| 15:00 – 21:00 | Registration / Inscriptions; Poster Set-up / Installation des affiches (Nunavut) |
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| 15:00 - 19:00 | Exhibitor Set-up / Installation des exposants (Confederation Ballroom)
Poster Set-up / Installation des affiches (Confederation Ballroom) |
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| 16:00 - 20:00 | CSI Council Meeting (CSI Council only) (Nova Scotia Room) |
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| 16:00 – 18:00 |
Special Session for Trainees (Provinces Ballroom) "Success after Graduate School" Dr. Nana Lee, Director and Lecturer, Graduate Professional Development, University of Toronto |
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| 17:45 |
"The Landscape of Canada's PhDs" Dr. Michael Bloom, Vice President, Industry and Business Strategy at The Conference Board of Canada |
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| 18:00 – 20:00 | Trainee Mixer (Quebec Room) |
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| 20:00 | Exhibits Open (Confederation Room) |
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| 20:30 – 21:30 | Keynote Address
"Multifaceted Functions of the PD-1 Pathway" Dr. Arlene Sharpe, George Fabyan Professor of Comparative Pathology, Microbiology and Immunobiology, Vice Chair for Education - Pathology, Co-Director - HITI, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA |
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| 21:30 – 23:30 |
Opening Reception / Réception d’ouverture Meet the Exhibitors / Rencontre des exposants |
| 07:00 | Registration / Inscriptions (Nunavut) |
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| 07:00 – 09:00 | Breakfast / Déjeûner (Confederation Ballroom)
Poster Set-up Odd / Installation des affiches (Confederation Ballroom) |
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| 08:00 | Meet the Exhibitors / Rencontre des exposants (Confederation Ballroom) |
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| Sponsored by / Parrainé par: BioLegend |
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| 08:30 – 11:30 | Symposium 1: Myeloid Cells and Immunity – The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (Provinces Ballroom) Chairs: Dr. Paul Kubes, University of Calgary; Dr. Subash Sad, University of Ottawa |
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| 08:30 – 09:00 |
“Combining Advanced Imaging and Systems Biology to Probe Myeloid Cell Migration, Distribution, and Function” Dr. Ronald Germain, Chief, Laboratory of Systems Biology and Lymphocyte Biology Section, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA |
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| 09:00 – 09:30 |
“Innate recognition of T. gondii: a tale of mouse and men” Dr. Alan Sher, Chief, Laboratory of Parasitic Disease, Chief, Immunology Section, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA |
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| 09:30 – 10:00 |
"Neutrophils, monocytes and macrophage in sterile injury and repair- all good no bad no ugly" Dr. Paul Kubes, Professor, Depts of Physiology & Pharmacology, Medicine and Microbiology, Immunology & Infectious Diseases, University of Calgary; Director, Snyder Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, Calgary, AB, Canada |
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| 10:00 – 10:30 | Refreshment Break / Pause (Confederation Ballroom) |
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| 10:30 – 11:00 |
“The role of macrophage ontogeny in tissue injury and repair” Dr. Slava Epelman, Assistant Professor of Medicine, University Health Network, University of Toronto, ON, Canada |
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| 11:00 – 11:30 |
"Therapeutic properties of innate immune cells for brain diseases" Dr. Serge Rivest, Professor, Université Laval; Researcher, CHU de Québec Research Center, Quebec, Canada |
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| 11:30 – 11:40 |
“Enhancing Downstream Applications Through Magnetic Cell Sorting” Presented by Leesa Pennell – BioLegend |
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| 11:40 – 11:50 |
“PrimeFlow RNA: a new enabling technology born from an acquisition” Presented by Martin Bourbonnière - eBioscience, an Affymetrix company |
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| 11:50 – 11:57 |
“Advancements in Cell Isolation Technology” Presented by Cyrus Eduljee – StemCell Technologies |
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| 11:57 – 12:04 |
“MACS technology for the isolation and analysis of innate immune cells” Presented by Brendan McIntyre - Miltenyi Biotec |
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| 12:04 | Exhibits Close |
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| 12:04 – 14:00 | Buffet Lunch / Dîner (Confederation Ballroom)
Poster Set-up, Recreation / Installation des affiches, Pause (Confederation Ballroom) |
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| 13:00 – 14:00 | Trainee one-minute, 1 slide presentations (Confederation Ballroom) |
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Sponsored by / Parrainé par: Miltenyi Biotec, StemCell Technologies Inc. Concurrent Sessions: |
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| 14:30 – 16:30 |
Workshop 1 / Atelier 1 (Newfoundland/Nova Scotia Room) Leukocyte Development, Activation, and Signalling Chairs: |
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| 14:30 – 16:30 |
Workshop 2 / Atelier 2 (Quebec Room) Immune Mediated Diseases: Tolerance, Autoimmunity and Inflammation Chairs: |
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| 16:30 – 18:30 |
Special Session for Trainees (Provinces Ballroom) Panel discussion session for career development |
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| 18:30 – 20:00 | Buffet Dinner / Souper (Confederation Ballroom) |
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| 20:00 – 22:00 | 1st Poster Session / 1ère Séance d’affiches (Confederation Ballroom)
Odd Numbered Posters / Affiches à numéros impairs Cash bar / bar payant Meet the Exhibitors / Rencontre des exposants |
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| 22:00 | Exhibits Close / Fermeture des exposants
Remove Odd Numbered Posters / Affiches à numéros impairs |
| 07:00 – 09:00 |
Breakfast / Déjeûner (Confederation Ballroom) Poster Set-up Even / Installation des affiches (Confederation Ballroom) |
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| 08:00 | Meet the Exhibitors / Rencontre des exposants (Confederation Ballroom) |
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Sponsored by / Parrainé par: CIHR – Institute of Infection and Immunity |
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| 08:30 – 11:30 | Symposium II: Overcoming Exhaustion in Viral Infection and Cancer
(Provinces Ballroom) Chairs: Dr. Pamela Ohashi, University of Toronto; Dr. David Brooks, University of Toronto |
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| 08:30 – 09:00 | "Immune suppression and restoration during persistent virus infection"
Dr. David Brooks, Senior Scientist, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network, Associate Professor, Dept. of Immunology, University of Toronto, ON, Canada |
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| 09:00 – 09:30 | "Redefining T cell dysfunction in cancer"
Dr. Ana Carrizosa Anderson, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Neurology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA |
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| 09:30 – 10:00 | “Dynamics of functional and exhausted immune responses during persistent viral infection”
Dr. Dorian McGavern, Investigator, NIH – NINDS, Div. of Intermural Research, Betheseda, MD, USA |
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| 10:00 – 10:30 | Refreshment Break / Pause (Confederation Ballroom) |
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| 10:30 – 11:00 | "T cell exhaustion in cancer: a simple concept until you start looking for it"
Dr. Brad Nelson, Director and Distinguished Scientist, Deeley Research Centre, BCCA; Professor, Cancer Research Center, University of Victoria, BC, Canada |
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| 11:00 – 11:30 | “Immunoregulatory role of NK cells in exhaustion and cancer”
Dr. Pamela Ohashi, Director, Immune Therapy Program, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Co-Director, Campbell Family Institute for Breast Cancer Research Senior Scientist, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Professor, Depts of Medical Biophysics and Immunology, University of Toronto, ON, Canada |
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| 11:30 | Exhibits Close / Fermeture des exposants |
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| 11:30 – 12:30 | CSI Annual General Meeting / Assemblée Générale de la SCI (Provinces Ballroom) |
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| 11:30 – 13:30 | Buffet Lunch / Dîner (Confederation Ballroom)
Poster Set-up, Recreation / Installation des affiches, Pause (Confederation Ballroom) |
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| 12:30 – 13:30 | Trainee one-minute, 1 slide presentations (Confederation Ballroom) |
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Sponsored by / Parrainé par: Miltenyi Biotec, StemCell Technologies Inc.
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| 13:30 – 15:30 | Workshop 3 / Atelier 3 (Newfoundland/Nova Scotia Room)
Host-Pathogen Interactions: Innate Immunity to Adaptive Immune Responses Chairs: |
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| 13:30 – 15:30 | Workshop 4 / Atelier 4 (Quebec Room)
Tumor Immunology, Immunotherapy and Vaccines Chairs: |
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| 15:30 – 17:30 | 2nd Poster Session / 2ème Séance d’affiches (Confederation Ballroom)
Even Numbered Posters / Affiches numéros pairs Meet the Exhibitors / Rencontre des exposants Cash bar / Bar payant |
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| 17:30 | Exhibits Close / Fermeture des exposants
Remove Even Numbered Posters / Affiches à numéros pairs |
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| 17:45 – 18:45 | Bernhard Cinader Award Lectureship / Conférence du prix Bernhard Cinader
“From planar membranes to TNFRs, a tale of costimulation and collaboration” Dr. Tania Watts, Professor, and Sanofi Pasteur Chair in Human Immunology, Department of Immunology, University of Toronto |
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| 19:00 | Bus Transportation from Hotel to Banquet Dinner (Canadian Museum of History) |
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| 19:30 | Reception – Cash Bar |
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| 20:30 | Banquet Dinner / Banquet
Sponsored by / Parrainé par: Affymetrix eBioscience |
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| 21:30 | Presentation of Travel Awards and Investigator Awards |
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| 22:30 | Bus Transportation from Banquet Dinner to Hotel |
| 07:00 – 09:00 | Breakfast / Déjeûner (Confederation Ballroom) |
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| 08:00 | Meet the Exhibitors / Rencontre des exposants (Confederation Ballroom) |
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| 08:30 – 12:00 | Symposium III: B Cells – More Than an Antibody Factor (Provinces Ballroom) Chairs: Dr. Aaron Marshall, University of Manitoba; Dr. Michael Gold, University of British Columbia |
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| 08:30 – 09:00 | “Control of B cell metabolism by the PI 3-kinase pathway: implications for autoimmunity”
Dr. Aaron Marshall, Professor, Department of Immunology; Canada Research Chair in Molecular Immunology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada |
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| 09:00 – 09:30 | “Mechanisms of human B cell tolerance and autoimmunity”
Dr. Eric Meffre, Associate Professor of Immunobiology and of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA |
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| 09:30 – 10:00 | “Targeting antigen receptor signaling in B cell malignancies”
Dr. Amy Johnson, Research Associate Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, The Ohio State University, Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH, USA |
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| 10:00 – 10:30 | Refreshment Break / Pause (Confederation Ballroom) |
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| 10:30 | Exhibits Close / Fermeture des exposants |
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| 10:30 – 11:00 | “B-1 cells: Chameleons of the B cell pool”
Dr. Nicole Baumgarth, Professor, Center for Comparative Medicine, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA |
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| 11:00 – 11:30 | “Targeting functionally distinct B cell subsets in autoimmunity”
Dr. Amit Bar-Or, Professor, Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital (the Neuro), McGill University, Montreal, PQ |
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| 11:30 – 12:00 | “Space and time: B cell activation by APCs”
Dr. Michael Gold, Professor and Head, Department of Immunology and Microbiology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada |
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| 12:00 – 14:00 | Lunch / Dîner (Confederation Ballroom) |
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| 14:00 | CSI Meeting Ends / Fin de la Conférence |
