Thursday, March 26th
| Registration & Networking 6:00pm – 7:15pm | |
| Welcome 6:00pm – 7:15pm | Dr. David McMurray PhD, TAMHSC – COM Dr. Jane Welsh PhD, TAMU – CVM |
| Keynote Speakers 7:15 – 7:45pm | Dr. Brett Girior MD (Intro: Dr. Magnus Hook) tbd CEO and Professor Texas A&M Health Science Center |
| 7:45 – 8:30pm | Dr. David Huston MD (Intro: Dr. Koichi Kobayashi) "Translating Science into Clinical Medicine: A Tale of Three Cytokines" Director, Clinical Science & Translational Research Institute Professor and Assoc Dean, College of Medicine Texas A&M Health Science Center W. Bryan Trammell, Jr. Family Distinguished Chair in Allergy & Immunology Houston Methodist Hospital and Houston Methodist Research Institute |
| 8:30 - 11pm | Poster Session Networking Social |
Friday, March 27th
| 7:30 – 8:30am | Breakfast Seminar (BD Biosciences) Utilizing flow cytometry in life science research. Dr. Karen Ersland PhD, BD Biosciences |
| 8:30 – 9:30am | Strategic Planning Sessions I & II What is the future for “immunology” and the Consortium at TAMU & TAMHSC ? Co-Chairs: Dr. Jane Welsh and Dr. Michael Criscitiello |
| 10am - 12:30pm | Session III: Chair: Dr. Robert C. Alaniz PhD |
| 10:00 | Dr. Beiyan Zhou PhD (TAMU – CVM) “microRNA regulation in adipose immune cells” |
| 10:30 | Dr. Karen Newell-Rogers PhD (TAMHSC – COM / Baylor S&W) “The Potential Contribution of Invariant chain CD74 to T Regulatory Cell Expansion” |
| 11:00 | Dr. Jeffrey Cirillo PhD (TAMHSC - COM) "Tracking a Killer From Worms to Man" |
| 11:30 | Dr. Farida Sohrabji PhD (TAMHSC – COM) “IGF-1 and stroke neuroprotection” |
| 12:00 | Dr. Sanjukta Chakroborty PhD (TAMHSC – COM) “Lymphatic function and its role in inflammation and immunity” |
| 1 – 2pm | Lunch Seminar (Thermo-Life Technologies) “Novel Reagent Solutions for Flow Cytometry” Katie Taylor, Ph.D., Flow Cytometry Technical Sales |
| 2pm - 4pm | Session IV: Chair: Dr. Yeon Choi PhD |
| 2:00 | Dr. Yi Xu PhD (TAMHSC – IBT) "Interactions between Bacillus anthracis and the complement system - immune evasion and persistent infections" |
| 2:30 | Dr. Darrell Pilling PhD (TAMU - Biology) Fibroblasts secrete slit2 and lumican to regulate monocyte-derived fibrocyte differentiation |
| 3:00 | Dr. David Earnest (TAMHSC – COM) "Link between circadian clock dysregulation and macrophage proinflammatory activation in diet-induced inflammation and insulin resistance" |
| 3:30 | Dr. Jason Karpac (TAMHSC – COM) "Using the fruit fly to investigate the integration of metabolic and innate immune responses " |
| 4:30pm – 6:30pm | Session V: Chair: Dr. Karen Newell-Rogers PhD |
| 4:30 | Dr. Alistair McGregor (TAMHSC - COM) “Development of a novel safe vaccine strategy against congenital cytomegalovirus infection” |
| 5:00 | Dr. Dekai Zhang (TAMHSC - IBT) "Therapeutic Targeting of Toll-Like Receptors" |
| 5:30 | Dr. Luc Berghman (TAMU - CVM) "Obtain polyclonal chicken IgY within 10 days (or so) against (just about) anything you (or we) can biotinylate" |
| 6:00 | Dr. Albert Mulenga (TAMU - CVM) Title: tbd |
| 6:30pm – 7pm | Conclusion & Networking Coffee |
| 7pm | Retreat Ends |