IMMUNOLOGY 2007™
Preliminary Program By Day

Note: Room numbers (e.g., A106/107) are in the Miami Beach
Convention Center; the Jackie Gleason Theater adjoins the center.

Friday  |  Saturday  |  Sunday  |  Monday  |  Tuesday

 


Friday, May 18

AAI Publications Committee Mini Course: Communication: The Science of Scientific Writing (12:00 PM, A106/107)

International Society for NeuroImmunoModulation (ISNIM) Symposium: Neural and Endocrine Immunoregulation (12:30 PM, A208/209)

AAI-NIAID Symposium: Contemporary Topics in Immunology (2:30 PM, A201/202)

AAI Clinical Immunology Symposium: Animals Models of Autoimmune Disease: What They Have Taught and Not Taught (2:45 PM, A204/205)

AAI Committee on the Status of Women Session: Networking & Mentoring: How to Make it Work for You (2:45 PM, B210/211)

PsychoNeuroImmunology Research Society (PNIRS) Symposium: Inflammation in the Brain (2:45 PM, A208/209)

Presidential Address (5 PM, Jackie Gleason Theater)

Young Investigators Party (YIP) sponsored by AAI and BD Biosciences (invitation only)

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Saturday, May 19 

Major Symposium A: Molecular Sensors in Innate Immunity (8 AM, B214/218)

Major Symposium B: DNA Repair: Immune Diversity vs. Death (8 AM, Jackie Gleason Theater)

International Society of Neuroimmunology (ISNI) Symposium: Astrocytes and Neurodegenerative Disorders: From Signaling to Immunological Synapses (8 AM, A208/209)

Sociedad Mexicana de Inmunologia (SMI) Symposium: Immunology in Mexico (8 AM, B210/211)

AAI-Cancer Research Institute Special Symposium: Immunity and Regulation in the Tumor Microenvironment
(8:30 AM, B212/213)

John H. Wallace High School Teachers Workshop: Lessons in Immunology (9 AM, A106/107)

NIH Grant Workshop: Peer Review of NIH Grants (10 AM, Career Resources Center, Exhibit Hall B)

AAI-NIAID Symposium: HIV 65,000,000--Immunology 0: Let’s Get on the Scoreboard! Will B Cells B the Answer? (10:15 AM, A104/105)

Canadian Society for Immunology (CSI) Symposium: Hematopoietic Cells and Their Microenvironment:  From Bone Marrow to the Periphery (10:15 AM, A204/205)

AAI Committee on Public Affairs Session: Advocating for Biomedical Research: The Top Ten Things You Should NOT Say While Educating Lawmakers (11:30 AM - 1:00 PM, A106/107)

AAI Publications Committee Session: Writing, Rebuttals, and Angst in Scientific Publishing (12:30 PM, B210/211)

AAI - British Society for Immunology (BSI) Special Symposium: Signal Transduction in the Immune System (12:30 PM, A201/202)

AAI-NIAID Symposium: Immunology Ontology 101: Who Cares and Why You Should (12:30 PM, A104/105)

Careers Roundtable (Co-sponsored by the AAI Education Committee and AAI Committee on the Status of Women) (1 PM, B118-122)

NIH Grant Workshop: Grant Writing for Success (1:30 PM, Career Resources Center, Exhibit Hall B)

International Society for Interferon and Cytokine Research (ISICR) Symposium: Cytokine Mediated Signal Transduction in Innate Immunity (2:45 PM, B210/211)

AAI-Dana Foundation Award in Human Immunology Research (3:15 PM, Jackie Gleason Theater)

Distinguished Lecture, D. Littman  (5 PM, Jackie Gleason Theater)

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Sunday, May 20 

Major Symposium C: Parasitic Infections: Informing Immunology (8 AM, B214/218)

Major Symposium D: Lineage Decisions (8 AM, Jackie Gleason Theater)

AAI Veterinary Immunology Committee Symposium: Comparative Models of Disease [co-sponsored by the American Association of Veterinary Immunologists (AAVI)] (8 AM, B210/211)

AAI Minority Affairs Committee Breakfast Workshop: NIH Funding Realities: Implications for Underrepresented Minority Scientists (8:30 AM, B212/213)

NIH Grant Workshop: Peer Review of NIH Grants (10 AM, Career Resources Center, Exhibit Hall B)

AAI Minority Affairs Committee Guest Lecture (10:30 AM, B212/213)

AAI Committee on Public Affairs Session: Meet the Directors: NIH Priorities, Funding, and You (12:30 PM, A204/205)

AAI Education Committee Symposium: Scientists at Undergraduate Institutions: Meeting the Challenges (12:30 PM, B118-119)

International Society of Developmental and Comparative Immunology (ISDCI): The Evolution of Antigen Recognition from Studies of Insects and Non-Mammalian Vertebrates: The Bill Clem Memorial Symposium (12:30 PM, A104/105)

NIH Grant Workshop: Grant Writing for Success (1:30 PM, Career Resources Center, Exhibit Hall B)

AAI-BD Biosciences Investigator Award & Lecture (2:30 PM, Jackie Gleason Theater)

American Society for Bone and Mineral Research (ASBMR) Symposium: Osteoimmunology (2:45 PM, B210-211)

NIH Grant Workshop: NIH Mock Study Section (3:15 PM, Career Resources Center, Exhibit Hall B)

AAI-Huang Foundation Meritorious Career Award and Lecture (3:30 PM, Jackie Gleason Theater)

Distinguished Lecture, A. Rao (5 PM, Jackie Gleason Theater)

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Monday, May 21 

Major Symposium E: B Cells and Autoimmunity (8 AM, Jackie Gleason Theater)

Major Symposium F: Inflammation in the Immune Response: IL-17/IL-23 (8 AM, B214/218)

AAI-NIH Symposium: How Aging Impacts Immunity (8 AM, A201/202)

AAI Education Committee Symposium: Skills for the Big Chill – How to Survive and Thrive as a Newly Independent Scientist (12:30 PM, A204/205)

The Society for Natural Immunity (SNI) Symposium: Natural Killer Cells at Innate Immune Interfaces (12:30 PM, A208/209)

Business Meeting & Awards Presentation (12:45 PM, B210/211)

Presidential Symposium (2:30 PM, Jackie Gleason Theater)

Presentation of the AAI Lifetime Achievement Award (2:30 PM, Jackie Gleason Theater)

Distinguished Lecture, M. Nussenzweig  (5 PM, Jackie Gleason Theater)

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Tuesday, May 22 (Meeting concludes at 12:30 PM)

Major Symposium G: Memory Cells and Responses (8 AM, B214/218)

Major Symposium H: Immune System Imaging (8 AM, Jackie Gleason Theater)

American Society of Transplantation (AST) Symposium: Innate-adaptive Immune Interactions in Transplantation (8 AM, A208/209)

Society for Leukocyte Biology (SLB) Symposium: Type I Interferon and Chronic Infection: Good, Bad or Both? (8 AM, B118/119

Society for Mucosal Immunology (SMI) Symposium: NALT Horizons (8 AM, B210/211)

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Note: In addition to the above sessions, approximately 50 Block Symposia, featuring abstracts selected for oral presentation, will be presented at IMMUNOLOGY 2007™.  These symposia will be scheduled daily at 8 AM, 10:15 AM, 12:30 PM, and 2:45 PM.

Similarly, abstract Poster Sessions will take place Saturday through Tuesday in Exhibit Hall B.  Posters will be displayed from 7:30 AM – 6 PM, with authors present from 12:30 – 1:30 PM.
 



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