Major Symposium E: Communication across Barriers at the Skin and Mucosal Surfaces

Major Symposium E: Communication across Barriers at the Skin and Mucosal Surfaces

Chairs:
Hiroshi Kiyono, Univ. of Tokyo
Cathryn Nagler, Univ. of Chicago

Speakers:

• Hiroshi Kiyono, Univ. of Tokyo, Japan, Paneth, mesenchymal, and innate lymphoid cell alliance as an immunological firewall for commensal and pathogenic microorganisms
• Ken Cadwell, New York Univ. Sch. of Med., Host-microbiome interactions and inflammatory bowel disease
• Adrian C. Hayday*, Francis Crick Inst. and King’s Coll. London, United Kingdom, Epithelia use organ-specific butyrophilin-like molecules to compose local T cell compartments
  *British Society for Immunology Lecturer
• Daniel Mucida, Rockefeller Univ., Adaptation to the gut tissue: implications for immunity and tolerance
• Cathryn Nagler, Univ. of Chicago, Regulation of allergic sensitization to food by commensal bacteria
• Heidi H. Kong, NCI, NIH, Host-microbial interactions at the skin surface