Immune Polymorphism and Population Dynamics Workshop

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The program has been announced for the Immune Polymorphism and Population Dynamics Workshop https://immunepolymorphism.tulane.edu/

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This meeting is going on now. In fact its nearing the midpoint. I like how the talks are diverse but all fitting to the theme. What do you think?

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Here is a listing of speakers and the titles of their talks

Invitees/Speakers Affiliation Title
José Manuel Nunes University of Geneva Linkage Disequilibrium in HLA: an empirical approach
Jill Hollenbach USCF Pleiotropic Effects of KIR3DL1 in Neurological Disease
Steve Mack Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute Beyond Allele Names: Dissecting Polymorphism of HLA Gene Features and Amino Acid Motifs
Marcelo Fernandez Vina Stanford University Extended Gene Sequencing Coverage allows for Fine Mapping of HLA factors in Neurological Diseases
Sam Landry Tulane University School of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry MHC class II epitope immunodominance: the other half of the story
Dan Geraghty Fred Hutch Cancer Center Immune response genetics: an under-tested component in disease association studies
Jurgen Sauter DKMS Observations from donor recruitment typing at high-resolution
Paul Norman University of Colorado-Denver Ancient and Modern Admixture Have Enhanced the Quantity and Quality of Natural Killer Cell Receptor Interactions with HLA class I Ligands in Asia
Rich Single University of Vermont Demographic history and selection at HLA loci in Native American populations
Paul Thomas St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital TCR specificity in tissues and tumors
Corey Watson University of Louisville School of Medicine, Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics Overcoming complexity to elucidate the role of germline immunoglobulin polymorphism in the functional antibody response
Nina Luning Prak University of Pennsylvania Clone Tracking and B-cell Subset Analysis in Different Tissues
Nick Maness Tulane University Primate Research Center MHC in nonhuman primate models of infectious disease
Jay Kolls Tulane University School of Medicine, Department of Immunology Insights into Lung Immunity using Single cell RNA and BCR-seq
Curtis McMurtrey PureMHC - Oklahoma City, OK Characterization of Bacterial Ligands Presented by the Non-Classical MHC molecule MR1
Chris Gignoux Colorado Center for Personalized Medicine and Department of Biostatistics and Informatics, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus The importance of diversity in genome-wide association studies
Thierry Mora Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris Diversity and dynamics of immune repertoires
Jim Kaufman University of Cambridge More on generalist and specialist alleles
Hannah Frank Stanford University Evolution of innate and adaptive immunity in bats
Martin Maiers NMDP The African Diaspora and Its Implications for Transplant
Danillo Augusto UCSF The new era of high-resolution KIR allelic genotyping: expanding our knowledge of KIR diversity in unique Brazilian populations
Quynh Ngan Tran University of British Columbia Population analysis of the HLA alleles and eplets in the BC transplant population to establish a national eplet-matching program in kidney transplantation
Malcolm Sim NIH HUMAN NK CELL RECEPTOR KIR2DS4 DETECTS A CONSERVED BACTERIAL EPITOPE PRESENTED BY HLA-C
Yana Safonova UCSD Detection of genomic variants in human immunoglobulin loci and analysis of their impact on the adaptive immune response
Nazia Riaz University of British Columbia Eplet Matching: A Promising Approach for Minimizing HLA Genetic Complexity in Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation
Charles Khor / Khor Seik-Soon University of Tokyo Towards a full resolution HLA & KIR database of 3000 healthy Japanese individuals
Karen Sherwood University of British Columbia LONGITUDINAL PATTERN OF RECOVERY OF FUNCTIONAL GENE EXPRESSION FOLLOWING RENAL TRANSPLANTATION