2017 NYC IBD Research Day

The third annual symposium jointly sponsored by the Immunology Institute of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Rockefeller University and the Jill Roberts Institute for Research in IBD at Weill Cornell Medicine and honoring the late Lloyd F. Mayer, M.D.

This event has been made possible by the support from the following generous sponsors:

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; Weill Cornell Medical College, Jill Roberts Institute for Research in Inflammatory Bowel Disease; Weill Cornell Medicine; The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust; The New York Crohn's Foundation; Kenneth Rainin Foundation; Pfizer; New York-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center, Center for Advanced Digestive Care; Boehringer Ingelheim; Janssen; The Rockefeller University

EVENT AGENDA

11:30 a.m.–12:15 p.m.:

Registration - Caspary Auditorium Lobby

12:15–12:20 p.m.:

Welcome Remarks - President Richard P. Lifton, M.D., Ph.D., The Rockefeller University

12:20–12:30 p.m.:

Mayer Prize Presentation

12:30–1 p.m.:

Inflammation, Tissue Resident T Cells and the Journey of No Return - Bana Jabri, M.D., Ph.D., University of Chicago

1–1:30 p.m.:

Mucosal Immunity to Commensal Fungi in the Gut - Iliyan D. Iliev, Ph.D., Weill Cornell Medicine

1:30–2 p.m.:

Death in the Intestinal Epithelium – Implications for IBD - Julie Magarian Blander, Ph.D., Weill Cornell Medicine

2–2:30 p.m.:

Regulation of Inflammation by MAMPs - Gérard Eberl, Ph.D., Institut Pasteur

2:30–2:45 p.m.:

Muscularis Macrophages Regulate Infection-Induced Enteric Neuronal Damage - Christina Graves, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, Mucida Lab, The Rockefeller University

2:45–3:15 p.m.:

Coffee break - Abby Lounge

3:15–3:30 p.m.:

Intra-Microbiome Interactions and Epithelial Cell Signaling in Small Intestinal Inflammation - Serre-Yu Wong, M.D., Ph.D., Research Fellow, Cadwell Lab, Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine, NYU Langone Medical Center

3:30–4 p.m.:

Nod-Like Receptors and IBD - Dana Philpott, Ph.D., University of Toronto

4–4:30 p.m.:

Exploring the Humoral Immune System in the Pathogenesis of Inflammatory Bowel Diseases - Saurabh Mehandru, M.D., Mount Sinai School of Medicine

4:30–5 p.m.:

Tailoring Regulatory T Cell Therapy for IBD - Megan Levings, Ph.D., BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute

5–5:30 p.m.:

The Gut Feeling - Ruslan Medzhitov, Ph.D., Yale University

5:30–6:30 p.m.:

Reception - Abby Lounge