Keynote Speakers
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Lora Hooper, Ph.D.
Jonathan W. Uhr, M.D. Distinguished Chair in Immunology; Nancy Cain and Jeffrey A. Marcus Scholar in Medical Research in Honor of Dr. Bill S. Vowell, UT Southwestern
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John Wherry, Ph.D.
Richard and Barbara Schiffrin President's Distinguished Professor; Director, Institute for Immunology, University of Pennsylvania; Co-Director, Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy at the University of Pennsylvania; Chair, Department of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics; Co-Program Chair, Immunobiology Program, Abramson Cancer Center, University of Pennsylvania
Frontier Lecturer
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Michael Elowitz, Ph.D.
Roscoe Gilkey Dickinson Professor of Biology and Bioengineering; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Caltech
Speakers
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Scott Biering, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Biology, UC San Diego
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Manish Butte, M.D., Ph.D.
E. Richard Stiehm Endowed Chair and Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics; Division Chief of Immunology, Allergy, and Rheumatology, UCLA
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Hilde Cheroutre, Ph.D.
Professor, Center for Autoimmunity and Inflammation, Center for Cancer Immunotherapy, La Jolla Institute for Immunology
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Gen-Sheng Feng, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Molecular Biology, UC San Diego
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Monica Guma, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Medicine, Chief of the Division of Rheumatology, Autoimmunity and Inflammation, UC San Diego
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Patrick Hogan, Ph.D.
Professor, Center for Autoimmunity and Inflammation, Center for Cancer Immunotherapy, La Jolla Institute for Immunology
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Ellen Rothenberg, Ph.D.
Edward B. Lewis Professor of Biology, Caltech
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Gerald Shadel, Ph.D.
Professor, Molecular and Cell Biology Laboratory; Audrey Geisel Chair in Biomedical Science; Director, San Diego-Nathan Shock Center of Excellence in the Basic Biology of Aging, Salk Institute for Biological Studies
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Ina Stelzer, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Pathology, UC San Diego
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John Teijaro, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Immunology and Microbiology, Scripps Research Institute