Tuesday, March 24th
8:30 am Registration
Harvard Medical School
9:00 am Symposium
New Research Building, Rotunda
6:30-9:00 pm Reception & Poster Session
Keynote Speaker:
Lawrence Steinman
Stanford University
http://med.stanford.edu/steinmanlab.html
Neuroinflammation and Peripheral-Brain Crosstalk
Isaac Chiu
Harvard Medical School
https://chiulab.med.harvard.edu/
Vijay Kuchroo
Brigham and Woman’s Hospital; Harvard Medical School
http://kuchroolab.bwh.harvard.edu/
Keith Elkon
University of Washington
https://rheumatology.uw.edu/research/elkon-lab
Lupus and Autoimmune Disease
Betty Diamond
Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research
https://www.feinsteininstitute.org/our-researchers/betty-diamond-md/
Steven McCarroll
Harvard Medical School, Broad Institute
Immune Mechanisms of Synapse Development, Function and Dysfunction
Michael Carroll
Harvard Medical School
http://www.michaelcarrolllab.com/
Dorothy Schafer
University of Massachusetts Medical School
https://www.schaferlabumms.com
Microglia Ontogeny and Development
Margaret McCarthy
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Christopher Bennett
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
Neuron-Glia Communication at Brain Borders
Maria Lehtinen
Harvard Medical School; Boston Children’s Hospital
http://www.childrenshospital.org/research/labs/lehtinen-laboratory
Jonathan Kipnis
Washington University School of Medicine
https://med.virginia.edu/neuroscience/kipnis-lab/
Beth Stevens
Boston Children’s Hospital; Broad Institute
New Approaches and Tools to Model Glia and Neuro-Immune Interactions
Cody Smith
University of Notre Dame
http://smithneurallab.weebly.com/
David Hunt
University of Edinburgh