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Kenneth Rainin Foundation
2024 Innovations Symposium
July 15-16, 2024 | Palace Hotel, San Francisco

Agenda

Monday, July 15, 2024

7:15 AM Breakfast & Registration

8:30 AM Welcome

8:45 – 9:10 AM Jean-Frederic Colombel, MD, Professor, Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai, Can we predict and prevent IBD?

9:15 – 9:40 AM Iliyan Iliev, PhD, Associate Professor, Weill Cornell Medicine, Fungal determinants of intestinal inflammation

9:45 – 10:10 AM Michael Kattah, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of California, San Francisco, Dissecting epithelial, stromal and myeloid networks in colitis using spatial multi-omics

10:15 – 11:30 AM Poster Session/Break

11:35 AM – 12:00 PM Daria Esterházy, PhD, Assistant Professor, The University of Chicago, Niche specific functions of the lymphatics along the gut 

12:05 – 12:30 PM Gwendalyn Randolph, PhD, Professor, Washington University in St. Louis, Lymphatic and venous outflow from the intestine in IBD

12:35 – 1:55 PM Lunch

2:00 – 2:25 PM Andreas Bäumler, PhD, Professor, University of California, Davis, Low Clostridia abundance triggers osmotic stress to exacerbate inflammation

2:30 – 2:55 PM Ilana Brito, PhD, Associate Professor, Cornell University, Host-microbiome protein-protein interactions and their relevance to IBD

3:00 – 3:25 PM Kate Jeffrey, PhD, Vice President of Immune Therapeutics, Moderna, mRNA: a new era in vaccines and therapeutics

3:30 – 3:45 PM Lightning Round: three poster presenters

3:45 – 5:00 PM Poster Session/Break

5:30 PM Reception

All times are in Pacific Daylight Time (PDT).

Tuesday, July 16, 2024

7:15 AM Breakfast & Registration

8:30 – 8:55 AM Charlie Lees, PhD, Professor, University of Edinburgh; Consultant Gastroenterologist, Western General Hospital, Dynamic biomarker modelling to predict IBD outcomes

9:00 – 9:25 AM Karen Guillemin, PhD, Philip H. Knight Chair and Professor of Biology, University of Oregon, Teaming with microbes: partnering with the microbiota for gut health

9:30 – 9:55 AM Meenakshi Rao, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, The “brain” in the gut: a central regulator of digestive health and disease

10:00 – 10:15 AM Lightning Round: three poster presenters

10:15 – 11:30 AM Poster Session/Break

11:35 AM – 12:00 PM Greg Barton, PhD, Professor, University of California, Berkeley, Tracking host responses to the microbiota

12:05 – 12:30 PM Bana Jabri, MD, PhD, Professor, The University of Chicago, Host-commensal interactions and Immunopathology

12:35 – 1:55 PM Lunch

2:00 – 2:25 PM Peter Turnbaugh, PhD, Professor, University of California, San Francisco, Gut microbial metabolism modifies IBD severity and treatment

2:30 – 2:55 PM Andrew Goodman, PhD, CNH Long Professor and Chair, Department of Microbial Pathogenesis; Director, Microbial Sciences Institute, Yale University; Microbiome dynamics during inflammation

3:00 – 3:25 PM Michael Fischbach, PhD, Professor, Stanford University, Understanding and manipulating immune modulation by the microbiome

3:30 – 3:45 PM Closing

Excellent symposium. Really enjoyed the format of an innovative lecture followed by an extensive and very interactive question and answer session.– Garth Swanson, Professor, Physician, Scientist, Rush University Medical Center

Registration has ended.

Location

Palace Hotel, 2 New Montgomery Street, San Francisco, CA 94105
Light shining out of the windows at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco at night.

For questions about the Symposium, please contact Health program staff.

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