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Benaroya Research Institute’s second annual Immunology Symposium: New Horizons in Immunity and Disease will be taking place on Monday, April 28, 2025 from 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. at Town Hall Seattle, followed by a one hour reception (4:30-5:30) at Town Hall Seattle. We’re excited to bring together leading voices from the local and national immunology research community for a day of collaboration, learning, discussion and networking.
2024 was the inaugural year of the event and was a resounding success with a full house, exciting presentations, and impactful conversations. Mark your calendars and reserve the date, more information, including additional speakers and program overview, will be coming soon.
Program Agenda
Morning Agenda
8:30 a.m. - Doors open: coffee, snacks and networking
9:00 a.m. - Welcome: Jane Buckner, BRI President
9:05 a.m. - Determinants of response to cancer immunotherapy
Lawrence Fong, MD
Bezos Distinguished Scholar, Director, Immunotherapy Integrated Research Center
Professor, Translational Science and Therapeutics Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
9:35 a.m. - Matthew Altman, MD, DPhil
Affiliate Investigator, Center for Systems Immunology, Benaroya Research Institute
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Washington
10:05 a.m. - Susan Canny, MD, PhD
Visiting Scientist, Center for Fundamental Immunology, Benaroya Research Institute
Rheumatology Attending, Seattle Children’s Hospital
Acting Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington
10:25 a.m. - Coffee Break
10:50 a.m. - Creating a small and large intestine on a microscale to model normal and disease physiology
Nancy Allbritton, MD, PhD
Frank & Julie Jungers Dean College of Engineering, Professor of Bioengineering, University of Washington
11:20 a.m. - Are integrins integral for intestinal immunity?
Adam Lacy-Hulbert, PhD
Member and Director, Center for Systems Immunology, Benaroya Research Institute
11:50 a.m. - Tayla Olsen
Graduate Student, Center for Fundamental Immunology, Benaroya Research Institute
Afternoon Agenda
12:10 p.m. - Lunch
1:10 p.m. - KEYNOTE: Unraveling the core architecture of the CD4+ T cell response
Marc Jenkins, PhD
Regents and Distinguished McKnight University Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Minnesota Medical School
2:10 p.m. - Paths to T cell exhaustion in T1D
Alice Long, PhD
Associate Member, Center for Translational Immunology, Benaroya Research Institute
2:40 p.m. - Arpit Mishra, PhD
Staff Scientist, Center for Translational Immunology, Benaroya Research Institute
3:00 p.m. - Coffee break
3:25 p.m. - Understanding CD4+ T cell heterogeneity in the tissues
Marion Pepper, PhD
Professor and Chair, Department of Immunology, University of Washington
3:55 p.m. - Daniel Campbell, PhD
Member and Director, Center for Fundamental Immunology, Benaroya Research Institute
4:30 p.m. - Symposium ends; one hour reception begins
2025 BRI Immunology Symposium Speakers
The speakers at the 2025 event include our keynote speaker, Marc Jenkins, PhD, of the University of Minnesota. In addition, we are joined by additional speakers, Marion Pepper, PhD, Professor and Chair, Dept of Immunology, University of Washington, Nancy Allbritton, MD, PhD, Frank & Julie Jungers Dean, College of Engineering, Professor of Bioengineering, University of Washington, and Lawrence Fong, MD, Bezos Distinguished Scholar, Director, Immunotherapy Integrated Research Center, Professor, Translational Science and Therapeutics Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center.
More speakers will be added as soon as possible. Please contact communications@benaroyaresearch.org if you have any questions.
Nancy Allbritton, MD, PhD
College of Engineering
Professor of Bioengineering
University of Washington
Matthew Altman, MD, MPhil
Center for Systems Immunology
Benaroya Research Institute
Associate Professor
Department of Medicine
University of Washington
Daniel Campbell, PhD
Center for Fundamental Immunology
Benaroya Research Institute
Susan Canny, MD, PhD
Rheumatology Attending, Seattle Children’s Hospital
Acting Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington
Lawrence Fong, MD
Director, Immunotherapy Integrated Research Center
Professor, Translational Science and Therapeutics Division
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
Marc Jenkins, PhD
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
University of Minnesota Medical School
Adam Lacy-Hulbert, PhD
Center for Systems Immunology
Benaroya Research Institute
Alice Long, PhD
Center for Translational Immunology
Benaroya Research Institute
Arpit Mishra, PhD
Tayla Olsen
Marion Pepper, PhD
Department of Immunology
University of Washington
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