Concurrent Symposia Sessions

Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Natcher Conference Center
Symposia Session III
Balcony A

Understanding Human Immunology	1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.

Chair: Neal S. Young, NHLBI

The Center for Human Immunology, Autoimmunity, and Inflammation (CHI)  is a new trans-NIH effort to apply the emerging  “new biology” tools for global analysis of cell state and phenotype to an in depth analysis of the normal and pathological function of the human immune system.

Program

Presentation by FARE Award Winner
Identification and Classification of Inflammatory Genes Co-regulated by Dexamethasone and TNF-Alpha
Erica Lannan, NIEHS

Horror Autoinflammaticus: Towards the Molecular Pathophysiology of Systemic Autoinflammatory Disease
Daniel Kastner, NIAMS

IL-2 Receptor Alpha (CD25)-targeting Therapy Reveals Complex and Unexpected Roles for IL-2 in Human Immune System
Bibi Bielekova, NINDS

Telomere Dysfunction in Inflammation and Cancer
Rodrigo Calado, NHLBI

Enhancing Our Understanding of Human Immunity by Integrating Emerging High-density Analytic Technologies and Computational Systems Methods
Ronald Germain, NIAID