ATI-NIAID International Symposium on Systems Immunology In Transplantation
We are excited to invite you to register for the upcoming international symposium, “Systems Immunology in Transplantation: Advances, Challenges, and Opportunities,” co-hosted by the Alberta Transplant Institute (ATI) and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) taking place in Edmonton, Canada.
Symposium Overview: The last two decades have brought extraordinary advancements in molecular and computational technologies, enabling unprecedented characterization of genetic, phenotypic, and functional states down to the single-cell level. This symposium will gather leaders in transplantation, computational biology, and machine learning to explore how these systems' immunology tools can be leveraged to address challenges in transplantation, including patient and donor heterogeneity, sample variation, and the need for precision medicine approaches.
Topics to be Addressed:
- Leverage systems immunology technologies and big data for advancing transplant immunology.
- Decipher and distinguish allogeneic immune responses from immune responses to infectious pathogens.
- Define early signatures of allograft health and injury.
- Integrate multi-omic and multi-modal data derived from circulating and graft resident- immune cells phenotyping to generate biologically relevant functional signatures, predictive outcomes, and consequent precision intervention.
- Leverage publicly available datasets or datasets generated by clinical trials.
- Bridge the gap between animal and clinical studies.
- Overcome patient heterogeneity, variation in sampling, immunosuppression, infection, and other comorbidities.
Warm regards,
The Organizing Committee
Roslyn Mannon, University of Nebraska Medical Center
Michael Mengel, Alberta Transplant Institute, University of Alberta
Aaron Meyer, University of California Los Angeles
Elaine Reed, University of California Los Angeles
Shilpa Kulkarni, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH
