Breadcrumb Home 31st Annual CSIBD Workshop and 2nd Ó³»´«Ã½ Immunology Program Symposium Center for the Study of Inflammatory Bowel Disease Symposium 31ST Annual CSIBD WorkshopSecond Ó³»´«Ã½ Immunology Program Symposium 2021 Ó³»´«Ã½ of MIT and Harvard Immunology Program Symposium Friday – November 19th, 2021 The Symposium is open to the research community at no charge. Session III: Inflammation and myeloid cell biology Moderators: Charles Elson / Jacques Deguine 9:00 - 9:30 Leveraging polygenic enrichments of gene features to predict genes underlying complex traits and diseases Hilary Finucane, Ph.D. 9:30 - 10:00 Molecular mechanism for self vs. non-self RNA discrimination Sun Hur, Ph.D. 10:00 - 10:30 Large-scale sequencing and multi-ancestry genetic analyses identify novel genes and variants associated with IBD Hailiang Huang, Ph.D. 10:30 - 11:00 Myeloid biology in dysregulated microenvironments and therapeutic opportunities Rosandra Kaplan, M.D. 11:00 - 11:30 Nutrient adaptation in the intestine Ruslan Medzhitov, Ph.D. 11:30 - 12:00 Immune-metabolic mechanisms of cognitive decline in aging Katrin Andreasson, M.D. 12:00 - 1:00 Break 1:00 - 2:00 Keynote II Commensal derived metabolites promote pro-inflammatory T cell differentiation and IBD pathogenesis Richard Flavell, Ph.D., FRS Session IV: Metabolism and Immunity Moderators: Thad Stappenbeck / Andrew Luster 2:00 - 2:30 NeuroImmunometabolism Ana Domingos, Ph.D. 2:30 - 3:00 Immunometabolism meets Immunothrombosis Luke O’Neill, Ph.D. 3:00 - 3:30 Diet, lipids and anti-tumor immunity Lydia Lynch, Ph.D. 3:30 - 4:00 Integrating metabolism with systems immunology in immunity and disease Hongbo Chi, Ph.D. 4:00 - 4:30 Tracey Simon, M.D. Immunology Program Events 31st CSIDB Workshop Second Ó³»´«Ã½ Immunology Program Symposium Latest news News 04.29.2025 Sentinel program among finalists for the $100 Million 100&Change competition News 04.16.2025 WhyIScience Q&A: How a chemist moved to the business side of science News 04.09.2025 Potential Alzheimer’s disease therapeutic target identified in brain immune cells News 04.05.2025 David Liu receives Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences All news