Scientific Program

Time Topic Chair/Speaker
09:30 - 11:30 COVID-19 Session
Chair: Je-Wook Yu (Yonsei University, Korea)
09:30 - 10:00 SARS-CoV-2의 특성 및 항체반응
Young-Ki Choi (Chungbuk National University, Korea)
10:00 - 10:30 SARS-CoV-2에 대한 면역반응
Eui-Cheol Shin (KAIST, Korea)
10:30 - 11:00 SARS-CoV-2 감염의 임상적 특성
Sung-Han Kim (University of Ulsan, Korea)
11:00 - 11:30 SARS-CoV-2 백신 개발 현황
Man-Ki Song (International Vaccine Institute, Korea)
11:30 - 13:00 Break
13:00 - 14:30 Education Session I: Advanced understanding of innate immune cells
Ho-Keun Kwon (Yonsei University, Korea)
13:00 - 13:30 Tissue resident and circulating macrophages
Sung-Ho Park (UNIST, Korea)
13:30 - 14:00 Dendritic cell subsets and control of immune response
Chae Gyu Park (Yonsei University, Korea)
14:00 - 14:30 Innate lymphoid cells and innate T cells
Ji Hyung Kim (Korea University, Korea)
14:30 - 14:45 Break
14:45 - 16:15 Education Session II: Updated view of T cells and B cells
Chair: Yoon Park (KIST, Korea)
14:45 - 15:15 Diversity of helper and regulatory T cells
Yun Kyung Lee (Soonchunhyang University, Korea)
15:15 - 15:45 T cells in cancer and immunotherapy
Su-Hyung Park (KAIST, Korea)
15:45 - 16:15 B cells in peripheral tissues
Ji Eun Oh (KAIST, Korea)
16:15 - 16:30 Break
16:30 - 18:00 Education Session III: Immunological disorders and medical unmet needs
Chair: You-Me Kim ( KAIST, Korea)
16:30 - 17:00 Allergic diseases and clinical unmet needs/td>
Hyun-Woo Shin (Seoul National University, Korea)
17:00 - 17:30 Autoimmune diseases
Ji Hyeon Ju (The Catholic University, Korea)
17:30 - 18:00 Infectious diseases and vaccine
Sang-Uk Seo (The Catholic University, Korea)
Time Topic Chair/Speaker
09:00 - 10:20 Block Symposium 1: Cancer Immunotherapy
Chair: Sang-Jun Ha (Yonsei University, Korea)
09:00 - 09:20 Impaired T Cell Function in Microenvironment of Multiple Myeloma - Implications for Immunotherapy.
Yoon Seok Choi (Ajou University, Korea)
09:20 - 09:45 NKG2D Ligands Editing Tumor Immunity
Jennifer D. Wu (Northwestern University, USA)
09:45 - 10:00 TBD
Graduate Student
10:00 - 10:20 Immune checkpoint inhibitors for the treatment of non-Hodgkin lymphoma
Seok Jin Kim (Sungkyunkwan University, Korea)
10:20 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:50 Block Symposium 3: KAI-AKIA (KAI-Genexine Award: Excellence Award)
Chair: Yeong-Min Park (Kunkuk University, Korea)
10:30 - 11:00 Immunological implications of tissue-resident-like exhausted CD8+ T cells in tumor microenvironment
KAI-Genexine Excellence Awardee Su-Hyung Park (KAIST, Korea)
11:00 - 11:25 Immune regulation by gut microbial metabolites
Chang Kim (University of Michigan, USA)
11:25 - 11:50 Initiation and resolution of neutrophil response during infection
Minsoo Kim (University of Rochester, USA)
11:50 - 13:00 Break
13:00 - 13:50 Plenary Lecture 1: KAI-Genexine Award (Grand Achievement Award)
Chair: Jeon-Soo Shin (Yonsei University, Korea)
13:00 - 13:50 Immune Regulation and Tolerance in Health and Disease
Sin-Hyeog Im (POSTECH, Korea)
13:50 - 14:00 Break
14:00 - 15:20 Block Symposium 5: Infection and Immunity
Chair: Yoon Seok Choi (Ajou University, Korea)
14:00 - 14:20 Immunopathological response for co-infection of bacteria and virus
Sang-Jun Ha (Yonsei University, Korea)
14:20 - 14:45 Adrenergic regulation of leukocyte interstitial migration suppresses immune responses
Scott Mueller (University of Melbourne, Australia)
14:45 - 15:00 TBD
Graduate Student
15:00 - 15:20 Limited circulation of exhausted CD8 T cells, especially TCF1+ stem-like cells, during persistent viral infection.
Sejin Im (Sungkyunkwan University, Korea)
15:20 - 15:30 Break
15:30 - 16:50 Block Symposium 7: Innate T Cells
Chair: Su-Hyung Park (KAIST, Korea)
15:30 - 15:50 Single-cell RNA sequencing identifies shared differentiation paths of mouse thymic innate T cells
You Jeong Lee (POSTECH, Korea)
15:50 - 16:15 Unconventional T cells, vaccines and viruses
Paul Klenerman (University of Oxford, UK)
16:15 - 16:30 TBD
Graduate Student
16:30 - 16:50 Role of 2B4 on dermal γδ T cells in the development of psoriasis-like skin inflammation
Kyung-Mi Lee (Korea University, Korea)
16:50 - 17:00 Break
17:00 - 17:50 Plenary Lecture 2
Chair: Jee Hee Youn (Hanyang University, Korea)
17:00 - 17:50 T Cell Lifestyle in Chronic Viral Infection and Cancer
Rafi Ahmed (Emory University, USA)
Time Topic Chair/Speaker
09:00 - 10:20 Block Symposium 9: Cancer Immunology
Chair: Seung-Woo Lee (POSTECH, Korea)
09:00 - 09:25 Epigenetic regulation of T cell memory; Implications for T cell immunotherapy
Benjamin A. Youngblood (St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, USA)
09:25 - 09:45 In vitro T cell exhaustion modeling and its use for immunotherapy
Yoon Park (KIST, Korea)
09:45 - 10:00 TBD
Graduate Student
10:00 - 10:20 Enhanced T cell therapy using next-generation gene-modifications
Kyungho Choi (Seoul National University, Korea)
10:20 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:50 Block Symposium 11: Immunometabolism
Chair: Sung-Ho Park (UNIST, Korea)
10:30 - 10:50 Aberrant lipid metabolism in dendritic cells promotes autoimmunity