Symposiums and Conferences
Innate Immunity Day
Innate Immunity Day is a half-day symposium held on the campus of UMass Chan Medical School. Each meeting is centered around a specific theme in the field of innate immunity and features keynote and plenary presentations by experts from around the world. Learn more about the 2023 symposium and other past events below.
Innate Immunity Day 2023: Mechanisms and Consequences of Cell Death was held on May 10, 2023, and featured an exciting lineup of scientific talks from experts in the field of innate immunity as well as the student and postdoctoral awardees of RISE: The Robert W. Finberg, MD Memorial Research Training Awards.
2022 and previous years
Innate Immunity Day 2022: A celebration in honor of Dr. Robert Finberg, was held on May 25, 2022. The day was a celebration in memory of Dr. Finberg and his distinguished career, and featured keynotes and talks from his former colleagues, collaborators, and friends.
Other past speakers have included:
- Luke O’Neill, PhD
Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland - Jules Hoffmann, PhD (Nobel Laureate)
Molecular and Cellular Biology Institute, Strasbourg, France - Gary Ruvkun, PhD
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
- Akiko Iwasaki, PhD
Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT - Andrew Luster, MD, PhD
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA - Kensuke Miyake, PhD
University of Tokyo, Japan
- Jonathan Kagan, PhD
Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA - Daniel Stetson, PhD
University of Washington, Seattle, WA - Virginia Pascual, MD
Gale and Ira Drukier Institute for Children’s Health, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY - Beth Stevens, PhD
Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA - Marco Colonna, MD
Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO - Frederic Geissmann, MD, PhD
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
International Toll Conferences
SAVE THE DATE: Toll2024
The Program in Innate Immunity at UMass Chan Medical School invites you to the seventh Toll meeting: Toll2024. Toll2024 will be held in Rotterdam, Netherlands from April 17-20, 2024.
Amongst the speakers will be the some of the best of the field of innate immunity including Drew Weissman (Keynote speaker), Luke O’Neill, Andrea Ablasser, Lali Ramakrishnan, Feng Shao, Cateano Reis e Sousa, Judy Leiberman, Michael Heneka, Kate Fitzgerald, Michaela Gack Mihai Netea, Ramnik Xavier, Richard Flavell, Egil Lien, Russel Vance, Jon Kagan, Vishva Dixit, Shannon Turley, Philipp Henneke, Yasmine Belkaid, Martin Guilliams, Eicke Latz, Kenneth Rock, Bruno Lemaitre, Clare Bryant and many others.
Topics to be covered in the meeting include Immunometabolism, Emerging Immunity, COVID therapeutics and pathophysiology, Gut homeostasis, Neuroinflammation, Inflammasomes/Pyroptosis, Epithelial host defenses and more.
Rotterdam is a vibrant city, just 30 minutes by train from Schiphol Airport.
Background
The International Toll Conferences aim to present recent advances on Toll and Toll-like receptors and related molecules in innate immunity. These meetings are held approximately every 2-3 years and are a unique opportunity for communication and networking between world-class faculty, ranging from developmental biologists to translational scientists, and new and established researchers in the field. Past conferences have been held in Italy, Brazil, Portugal and Spain.