Saturday
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
3:30 pm - 3:45 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Staff / Welcome and Introduction from the Chairs
3:45 pm - 4:30 pm
Keynote Session: Immune Modification of Neural Circuitry
Discussion Leader: Liwen Deng (Harvard Medical School, United States)
3:45 pm - 4:20 pm
Dorothy Schafer (University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, United States)
"Microglia and Neural-Immune Signaling Within Neural Circuits"
4:20 pm - 4:30 pm
Discussion
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Integration of The Periphery With The CNS
Discussion Leader: Ana Beatriz DePaula-Silva (University of Utah, United States)
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm
Ryan Brown (University of Virginia, United States)
"Investigating A Role for Antigen Presentation by Enteric Glial Cells in Multiple Sclerosis Etiology"
7:45 pm - 7:50 pm
Discussion
7:50 pm - 8:10 pm
Wenqing Gao (Washington university in St. Louis, United States)
"T Cell Receptor-Based Cell Therapy For Central Nervous System Injury"
8:10 pm - 8:15 pm
Discussion
8:15 pm - 8:35 pm
Alessio Ricci (Institute for Stroke and Dementia Research, Germany)
"Stroke Induces Development of a Brain-Resident T Cell Population Which Promotes Functional Recovery"
8:35 pm - 8:40 pm
Discussion
8:40 pm - 9:00 pm
Katherine Sheu (UCLA, United States)
"Quantifying Stimulus-Response Specificity to Probe the Functional State of Macrophages"
9:00 pm - 9:05 pm
Discussion
9:05 pm - 9:25 pm
Jeremy Hill (Washington University School of Medicine, United States)
"Modulation of Peripheral Ly6CHi Monocytes Rescues Synapse Elimination During Recovery From ZIKV Encephalitis"
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Sunday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Routes and Mediators of Neuroimmune Communications
Discussion Leader: Zhaoqi Yan (Gladstone Institutes, United States)
9:00 am - 9:15 am
Evangeline Bao (Duke University, United States)
"A Mast Cell-Thermoregulatory Neuron Circuit Axis Regulates Hypothermia in Anaphylaxis"
9:15 am - 9:20 am
Discussion
9:20 am - 9:40 am
Himanish Basu (Harvard University, United States)
"Gasdermin-E Mediates Mitochondrial Damage in Axons and Neurodegeneration"
9:40 am - 9:45 am
Discussion
9:45 am - 10:05 am
Diane Aguilar (The Lundquist Institute at Harbor-UCLA, United States)
"Dissecting the Regulation of B-cell Recruitment by Sensory Neurons During Prolonged Streptococcus Pneumoniae Infection"
10:05 am - 10:10 am
Discussion
10:10 am - 10:30 am
Nicholas Hanuscheck (University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany)
"Type 2 Cytokines Modify Neuronal Network Activity"
10:30 am - 10:35 am
Discussion
10:35 am - 10:55 am
Sophia Loewen (University of Victoria, Canada)
"The Outcomes of Salmonella enterica Infection, Heligmosomoides polygyrus Infection, and Bile Acid Diet Supplementation on Microglia in the Hippocampal Dentate Gyrus of Adult, Male Mice"
10:55 am - 11:00 am
Discussion
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Poster Session
Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Mentorship Component: Sustaining Your Research: Grantsmanship
Discussion Leader: Min Woo Kim (Washington University in St. Louis, United States)
1:30 pm - 2:10 pm
James Churchill (National Institute of Mental Health, United States)
"Deconstructing NIH Grants"
2:10 pm - 2:30 pm
Discussion
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Evaluation Period
Complete the GRS Evaluation Forms; Election of Future Chair(s)
3:00 pm
Seminar Concludes