Jeffrey A. Whitsett, M.D. — Regulation of innate immunity by the respiratory epithelium.
Executive Director, Perinatal Institute
Chief, Section of Neonatology, Perinatal and Pulmonary Biology
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
3333 Burnet Avenue, MLC 7029
Cincinnati, OH 45229-3039
Jay Kolls- “Mucosal Immune requirements for prevention of infection with multi-drug resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae” Professor of Genetics and Pediatrics LSU Health Sciences Center Chair, Department of Genetics CSRB 657 533 Bolivar St. New Orleans, LA 70112
Christopher Karp M.D.- Innate immune responses to pulmonary pathogens – Department of Molecular Immunology, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Research Foundation, Cincinnati, OH, USA Gunnar Esiason/Cincinnati Bell Chair of Life Sciences, Director, Division of Molecular Immunology
Augustine Choi, M.D.- “Crosstalk between autophagy and inflammasomes in innate immunity” (responses ot LPS and bugs?) – Augustine M.K. Choi, MD Parker B. Francis Professor of Medicine Harvard Medical School Chief, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Brigham and Women’s Hospital 75 Francis Street Boston, MA 02115
Ted Standiford M.D. – Response of the lung to sepsis
Professor of Medicine
Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
University of Michigan Medical Center
109 Zina Pitcher Place, 4062 BSRB
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2200
Bali Pulendran Ph.D – Dendritic Cell biology in the host response to pneumonia
Professor
Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Experimental Pathology
Emory Vaccine Center, 954 Gatewood Rd.
ATLANTA, GA 30329
Paul Kubes Ph.D – Mechanisms of PMN recruitment Professor and Director, Calvin, Phoebe and Joan Snyder Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation University of Calgary, Alberta, CA
Bruce Levy M.D. – Lipoxins and resolvins promote the resolution of bacterial pneumonia and ALI.
Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
Brigham and Women’s Hospital/ Harvard Medical School
Harvard Institutes of Medicine Bldg. (HIM855)
77 Avenue Louis Pasteur
Boston, MA 02115
Coy Allen Ph.D – Laboratory of Jenny Ting – Inflammasome
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
UNC
Steven Holland M.D. – Defects in innate immunity and pneumonia
Laboratory of Clinical Infectious Diseases
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Building 10, CRC B3-4141 10 Center Drive MSC 1684
Bethesda, Maryland 20892-1684
Luke O’Neill Ph.D – Toll-like receptor and NOD-like receptor signaling in infection and inflammation
School of Biochemistry and Immunology
Trinity College Dublin
