Symposium 1(Inflammatory disease)
Defective innate and adaptive immunity in mutant mice carrying a novel heterozygous missense mutation of a proteasome subunit, PSMB9, in a patient with autoinflammation and immunodeficiency
Tsuneyasu Kaisho
Department of Immunology, Institute of Advanced Medicine, Wakayama Medical University
Mechanisms controlling innate immune responses to nucleic acids
Kensuke Miyake
Div. Innate Immunity, Inst Med Sci, Univ. Tokyo
Cytosolic RNA sensing and inflammation
Sun Hur
Harvard Medical School
Tissue-Resident Innate Immune Responses during Obesity
Timothy E. O’Sullivan
Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Reciprocal interaction between blood vessels and immune cells in CNS development
Yoshiaki Kubota
Department of Anatomy, Keio University School of Medicine
Symposium 2(Cancer Immunity)
Anti-diabetes drug, metformin, drives metabolic reprogramming in tumor microenvironment, leading to manifestation of anti-tumor immunity
Heiichiro Udono
Department of Immunology, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Development of therapeutic cancer vaccine utilizing invariant NKT cell-licensed dendritic cells
Shin-ichiro Fujii
Leader of Laboratory for Immunotherapy, RIKEN IMS
Vice director of RIKEN DMP (Drug discovery and medical technology platforms)
Visiting professor, Chiba University
Nuclear cytokines and extracellular nucleic acids in infection and vaccination
Ken J. Ishii
Division of Vaccine Science, Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo
Dendritic cells as a checkpoint in anti-cancer immunity
Caetano Reis e Sousa
Immunobiology Laboratory, The Francis Crick Institute
Stem cells, Cancer Stem Cells, and Macrophage Checkpoint Inhibition as Cancer Immunotherapy
Irving Weissman
Stanford University
Symposium 4(Tissue repair, fibrosis, and aging)
Regnase-1: A Key regulator of the mRNA stabilization during interleukin-17-induced inflammation
Hiroki Tanaka
Immunology Frontier Research Center (IFReC), Osaka University
The roles and mechanisms of cellular senescence in aging and cancer
Eiji Hara
Department of Molecular Microbiology, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University
Role of group 2 innate lymphoid cells in idiopathic interstitial pneumonias
Kazuyo Moro
Laboratory for Innate Immune Systems, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Laboratory for Innate Immune Systems, RIKEN-IMS
Systems approach to target discovery for vascular disease: a focus on macrophage activation and heterogeneity
Masanori Aikawa
Harvard Medical School/Center for Interdisciplinary Cardiovascular Sciences/Center for Excellence in Vascular Biology, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Probing the IL10 axis in Macrophages in Gut and Brain
Steffen Jung
University of Cologne, Germany / The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel/ Skirball Institute, NYU Medical Center, NY, USA
Syposium 5(Metabolism and Macrophage)
Macrophages in cardiac physiology and disease
Ichiro Manabe
Department of Disease Biology and Molecular Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University
Regulation of Inflammasome Responses
Eicke Latz
Institute of Innate Immunity, University of Bonn Medical Center, Sigmund-Freud Str. 25, D-53105 Bonn, Germany
Immunity, trade-offs and disease tolerance
Ajay Chawla
Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco
Coordinated regulation of inflammatory response and lipid metabolism in macrophages
Yumiko Oishi
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Nippon Medical School
Semaphorin 6D reverse signaling controls macrophage polarizations, coupling immune and metabolic systems
Atsushi Kumanogoh
Department of Respiratory Medicine and Clinical Immunology, Osaka University, Graduate School of Medicine, 2-2 Yamada-oka, Suita, Osaka, 565-0871, Japan.