of Alberta | Allelic diversity of TAP and tapasin in wild mallards in Alberta, Canada |
12:10 - 12:30 | Kristof Jenik | University of Waterloo | Examining rainbow trout vig-3 expression patterns, induced expression and antiviral roles following dsRNA treatment |
12:30 - 12:50 | Mirzabek Kazbekov | University of Alberta | Duck RIPLET activation of RIG-I and Influenza NS1 antagonism |
13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch | Rachel Carson Dining Hall | |
14:00 - 14:20 | Caitlin Castro | University of Chicago | CD1-like, lipid-presenting, nonclassical MHC molecules in shark |
14:20 - 14:40 | Samuel Amoah | University of Alberta | Examining the presence, distribution, and intracellular signal output of Goldfish leukocyte immune type receptor proteins using a newly developed polyclonal antibody |
14:40 - 15:00 | Yang Ding | University of Pennsylvania. | Secretory IgM (sIgM) is an ancient master regulator of microbiota homeostasis and metabolism |
15:00 - 15:20 | Eric Cruz | University of Maryland | Is IgW the shark mucosal Ig? |
15:20 - 15:40 | Coffee break | ||
15:40 - 16:00 | Daphne Siciliani | University of New Mexico | The role of a newly discovered toxin in African lungfish aestivation |
16:00 - 16:20 | Alexander Douglas | University of Waterloo | Antimicrobial Peptide Genes of the North American Wood Frog (Rana sylvatica) and Confirmation of Peptide Expression in Skin. |
16:20 - 16:40 | Jake Tatum | Auburn University | Type VI secretion systems and motility are instrumental for the pathogenicity of Vibrio diazotrophicus in purple sea urchin larvae. |
16:40 - 17.30 | Business Meeting | ||
18:00 - 22:00 | Banquet Merrill Cultural Center |
Download the Detailed Schedule for NACI 2024 here
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