Program

Invited Speakers

Plenary Lecture

  • [Day 1] October 30 (Thu)
    Carola Vinuesa The Francis Crick Institute, GBR CV

    How Autoantibody-Producing Cells Develop and Survive in Autoimmune Diseases and After CAR-T Cell Therapy

  • [Day 1] October 30 (Thu)
    Stephen JamesonUniversity of Minnesota, USA CV

    The role of Kruppel-like factors in T cell trafficking and differentiation

  • [Day 2] October 31 (Fri)
    Ramnik J. XavierBroad Institute and Harvard Medical School, USA CV

    Mechanisms linking tissue inflammation to fibrosis

  • [Day 3] November 1 (Sat)
    Heung Kyu Lee KAIST, KOR CV

    KAI Grand Achievement Award Lecture - From Lymph Nodes to the Brain: B Cells as Gatekeepers of Checkpoint Immunotherapy

[Day 1] October 30 (Thu) Symposium 1 - Tissue-Specific Immunity [Yonsei ‘Eokkaedongmu Project (어깨동무사업)’]*

  • Rachel Niec Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, USA CV

    Inflammatory hematopoiesis contributes to intestinal inflammation and is modulated by common therap

  • Charlotte Louise Scott VIB and the Universities of Ghent, BEL CV

    Investigating the functional heterogeneity of hepatic macrophages

  • Won-Il Jeong KAIST, KOR CV

    mGluR5 function of liver resident Kupffer cells in alcohol-associated steatohepatitis

  • Je-Wook Yu Yonsei University, KOR CV

    Regulation of blood-brain barrier integrity and neuroinflammation

[Day 1] October 30 (Thu) Symposium 2 -KAI-AKIA [Korea US Collaborative Research Fund - Korea BioDefense Research Institute]*

  • Jongbok Lee University of Calgary, CAN CV

    CD3⁺ CD4⁻ CD8⁻ double negative T cell as platform for off-the-shelf CAR-T cell therapy

  • Tae Woo Kim Korea University, KOR CV

    CRY1 fuels resistance to immunotherapy in
    NANOGhigh tumors

  • Seungmin (Sam) Hwang Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, USA CV

    Host-Directed Therapy for Respiratory Viral Infection

  • Jeong Seok Lee KAIST, KOR CV

    KAI-Seegene Medical Foundation Excellence Award Lecture: Single-Cell Dissection of Human Immune Diversity: Pathogenic Skewing in Autoimmune Diseases

[Day 1] October 30 (Thu) Symposium 3 - Immunometabolism [Innate Immune-Mediated Chronic Inflammatory Disease Medical Research Center]*

  • Autumn G. York University of Washington, USA CV

    Decoding the Immunological Lipidome

  • Ping-Chih Ho University of Lausanne, CHE CV

    Mitochondria-mediated guidance in tailoring T cell anti-tumor immunity and beyond

  • Bojan Polić University of Rijeka, HRV CV

    The impact of viral infections on systemic immunometabolism and viral control

  • Yeonseok Chung Seoul National University, KOR CV

    Lipid metabolic control of plasma cell

[Day 1] October 30 (Thu) Symposium 4 - DC & Myeloid Cells [Biospecimen-Multiomics Digital Bioanalysis Core Facility]*

  • Florent Ginhoux Gustave Roussy, FRA CV

    Tissue Macrophage Heterogeneity

  • Andrew Wang Yale University, USA CV

    The immune system and its role in adaptive physiology

  • Hyoung-Pyo Kim Yonsei University, KOR CV

    CTCF shapes the 3D enhancer network in dendritic cells

  • Yoe-Sik Bae Sungkyunkwan University, KOR CV

    Emerging pathogenic myeloid cell populations in diseases

[Day 1] October 30 (Thu) Symposium 5 - Cancer Immunology [Personalized Cancer Immunotherapy Research Center] *

  • Diana Clare Hargreaves Salk Institute, USA CV

    Epigenetic Regulation of Tumor Immunity

  • Jun Wang New York University, USA CV

    Probing Key Immune Feedback Modulators for Immunotherapy of Cancer and Beyond

  • Sang-Jun Ha Yonsei University, KOR CV

    Tox-mediated immune regulation of regulatory T cells during cancer progression

  • Chan Hyuk Kim Seoul National University, KOR CV

    Engineering next generation T cell therapy for Cancer

[Day 2] October 31 (Fri) Symposium 6 - Multi-omics in Immunology

  • Chrysothemis Brown Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, USA CV

    Regulation of intestinal tolerance by Thetis cells

  • Steven Josefowicz Weill Cornell Medicine, USA CV

    Inflammation-induced epigenetic and functional reprogramming of HSC and myeloid cells

  • Jong Eun Park KAIST, KOR CV

    Lifetime dynamics of immune cells and the immune repertoire revealed by integrative single-cell analysis

  • Hae-Ock Lee The Catholic University of Korea, KOR CV

    Immuno-genomic interactions in lung cancer

[Day 2] October 31 (Fri) Symposium 7 - Immune Aging

  • Duygu Ucar The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine, USA CV

    Genomic signatures of human immune aging and reduced vaccine responses

  • Myong-Hee (Mia) Sung National Institues of Health, USA CV

    Dynamic interplays between inflammatory responses and Aβ uptake in 5xFAD microglia revealed by NF-κB reporter mice

  • Jie Sun The University of Virginia, USA CV

    Peroxisomes and Macrophage Senescence

  • Won-Woo Lee Seoul National University, KOR CV

    Heterogeneity and Functional Profiling of Human Monocytes During Aging

[Day 2] October 31 (Fri) Symposium 8 - B cell & Humoral Immunity

  • Frances Lund University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA CV

    Effector and tissue-residing memory B cells - First Responders in health and disease

  • Jennifer Gommerman University of Toronto, CAN CV

    Type 1 follicular helper T cells are required for long-lived IgA plasma cell development following mucosal viral infection

  • Cheol-Heui Yun Seoul National University, KOR CV

    Strategies to maximize vaccination efficacy and antigen-specific immune responses

  • Wan-Uk Kim The Catholic University of Korea, KOR CV

    Leukocyte-Specific Protein-1 (LSP-1) Regulation of B Cell Autoimmunity

[Day 2] October 31 (Fri) Symposium 9 - T cell Biology

  • Benjamin Youngblood St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, USA CV

    Epigenetic Mechanisms of T cell Exhaustion Limiting Tumor Immunotherapy

  • Yisong Wan University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA CV

    The diverse roles of TGF-beta signaling in controlling T cell functions

  • Yoontae Lee POSTECH, KOR CV

    Role of ETV5 in Tfh cell differentiation and lupus pathogenesis

  • Kyungho Choi Seoul National University, KOR CV

    A novel molecular mechanism of T cell exhaustion in anti-tumor immunity

[Day 2] October 31 (Fri) Symposium 10 - Mucosal Immunity & Microbiota

  • Seth Rakoff-Nahoum Havard Medical School, USA CV

    Functional diversification of diet by the human gut microbiome

  • Heping Xu Westlake University, CHN CV

    Neuronal Regulation of Intestinal Immune Homeostasis and Inflammation

  • Ji-Hwan Ryu Yonsei University, KOR CV

    Skin microbiome-driven immune imprinting in early life

  • Hye-Ryun Kang Seoul National University, KOR CV

    Macrophage in Asthma: who are they?

[Day 2] October 31 (Fri) Symposium 11 - Infection & Immunity [VITAL-Korea]*

  • Marcus Buggert KarolinskaInstitutet, SWE CV

    Human virus-specific CD8+ T cell zonation at single-lymph-node resolution.

  • Christina L. Stallings Washington University, USA CV

    Inflammation as a Driver of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Pathogenesis

  • Chul-Su Yang Hanyang University, KOR CV

    Toxoplasma gondii-derived Peptides as Dual-Function Agents to Overcome Drug Resistance in Infection and Cancer

  • Myung-Shin Lee Eulji University, KOR CV

    Senescence of endothelial cells increases susceptibility to KSHV infection via CD109-mediated viral entry

[Day 2] October 31 (Fri) Symposium 12 - Neuro-Immune Crosstalk [Tissue-Sensory-Immune Axis Global Science Research Center]*

  • Dan Kaplan University of Pittsburgh, USA CV

    Neuronal control of cutaneous inflammation

  • Andrew Mendiola University of California San Diego, USA CV

    The role of innate immunity in CNS inflammation

  • Won-Suk Chung KAIST/IBS, KOR CV

    Neuro-glial interactions in neurodegeneration

  • Seog Bae OH Seoul National University, KOR CV

    The therapeutic potential of natural killer cells in neuropathic pain

[Day 2] October 31 (Fri) Symposium 13 - Innate Lymphocytes

  • Timotheus You Fu Halim University of Cambridge, GBR CV

    The role of ILC2 in tissue homeostasis and neoplasia

  • Hye Young Kim Seoul National University, KOR CV

    Functional Plasticity of ILCs in Asthma

  • Hun Sik Kim University of Ulsan, KOR CV

    HPK1 dysregulation-associated NK cell dysfunction promotes metastatic tumor progression

  • You Jeong Lee Seoul National University, KOR CV

    Development of innate T cells in mice and humans

[Day 2] October 31 (Fri) Symposium 14 - Cancer Immunotherapy (Clinical Session)

  • Shinichiro Motohashi Chiba University, JPN CV

    Allogeneic iPSC-derived iNKT cells in recurrent head and neck cancer: A Phase 1 Trial

  • Peihua Lu Lu Daopei Hospital, CHN CV

    CD7 CAR-T Therapy: opportunities, challenges and innovations

  • Hyoung Jin Kang Seoul National University, KOR CV

    Development of CAR-T therapy

  • Dok Hyun Yoon University of Ulsan, KOR CV

    Current Progress in CAR T-Cell Therapy for B-Cell Lymphoma.

[Day 3] November 1 (Sat) Symposium 15 - Autoimmme Disease

  • Robert Lafyatis University of Pittsburgh, USA

    Immunology of interstitial lung disease, regulation of profibrotic macrophages

  • Michihito Kono Hokkaido University, JPN CV

    T cell metabolism in autoimmune diseases

  • So Young Bang Hanyang University, KOR CV

    Genomic and Transcriptomic Biomarkers for Clinical Applications in Rheumatology

  • Yoosik Kim KAIST, KOR CV

    Self double-stranded RNAs as drivers of aberrant immune activation

[Day 3] November 1 (Sat) Symposium 16 - Inborn Errors of Immunity (Clinical Session)

  • Lau Yu Lung University of Hong Kong, CHN CV

    Primary Atopic Disorders

  • Cindy S Ma Garvan Institute of Medical Research, AUS CV

    Inborn Errors of Immunity – informing us on common atopic diseases

  • Yae-Jean Kim Samsung Medical Center, KOR CV

    JAK inhibitors treatment in Inborn Errors of Immunity

  • Wonyong Lee Institute for Basic Science(IBS), KOR CV

    Autoinflammatory Diseases: Mechanisms and Treatment of PAPA Syndrome

[Day 3] November 1 (Sat) 대한류마티스학회 공동세션 [Korean College of Rheumatology]*

  • Seokchan Hong University of Ulsan, KOR CV

    Lupus nephritis

  • Jooha Lee The Catholic University of Korea, KOR CV

    Gout & inflammasome

  • Su-Jin Moon The Catholic University of Korea, KOR CV

    Sjogren syndrome treatment unmet need

  • Sungsin Jo Soonchunhyang University, KOR CV

    Axial spondyloarthritis new bone formation

[Day 3] November 1 (Sat) 대한천식알레르기학회 공동세션 [The Korean Academy of Asthma, Allergy and Clinical Immunology]*

  • Seungwon Ryu Gachon University, KOR CV

    Tissue crosstalk mediated by ILC2s in chronic inflammation

  • Do-Hyun Kim Hanyang University, KOR CV

    Mechanical stretch mediated type 2 immune circuits in mucosal tissues

  • Tae-Bum Kim University of Ulsan, KOR CV

    Discovery of Biomarkers based on Multi-Omics analysis in Asthma

  • Dong In Seo Seoul National University, KOR CV

    Pediatric food-related clinical allergy: a practical approach to various spectrum of diseases

[Day 3] November 1 (Sat) 대한장연구학회 공동세션 [Korean Association for the Study of Intestinal Diseases]*

  • Kwang Woo Kim Seoul National University, KOR CV

    Insights from Fecal Microbiota Transplantation: Advancing Our Understanding of Host-Microbiome Interactions

  • Joo-Hong Park Seoul National University, KOR CV

    Crosstalk between the Gut Microbiome and Mucosal Immunity under Dietary Shifts

  • Ho-Su Lee University of Ulsan, KOR CV

    Tissue-resident T cell characterization in Crohn's disease

  • Nicholas Arpaia Columbia University, USA CV

    Programmable probiotics for personalized cancer immunotherapy

[Day 1] October 30 (Thu) KAI Basic & Clinical Joint Academic Awardee Lecture *Korean Session

  • Donghyun Kim Seoul National University, KOR CV

    Kai Basic & Clinical Joint Academic Awardee Lecture: Organ Crosstalk in Inflammatory diseases: Microbiota and Gene Bridging Gut, Liver, and Joints