2024 Poster List

*Note, this is a list of all posters that had their title confirmed prior to the retreat. Other posters may be added add hoc that are not listed below.

 

Day 1          
Number First Name Last Name PI Name Institution Title
1 Yarah Meijer Greg Allen UC San Francisco Engineering CAR T cells with multiplexed cytokine circuits to overcome tumor antigen heterogeneity.
2 Abijeet Mehta Mekhail Anwar UC San Francisco Real-Time Immunotherapy Monitoring in Murine Tumor Microenvironment using Biophotonic Biosensors
3 Madison Lotstein Gabi Fragiadakis UC San Francisco Xenium Spatial Transcriptomic Analysis of Human Colon Samples
4 Grace Liu Russell Vance UC Berkeley Systematic discovery of effector-triggered immune surveillance pathways
5 Steven Lazarevsky Marlys Fassett UC San Francisco TITLE NOT PROVIDED
6 Charlotte Langner Russell Vance UC Berkeley Investigating the role of Shigella effectors and host inflammatory pathways in a mouse model of shigellosis
7 Taylor LaFlam Cyster / Ye UC San Francisco Deep mutational scanning and structure provide insight into function of immunomodulatory receptor P2RY8
8 Hayley Klingenberg Jeannette Tenthorey UC San Francisco Genetics-Based Structure Determination of the TRIM5-HIV Capsid Interface
9 Gabriella Kimmerly Rutishauser / Eyquem UC San Francisco Improving T cell therapies for HIV through binder discovery & evaluation
10 Esther (Jeong Yoon) Kim Ellen Robey UC Berkeley Time-dependent tuning of TCR signaling to guide CD4/CD8 T cell development in the thymus
11 Sakeen Kashem Allen Basbaum UC San Francisco TITLE NOT PROVIDED
12 Alexandros Karampatzakis David Raulet UC Berkeley Identification of genes that regulate Natural Killer cell desensitization
13 Roarke Kamber Roarke Kamber UC San Francisco TITLE NOT PROVIDED
14 Sonal Joshi Roarke Kamber UC San Francisco TITLE NOT PROVIDED
15 Vrinda Johri Alexis Combes UC San Francisco TITLE NOT PROVIDED
16 Yeara Jo David Raulet UC Berkeley Identification of PTPN22 as a dynamically regulated suppressor of NK effector functions
17 Anjali Jacob Dean Sheppard UC San Francisco Engineering T cells to target the lung
18 Riana Hunter Maggie Feeney UC San Francisco Phenotype, function and persistence of CMV-induced Gamma-Delta T cells in early life
19 Jessica Hung Michel DuPage UC Berkeley The Impact of Varying Toll-like Receptor Activation on Intrinsic and Cross-presented MHC Peptidomes
21 John Huizar Greg Barton UC Berkeley TITLE NOT PROVIDED
22 Yun-Han Huang Jason Cyster UC San Francisco GPR174 in immune-mediated disease
23 Zach Howard Joel Ernst UC San Francisco A Mycobacterium tuberculosis variable antigen vaccine induces infection tolerance
24 Magnus Hoffmann Faculty UC San Francisco EABR Nanoparticles as a Platform Technology for Hybrid mRNA Vaccine Development
25 Julia Hernandez Peter Bruno UC San Francisco Understanding the Role of ERAP in the Pathogenesis of Spondyloarthritis in HLA-B-27 positive patients
26 Joshua He David Oh UC San Francisco Dysregulation of CD4+ and CD8+ resident memory T, myeloid, and stromal cells in steroid-refractory, checkpoint inhibitor colitis
27 Isaiah Grant Molly Ohainle UC Berkeley Investigating the role of HIV Capsid (CA) in Viral Fitness
28 Sydnee T Gould Jeffery Cox UC Berkeley A Novel Mouse Model to Identify Host Immune Cells Involved in Mycobacterium Tuberculosis (Mtb) Extrapulmonary Dissemination
29 Michelangelo Gonzatti Emily Goldberg UC San Francisco Aging impact on mice iNKT cells in the adipose tissue
30 Brenna Gittins Michel DuPage UC Berkeley SPATIAL-TEMPORAL REQUIREMENTS OF CXCR3+ TREGS IN SUPPRESSING DC1-MEDIATED TUMOR CONTROL
31 Ameneh Gharabi Michel DuPage UC Berkeley A CYSTEINE-REACTIVE COMPOUND SCREEN TO IDENTIFY NOVEL REGULATORS OF FOXP3 EXPRESSION
32 Joe Germino Jay Gardner UC San Francisco Fezf2 promotes differentiation of Aire-expressing and post-Aire mimetic epithelial populations regulating thymic homeostasis
33 Jesse Garcia Castillo Michel DuPage UC Berkeley TITLE NOT PROVIDED
34 Adam Fillion Babak Javid UC San Francisco Elucidating the mechanism by which Mycobacterium tuberculosis-specific antibodies protect against experimental tuberculosis infection
35 Stefan Fattinger Russell Vance UC Berkeley Type I and II IFN crosstalk during Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection
36 Marian Fairgrieve Russell Vance UC Berkeley Why isn't there better innate control of Mtb?
37 Kevin Eislmayr Russell Vance UC Berkeley IFNg holds Shigalla at bay
38 Zachary Earley Jason Cyster UC San Francisco Ga13 signaling controls intestinal T cell homeostasis
40 Kevin Delgado-Cunningham Katherine Susa UC San Francisco Mapping the Initiation and Regulation of B Cell Receptor Signals
41 Brittany Davidson Alexis Combes UC San Francisco Exploring Neutrophil Heterogeneity in Tumors
42 Alissa Danford Michel DuPage UC Berkeley Depletion of Intratumoral Tregs Enhances Tumor Immunity Locally and Systemically Against Disseminated Metastatic Cancer
43 McKenzie Daanen Matt Spitzer UC San Francisco Utilizing patient-derived organoids as a platform to understand immunotherapy responses in tumor draining lymph nodes
44 Chris Cook Diana Bautista UC Berkeley Neuroimmune mechanisms of coronavirus disease pathology
45 Joy Chen David Nguyen UC Berkeley Using gene editing to explore variants of unknown significance in the SH2D1A gene to understand the mechanisms of T-cell dysfunction in X-linked lymphoproliferative disease
46 Cedric Chan Allon Wagner UC Berkeley CITEseq analysis on lung tumor cells in mice
47 Sara Casebeer Balyn Zaro UC San Francisco Understanding the function of viral CD47 homologs
48 Shaina Carroll Greg Barton UC Berkeley Identification and Characterization of Dendritic Cells Presenting Akkermansia muciniphila Antigens in the Gut
49 Timothy Campbell Michel DuPage UC Berkeley TLR2-stimulation promotes tumor antigen cross-presentation and Treg destabilization critical for bacterial immunotherapy
50 Mari Brady Ellen Robey UC Berkeley Maintaining a Functional T Cell Response During Chronic Infection
51 Gina Borgo Rutishauser UC San Francisco High dimensional flow cytometry and single cell sequencing reveal immune features that correlate with viral control of simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) in rhesus macaques during analytical treatment interruption
52 Dagmawi Bogale Ashley Wolf UC Berkeley The Role of The Gut Microbiome in Shigella flexneri Colonization Resistance in Gnotobiotic Mice
53 Adam Blaisdell Averil Ma UC San Francisco The ubiquitin pathway regulator A20 orchestrates CD8 T cell exhaustion in the tumor microenvironment
54 Ritusree Biswas Tien Peng UC San Francisco Role of the HHIP bronchial fibroblasts in modifying Th17 response as a therapeutic modality to target severe asthma
55 Allison Bien David Nguyen UC Berkeley Pipeline to functionally characterize and correct variants of uncertain significance in PRF1 for patients with familial hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis
56 Joshua Carlos Bernil Hilde Schjerven UC San Francisco The role and expression of Ikaros during mTEC development
57 Rio Barrere-Cain Tiffany Scharschmidt UC San Francisco Understanding the regulation of tissue persistent CD4 T cells in the skin
58 Isabel Baldwin Ellen Robey UC Berkeley Investigating thymic niches for regulatory T cell development
59 Joanna Balcerek Ari Molofsky UC San Francisco Exploring the lymphoid niche in visceral adipose during obesity
60 Janet Peace Babirye Russell Vance UC Berkeley A mouse model for studies of adaptive immune response to Shigella flexneri
62 Dror Assa David Nguyen Innovative Genomics Institute A gene-editing approach to study variants of unknown significance (VUS) and repair patient mutations in the rare disease hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH)
63 Judith Ashouri-Sinha Faculty UC San Francisco Dysregulated naïve arthritogenic T cells: Endogenous antigens shape transcriptome and TCR repertoire in autoimmune arthritis
64 Matt Arvedson Gardmer UC San Francisco Aire-Expressing Tumor-Associated Macrophages Promote Cancer Immune Evasion
65 Minna Apostolova Matthew Spitzer UC San Francisco Understanding immune responses in metastatic lymph nodes
66 Elizabeth Andrews David Raulet UC Berkeley Interrogating mechanisms of a CDN-mediated anti-tumor CD4 response
67 Nancy Allen Tien Peng UC San Francisco Fibroblast NF-kB activation drives the accumulation of age-associated T cells (Taa) in the lung.
68 Carolina Agudelo Ashley Wolf UC Berkeley The role of the gut microbiome in host susceptibility to Mycobacterium tuberculosis
69 Gonzalo Acevedo Maggie Feeney UC San Francisco Foraging for epitopes: stage-specific P. falciparum targets of CD4+ T cells in malaria-exposed children
           
           
           
Day 2          
Number First Name Last Name PI Name Institution Title
1 Alex Zilinskas Sarah Stanley UC Berkeley Understanding how Mycobacterium tuberculosis alters the T helper response
2 Vrinda Johri Alexis Combes UC San Francisco TITLE NOT PROVIDED
3 Yawen Zheng Hilde Schjerven UC San Francisco Ikaros regulates eosinophil levels at homeostasis
4 Chenyu Zhang Raulet / DuPage UC Berkeley Intra-tumoral Treg Ablation Activates a CD4-NK Cell Axis to Control MHC Class I-deficient Tumors
5 Finnick Yu Peter Bruno UC San Francisco Validation of tumor-specific MHC-I ligands from EpiScan cancer screens for potential immune therapy
6 Michael Young Molly Ohainle UC Berkeley TITLE NOT PROVIDED
7 Kristen Witt Russell Lab UC Berkeley A Nuclear Arms Race: Regulation of Type I Interferon by the Epigenetic Reader SP140
8 Jessica Witchley Greg Barton UC Berkeley Mapping microbiota-specific T cell responses during health and disease
9 Britany Davidson Alexis Combes UC San Francisco Exploring Neutrophil Heterogeneity in Tumors
10 Jessica Tsui Alexis Combes UC San Francisco Exploration of Immune Signature in Pre-Term Birth
11 Rafael Tiburcio Rachel Rutishauser UC San Francisco Utilizing scTCRseq methods to characterize therapeutic vaccine-induced HIV-specific CD8+ T cells
12 Rukman Thota Max Krummel UC San Francisco Building a lipid nanoparticle system to modulate macrophage polarization
13 Courtney Tamaki Nam Woo Cho UC San Francisco Leveraging the tumor surfaceome to treat inflammatory solid malignancies
14 Tammie Tam Combes / Fragiadakis UC San Francisco Immunoprofiling the normal, pathologic, and resilient human brain across life
15 Hanson Tam Jason Cyster UC San Francisco Phosphatidylserine phospholipase A1 enables GPR34-dependent peritoneal cavity immune cell accumulation
16 Lauren Tabor Peter Bruno UC San Francisco TITLE NOT PROVIDED
17 Zachary Stensland Spitzer / Fragiadakis UC San Francisco Spatial analysis of human OSCC tumors reveals unique signaling programs and spatial networks associated with disease.
18 Evangelos Stefanidis Krummel / Combes UC San Francisco Conserved Tumor Immune Archetypes to Classify and Treat Human Cancers
19 Shayleen Singh Rachel Rutishauser UC San Francisco Characterizing the differentiation state of virus-specific CD8+ T cells in CMV+ infants and toddlers
20 Michael Singer Molly Ohainle UC Berkeley Identification of novel antiviral restriction factors in Yangochiropteran bats
21 Noa Simchoni Tony Shum UC San Francisco Non-Penetrance in COPA Syndrome is Mediated by the Common HAQ STING Allele
22 Stephanie Silveria Michel DuPage UC Berkeley Defining a role for the tumor suppressor p53 in restraining regulatory T cell reprogramming
23 Isabel Shen Alexis Combes UC San Francisco Elucidating the Role of Metabolic Regulation in Immune Cell Composition within the Tumor Microenvironment.
24 Saba Shaikh Alexis Combes UC San Francisco Mapping the Immune Microenviornment in Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms Using Single Cell Sequencing
25 Sarah Seo Mark Looney UC San Francisco 3D tissue clearing and analysis of pulmonary megakaryocytes
26 Hilde Schjerven Hilde Schjerven UC San Francisco Research in the Schjerven Lab: Ikaros in immune cell development and disease: From Leukemia to Autoimmunity
27 Elaine Schanzer Fyodor Urnov UC Berkeley Epigenome editing for targeted trait engineering in primary human T cells
28 Demi Sandel Rutishauser/Spitzer UC San Francisco POST-INTERVENTION HIV CONTROL LINKED TO EARLY IN VIVO CD8+ T-CELL PROLIFERATIVE RESPONSE TO REBOUND
29 Mario Ruiz Perez Jeroen Roose UC San Francisco Role of Sos1/2 in regulatory T cell fitness and suppression
30 Tithi Roy Roberto Ricardo-Gonzalez UC San Francisco Investigating the crosstalk between sensory neurons and Type 2 inflammation in response to skin parasites
31 Micah Roschelle Mekhail Anwar UC Berkeley A Wireless, Implantable Fluorescence Microscope On a Chip for Real-Time Monitoring of Cancer Immunotherapy
32 Dominik Aylard Ellen Robey UC Berkeley Leveraging multi-omics of the murine thymus to elucidate the heterogeneity of double-positive thymocytes
33 Abram Rodriguez Ari Molofsky UC San Francisco TITLE NOT PROVIDED
34 Bridgett Rios Molly Ohainle UC Berkeley Bringing It Back Up: HIV-CRISPR Screening Reveals Mechanisms of HIV Latency Reversal
35 Brenna Remick Russell Vance UC Berkeley A novel effector-triggered immune pathway activated by a myxoma virus virulence factor
36 Claire Rammel Javid Moslehi UC San Francisco The Immune Landscape Associated with Bruton Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitor Induced Cardiotoxicity. 
37 Lorenzo Ramirez Peter Turnbaugh UC San Francisco Searching for the cryptic substrates of a prevalent gut bacterial enzyme implicated in immune activation
38 Victoria Rael Gregory M. Barton UC Berkeley TITLE NOT PROVIDED
39 Lilian Quijada Madrid Oscar A. Aguilar UC San Francisco Investigating CD16 Responses in Natural Killer Cells
40 Anita Qualls Jay Gardner UC San Francisco Investigating the role of Janus cells in early life immune tolerance
41 Longhui Qiu Mark Looney UC San Francisco Post-sepsis spleen continuously releases neutrophils with distinct transcriptomic and functional signatures into the blood
42 Juan Qin Javid Moslehi UC San Francisco TITLE NOT PROVIDED
43 Jacqueline Phan Ashley Wolf UC Berkeley Regulation of Shigella infection via the gut microbiome
44 Leticia Pereira Molly Ohainle UC Berkeley TITLE NOT PROVIDED
45 Lomax Pass Max Krummel UC San Francisco Discovery of interactions driving cDC1 activation in tumors
46 Bianca Parisi Russell Vance UC Berkeley Circadian Control of the Innate Immune Response to Plasmodium Infection
47 Akanksha Onkar Adrian Erlebacher UC San Francisco Roles for complement proteins and follicular dendritic cells in trophoblast glycan-induced immune tolerance
48 Meagan Olive Margaret Feeney UC San Francisco Functional diversification of Vγ9Vδ2 T cells and their role in the response to childhood malaria
49 Paul Ogongo Joel Ernst UC San Francisco Type 2 Diabetes is associated with increased peripheral Th1 and Th17 cells in people with tuberculosis
50 Haley Ogasawara Balyn Zaro UC San Francisco The bacterial ligand P66 binds mammalian immune receptors SIRPa and SIRPb to disrupt self-recognition signaling
51 Hannah Nilsson Jeff Cox and Sarah Stanley UC Berkeley Elucidating the mechanism behind reversible colony morphology switching in Mycobacterium avium
52 Hailyn Nielsen Julie Zikherman UC San Francisco Transcriptional control of central T cell tolerance by Nr4a nuclear receptors
53 Khang Nguyen Jeroen Roose UC San Francisco Leveraging lung cancer-T cell assembloid platforms to investigate metabolism in T cell exhaustion
54 Yuka Nakao Judith Ashouri-Sinha UC San Francisco Identifying and Characterizing the T Cell Antigen Receptor Signaling Threshold for Arthritis Development
55 Ryota Naito Ashouri Judith, Sinha UC San Francisco TITLE NOT PROVIDED
56 Islah Mustafa Krummel UC San Francisco Investigating the Role of Granulin in Mouse Models of Cancer
57 James Mueller Julie Zikherman UC San Francisco TITLE NOT PROVIDED
58 Ola Mostafa Michel DuPage UC Berkeley Mechanisms of Dendritic Cell Reprogramming of Regulatory T-Cell Function
59 Alex Morse Kamber Lab UC San Francisco Genome-wide CRISPR screens to uncover pro-phagocytic ligands and receptors on cancer cells and macrophages.
60 Alex Mohapatra Joel Ernst UC San Francisco A novel murine model for identifying tuberculosis vaccine antigens
61 Abigail Mende David Raulet UC Berkeley Mechanisms of NK cell resistance in murine models of cancer
62 Sonali Mali Diana Bautista UC Berkeley SARS-CoV-2 co-opts TRPA1+ neurons to drive sneeze and pain
63 Matt Arvedson Gardner UC San Francisco Aire-Expressing Tumor-Associated Macrophages Promote Cancer Immune Evasion
64 Wioletta Lisicka Jason Cyster UC San Francisco IgA controls enteric virus colonization to preserve intestinal immune homeostasis.
65 Julianne Lim Peter Bruno UC San Francisco Decoding the Tumor Immunopeptidome for Effective Cancer Vaccines and T-Cell Therapies
66 Daniel Lewinsohn Wagner / Ioannidis UC Berkeley Extracting interpretable single-cell metabolic states with graph-guided representation learning
67 Jane Lee Matthew Spitzer UC San Francisco TITLE NOT PROVIDED
68 Venkata Santosh Kurra Anthony Shum UC San Francisco Exploring the role of STING in interstitial lung disease
69 Dmitri Kotov Russell Vance UC Berkeley Interleukin-1 receptor antagonist is a conserved driver of tuberculosis