Meetings

American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology

Division of Allergy, Immunology and Transplantation of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease

School in Hypersensitivity and Allergic Diseases Agenda

Schedule of Events

Thursday, August 21
6:30 - 7:30 pm	Welcome & Introductory Meetings	White Pine - Parlor II
7:30 - 9:30 pm	Opening Reception	Doc's at The Gondola
Friday, August 22
7:00 - 8:00 am	Breakfast	White Pine - Parlor I
8:00 am - 5:05 pm	Presentations	White Pine - Parlor II
8:00 - 8:25 am	Oral Immunotherapy Combined with Humanized Monoclonal Anti-IgE Antibody in the Treatment of Cow's Milk Allergy Kirsi Jarvinen, MD PhD Mt. Sinai School of Medicine
8:25 - 8:45 am	Peanut Oral Immunotherapy Pooja Varshney, MD Duke University Medical Center
8:45 - 9:05 am	Food Allergy & Eczema in Pediatric Liver Transplant Patients Melinda Braskett, MD UCLA
9:05 - 9:30 am	LEN C1-Epitopes Recognition Using Peptide Microarray Andrea Vereda, MD Fundacion Jimenez Diaz, Madrid, Spain
9:30 - 9:55 am	Morning Break	White Pine - Parlor I
9:55 - 10:20 am	Eosinophils & Disease Gerald J. Gleich, MD University of Utah
10:20 - 10:45 am	Regulation of IL-5 Receptor Trafficking by Ubiquitin Margie Moczygemba, PhD Texas A&M Health Sciences Center College of Medicine
10:45 - 11:05 am	Human Eosinophils as Antigen-Presenting Cells: A Role for Tetraspanins and Cipid Rafts? Praveen Akuthota, MD Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
11:05 - 11:25 am	Production and Characterization in Vitro a Fusion Protein CTLA4-Fc? with Potential Use in Immunotherapy of Allergy Maria Auxiliadora Miranda Garcia, MD Hospital de Niños JM de los Rios, Caracas-Venezuela
11:25 - 11:50 pm	Interactions between MyD88, TLR4, and PI3K Matthew Fenton, PhD DAIT/NIAID/NIH
11:50 - 1:00 pm	Lunch	White Pine - Parlor I
1:00 - 2:00 pm	Individual mentor meetings (faculty with junior faculty)
2:00 - 2:25 pm	Innate Signaling and Cys-LT Production in Response to House Dust Mite Nora A. Barrett Brigham and Women's Hospital
2:25 - 2:45 pm	Comparison of Cellular and Humoral Immune Response to Native and Degraded Mountain Cedar Allergen Adrian G. Letz, MD Wilford Hall Medical Center
2:45 - 3:10 pm	Identification of a Transcriptional Signature Associated with Specific Immune Response to Cockroach Allergen Peisong Gao, MD PhD Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
3:10 - 3:30 pm	Afternoon Break	White Pine - Parlor I
3:30 - 3:50 pm	Chronic Idiopathic Urticaria: Basophil Histamine Release and Disease Severity Rosalyn Baker, MD MHS NIAID/NIH
3:50 - 4:15 pm	Role of Serpins in Asthma Umasundari Sivaprasad, PhD Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
4:15 - 4:40 pm	Microbial Exposures in Allergy & Asthma Andrew Liu, MD National Jewish Health
4:40 - 5:05 pm	Thomas A.E. Platts-Mills, MD PHD University of Virginia Medical Center
7:00 pm	Dinner	White Pine - Parlor I
Saturday, August 23
7:00 - 8:00 am	Breakfast	White Pine - Parlor I
8:00 am - 5:10 pm	Presentations	White Pine - Parlor II
8:00 - 8:25 am	Phenotypic Heterogeneity of Subclinical Adult T-Cell Leukemia Sapandeep K. Singh, MD Texas A&M Health Sciences Center College of Medicine
8:25 - 8:50 am	Corticosteroids Enhance Effector Memory CD8+ T Cell-Mediated Airway Hyperresponsiveness and Allergic Airway Inflammation by Upregulating Leukotriene B4 Receptor-1 (BLT1) Hiroshi Ohnishi (Onishi), MD PhD National Jewish Health
8:50 - 9:10 am	Peripheral Blood Defect in Aspirin Exacerbated Respiratory Disease Tanya M. Laidlaw, MD Brigham and Women's Hospital
9:10 - 9:35 am	Mast Cells in Human Disease Larry B. Schwartz, MD PhD Virginia Commonwealth University
9:35 - 10:00 am	Morning Break	White Pine - Parlor I
10:00 - 10:25 am	Trong Van Le, MD Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
10:25 - 10:50 am	Dendritic Cell Expression of IgE High Affinity Receptor is Acquired with Age and is Differentially Expressed in Atopic and Non-Atopic Children Monica Vasudev, MD Medical College of Wisconsin
10:50 - 11:10 am	Role of TSLP in Allergic Inflammation in the Gut Ana B. Blazquez, PhD Mt. Sinai School of Medicine
11:10 - 11:35 am	Mechanisms of Basophil Suppression and the Relationship to Clinical Tolerance Wayne G. Shreffler, MD PhD Mt. Sinai School of Medicine
11:35 - 12:00 pm	David P. Huston, MD Texas A&M Health Sciences Center College of Medicine
12:00 - 1:00 pm	Lunch	White Pine - Parlor I
1:00 - 2:00 pm	Individual mentor meetings (faculty with senior fellows-in-training)
2:00 - 2:20 pm	Gene Expression Profiles in Acute Asthma Kelly A. Metz, MD Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
2:20 - 2:45 pm	Genetic Mutations in Common Variable Immunodeficiency Amy Dowden, MD University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics
2:45 - 3:10 pm	Occupational Allergen Exposure as a Model System for Allergen-Immune Response Relationships Elizabeth Matsui, MD Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
3:10 - 3:35 pm	Afternoon Break	White Pine - Parlor I
3:35 - 3:55 pm	The Asthmatic Response to Experimental Challenge with Rhinovirus: The Importance of Airway Inflammation in the Atopic Host Prior to Inoculation Amy P. Stallings, MD University of Virginia
3:55 - 4:20 pm	Inflammatory Markers and Exhaled Nitric Oxide in Pregnancy James Temprano, MD MHA University of Kentucky
4:20 - 4:45 pm	Asthma Control Evaluation: Allergic Sensitivity & Asthma Severity Rebecca Gruchalla, MD PhD University of Texas Southwestern
4:45 - 5:10 pm	Alkis Togias, MD DAIT/NIAID/NIH
7:00 pm	Dinner	White Pine - Parlor I
Sunday, August 24
7:00 - 8:00 am	Breakfast	White Pine - Parlor I
8:00 - 11:00 am	Presentations	White Pine - Parlor II
8:00 - 8:30 am	NIH Grants: How Does the System Work Alkis Togias, MD DAIT/NIAID/NIH
8:30 - 9:30 am	Principles of Successful Grantsmanship Matthew Fenton, PhD DAIT/NIAID/NIH
9:30 - 11:00 am	Break out sessions for grant writing