About

Two years ago, we organized The Symposium on Synthetic Immunity in Santa Fe, NM to learn about new advances in our current understanding and modeling of disease biology and application of immunotherapy for disease treatment and prevention. Because of the success of this symposium, the Organizing Committee and the Advisory Board have recommended that we organize and hold another symposium focused on "Immunology of Human Diseases". Therefore, we will gather leading experts and early career researchers (junior faculty, post-docs, and students) from universities, national laboratories, and industries to present and discuss recent advances in basic and translational science related to the Immunology of Human Diseases. The Symposium will provide an environment of relaxed and lively interaction to foster learning, discussion, and collaboration, all within the beautiful setting of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Note that July 29, 2019 is set aside for Santa Fe Opera, which is an experience of a lifetime.

Topics will include:

• Bacterial Pathogenesis, Immune Response, and Therapy
• Viral Infection, Evolution, Immune Response, and Therapy
• Technological Advances in Measuring and Modeling Immune Responses
• Cancer Biology and Immunotherapy
• Immune Regulation/Dysregulation and Human Diseases
• Vaccine Design
• Immune System Modeling
• Infection, Innate Immune Response, and Therapy

The symposium will encourage and facilitate discussion and interactions between junior and senior scientists. The symposium will feature about 30 talks and 50 poster presentations.

Immunology of Human Diseases Symposium 2019 Program
Register now to secure your seat.
Abstracts should include authors, affiliations, a title and description; graphics are encouraged. Please limit your abstract to 300 words. All submissions will be considered for the poster session, and a handful will be chosen for brief oral presentations.
Deadline for submissions is Jul 25th, 2019.
Sponsor information

Students and post-docs who wish to be awarded travel grants should first register and submit their abstracts on the symposium website. All travel support awardees will be reimbursed for hotel and registration for the IHD conference. To qualify for the awards, students and post-docs should complete the following steps:

1. Register and pay for the Symposium here, making sure to add your abstract on the Abstract submission page: https://conferences.newmexicoconsortium.org/conferences/immunology_of_human_diseases_symposium_19/registration.
2. After you pay for your registration, you will receive a receipt via email, which you should save, as you will need to submit it after the Symposium for reimbursement.
3. After you register for the Symposium, you should reserve your hotel room, at which time you will be charged for the first night. You will need to save this receipt, as well as your final receipt when you check out and pay for their entire hotel stay. Use this link to book the hotel: https://secure3.hilton.com/en_US/hi/reservation/book.htm?inputModule=HOTEL&ctyhocn=SFEHIHF&spec_plan=NMX&arrival=20190728&departure=20190801&cid=OM,WW,HILTONLINK,EN,DirectLink&fromId=HILTONLINKDIRECTl.
4. Students and post-docs will be notified by the Committee Chairman regarding travel support award status by July 15, 2019.
5. After the Symposium, awardees should use this link to submit a request for reimbursement, along with their registration and hotel receipts: https://newmexicoconsortium.org/inside-nmc/reimbursement.
6. PLEASE INDICATE AT THE BOTTOM YOUR ABSTRACT THAT YOU ARE REQUESTING A TRAVEL GRANT.

Immunology of Human Diseases Symposium 2019 Statistics:
Participants:
Male: 33
Female: 47
US: 73
Non-US: 7

Should the students and post-docs need further clarification, please contact Shannan Schnedler, sschnedler@newmexicoconsortium.org.

International Organizing Committee

Michael Gale Department of Immunology Center for Innate Immunity and Immune Disease University of Washington Seattle, WA, USA

Goutam Gupta New Mexico Consortium Los Alamos, NM, USA

Peter Murray Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry Martinsried, Germany

Gabriel Nunez Department of Pathology and Comprehensive Cancer Center University of Michigan Medical School Ann Arbor, MI, USA

Carmen Molina-Paris School of Mathematics University of Leeds Leeds, UK

Silke Paust Department of Immunology and Microbiology Scripps Research Institute La Jolla, CA, USA

Ruy Ribeiro Laboratoria de Biomatematica Faculdade de Medicia da Universidade de Lisboa Lisbon, Portugal

Sunny Shin Penn Institute for Immunology University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA, USA

Christina Stallings Department of Molecular Microbiology Washington University School of Medicine St Louis, MO, USA

Advisory Board

Steven Buelow New Mexico Consortium La Jolla, CA, USA

David Corry Department of Pathology and Immunology Baylor College of Medicine Houston, TX, USA

Vojo Deretic Autophagy, Inflammation and Metabolism (AIM) Center University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM, USA

Farrah Kheradmand Dan L. Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Baylor College of Medicine Houston, TX, USA

Marc Jenkins Department of Microbiology and Immunology University of Minnesota Medical School Minneapolis, MN, USA

Alan Perelson Theoretical Biology & Biophysics Los Alamos National Laboratory Los Alamos, NM, USA

Alan Sher Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases NIAID/NIH Bethesda, MD, USA

Local Oganizing Committee

Shannan Schnedler New Mexico Consortium Los Alamos, NM, USA

Carrie Talus New Mexico Consortium Los Alamos, NM, USA

Heather Mercer University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM, USA