Saturday, 4th December Melbourne Immunotherapy Network Winter Symposium 2021
Session 3 – COVID-19/infections
8:30AM - 10:10AM
Saturday, 4th December
Kooringa-Kitchener rooms
Chair: Annabell Bachem
Sponsored by:
- CRISPR-Cas13b can potently suppress replication of SARS-CoV-2 and mutant strains - Sharon Lewin
- Innate host cell death from COVID-19 to tuberculosis - Marc Pellegrini
- TBC - Dale Godfrey
- Treatment with recombinant interleukin-22 protects against uropathogenic Escherichia coli-induced pyelonephritis in mice - Malcolm R Starkey
- Using combination immune checkpoint blockade to reinvigorate exhausted T cells in people living with HIV (PLWH) on antiretroviral therapy (ART) - Celine CG Gubser
Morning Tea
10:10AM - 10:45AM
Saturday, 4th December
Keppel-Maryland-Cumberland rooms
Session 4 – Cancer immunotherapy II
10:45AM - 12:45PM
Saturday, 4th December
Kooringa-Kitchener rooms
Chair: Momeneh Foroutan
- Overcoming resistance to cancer immunotherapies - Jane Oliaro
- Targeting Phosphatases in Cancer Immunotherapy - Tony Tiganis
- Human Cancer-Associated Fibroblasts suppress T cells through a novel COX-2 mediated immune checkpoint. - Anne L Fletcher
- Targeting HCK in myeloid cells to improve anti-tumour responses to immunotherapy - Ashleigh Poh
- Computational painting of glioblastoma tumour microenvironment using DCNN. - Guillermo Gomez
- Characterising Natural Killer cell heterogeneity in metastatic colorectal cancer - Carolyn Shembrey
- Pharmacological inhibition of CDK4/6 augments long-term anti-tumor immunity through the induction of T cell memory - Emily J Lelliott
Lunch
12:45PM - 2:15PM
Saturday, 4th December
Keppel-Maryland-Cumberland rooms
Session 5 – Inflammation and Infection
2:15PM - 4:00PM
Saturday, 4th December
Kooringa-Kitchener rooms
Chair: Asolina Braun
- TNF - "quid custos ipsos custodiet" Juvenal - Who will guard the guards - John Silke
- Understanding the development and function of intraepithelial lymphocytes in the gastrointestinal tract. - Lisa Mielke
- Microbiota, metabolism and CD8 T cell memory - Sammy Bedoui
- Ddit4-mediated mTOR inhibition drives T cell exhaustion in chronic infection - Daniel T Utzschneider
- Immune sensing of phosphoantigens by gamma-delta T cells - Adam Uldrich
Prizes and Closing remarks
4:00PM - 4:15PM
Saturday, 4th December
Kooringa-Kitchener rooms