ITS 2023

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Time	Session
13:00-15:00 Grand Georgian	Pre-Congress: Emerging 'Omics' and machine learning techniques: the next frontier in transplant research Full Details Juliet Emamaullee, United States Translational Immunology Sören Lukassen, Germany Cite sequencing Parker C. Wilson, United States Single cell sequencing and spatial transcriptomics in kidney disease Roman Fischer, United Kingdom Spatial proteomics Ana Konvalinka, Canada Single-cell profiling of healthy human kidney reveals features of sex-based transcriptional programs and tissue-specific immunity
15:00-15:30 Atrium	Refreshment Break Full Details
15:30-16:40 Grand Georgian	Session: Welcome Address and Keynote Full Details Fadi Issa, United Kingdom Welcome Address Tak W Mak, Canada Revolutioning Immunolgy
16:40-18:00 Grand Georgian	Abstracts Session 1 Full Details Peter Wang, United States Interclonal help promotes allospecific CD8+ T cell avidity maturation during graft rejection Kyle T Reid, Canada Cell therapy with ex vivo expanded human group 2 innate lymphoid cells suppresses allogenic T cell responses in graft-versus host disease Anne M Halpin, Canada ABO and COVID-19 susceptibility: A role for ABH glycans and ABO antibodies? Kassandra J Baron, United States ST2+ reparative regulatory T cell therapy for inflammation reduction and tissue repair Michael Nicosia, United States Water channel Aquaporin 4 is required for T cell activation Khodor I Abou-Daya, United States The epigenetic and transcriptional landscape of monocyte memory formation in response to allogeneic non-self Handan Ozdemir, Turkey The use of histopathological features as endpoints in acute T cell-mediated rejection (TCMR) response in renal allografts Lisa-Marie Burkhardt, Germany Tackling post-transplant lymphoproliferative disease - a new model of patient derived lung organoids with Epstein-Barr-virus transformed B cells as test platform for Epstein-Barr-virus specific T cell fighters Macyn L Leung, Canada Development of a potency assay for regulatory T cell therapy applications Yonggyu Lee, United States Determining the cytoplasmic and membranous localization of CD38 using ImageStream David A Hildeman, United States Tracking gene expression and clonal expansion of CD8+ T cells in the biopsies and urine of patients undergoing kidney transplant rejection
18:00-19:00 Atrium	Networking: Welcome Reception Full Details

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