Program

Symposium 1

Vaccine mechanism and design
: AMED-SCARDA Co-organized Session

Chairs:
Ken Ishii (The Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo)
Galit Alter (Harvard Medical School)
Overview Talk:
Takeshi Inoue (The University of Tokyo)
Speakers:
Florian Krammer (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai)
Katherine Kedzierska (University of Melbourne and Doherty Institute)
Hideki Ueno (Department of Immunology, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University)
Rika Nakahashi (Chiba University)

Symposium 2

Immunological memory
: AMED-CREST”Immune Memory” Co-organized Session

Chairs:
Toshinori Nakayama (Chiba University)
Laura Mackay (University of Melbourne)
Overview Talk:
Koji Tokoyoda (Tottori University)
Speakers:
Laura Mackay (Univ of Melbourne)
John Chang (UCSD)
Mari Murakami (Osaka University)
Toshinori Nakayama (Chiba University)
Yoshimasa Takahashi (National Institute of Infectious Diseases)
Atsushi Kumanogoh (Osaka University)

Symposium 3

Mucosal immunity for the control of infection and inflammation
: AMED-CREST”Immune Memory” Co-organized Session

Chairs:
Koji Hase (Faculty of Pharmacry, Keio University)
Yumiko Imai (National Institutes of Biomedical Innovation, Health and Nutrition)
Overview Talk:
Yoshiyuki Goto (Chiba University)
Speakers:
Koji Hase (Faculty of Pharmacry, Keio University)
Yumiko Imai (National Institute of Biomedical Innovation, Health and Innovation)
Ken Cadwell (Kimmel Center for Biology and Medicine at the Skirball Institute, New York University Grossman School of Medicine)
Shruti Naik (New York University)
Hisako Kayama (Institute for Advanced Co-Creation Studies, Osaka University)

Symposium 4

Decoding storage diseases to understand self-referential immune responses
: Transformative Research Areas (A) "Self-referential immune perception” co-organized session session

Chairs:
Kensuke Miyake (The University of Tokyo)
Tsuneyasu Kaisho (Department of Immunology, Institute of Advanced Medicine, Wakayama Medical University)
Overview Talk:
Kensuke Miyake (The University of Tokyo)
Speakers:
Takuma Shibata (The institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo)
Charles Schutt (Osaka University)
Noriko Toyama-Sorimachi (The Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo)
Michael Fessler (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences/NIH)
Kasey Vickers (Vanderbilt University Medical Center)

Symposium 5

Diverse immunometabolic communication in health and disease
: US-Japan Immunology Program Co-organized Session

Chairs:
Ichiro Manabe (Chiba University Graduate School of Medicine)
Yumiko Oishi (Nippon Medical School)
Overview Talk:
Ichiro Manabe (Chiba University Graduate School of Medicine)
Speakers:
Christopher K. Glass (University of California San Diego)
Andres Hidalgo (Yale University)
Yusuke Endo (KAZUSA DNA Research Institute)
Yumiko Oishi (Nippon Medical School)
Makoto Murakami (The University of Tokyo)

Symposium 6

Regulation of T cell responses in health and disease
: US-Japan Immunology Program Co-organized Session

Chairs:
Shohei Hori (The University of Tokyo)
Sayuri Yamazaki (Nagoya City University)
Overview Talk:
Shohei Hori (The University of Tokyo)
Speakers:
Diane Mathis (Harvard Medical School)
Steven F Ziegler (Benaroya Research Institute)
Sayuri Yamazaki (Nagoya City University)
Daisuke Sugiura (The University of Tokyo)
Keiji Hirota (Kyoto University)
Lucy S.K. Walker (University College London)

Symposium 7

Inflammation driven fibrosis and tissue repair
: KAI-JSI Joint Session

Chairs:
Kiyoshi Hirahara (Chiba University)
Motoko Yanagita (Department of Nephrology, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University)
Overview Talk:
Kiyoshi Hirahara (Chiba University)
Speakers:
Motoko Yanagita (Department of Nephrology, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University)
Hiroshi Takayanagi (Department of Immunology, Graduate School of Medicine and Faculty of Medicine, The University of Tokyo)
Takahiro Masuda (Kyushu University)
Ruth Franklin (Harvard University)
Hye-Young Kim (Seoul National University)
Przemyslaw Saphieha (University of Montreal)

Symposium 8

Autoimmune disease and systems immunology
: JSI-JCR Joint Session

Chairs:
Keishi Fujio (Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo)
Sachiko Miyake (Department of Immunology, Juntendo University School of Medicine)
Overview Talk:
Kazuyoshi Ishigaki (Laboratory for Human Immunogenetics, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences)
Speakers:
Deepak Rao (Brigham and Women's Hospital / Harvard Medical School)
Rene Toes (Experimental Rheumatology, University of Leiden)
Masaru Ishii (Osaka University)
Katsuya Suzuki (National Hospital Organization Tokyo Medical Center)
Keishi Fujio (Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo)

Symposium 9

Recent advances in immunological barriers and allergic march
: JSI-JSA Joint Session

Chairs:
Masato Kubo (Research Institute for Biomedical Science, Tokyo University of Science/ RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences (IMS))
Satoko Tahara-Hanaoka (University of Tsukuba)
Overview Talk:
Satoko Tahara-Hanaoka (University of Tsukuba)
Speakers:
Masato Kubo (Research Institute for Biomedical Science, Tokyo University of Science/ RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences (IMS))
Stephanie Eisenbarth (Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine)
Mei Li (Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology (IGBMC))
Kenji Kabashima (Kyoto University)
Yumi Matsuoka-Nakamura (Osaka University)

Symposium 10

Neural signaling in immunology
: US-Japan Immunology Program Co-organized Session/ AMED-Moonshot "Regulation of microinflammation" Co-organized Session

Chairs:
Masaaki Murakmai (Institute for Genetic Medicine)
Takanori Kanai (Keio University)
Overview Talk:
Shintaro Hojyo (Hokkaido University)
Speakers:
Hilla Azulay Debbie (Department of Immunology, Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology)
Isaac Chiu (Harvard Medical School)
Sangeeta Chavan (Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research)
Rie Hasebe (National Institute for Physiological Sciences)
Tomohisa Sujino (Keio University)

Symposium 11

Cancer immunotherapy
: Sponsored by International Immunology

Chairs:
Shinichiro Motohashi (Department of Medical Immunology, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University)
Yuka Maeda (National Cancer Center)
Overview Talk:
Hiroaki Ikeda (College of Science and Engineering, Department of Physical Sciences, Ritsumeikan University)
Speakers:
Carl June (University of Pennsylvania)
Hiroyoshi Nishikawa (Division of Cancer Immunology, Research Institute, National Cancer Center)
Naoto Hirano (Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network)
Shinichiro Motohashi (Chiba University)
Koji Tamada (Yamaguchi University)

Symposium 12

Epigenetics in immunology

Chairs:
Haruhiko Koseki (RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences)
Atsushi Onodera (Chiba University Institute for Advanced Academic Research (IAAR))
Overview Talk:
Atsushi Onodera (Chiba University Institute for Advanced Academic Research (IAAR))
Speakers:
John O'Shea (NIH)
Anjana Rao (La Jolla Institute for Immunology)
Yukiko Gotoh (Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo)
Junichiro Takano (RIKEN)
Naganari Ohkura (Osaka University)

Symposium 13

Innate-like T cells and ILCs
: ASI-JSI Joint Session

Chairs:
Yuki Kinjo (The Jikei University School of Medicine)
Kazuyo Moro (Osaka University)
Overview Talk:
Mitchell Kronenberg (La Jolla Institute for Immunology)
Speakers:
Mitchell Kronenberg (La Jolla Institute for Immunology)
Kazuyo Moro (Osaka University)
Adam Uldrich(The University of Melbourne)
Akira Shibuya (Institute of Medicine, University of Tsukuba)
Takashi Ebihara (Akita University)
Moody David Branch (Harvard Medical School)

Symposium 14

Immune system development
: SFI-JSI Joint Session

Chairs:
Ichiro Taniuchi (RIKEN)
Motoko Kimura (Chiba University)
Overview Talk:
Motoko Kimura (Chiba University)
Speakers:
Alfred Singer (National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health)
Olivier Lantz (Institut Curie)
Ichiro Taniuchi (RIKEN)
Shinichiro Sawa (Kyushu University)
Tsuyoshi Nitta (The University of Tokyo)

Symposium 15

Humoral Immunity
: DGFI-JSI Joint Session

Chairs:
Daisuke Kitamura (Research Institute for Biomedical Sciences, Tokyo University of Science)
Wataru Ise (Osaka University, Center for Infectious Disease Education and Research)
Overview Talk:
Yoshimasa Takahashi (National Institute of Infectious Diseases)
Speakers:
Yuji Fukushima (Kyoto University)
Garnett Kelsoe (Duke University)
Andreas Radbruch (Deutsches Rheuma-Forschungszentrum Berlin (DRFZ) a Leibniz Institute)
Wataru Ise (Osaka University, Center for Infectious Disease Education and Research)
Daisuke Kitamura (Research Institute for Biomedical Sciences, Tokyo University of Science)