Vaccine Engineering Symposium

Tuesday, January 19, 2016

La Jolla institute for Allergy and Immunology Ishizaka Seminar Room

8:30 - 8:40 Introduction - Shu Chien (UCSD) 8:40 - 9:40 Keynote Bali Pulendran (Emory University)

Systems Vaccinology: Enabling rational vaccine design with systems based approaches

Vaccination Technology 9:40 - 10:05 Lianfang Zhang (UCSD)

Nanotoxoid Vaccines for Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria

10:05 - 10:30 Kei Kishimoto (Selectabio, Boston) Nanoparticle-based adjuvants

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break 11:00 - 11:25 Dennis Carson (UCSD)

TLR-based adjuvants 11:25 - 11:50 Andrew Geall (Avidity NanoMedicines, La Jolla)

Self-amplifying mRNA vaccines

12:00 – 1:00 Keynote Robert Seder (National Institute of Allergy) Induction of Durable Protection Against Malaria Infection in Humans

by an Attenuated Sporozite Vaccine 1:00 – 2:00 Lunch provided (in Atrium)

Epitope Discovery

2:00 – 2:25 Alessandro Sette (LJI) Epitope discovery

2:25 – 2:50 Bjoern Peters (LJI)

Utility and limitations of bioinformatics methods for epitope discovery

Infectious Disease Vaccination

2:50 - 3:15 Sujan Shresta (LJI)

Dengue vaccines 3:15 - 3:40 Chris Benedit (LJI)

Late-rising CD4T cells orchestrate vaccine control of cytomegalovirus persistence

3:40– 4:05 Shane Crotty (LJI) Regulation of T follicular helper (Tfh) CD4 T cells and B cells in the context of vaccines and infections

4:05 – 4:30 Richard Wyatt (TSRI)

HIV antigen engineering 4:30 – 4:50 Matthew Macauley (TSRI)

Manipulating antibody responses through targeting the B-cell Siglecs