*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 (Friday, 9/19)
1 / Luye An / UC San Francisco / Dry eye cornea: the ball of immune cell dancing show 3D construction of autoimmune cornea
2 / Alicer Andrew / UC San Francisco / Longitudinal dynamics of total and HIV-specific T cells in people with HIV
3 / Elle Andrews / UC Berkeley / Interrogating mechanisms of CD4-mediated tumor control
4 / Minna Apostolova / UC San Francisco / Establishing models for studying T cell responses to immune checkpoint blockade in metastatic tumor-draining lymph nodes
5 / Janet Peace Babirye / UC Berkeley / A mouse model for studies of adaptive immune response to Shigella flexneri
6 / Joanna Balcerek / UC San Francisco / Immune-stromal interactions shape adipose and body metabolism during obesity
7 / Isabel Baldwin / UC Berkeley / Alternative pathways of thymic regulatory T cell development
8 / Janna Bashar / UC San Francisco / Investigating the Circadian Regulation of Interferon Signaling for Immunotherapy
9 / Reena Bharti / UC San Francisco / CD94+ NK Cells Exacerbate Lung Injury following Kidney Ischemia Reperfusion
10 / Adam Blaisdell / UC San Francisco / Mechanistic Basis of Impaired Perforin Degranulation in Exhausted CD8 T Cells
11 / Mari Brady / UC Berkeley / The Role of the Splenic Microenvironment in Maintaining the GRA6:L[d] Response to T. gondii
12 / Ben Brian / UC Berkeley / Regulation of TLR signaling
13 / Eway Cai / UC Berkeley / Single-Cell Profiling of Early Postnatal Microglial Subtype Changes in the APPPS1 Alzheimer’s Mouse Model
14 / Sara Casebeer / UC San Francisco / Understanding the molecular mechanism of viral CD47 homologs
15 / Rubi Catalan / UC San Francisco / Investigating the RNA Circuits that Regulate CD69 Expression
16 / Cedric Chan / UC Berkeley / CITE-seq profiling of neoantigen-specific CD8⁺ T cells and immune subsets during early and late tumor challenge
17 / Pailin Chiaranunt / UC San Francisco / Investigating the Role of Interferon Signaling on Vagal Neurons During Influenza Infection
18 / Charles Chien / UC Berkeley / Compass 2.0: A scalable flux-balance algorithmic suite for inferring single-cell metabolic states from atlas-scale transcriptomics
19 / Melissa Colden / UC Berkeley / Non-cognate MHC-CD8 interactions and recognition of alternative ligands contribute to positive selection of an MHC-E-restricted CD8 T cell population
20 / McKenzie Daanen / UC San Francisco / The Role of Tpex-Treg Interactions in Tumour-Draining Lymph Node Immunosuppression and Immunotherapy Response
21 / Grace Johnson Divya Kirani / UC San Francisco / Developing a Tumor Slice Platform to Profile and Perturb Murine and Human Tumors
22 / Henrry Dubon Martinez / UC San Francisco / Investigating the Dose-Dependent Regulation of Type I and III IFN Signaling
23 / Zachary Earley / UC San Francisco / G-protein signaling in intestinal homeostasis and immunopathology
24 / Ifeanyi Ezeonwumelu / UC San Francisco / Single-Cell Analysis of Glycomic and Proteomic Features of the Inducible HIV Reservoir
25 / Marian Fairgrieve / UC Berkeley / Mycobacterium tuberculosis demonstrates intrinsic resistance to innate immunity
26 / Amy Fan / UC San Francisco / Distinct vesicular trafficking of antigen following submicron-sampling of living cells by macrophages
27 / Sebastian Fernandez / UC San Francisco / Synthetic Biology to Establish and Exploit the Immunopeptidome for Developing Better Immunotherapies
28 / Nicole Flores Hernandez / UC San Francisco / Investigating CD16 complexes in NK cells
29 / Jesse Garcia Castillo / UC San Francisco / Rasgrp1 as a rheostat for T cell function.
30 / Ola Mostafa / UC Berkeley / Mechanisms of Dendritic Cell Reprogramming of Regulatory T Cell Function
31 / Diego Gonzalez Ventura / UC Berkeley / The kinetics of Listeria Monocytogenes in Tumors
32 / Sydnee T Gould / UC Berkeley / A Novel Mouse Model to Identify Host Immune Factors that Mediate Susceptibility to Tuberculosis Meningitis (TBM)
33 / Elaine Guo / UC Berkeley / Identifying non-canonical effector triggered cell death pathways using a herpesvirus-mediated cytotoxicity screen.
34 / Miriam Hoo / UC San Francisco / Elucidating the biophysical constraints on germline gene usage in broadly neutralizing antibodies
35 / Yun-Han Huang / UC San Francisco / Gs-coupled receptor regulation of a new immune-mediated disease
36 / Jessica Hung / UC Berkeley / Association of cancer-associated fibroblasts with CD4 T cell subsets in pancreatic cancer
37 / Sonal Joshi / UC San Francisco / Mechanistic dissection of novel tumor-derived signaling lipids in regulation of cancer-myeloid interactions
38 / Chika Kikuchi / UC San Francisco / Exploring the placental secretome and its role in immune regulation during pregnancy
39 / Esther Kim / UC Berkeley / Phenotypic and functional heterogeneity of preselection CD4+CD8+ thymocytes
40 / Konrad Knopper / UC San Francisco / A sensory neuron – macrophage axis drives sexually dimorphic skin immunity
41 / Hannah Kortbawi / UC San Francisco / Yeast surface display for conformational extracellular autoantibody target discovery.
42 / Elaine Kouame / UC San Francisco / The role of decidual tissue resident T cells in pregnancy
43 / Cade Krawiec / UC San Francisco / CD4+ T Cells Drive Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor Myocarditis Through CD40L Signaling
44 / Vishal Lashkari / UC San Francisco / Functional genetics to investigate the role of HLA-B*27 in axial spondyloarthritis pathogenesis
45 / Nika Lenci / UC San Francisco / TBD
46 / Grace Liu / UC Berkeley / Systematic discovery of effector-triggered immune pathways in antiviral defense
Day 2 (9/20)
1 / Juliana Lee / UC Berkeley / Massively parallel cell-free promoter screen
2 / Daniel Lewinsohn / UC Berkeley / A method to dissect the interplay between metabolic and epigenomic states in immune cells with single-cell omics
3 / Mariya Lobanovska / UC Berkeley / Listeria monocytogenes adenosine auxotrophs are impaired for intracellular and extracellular growth but retain potent immunogenicity.
4 / Joseph Lobel / UC Berkeley / Deciphering disordered regions controlling mRNA decay in high-throughput
5 / Berenise Lopez-Lopez / UC Berkeley / GcvH, a lipoate-carrier protein, is critical for Listeria monocytogenes intracellular growth and pathogenicity
6 / Huiyun Lyu / UC San Francisco / Engineering an orthogonal autocrine IL-2 to enhance Treg cell therapy
7 / Averil Ma / UC San Francisco / TBD
"8 / Maia Madison / UC San Francisco / Cytokine Biomarkers for Differential Diagnosis of Persistent Lyme Disease and
Other Infection-Associated Chronic Illnesses"
9 / Abigail Mende / UC Berkeley / Minimizing selection of MHC I-deficient and therapy-resistant tumors
10 / Chloe Mikolajczyk / UC Berkeley / Impact of treg ablation on antigen presentation
11 / Haleigh Miller / UC San Francisco / Anti-medin amyloid autoantibodies in Giant Cell Arteritis
12 / Open
13 / Haiyuan Mu / UC Berkeley / cGAS–STING Activation as a Driver of Ovarian Aging
14 / Matthew Na / UC San Francisco / ITGAV Regulates IL-31 expression in Th2-like Cells
15 / Ryota Naito / UC San Francisco / Endogenous retroviruses shape the autoimmune response in a mouse model for autoimmune arthritis
16 / Jose Angel Nicolas Avila / UC San Francisco / Reciprocal regulation between macrophages and tissue mitochondrial function
17 / Hailyn Nielsen / UC San Francisco / Transcriptional control of thymic T cell tolerance by Nr4a transcription factors
18 / Haley Ogasawara / UC San Francisco / Unraveling the Mechanism of ‘Don’t Eat Me’ Signaling Mediated by the Bacterial Ligand P66
19 / Akanksha Onkar / UC San Francisco / Determining the role of complement proteins and follicular dendritic cells in fetomaternal tolerance
20 / Lomax Pass / UC San Francisco / Uncovering activated cDC niches in tumors
21 / Manu Prabandham / UC San Francisco / A20 knock-in improves effector function via perforin, IFNg, and TNF
22 / Elze Rackaityte / UC San Francisco / Autoantibodies in maternal serum predict spontaneous preterm delivery
23 / Victoria Rael / UC Berkeley / A genome-wide CRISPR screen identifies numerous regulatory circuits that specifically restrain TLR7 responses
24 / Micah Roschelle / UC Berkeley / An Implantable Fluorescence Microscope-on-a-Chip for Real-Time Monitoring of Cancer Immunotherapy
25 / Tithi Roy / UC San Francisco / Dissecting the Role of Keratinocytes in Demodex-Driven Skin Inflammation
26 / Mario Ruiz Perez / UC San Francisco / Harnessing Early Thymic Progenitors Potential to Rejuvenate the Aged Thymus
27 / Elaine Schanzer / UC Berkeley / Elucidating mechanisms of TOX expression and activity in human T cell exhaustion
28 / Hilde Schjerven / UC San Francisco / Research in Schjerven Lab: Ikaros in immune cell development and disease: From Leukemia to Autoimmunity.
29 / Annika Schmidt / UC San Francisco / Guardians of the Graft: When Peacekeepers Panic - Characterization of Tregs and anti-inflammatory macrophages identifies cell signatures that forecast lung allograft dysfunction
30 / Tulika Singh / UC Berkeley / A protective role for neutralizing IgM antibodies in early secondary dengue virus infection and immunity
31 / Nyarie Sithole / UC San Francisco / Deciphering mechanism of antibody mediated protection against Mycobacterium tuberculosis
32 / Harrison Sudholz / UC Berkeley / Anti-tumor immune responses induced by the mitochondrial unfolded protein stress response
33 / Sophia Swartz / UC Berkeley / Editing diverse microbes with bridge recombinases
34 / John Tayeri / UC San Francisco / Transient Dietary Changes Modulate Inflammatory Disease Trajectory in the Lean State
35 / Martin Thelin / UC San Francisco / STAT1 Gain-of-Function Promotes Type 1 Diabetes and Alters Treg Activity
36 / Rafael Tiburcio / UC San Francisco / Profiling Therapeutic Vaccine-driven HIV-Specific CD8 T Cells with Single-Cell TCR Sequencing assays
37 / Lara Vetter / UC Berkeley / Understanding the Factors involved in Immune Imprinting by the Microbiota during Weaning
38 / Jenna Vickery / UC Berkeley / Investigating the Impact of Oral Exposure of Listeria monocytogenes in tolerance and cancer immunotherapy
39 / Daniel Waizman / UC San Francisco / IL-25 reprograms ILC2s into a long lived constitutively active state for enhanced cross tissue protection
40 / Li Wang / UC San Francisco / CD4 T cells are critical in eliminating MHC-I negative cells in MHC-I heterogenous triple negative breast tumors
41 / Open
42 / Jianhang Yin / UC San Francisco / Ga13 signaling limits IgA+ germinal center B cell accumulation in mesenteric lymph nodes
43 / Duke Yuvaraj / UC Berkeley / It’s not M cells: Investigating how Shigella flexneri invades the colonic epithelium using an using an in vivo disease model
44 / Lily Zemelko / UC San Francisco / Cellular immune signatures associated with fast versus slow clearance of infectious SARS-CoV-2
45 / Chenyu Zhang / UC Berkeley / Investigating the Role of exTregs in Autoimmune Pathogenesis and Anti-Tumor Immunity
46 / Alex Zilinskas / UC Berkeley / Mycobacterium tuberculosis utilizes the type VII alternative ESX-1 secretion system and lipid virulence factor PDIM to alter the CD4 T helper response.