One important activity of the NIH/FDA Immunology Interest Group is our annual retreat. Immunologists from the entire NIH and FDA communities are welcome. Principal Investigators, staff scientists, and trainees from many institutes and centers participate each year. In addition, editors from scientific journals are invited to attend. The IIG workshop is always over-subscribed, thus, trainees who submit an abstract are given priority. Most of the oral and poster presentations are given by trainees and thus serve as an important training opportunity. This event is a vital part of the immunology community here and provides an organized forum allowing immunologists from distinct intramural institutes to meet, share scientific expertise, and establish collaborations. For this reason, our retreat will require in-person attendance this year (no hybrid format)

Submission Guidelines

All abstract submissions will be considered for an oral presentation (flash talk or short talk). The first 400 abstract submissions will be guaranteed registration and access to the retreat, as well as a spot for poster presentation. At present time, we are only registering participants submitting an abstract. Registrations without abstract will open on January 1st 2024.

List of Topics

• Immunity at the Barriers
• Immunodeficiencies and Infectious Diseases
• Innate Immunity & Inflammation
• Lymphocyte Biology: signaling and differentiation
• Neuro-Immunology
• Quantitative Modeling & Machine Learning in Immunology
• Tolerance, Transplantation, Autoimmunity and Allergy
• Translational/Clinical Immunology & Tumor Immunology
• New topic to be determined (upon your suggestion)

Committees

Program & Organizing Committee

Elected Members of the 2023-2024 Immunology Interest Group Steering Committee

• Grégoire Altan-Bonnet (NCI)
• Joanna Bandola-Simon (NCI)
• Grozdan (Gogi) Cvijetic (NIDCR)
• Eric Dang (NIAID)
• Julie Fox (NIAID)
• Ron Germain (NIAID)
• Julia Gross (NIAID)
• Amy Hsu (NIAID)
• Dragana Jankovic (NIAID)
• Sabina Kaczanowska (NCI)
• Sanghyun (Peter) Kim (NCI)
• Ha Na Lee (CDER/FDA)
• Christian Mayer (NCI)
• Valentina Ottaviani (NIDCR)
• Lydia Roberts (NIAID)
• Michael Sack (NHLBI)
• Han-Yu Shih (NEI/NINDS)
• Mia Sung (NIA)
• Naomi Taylor (NCI)
• Masashi Watanabe (NCI)
• Daniela Verthelyi (FDA)
• Li Yang (NCI)
• Howard Young (NCI)
• Amy Zhang (NEI)

Venue - Dates

The conference will be held at the Ronald Reagan Building & International Trade Center in downtown DC (1300 Pennsylvania Ave NW), on Monday January 29th 2024 & Tuesday January 30th 2024

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to: gregoire.altan-bonnet@nih.gov