The American Society for 

Reproductive Immunology 


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  =Clinical Course; requires separate fee  

Saturday, May 17

12:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Registration Desk open

Legends Foyer

     

 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM

Clinical Course  Examinations

TBD

     

 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Executive Council Meeting (ASRI Council & Committee Chairs only)

 TBD



 

 4:30 PM - 6:30 PM Registration Desk Open  


 

Sunday, May 18

 7:30 AM - 4:00 PM

Registration Desk open

Legends Foyer

 7:00 AM - 8:00 AM

Continental Breakfast for Clinical Course attendees

 Legends Foyer

  8:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Clinical Course I:

Legends  I

 8:00

Name, TBD

 

 8:30

Name, TBD

 

 9:00

Name, TBD

 

 9:30

Name, TBD

 

 10:00 AM - 10:15 AM

COFFEE BREAK

Legends Foyer

  10:15 AM - 12:15 PM

 Clinical Course II: 

Legends  I

 10:15

Name, TBD

 

 10:45

Name, TBD

 

 11:15

Name, TBD

 

 11:45

Name, TBD

 

     

  12:15 PM - 1:15 PM

Clinical Course Lunch Break


 

 

  1:15 PM - 3:15 PM 

 Clinical Course III: 

Ballroom

 1:15

Name, TBD

 

 1:45

Name, TBD

 

 2:15

Name, TBD

 

 2:45

Name, TBD

 

     

 3:15 - 3:30 PM

COFFEE BREAK

Foyer

     
  3:30 - 5:30 PM  Clinical Course IV:  Ballroom
3:30 

Name, TBD

 
4:00

Name, TBD

 
4:30 

Name, TBD

 
5:00

Name, TBD

 

     

 6:00 - 6:15 PM

Welcome Remarks & Introduction

Ballroom

     
6:15 PM - 6:45 PM

Liza Konnikova > Specialists > Yale MedicinePL1: CAROLYN COULAM AWARD LECTURE: A journey towards understanding preterm birth, a neonatologists perspective


Liza Konnikova, Yale School of Medicine

2024 Coulam Award recipient

 
     

6:45 PM - 8:00 PM

WELCOME RECEPTION


Monday, May 19

7:00 AM - 4:00 PM

Registration Desk open

 Foyer

7:00 AM - 8:00 AM

Continental Breakfast

 Foyer

8:00 AM - 9:00 AM

PL2: PRESIDENT'S SESSION: Advancing Maternal-Child Health through Research: a Perspective from the March of Dimes

Emre Seli, March of Dimes

  Ballroom

9:00 AM - 9:30 AM

AJRI AWARD LECTURE: Exosomal Interleukin -10: A Therapeutic Solution to Preterm Birth?

Ramkumar Menon, UTMB

2024 AJRI Award Recipient

Ballroom

 

 

9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

COFFEE BREAK

 Legends Foyer

 

 

 

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

S-01: A DIFFERENT MATERNAL-FETAL INTERFAE: HOW LACTATION IMPACTS NEONATAL HEALTH AND IMMUNE DEVELOPMENT

Chairs:  Christina Megli (Univ. Pittsburgh) & Brittany Goods (Dartmouth)

Ballroom

10:00

Whitney Harrington, Seattle Children's Hospital – Maternal vaccination and infection associated antigen-specific T cells in breastmilk

 

10:30

Kathryn Knoop, Mayo Clinic - Maternal Protection of Enteric Pathogens

 

11:00

Deepshika Ramanan, Salk Institute – Got Milk? Role of T cells in Promoting Mammary Immunity and Lactation

 

11:30

ORAL 01: TBD

 

11:45

ORAL 02: TBD

 

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

S-02:  CYTOMEGALOVIRUS

Chairs:  Craig Bierle & Harsha Palav

Ballroom

10:00

Suresh Boppana, University of Alabama Birmingham – TBD

 

10:30

Amitinder Kaur, Tulane University - Insights on vertical transmission bottlenecks in the nonhuman primate model of congenital cytomegalovirus infection

 

11:00

Joshua Hatterschide, Duke University – Defining cell-intrinsic defenses to herpesvirus infection in trophoblast organoids

 

11:30

ORAL 03: TBD

 

11:45

ORAL 04: TBD

 

 

 

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

LUNCH & LEARN SESSION: CAREER DEVELOPEMENT

Chairs: TBD


 

  Karen Racicot, Quest Diagnostics  
  TBD  

 

 

 

1:30 PM - 3:30 PM

S-03: IMMUNE (DYS)REGULATION OF THE ENDOMETRIAL ENVIRONMENT

Chairs: Renate van der Molen & Dorien Feyaerts

Ballroom

1:30

Name, University – Title of Talk

 

2:00

Renate van der Molen, Radboud UMC – Menstrual blood; from waste to non-invasive immunomonitoring of reproductive health

 

2:30

Christine Metz, Northwell University – Leveraging Menstrual Effluent for Improving the Diagnosis and Treatment of Endometriosis

 

3:00

ORAL 05: TBD

 

3:15

ORAL 06: TBD

 

 

 

 

1:30 PM - 3:30 PM

S-04: RISK OF CANCER POST-PREGNANCY AND GYNECOLOGICAL CANCER

Chairs:Tiziana Cotechini & Mark Sherman

Ballroom

1:30

Jamie Bakkum-Gamez, Mayo Clinic – Leveraging methylated DNA markers in the detection of endometrial cancer

 

2:00

Frederic Amant, KU Leuven University – Update on cancer treatment during pregnancy

2:30

Name, TBD

3:00

ORAL 07: TBD

 

3:15

ORAL 08: TBD

 

 

 

 

3:30 PM – 4:00 PM

COFFEE BREAK

Foyer

 

 

 

3:30 PM – 6:00 PM

POSTER SESSION 


4:00 PM – 5:00 PM

POSTER JUDGING (Top Poster Finalists)
 

 

 

 


Free Evening - Dinner on your own


Tuesday, May 20

Jennifer Lund, Fred Hutch – Regulation of immunity in the female genital tract in context of virus infection

7:00 AM - 4:00 PM

Registration Desk open

Foyer

7:00 AM - 8:00 AM

Continental Breakfast

 Foyer

8:00 AM - 9:30 AM

Picture of Phoenix Jade Art GlassPL03: GUSDON AWARD SESSION

Chairs: TBD

Ballroom

8:00

G01: TBD

8:15

G02: TBD

 

 8:30 G03: TBD  
 8:45 G04: TBD
 
 9:00 G05: TBD
 

 9:15

G06: TBD

 

     

9:30 AM -10:00 AM

COFFEE BREAK

Foyer

 

 

 

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

S-05: SUBSTANCE ABUSE IN PREGNANCY

Chairs: Heather True & Andrea Edlow

Ballroom

10:00

Heather True, Harvard University – The Impact of Maternal Opioid Use on Maternal-Fetal Immunity

 

10:30

Elinor Sullivan, Oregon Health – Kynurenine metabolites mediate the relationship between adiposity during pregnancy and child behavior

 

11:00

Name, TBD

 

11:30

ORAL 09: TBD

 

11:45

ORAL 10: TBD

 

 

 

 

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

S-06: UNDERSTANDING FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE PROTECTION FROM STIs/UTIs AND INTERACTIONS WITH COMMENSALS IN THE REPRODUCTIVE TRACT

Chairs: Amy Gillgrass & Rafael Michita

 Ballroom

10:00

Indira Mysorekar, Baylor College of Medicine – Hormonal and B cell modulation of UTIs in urogenital tract

10:30 Jennifer Lund, Fred Hutch - Regulation of immunity in the female genital tract in context of virus infection
 

11:00

Ryan Doster, University of Louisville – Carbohydrates and commensals: metabolic interactions influencing Group B Streptococcus vaginal colonization

 

11:30

ORAL 11: TBD

 

11:45

ORAL 12: TBD

 

 

 

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

ASRI BUSINESS MEETING & LUNCH

Chair: David Aronoff, ASRI President

Ballroom

     
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
TRAINEE LUNCH & MEET THE SPEAKERS (Trainees only)  TBD

 

 

 

1:30 PM - 3:30 PM

S-07: TROPHOBLASTS

Chairs:  Tamara Tilburgs & Elizabeth Enninga

Ballrom

1:30

Thor Theunissen, Washington University St. Louis – Building human embryo and placenta models from naive stem cells

 

2:00

Lynda Harris, University of Nebraska Medical Center – From trophoblast biology to therapeutic interventions

 

2:30

Name, TBD

 

3:00

ORAL 13: TBD

 

3:15

ORAL 14: TBD

 

 

 

 

1:30 PM - 3:30 PM

S-08:  REPRODUCTIVE AGING AND IMMUNITY

Chairs:  Aihua Liao & Emilyn Alejandro

Ballroom

1:30

Michael Stout, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation – Cell-type-specific mechanisms of aging

 

2:00

Name, TBD

 

2:30

Yousin Suh, Columbia University – Ovarian Aging: A target for Geroprotection

 

3:00

ORAL 15: TBD

 

3:15

ORAL 16: TBD

 

 

 

 

3:30 PM - 3:45 PM

COFFEE BREAK

Foyer

 

 

3:45 PM – 5:45 PM

S-09: THE COMPLEMENT SYSTEM IN PREGNANCY 

Chairs: Jean Regal & Belen Gimeno

Ballroom

3:45

Jean Regal, University of Minnesota - The Complement System and Preeclampsia

 

4:15

Lynn Sykes, Imperial College of London – Modulating the cervicovaginal complement response as a therapeutic strategy for preterm birth prevention

 

4:45

Richard Burwick, Cedars-Sinai (LA) – Complement in Preeclampsia and HELLP Syndrome

 

5:15

ORAL 17: TBD

 

5:30

ORAL 18: TBD

 

 

 

 

3:45 PM – 5:45 PM

S-10: IMMUNOMETABOLISM

Chairs:  Steve McCartney & Eliza McColl

  Ballroom

3:45

Theresa Powell, University of Colorado – Adiponectin as the mediator for obesity related changes in placental function and programming of adult disease

 

4:15

Catherine Thornton, Swansea University – Metabolic rewiring of the maternal immune response in pregnancy

 

4:45

Steve McCartney, University of Washington – Immunometabolism at the Maternal Fetal Interface

 

5:15

ORAL 19: TBD

 

5:30

ORAL 20: TBD

 

 

 

 

7:00 PM - 10:00 PM

TRAINEE NETWORKING EVENT

TBD 

     
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM 

AJRI Editorial Board Meeting (invitation only)

 

Wednesday, May 21


 7:00 AM - 4:00 PM

Registration Desk open


 7:00 AM - 8:00 AM

Continental Breakfast


 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM

PL04: CHAIR'S SESSION: Protective and pathogenic immunity during congenital Zika virus infection

Helen Lazear, UNC Chapel Hill

 
 9:00 - 9:30 AM

HERR AWARD LECTURE: 

The vaginal microbiome as a modifier of reproductive health outcomes

David MacIntyre, Imperial College London 

2024 Herr Award recipient

 

 

 

 9:30 AM -10:00 AM

COFFEE BREAK


 

 

 

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

S-11: FETAL/NEONATAL IMMUNITY

          Chairs: Nathan Schuldt & Tyler Rice


10:00Nathan Schuldt - University of Minnesota - Physiological Microbial Exposure and Fetal Immune Development 

10:30

Amelie Collins, CCHMC – Maternal inflammation regulates fetal emergency myelopoiesis

 

11:00

Naomi McGovern, Cambridge University – How the interactions of placental macrophages with transplacental pathogens change across gestation

 

11:30

ORAL 21: TBD

 

11:45

ORAL 22: TBD

 

 

 

 

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

S-12: EV-SPECIFIC IMMUNE IMPACT ON REPRODUCTIVE TISSUES

          Chairs: Priya Pantham & TBD

 

10:00

Priya Pantham, UCSD – Placental Extracellular Vesicles as Mediators of Renal Dysfunction in Preeclampsia

10:30

Name,  TBD

 

11:00

Name, TBD

 

11:30

ORAL 23: TBD

 

11:45

ORAL 24: TBD

 

 

 

 

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

LUNCH & LEARN SESSION: THE VIVIAN ACT AND CMV SCREENING IN MINNESOTA

          Chairs: Sylvie Girard, Craig Bierl & Elizabeth Enninga


 

Panelists:

  • Mark Schleiss, University of Minnesota
  • TBD
 
 
 

 

 

1:30 PM - 3:30 PM

S-13: GLYCOIMMUNOLOGY OF PREGNANCY

          Chairs: Wendy Goodman & TBD



Brian Cobb, Case Western University – Pregnancy-Induced Changes in IgG Function

 


Gabriela Dveksler, USUHS – The role of glycans in the function of pregnancy-specific glycoproteins

 


Adrian Erlebacher, UCSF – TBD

 


ORAL 25: TBD

 

 

ORAL 26: TBD

 

 

 

 

1:30 PM - 3:30 PM

S-14: THERAPEUTIC DEVELOPMENT - VACCINES AND ANTI-INFLAMMATORIES

          Chairs: Natasha Tilston-Lunel & Enrico Barrozo

  

1:30

Patrick Duffy, NIH – Title TBD

 

2:00

Kristin Adams Waldorf, University of Washington – Impact of an Interleukin-1 Receptor Antagonist on Preterm Labor and Bacterial Trafficking in a Pregnant Nonhuman Primate Model

2:30

Natasha Tilston-Lunel, Indiana University – Oropouche Virus: An Emerging Orthobunyavirus

3:00

ORAL 27: TBD

 

3:15

ORAL 28: TBD

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

7:00 PM - 11:00 PM 

ASRI DINNER & AWARDS CEREMONY




Thursday, May 22

AM    Departures  


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