Events
Our Symposiums
Since 2015, FASI has hosted an annual symposium to showcase scientists’ cutting-edge allergy research.
8:00 – 8:45 am
Registration & Breakfast
8:45 – 8:50 am
Opening Remarks Carlos Bosques, PhD,
FASI
8:45 – 8:50 am
FASI Scientific Overview Ruslan
Medzhitov, PhD Yale School of Medicine
Session 1: Tolerance at the Gut Barrier
9:00 – 9:30am
Barrier Defense – Insights from Genetics</span >
Ramnik Xavier, MD, PhD Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
9:30 – 10:00am
The Peyer’s Patches Sense, Enhance and Transmit Probiotic Signals
Important for Homeostasis</span >
Mia Phillipson, PhD Uppsala University of Sweden
10:00 – 10:30am
Microbiota-Directed Immune Tolerance at the Gut Barrier</span >
Dan Littman, MD, PhD New York University School of Medicine
10:30 -10:45am
Break
Session 2: Tolerance at the Skin Barrier
10:45 – 11:15am
On-Person Adaptive Evolution of Staphylococcus Aureus during Treatment
for Atopic Dermatitis</span >
Tami Lieberman, PhD Massachusetts Institute of Technology
11:15 – 11:45am
Tracking the Fate of Food Antigen-Specific Helper T cells</span >
Marc Jenkins, PhD University of Minnesota Medical School
11:45 – 12:15pm
Sensing Inflammation in the Skin and Beyond</span >
Brian Kim, MD Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
12:15 -1:15pm
Lunch Break
Session 3: Potential for Tolerogenic Therapies
1:15 – 1:45pm
A Tale of Two Strategies to Mitigate Peanut Allergy in Mice</span >
Kei Kishimoto, PhD Selecta Biosciences
1:45 – 2:15pm
Treg Cells as Mediators of Intestinal Tolerance</span >
Alexander Rudensky, PhD Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
2:15 – 2:45pm
Induction of Tregs by Mucosal Administration of Anti-CD3 mAb to Treat
Inflammatory and Autoimmune Diseases</span >
Howard Weiner, MD Harvard Medical School
2:45 -3:00pm
Break
Session 4: FASI Spotlight
3:00 – 4:00pm
Presentations from FASI Lab Members</span >
Karen Agaronyan
Medzhitov Lab, Yale University
Michael Schappe
Liberles Lab, Harvard Medical School
Emily Siniscalco
Eisenbarth Lab, Yale University
Peng Tan
Xavier Lab, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Daniel Waizman
Wang Lab, Yale University
Closing Remarks & Poster Session
4:00 – 4:15 pm
Closing Remarks Ruslan Medzhitov,
PhD Yale School of Medicine
4:30 – 6:00 pm
Poster Session & Cocktail Reception</span >
Speakers
Ruslan Medzhitov, PhD, Yale School of Medicine Ramnik Xavier, MD, PhD, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard Dan Littman, MD, PhD, New York University School of Medicine Marc Jenkins, PhD, University of Minnesota Medical School Kei Kishimoto, PhD, Selecta Biosciences Howard Weiner, MD, Harvard Medical School Juan J. Lafaille, PhD, New York University School of MedicineAlexander Rudensky, PhD, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Tami
Lieberman, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Patron ($10,000)
Anonymous
Benefactor ($5,000)
Anonymous
8:00 am
Registration & Breakfast
8:45 am
Opening remarks
Ruslan Medzhitov, PhD, Yale School of Medicine
9:00 – 10:30 am
Session 1: Diet, Microbiome, and Immunity
Yasmine Belkaid, PhD, National Institutes of Health
Michiko Oyoshi, PhD, Massachusetts General Hospital
Jeffrey Gordon, MD, Washington University School of Medicine
10:45 – 12:15 pm
Session 2: Gut Mucosa Biology
Daria Esterhazy, PhD, University of Chicago
Irene Salinas, PhD, University of New Mexico
Malin Johansson, PhD, University of Gothenburg
1:15 – 2:30 pm
Session 3: FASI Research Spotlight
Cameron Flayer, PhD, Harvard Medical School
Rocky Barilla, BS, Harvard Medical School
Daping Yang, PhD, Harvard Medical School
Anna Eisenstein, MD, PhD, Yale School of Medicine
2:30 – 4:00 pm
Session 4: Type 2 Immune Responses
Cecilia Berin, PhD, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
De’Broski Herbert, PhD, University of Pennsylvania
William Gause, PhD, Rutgers University
4:00 pm
Closing remarks
Ruslan Medzhitov, PhD, Yale School of Medicine
4:30 – 6:00 pm
Poster Session & Reception
