It is with a great pleasure that we are inviting everyone interested in precision medicine, immunology and transplantation to our half-day symposium on Thursday, Aug 18, 9am-1pm in Vancouver. Special focus of this symposium is on early career researchers (assistant professors, postdoctoral fellows and graduate students), their role on the cluster and the outcomes of their scientific projects. The MC for the event is our very own ECR, Dr Ramon Klein Geltink!
Programme:
- 9.00 am Welcome MC Ramon Klein Geltink
- 9.10 am Opening words Paul Keown & Karen Sherwood
- 9.20 am Madeline Lauener, BCCHR: CD56brightCD16- natural killer cells as an important regulatory mechanism in chronic graft-versus-host disease - VIRTUAL
- 9.35 am Florian Kuchenbauer, BCCRC: Targeting WT1 mutated AML with the first of its kind microRNA based drug
- 9.50 am Amy Thachil, BCCHR: Investigating serum immunometabolomic profiles associated with pediatric kidney transplant alloimmune outcomes
- 10.05 am Ramon Klein Geltink, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine: Metabolic regulation of immune cell function
- 10.20 am Alice Mui: Immunotherapeutics Cluster presentation
10.35 am Refreshment break
- 11.00 am Michael Barnett: Epitope matching in HLA typing for HSCT
- 11.15 am Karen Sherwood, UBC Immunology laboratory: Technological advances in HLA immunology
- 11.30 am James Lan, UBC Nephrology/Transplant: ABO-adjusted cPRA
- 11.45 am Franz Fenninger, Immunology laboratory, Medicine, UBC: Multi-Panel High-Dimensional Immunophenotyping of a Longitudinal Renal Transplant Cohort
- 12.00 noon David Harriman, UBC Urology: Urinary microbiome in renal transplant
- 12.15 pm Laura Sly, BCCHR: Manipulating macrophage activation to treat inflammation
- 12.30 pm Kevin Song, BCCancer: CAR T-cell initiatives in British Columbia
12.45 pm Wrap up discussion
1.00 pm Lunch at Regal Mansion Cuisine
For those attending in-person, please register with our research coordinator, Ms Sari Nobell, sari.nobell@ubc.ca. We have limited in-person seating available. This workshop will also be possible to attend via Zoom, please contact Sari for the meeting ID.