Program

Differentiation and Regulation of Lymphocytes
Saturday, May 9, 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM, Room R09

Saturday, May 9, 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM, Room 208-209

This workshop will provide participants with an overview of NIH grant application, review, and management. Emphasis will be given to identification of the most appropriate funding agency, how to make an application "reviewer friendly", and other strategies that contribute to applications that succeed in obtaining research funding. The workshop will also provide information on how to understand the peer review system, which is essential to competing successfully for funding, with a focus on recent changes to the review process. NIH review, grants management, and program staff will provide a broad array of expertise and encourage questions from seminar participants. This workshop is open to anyone but is especially intended for new faculty members, young investigators, and advanced postdoctoral fellows.

Saturday, May 9, 8:00 AM – 11:30 AM, Great Hall A

Saturday, May 9, 8:00 AM – 11:30 AM, Great Hall B

Innate Immunity in Pregnancy
Saturday, May 9, 10:15 AM – 12:15 PM, Room R01

Advances in NK Cell Research
Saturday, May 9, 10:15 AM – 12:15 PM, Room 210

Saturday, May 9, 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM, Room 243-245
Sponsored by the AAI Education Committee & AAI Committee on the Status of Women

At this always popular session, you'll have the opportunity to meet with scientists at your own career stage and with more experienced scientists to explore specific career issues important to men and women in science today. Learn what others are thinking and gain insights into issues you are confronting in your own situation. Recently added topics offer insights into NIH Study Sections and considerations for scientists in M.D.-Ph.D. careers. Choose from these and the other vital topics related to the environment you work in (academic research, biotech industry, governmental agencies, non-profits), the transitions from specific career stages, or issues in balancing career and family in any career path. Don't miss this great networking opportunity! Registration Fee: $20 (Lunch included.)

Discussion topics and table leaders:

• Research Careers in Academia
  • Graduate Student to Postdoc: finding a postdoc, interviewing
    Table Leaders: Subbarao Bondada, University of Kentucky; Louise M. D'Cruz, University of Pittsburgh; Michelle A. Parent, University of Delaware; Gwendalyn J. Randolph, Washington University, St. Louis; T. Kent Teague, University of Oklahoma; Steven M. Varga, University of Iowa
  • Postdoc to PI: finding a position, interviewing, negotiating, lab start-up
    Table Leaders: Lisa H. Butterfield, University of Pittsburgh; Judy L. Cannon, University of New Mexico School of Medicine; Lauren A. Zenewicz, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
  • New PI: attracting students and postdocs, preparing for tenure
    Table Leaders: Robin Stephens, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston; Emma H. Wilson, University of California, Riverside
  • Undergraduate Institutions: finding the balance in teaching, doing research
    Table Leaders: Laurie P. Shornick, Saint Louis University
  • Mentoring Effectively
    Table Leaders: Elizabeth E. Brown, University of Alabama, Birmingham; Federica Sallusto, Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Bellinzona, Switzerland
• How to Build a Network
  Table Leaders: Gail A. Bishop, University of Iowa; Dawn Jelley-Gibbs, Taconic Bioscience; Madeleine W. Cunningham, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center; Larry R. Pease, Mayo Clinic
• The Two Body Problem: dual career couples
  Table Leaders: Susan Kovats, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation; Sunny Shin, Assistant Professor of Microbiology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
• Balancing Parenthood and Career
  Table Leaders: Deepak Kaushal, Tulane University; Carolina Lopez, University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine; Yujie Liu, GlaxoSmithKline
• Careers in Biotech and Industry: moving from academia to industry and vice versa
  Table Leaders: Nadita Bose, Biothera; David Huss, Biogen; Pooja Jain, Drexel University College of Medicine; Matthew P. Rausch, Infinity Pharmaceuticals; Lisa K. McNeil, Pfizer, Inc.; Michael F. Princiatta, Advaxis, Inc.; Shannon Turley, Genentech
• Careers at Governmental Agencies (FDA/NIH/USDA/CDC)
• Table Leaders: Yasmine Belkaid, NIAID, NIH; Avinash Bhandoola, NIH
• NIH Study Section Insights
  Table Leaders: Haidong Dong, Mayo Clinic; Scheherazade Sadegh-Nasseri, Johns Hopkins Medical Institute
  Virginia S. Shapiro: Mayo Clinic
• Negotiating an Academic Position
  Table Leaders: Sarah L. Gaffen, University of Pittsburgh; Paula M. Lutz, University of Wyoming
• The Physician Scientist: balancing clinical and research duties
  Table Leaders: David D. Chaplin, University of Alabama, Birmingham; Jonathan Maltzman, University of Pennsylvania; Penelope A. Morel, University of Pittsburgh
• Research from the M.D., Ph.D. Perspective
  Table Leaders: Robin G. Lorenz, University of Alabama, Birmingham; Wayne M. Yokoyama, Washington University, St. Louis
• Non-Research Careers for Scientists: careers in scientific journals, program administration, non-profits, industry
  Table Leaders: Peggy Just, eBioscience, an Affymetrix business; Jennifer H. Meyers, American Association of Immunologists and The Journal of Immunology;
  Kristen Porter, NIAID, NIH; Elizabeth R. Walsh, American Association of Immunologists

Saturday, May 9, 11:45 AM – 2:15 PM, Room 220-222
Sponsored by the AAI Minority Affairs Committee
Supported in part by a grant to the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), National Institutes of Health [FASEB MARC Program: T36-GM08059-32]

Networking skills have never been more crucial to ensure success for early/mid-career scientists, including those traditionally under-represented in biomedical research. At the roundtable, take advantage of the opportunity to meet in small-group format with accomplished, senior immunologists to hear how they have handled the career challenges you now face and learn what they believe will work for you today. Then practice networking in a relaxed environment offering a structured networking exercise and personalized feedback on communicating your scientific interests/objectives most effectively. Registration Fee: $20 (Includes lunch; coffee/cookies during networking hour.)

Discussion topics and table leaders:

• Grad Student: finding a mentor; taking aim at postdoc training
  Table Leaders: Eduardo Davila, University of Maryland Greenebaum Cancer Center; Santiago Partida-Sanchez, Nationwide Children's Hospital; Tonya Webb, University of Maryland School of Medicine
• Postdoc: finding a mentor; taking aim at a faculty position
  Table Leaders: Robert J. Binder, University of Pittsburgh; De'Broski R. Herbert, University of California San Francisco; Joseph Larkin, University of Florida
• Junior Faculty: preparing for promotion and tenure
  Table Leaders: Avery August, Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine; Arturo Casadevall, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; Prosper Boyaka, Ohio State University
• Academia or Industry: how to decide (or switch sides)
  Table Leaders: Jonathan A. Deane, GNF/Novartis; Karel Otero-Gutierrez, Biogen Idec; Margaret Bynoe, Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine
• Government Agency Careers: CDC, FDA, NIH
  Table Leaders: Marta Catalfamo, NIAID, NIH; Charles Egwuagu, NEI, NIH; Alison Mawle, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Non-Bench-Research Science Careers (e.g., entrepreneurship; intellectual property law/policy; non-profits)
  Table Leaders: James W. Lillard, Morehouse School of Medicine and JYANT Technologies, Inc. (president/CEO); Jaconda Wagner, Wagner Law LLC (intellectual property attorney); Thandi M. Onami, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (program officer, Global Health – HIV Vaccines)

AAI Veterinary Immunology Committee & American Association of Veterinary Immunologists (AAVI) Joint Symposium—Vaccines for the Modern Era: Implications for Human and Animal Health II
Saturday, May 9, 12:30 PM – 2:30 PM, Room R01

This symposium will feature topics on both human and veterinary vaccines, with emphasis on new technologies and new information for more appropriate targeting of the immune response to achieve protective immunity. Advances in understanding immune responses to veterinary and human pathogens and applications of that information to vaccine design illustrate a commonality that supports the current "one health" concept in medicine.

Hitting the Mother Lode: Mining the Data Fields
Saturday, May 9, 12:30 PM – 2:30 PM, Room 210

T Cell Trafficking during Alloimmunity and Tolerance
Saturday, May 9, 12:30 PM – 2:30 PM, Room R06

Development and Function of Immune Cells: Symposium by JSI Awardees
Saturday, May 9, 12:30 PM – 2:30 PM, Room 208-209

Elizabeth J. Kovacs
Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine

AAI Executive Director M. Michele Hogan will introduce the awardee and present the award during the AAI Business Meeting & Awards Presentations session.

For outstanding service to AAI and the immunology community as member and chair of the AAI Committee on Public Affairs, 2007–2014

Saturday, May 9, 2015, 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM, Room 206-207

AAI reports on the "state of the association" to its members at every AAI annual meeting. Members will hear from the Executive Director, the Secretary-Treasurer, the Editor in Chief of The Journal of Immunology (The JI), and the Chair of the Committee on Public Affairs on the financial standing of AAI, the status of The JI, important public policy issues, and other items of interest for the membership. Special 2015 AAI awards will also be presented during this session.

Rejuvenating the Aged Immune System: New Directions for Targeting Interventions
Saturday, May 9, 3:45 PM – 5:45 PM, Room 210

Innate and Adaptive Immune Recognition
Saturday, May 9, 3:45 PM – 5:45 PM, Room 206-207

Thirumala-Devi Kanneganti
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Regulators of inflammatory responses

AAI President Linda A. Sherman and BD Biosciences Vice President of Market Development Robert Balderas will introduce the awardee and present the award immediately prior to Dr. Kanneganti's lecture.

The AAI-BD Biosciences Investigator Award recognizes an early-career investigator who has made outstanding contributions to the field of immunology.

Matthew D. Scharff
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

AAI President Linda A. Sherman and Leonore A. Herzenberg, Professor (Research) of Genetics, Stanford School of Medicine, will introduce the awardee and present the award prior to the start of Saturday's Distinguished Lecture.

The AAI-BioLegend Herzenberg Award recognizes outstanding research contributions to the field of immunology in the area of B cell biology.

Saturday, May 9, 6:00 PM, Great Hall A

Dennis R. Burton
Scripps Research Institute
Broadly neutralizing antibodies evolved to counter the structure and variability of HIV and provide a basis for vaccine design

Saturday, May 9, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM, Room 206-207
Sponsored by the AAI Education Committee

Many opportunities exist in industry for scientists with advanced degrees. There are positions in laboratory research, program management, business development, regulatory affairs, clinical trials oversight, medical liaison, and more. This panel features scientists employed in a variety of positions in industry discussing their career paths and the skills required for success in each. Following the panel discussion, enjoy casual conversation with the speakers and other scientists from industry at a networking reception.