Speaker articles

Take a look at some of the articles our esteemed speakers have published recently and chat with them about their research in Beijing in May.

Keynote Speakers
Bart Lambrecht, VIB Ghent, Belgium
Loss of GM-CSF-dependent instruction of alveolar macrophages in COVID-19 provides a rationale for inhaled GM-CSF treatment

Laura Mackay, University of Melbourne, Australia
Single-cell protein expression profiling resolves circulating and resident memory T cell diversity across tissues and infection contexts

Speakers
Yasmine Belkaid, National Institutes of Health, USA
Immunity to the microbiota promotes sensory neuron regeneration

Nadine Cerf-Bensussan, INSERM, France
Intestinal immunoregulation: lessons from human mendelian diseases

Coco Chu, Tsinghua University, China
The ChAT-acetylcholine pathway promotes group 2 innate lymphoid cell responses and anti-helminth immunity

Gretchen Diehl, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, USA
Thymic development of gut-microbiota-specific T cells  

Chen Dong, Westlake University School of Medicine, China
BCL6 promotes a stem-like CD8+ T cell program in cancer via antagonizing BLIMP1

Xiaoyu Hu, Institute for Immunology Tsinghua University, China
Interactions between host and intestinal crypt-resided biofilms are controlled by epithelial fucosylation

Iliyan Iliev, Cornell University, USA
Mucosal fungi promote gut barrier function and social behavior via Type 17 immunity 

Brian Kim, Mt. Sinai Hospital, USA
Phase 2 trial of difelikefalin in notalgia paresthetica

Yuping Lai, East China Normal University, China
IL-17D-induced inhibition of DDX5 expression in keratinocytes amplifies IL-36R-mediated skin inflammation

Andrew MacPherson, University of Bern, Switzerland
Plasticity of the adult human small intestinal stoma microbiota

Rick Maizels, University of Edinburgh, UK
The IL-25-dependent tuft cell circuit driven by intestinal helminths requires macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF)

Benjamin Marsland, Monash University, Australia
Butyrate regulates neutrophil homeostasis and impairs early antimicrobial activity in the lung 

Daniel Mucida, Rockefeller University, USA
Enteric pathogens induce tissue tolerance and prevent neuronal loss from subsequent infections 

Cathryn Nagler, University of Chicago, USA
Commensal bacteria signal through TLR5 and AhR to improve barrier integrity and prevent allergic responses to food

Luigina Romani, University of Perugia, Italy
Bridging of host-microbiota tryptophan partitioning by the serotonin pathway in fungal pneumonia

Bing Su, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Single-cell and spatial analysis reveal interaction of FAP+ fibroblasts and SPP1+ macrophages in colorectal cancer

Eduardo Villablanca, Karolinska Institute, Sweden
B cell expansion hinders the stroma-epithelium regenerative cross talk during mucosal healing

Elia Tait Wojno, University of Washington, USA
PGD2 and CRTH2 counteract Type 2 cytokine-elicited intestinal epithelial responses during helminth infection