Computation & Systems Immunology Symposium 2023

Monday, October 30, 2023

8:00 – 8:30 AM

Coffee/tea & light breakfast will be served

Beckman Bistro Patio

8:30 – 9:00 AM

Mark Davis, PhD, Professor and Director of Stanford Institute for Immunity, Transplantation and Infection, Welcome Address & History of CSI

Munzer Auditorium

9:00 – 9:15 AM

Purvesh Khatri, PhD, Associate Professor and Co-Chair of CSI, Overview of CSI

Munzer Auditorium

9:15 – 9:30 AM

Nima Aghaeepour, PhD, Associate Professor and Co-Chair of CSI, Recent changes in CSI and Overview of the Day

Munzer Auditorium

9:30 – 10:05 AM

Arup Chakraborty, PhD, John M. Deutch Institute Professor, The antibody response to repeated vaccination

Munzer Auditorium

10:05 – 10:40 AM

Matt Spitzer, PhD, Associate Professor at UCSF, Understanding and improving immune responses to cancer

Munzer Auditorium

10:40 – 11:00 AM

Break

Beckman Bistro Patio

11:00 – 11:35 AM

David Furman, PhD, Associate Professor at The Buck Institute, Lever-aging space biology to model immune decline

Munzer Auditorium

11:35 – 12:10 AM

Bjoern Peters, PhD, Professor at La Jolla Institute of Immunology

Munzer Auditorium

12:10 – 1:30 PM

Catered lunch will be served

Alumni Lawn in front of LKSC

1:30 – 2:30 PM

Career Panel: Leah Sibener, PhD, Co-Founder, Vice President, Head of Therapeutic Discovery at 3T Biosciences; Jacob Glanville, PhD, Chief Executive Officer & President at Centivax

Munzer Auditorium

2:30 – 3:05 PM

Ferhat Ay, PhD, Associate Professor at La Jolla Institute of Immunology, Computational approaches for studying the 3D chromatin structure of the human immune cells

Munzer Auditorium

3:05 – 3:20 PM

Qin Li, PhD, Postdoc, Genetics, Li Lab, Insufficient RNA editing is a key genetic driver for inflammatory diseases

Munzer Auditorium

3:20 – 3:35 PM

Meng Sun, PhD, Postdoc, ITI, Davis Lab, Toddlers have limited mucosal protection against Live Attenuated Influenza Virus in human tonsil organoids

Munzer Auditorium

3:35 – 3:50 PM

Simone Thair, PhD, Senior Data Scientist, ITI, Prospective multi-site validation of 11-gene host response signature for influenza diagnosis

Munzer Auditorium

3:50 – 4:05 PM

Coffee/tea will be served

Beckman Bistro Patio

4:05 – 4:20 PM

Zinaida Good, PhD, Instructor, Stanford Cancer Institute, Lineage tracing of CAR T cells in patients with B cell malignancies

Munzer Auditorium

4:20 – 4:35 PM

Alma-Martina Cepika, MD, PhD, Instructor, Pediatrics, Epigenetic landscape and key transcriptional regulators of antigen-inducible, FOXP3-independent Tregs

Munzer Auditorium

4:35 – 4:50 PM

Camilo Espinosa Bernal, Graduate Student, Immunology, Aghaeepour Lab, CorALS: an open-source framework for unraveling the coordination of complex biological systems

Munzer Auditorium

4:50 – 5:05 PM

Candace Liu, Graduate Student, Immunology, Angelo Lab, Pixie: A pipeline for robust phenotyping of highly multiplexed tissue imaging data using pixel-level clustering

Munzer Auditorium

5:05 – 5:20 PM

Noah Greenwald, Graduate Student, Pathology, Angelo and Curtis Labs, The temporal influence of the tumor microenvironment in response to checkpoint blockade

Munzer Auditorium

5:30 PM

Dinner + Networking

Alumni Lawn in front of LKSC