Rebecca Hughey  

Christopher Crowe Graduate Student Researcher, Kolls Lab, Department of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh

"CD8 T Cell Memory Generated without CD4 Help is Transiently Compromised within the Latently Infected Trigeminal Ganglion"

Gregory Frank Graduate Student Researcher, Hendricks lab, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Pittsburgh  

Kaikobad Irani, M.D. Associate Professor, Cardiovascular Institute, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center  

Claudette M. St. Croix, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Dept. of Environmental & Occupational Health University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health  

Christopher F. Basler, PhD

Mt. Sinai School of Medicine  

Robert Edinger  

Eitan Yefenof, Ph.D.

Bertha and Max Densen Chair in Immunology; Director, Institute of Medical Research; Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem  

Jeffrey S. Fedan  

  Janet L. Smith, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Biological Chemistry, Margaret J. Hunter Collegiate Professor, Life Sciences Institute; Director, Center for Structural Biology, Life Sciences Institute; University of Michigan  

Penelope A. Morel, M.D.

Associate Professor, Department of Immunology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine  

Alan S. Waggoner, Ph.D.

Professor Dept. of Biological Sciences Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA  

Cristian Apetrei, MD, PhD

Tulane National Primate Research Center  

David H. Perlmutter, M.D.

Vira I. Heinz Professor and Chair of Pediatrics; Professor, Department of Cell Biology & Physiology; University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine  

Robert P. Edwards, M.D.

Professor, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Services, Division of Gynecologic Oncology, Magee-Womens Hospital of UPMC  

Shlomo Ta’asan, PhD

Carnegie Mellon University  

Peter Friedman  

Martha Sklavos

Graduate Student Researcher, Piganelli lab, Department of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

"NF-kB/IKK Inhibition Leads to Apoptotic Cell Death in APCs"

Jeremy Tilstra

Graduate Student Researcher, Robbins lab, Department of Molecular Genetics & Biochemistry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine  

Lori Birder  

Jon D. Piganelli, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh  

Teresa Buck  

Pawel Kalinski, M.D., Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Departments of Surgery and Immunology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine  

Dr. Sharon Dent

UT MD Anderson Cancer Center  

Christopher F. Cuff, PhD

West Virginia University  

Nuria Pastor-Soler  

Kritika Kachapati

Graduate Student Researcher, Ridgway lab, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

"Costimulation via TNF Receptor Family Members Induces Late-stage Tumor Rejection"

Angela Pardee

Graduate Student Researcher, Storkus lab, Department of Dermatology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine  

Dr. Michael Nonet

Washington University School of Medicine  

Gerry Apodaca  

Soldano Ferrone, M.D., Ph.D.

Professor, Departments of Surgery and Immunology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine  

Stephen L. Hoffman, MD

Sanaria, Inc.  

Geetha Chalasani  

Mayumi Kawabe

Graduate Student Researcher, Storkus lab, Department of Dermatology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

"Extracellular ATP Effects on Myeloid Lineage Cells"

Mike Thomas

Graduate Student Researcher, Salter lab, Department of Immunology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine  

Dr. Nathan Lawson

University of Massachusetts Medical School  

Ansuman Chattopadhyay, Ph.D.

Head, Molecular Biology Information ServiceFalk Library of Health SciencesUniversity of Pittsburgh  

Gunhild Mueller  

Lisa H. Butterfield, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Surgery, and Immunology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine  

Jodi Craigo, PhD

University of Pittsburgh - Center for Vaccine Research  

Agnes Swiatecka-Urban  

Dr. Jasper Rine

University of California-Berkeley  

Marcelo Carattino  

Dr. Terry Yamaguchi

National Cancer Institute-Frederick  

Alessandro Sette, PhD

La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology  

Dr. Andrew Blaustein

Oregon State University  

R. John Collier, PhD

Harvard Medical School  

Abhay Vats  

Carolyn Coyne  

Shinji Makino, DVM, PhD

University of Texas Medical Branch  

Paula Grabowski, Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh  

Hanna Salman, PhD

Assistant Professor, Dept of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh  

Polly Mattila  

Carol Prives, Ph.D.

Professor and Chair, Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University  

Hillarie Plessner Windish  

Nicolas Sluis-Cremer, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Medicine School of Medicine  

Mark Davis, Ph.D.

Professor of Immunology and Microbiology, Stanford University School of Medicine  

Michelle S. Broido, PhD

Associate Vice Chancellor for Basic Biomedical Research & Director, Office of Research, Health Sciences

Mahedev "Satya" Satyanarayanan, PhD

Carnegie Group Professor of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University

Drazen Jukic, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Dermatology & Pathology; Director, Dermatopathology Unit; Program Director, Dermatopathology Fellowship Program; Director, Histology & Immunochemistry, UPMC Presbyterian/Shadyside

Paul Wood, MS

Director, Genomics & Proteomics Core Laboratories

Bin Zheng, PhD

Research Associate Professor of Radiology  

Puneet Khandelwal  

Jeffrey W. Peng, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame  

Stephen Hedrick, Ph.D.

Professor & Chancellor's Associate Chair of Biological Sciences, University of California, San Diego  

Gerard Nau, MD, PhD

University of Pittsburgh - Microbiology & Molecular Genetics  

Yue-Harn Ng  

Rudolf Jaenisch, M.D.

Member of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and Professor of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology  

Kazunori Koide, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh  

Chris Passero  

Marc Wathelet, Ph.D.

University of Cincinnati College of Medicine  

Jonathan Carney, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Radiology  

Christos Argyropoulos

Patricia Khalil  

Mary Barkley, Ph.D.

Case Western  

W. Gordon Frankle, M.D.

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Radiology School of Medicine  

Michelle S. Broido, PhD

Associate Vice Chancellor for Basic Biomedical Research & Director, Office of Research, Health Sciences

Steven E. Reis, MD

Associate Vice Chancellor for Clinical Research & Director, Clinical & Translational Science Institute (CTSI)

Goutham Rao, MD

Clinical Director, Weight Management & Wellness Center, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC; Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine; Director, Medical Informatics, UPMC St. Margaret

Beth R. Pflug, PhD

Assistant Professor of Urology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Anil V. Parwani, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine; Director, Division of Pathology Informatics, UPMC Shadyside Hospital

Jane W. Marsh, PhD

Research Assistant Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Carlene Muto, MD, MS

Assistant Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine; Director of Infection Control, UPMC Presbyterian

Michael S. Glickman, M.D.

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center  

Ahmad Maarouf

Babak Barmar  

Bert Johansson, MD, PhD

Innovation Sciences  

Matthew Novak

Preethi Murty

Khaled Abdel-Kader  

Ivona Pandrea, Ph.D.

Tulane National Primate Research Center  

Garret A. FitzGerald, M.D.

Professor in Translational Medicine and Therapeutics

Robert L. MacNeil Jr.

Professor and Chair of Pharmacology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine  

Nathalie M. Fiaschi-Taesch, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Medicine School of Medicine  

Felicia Wu, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health Graduate School of Public Health  

Carolyn B. Coyne, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Cell Biology and Physiology

School of Medicine  

Lulu C. Bravo, MD

University of the Philippines  

Ehmke Pohl, Ph.D.

Reader in Chemistry and Biological Sciences, University of Durham, UK  

Shabaana A. Khader, PhD

Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Rangos Research Center  

Wah Chiu, Ph.D.

Alvin Romansky Professor, National Center for Macromolecular Imaging, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,

Baylor College of Medicine  

Dr. Brady Porter

Department of Biological Sciences; Duquesne University  

Dr. Jeffrey Kelly

Scripps Research Institute  

Michael G. Agadjanyan, PhD

Molecular Medicine Institute  

Ben Van Houten, Ph.D.

Richard Cyert Chair in Pharmacology and Chemical Biology; Leader, Program of Molecular and Cellular Biology; University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute  

Douglas A. Mitchell, Ph.D.,

Hartwell Postdoctoral Fellow, Pharmacology Department University of California - San DiegoSchool of Medicine  

Dr. Aaron Mitchell

Carnegie Mellon University  

Dieter Soll, Ph.D.

Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry

Yale University  

Eileen K, Jaffe, Ph.D.

Senior Member, Fox Chase Cancer Center  

Mary D. Barkley, Ph.D.

M. Roger Clapp, University Professor of Arts and Sciences, Department of Chemistry

Case Western Reserve University  

Christopher Navara, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences School of Medicine  

Dr. Steven Farber

Carnegie Institution of Washington  

Ivona Pandrea, MD, Ph.D.

Tulane National Primate Research Center  

Mark Gillespie, Ph.D.

Professor and Chairman, Dept. of Pharmacology

University of South Alabama College of Medicine  

Sunil Saxena, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh  

Sung-Hou Kim, Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley  

Dr. Lance Davidson

Department of Bioengineering; University of Pittsburgh  

Sunday, September 28 - Tuesday, September 30

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Ohio State University  

Hye-Jeong Yeo, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Department of Biology and Biochemistry

University of Houston  

Dr. Daniel Hebert

University of Massachusetts, Amherst  

Stuart Kornfeld, M.D.

Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO  

Ann M. Powers, PhD

Centers for Disease Control & Prevention - Fort Collins  

Frank Delfino, Ph.D.

Senior Scientist Cellumen, Inc.  

Markus Deserno, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Carnegie Mellon University  

Dr. Douglas Koshland

Carnegie Institution at Baltimore  

R. Andrew Byrd, Ph.D.

Chief, Structural Biophysics Laboratory; Chief, Macromolecular NMR Section; National Cancer Institute  

Dr. Thomas Neufeld

University of Minnesota  

Robbin S. Weyant, PhD

Centers for Disease Control & Prevention - Atlanta  

Richard W. Ordway, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Biology, Chair, Intercollege Graduate Program in Genetics

Penn State University  

Kris Dahl, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Chemical Engineering

Carnegie Mellon University  

Sarah B. Berman, M.D., Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Neurology School of Medicine  

Dr. Donald Cleveland

UCSD Ludwig Institute  

Jeffrey I. Gordon, M.D., Dr. Robert J. Glaser,

Distinguished University Professor and Director of the Center for Genome Sciences, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis  

William Kobertz, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology

University of Massachusetts Medical School  

Patricia LiWang, Ph.D.

Professor, School of Natural Sciences, UC Merced  

Dr. Forest Rohwer

San Diego State University  

Michael D. Parker, PhD

USAMRIID  

Michael G. Zagorski, Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Chemistry; Case Western Reserve University  

Dr. William Martin

University of Dusseldorf  

Phoebe L. Stewart, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics; Vanderbilt University  

Beth Stronach, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences School of Arts and Sciences  

Dr. Anita Corbett

Emory University  

Chris A. Benedict, PhD

La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology  

Jeremy Nathans, M.D., Ph.D.

Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator at Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine  

Saleem A. Khan, Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics; University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine  

Dr. Veronica Hinman

Carnegie Mellon University  

Dr. Yann Chemla

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign  

Andrea A. Gambotto, MD

Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh  

Shohei Koide, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; University of Chicago  

Charles Giardina, PhD

Associate Professor, Molecular & Cell Biology, University of Connecticut  

Joanne I. Yeh, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Department of Structural Biology; Director, X-ray Crystallography Facility; University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine  

Adriana T. Larregina, M.D., Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Dermatology and Immunology School of Medicine  

Yue Chen, MD, PhD

Department of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, University of Pittsburgh  

Laurence J. Miller, M.D.

Director for Research and Deputy Director, Cancer Center, Mayo Clinic, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Professor of Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine