Presenters: Christophe Benoist, MD, PhD
Joslin Diabetes Center/Harvard Medical School
"Aire"

Steven Holland, MD
NIAID/NIH
"STAT3: How many roles does it play?"

Vijay Kuchroo, MD
Harvard Medical School
"Interplay between T-reg and Th17 cells during tissue inflammation"

Talal Chatila, MD
UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine
"Regulatory T cell deficiency Diseases"

George Daley, MD, PhD
Harvard Medical School/Children`s Hospital Boston
"Patient-specific iPS cells"

Jean Laurent Casanova, MD, PhD
The Rockefeller University
"Inborn errors of innate immunity"

Ronald Germain, MD, PhD
NIAID/NIH
"Dynamic In Situ Imaging of Immune Cell Behavior: New Insights into the Origin of XLP and the Role of SAP in Controlling Productive T Cell - B Cell Interactions"

Luigi Notarangelo, MD
Harvard Medical School/Children`s Hospital Boston
"Defects of lymphoid development cause impaired maturation of thymic stromal cells and breakage of tolerance: lessons from human and murine models of primary immunodeficiency"

Co-Hosted by:
Primary Immunodeficiency Center, Children`s Hospital Boston, and Harvard Medical School

Where:
Longwood Room
The Inn at Longwood
342 Longwood Avenue
Boston, MA 02115 When: 8:30 a.m. - 5:15 p.m.

Speaker:
Ulrike Heberlein, PhD
Department of Anatomy
University of California, San Francisco

When: 12:15 p.m.
Where: Enders Auditorium

Speaker:
C. Forbes Dewey. Jr., PhD
Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Bioengineering
Co-Director, International Consortium for Medical Imaging Technology and Mass. Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

When: Enders Auditorium
Where: 4:30 p.m.

Refreshments available at 4:15 p.m.

Speaker:
Richard Gregory, PhD
Asst. Prof., Dept. of Biological Chemistry & Molecular Pharmacology,HMS at Harvard Stem Cell Institute, The Stem Cell Program at Children`s Hospital Boston

Where: Enders Auditorium
When: 4:30 p.m.

Refreshments available at 4:15 p.m.

Each year over 100 basic science and clinical research residents, fellows, and instructors present their work, with submissions from over 25 departments at Children's, ranging in topic from "Upregulation of VEGFR-1 Prevents Adaptive Capillary Growth in Hypertrophied Myocardium" to "Risks, Trends, and Outcomes among Pregnant Adolescents and Young Adults," some of which are selected for oral presentation, and all of which are selected for poster presentation. Posters will be on display from 11:00am. This year it will be held at the Longwood Galleria, in Longwood Hall, and the authors will stand by their posters at strategic times throughout the day.

Presentations in Enders Auditorium
2:30 to 3:35 p.m. - First group, 4 presentations
3:55 to 5 p.m. - Second group, 4 presentations

Poster session and awards
Longwood Galleria, Longwood Hall (Inn at Longwood Medical)

5 to 7 p.m. - Poster session (hors d`hoeuvres and drinks will be served)
6 p.m. - Award ceremony (4 gifts)

Click here for additional details abot this event from the Office of Fellowship Training.

All are invited to attend.

Speaker:
Jan Lammerding, PhD
Asst. Professor, Dept. of Medicine, HMS
Dept. of Lab Medicine, BWH
Boston, MA

Where: Enders Auditorium
When: 4:30 p.m. Refreshments available at 4:15 p.m.

Speaker:
Todd Evans, PhD
Professor and Vice Chair for Research
Department of Surgery
Weill Cornell Medical College, Cornell University

When: 4:00 p.m.
Where: Enders Auditorium

This conference is supported by the Faye and Karen Sinclair Research Fund for Congenital Heart Disease.