4th International Conference on ImmunoMetabolism: Molecular and Cellular Immunology of Metabolism

Preliminary Program

Tuesday, May 28

 

 

 

6:00 PM

 

Conference Registration

 

 

 

8:00 PM

 

Welcome Reception and Dinner

 

 

 

Wednesday, May 29

 

 

 

7:30 AM

 

Breakfast

 

 

 

8:25 AM

 

Welcome and Opening Remarks

 

 

 

SESSION I

 

Adaptive Immunity 

Chair: Randy Levinson

8:30 AM

1

Mitochondrial integrity regulated by FABP5 is a cell-intrinsic checkpoint for Treg suppressive function

Cameron Field, Francesc Baixauli, and Erika Pearce

9:00 AM

2

Contribution of iron to intrinsic and extrinsic macrophage immunometabolism

Alyssa Hasty

9:30 AM

3

Airway macrophage metabolic reprogramming during lung fibrosis

Patricia P Ogger, Poonam Ghai, Simone A Walker, Peter Saunders, Shaun Kingston, Philip L Molyneaux, Toby M Maher, Clare M Lloyd, and Adam Byrne

 

 

 

10:00 AM

 

Coffee Break and Poster Viewing

 

 

 

SESSION II

 

Short Talks

Chairs: Tony Ferrante and Randy Levinson

10:30 AM

4

The source of dietary fat differentially shapes anti-cancer immunity in obesity

Roisin Loftus, Lydia Dyck, Hannah Prendeville, and Lydia Lynch

10:45 AM

5

Adipocytes acquire innate immune cell functions during bacterial infection

George Caputa, Edward Pearce, and Erika Pearce

11:00 AM

6

Immune checkpoint blockade restores obesity-associated defects in cancer immunosurveillance

Lydia Dyck, Mathilde Raverdeau, Roisin Loftus, Alexandra Zaborowski, and Lydia Lynch

11:15 AM

7

Diet-induced obesity causes metabolic reprogramming and suppresses immunity in the tumor microenvironment

Jefte Drijvers, Alison Ringel, Alessia Catozzi, Juan Carlos García-Cañaveras, Vikram Juneja, Shakchhi Joshi, Thao Nguyen, Haejin Yoon, Peter Sage, Martin LaFleur, Justin Trombley, Joshua Rabinowitz, Arlene Sharpe, and Marcia Haigis

11:30 AM

8

Del-1 regulates brown adipocyte progenitor proliferation via β3 integrin

Kyoung-Jin Chung, Anke Witt, Marina Nati, Pallavi Subramanian, Janine Gebler, Antonios Chatzigeorgiou, George Hajishengallis, and Triantafyllos Chavakis

11:45 AM

9

Ghrelin exerts immunoregulatory roles through modulation of mitochondrial metabolism

Felipe Silva, Cristhiane Aguiar, Jessica Pereira, Lauar Monteiro, Gustavo Davanzo, Leonardo Freitas, Aline Berti, Danilo Ferrucci, Hernandes Carvalho, Silvio Consonni, and Pedro Vieira

 

 

 

12:00 PM

 

Coffee Break

 

 

 

SESSION III

 

Short Talks

Chairs: Tony Ferrante and Randy Levinson

12:15 PM

10

Mechanisms of amino acid sensing in mouse embryonic stem cells and macrophages

Marion Russier, Annette Gross, and Peter Murray

12:30 PM

11

AMPK regulation of iNKT cell function during obesity

Cristhiane Aguiar, Gustavo Davanzo, Vitor Jaccomo, Felipe Correa Silva, Lauar Monteiro, Fernanda Terra, José Alves Filho, Niels Câmara, Alexandre Keller, and Pedro Moraes Vieira

12:45 PM

12

Specific inhibition of the NLRP3 inflammasome abrogates the inflammatory effect of Warburg metabolism in cystic fibrosis neutrophils

Oliver McElvaney, Zbigniew Zaslona, Katrin Becker-Flegler, Eva  Palsson-McDermott, Erich Gulbins, Luke O'Neill, Emer Reeves, and Noel McElvaney

1:00 PM

13

The function of CPT1a in alternative macrophage activation 

Nikki van Teijlingen Bakker and Edward Pearce

1:15 PM

14

Immunometabolic crosstalk during infection-associated cachexia

Hatoon Baazim, Martina Schweiger, Michael Moschinger, Haifeng Xu, Thomas Scherer, Alexandra Popa, Suchira Gallage, Sheikh Ali, Kseniya Khamina, Lindsay Kosack, Bojan Vilagos, Mark Smyth, Alexander Lercher, Joachim Friske, Doron Merkler, Thomas Helbich, Mathias Heikenwälder, Philipp Lang, Rudolf  Zechner, and Andreas Bergthaler

 

 

 

1:30 PM

 

Lunch and Informal Discussions

 

 

 

7:30 PM

 

Dinner and Informal Discussions

Buses depart from the hotel lobby at 7:30 PM

 

 

 

Thursday, May 30

 

 

 

7:30 AM

 

Breakfast

 

 

 

SESSION IV

 

Hot Topics

Chair: Triantafyllos Chavakis

8:30 AM

15

Mechanisms that promote inflammation in human type 2 diabetes

Barbara Nikolajczyk

9:00 AM

16

Immune regulation at barrier surface 

David Artis

9:30 AM

17

Are alterations in adipose tissue immunometabolism involved in the pathogenesis of metabolic dysfunction in people with obesity?

Samuel Klein

10:00 AM

18

Cell specific metabolic changes in response to respiratory viral infection

Svetlana Rezincuic, Barry Shulkin, John Devincenzo, and Heather Smallwood

 

 

 

10:15 AM

 

Coffee Break and Poster Viewing

 

 

 

SESSION V

 

Organelles and Signaling Pathways in Inflammation 

Chair: Steve Shoelson

11:15 AM

19

Inflammasome activation and lossof organismal stress-resilience in aging

Vishwa Deep Dixit

11:45 PM

20

Control aid inflammation by mitochondrial metabolism

Michael Karin

12:15 PM

21

Unraveling the role of organelle communication in shaping immunometabolism

Angelika Rambold

 

 

 

12:45 PM

 

Lunch and Informal Discussions

 

 

 

7:30 PM

 

Dinner and Informal Discussions

Buses depart from the hotel lobby at 7:30 PM

 

 

 

Friday, May 31

 

 

 

7:30 AM

 

Breakfast

 

 

 

SESSION VI

Innate Immunity

Chair: Erika Pearce

8:30 AM

22

Fueling the firestarters

Mathilde Raverdeau, Ayano Kohlgruber, Aaron Douglas, and Lydia Lynch

9:00 AM

23

Targeting NK-cells in obesity-associated insulin resistance

Jens Bruening

9:30 AM

24

Immunometabolic regulation of myelopoiesis in trained immunity

Triantafyllos Chavakis

 

 

 

10:00 AM

 

Coffee Break and Poster Viewing

 

 

 

SESSION VII

Co-morbidities of Obesity/Type 2 Diabetes 

Chair: Mark Febbraio

11:00 AM

25

LC3-associated endocytosis (LANDO) in receptor recycling and Alzheimer’s Disease

Douglas Green

11:30 AM

26

Why uric acid is elevated in the metabolic syndrome and why it matters

Steve Shoelson, Giulio Romeo, SunAh Ham, Maria Martins-Sandoz, Ai Harashima, Ok-Hee Kim, Byung-Chul Oh, and Jongsoon Lee

12:00 PM

27

Optimizing liver organoids for clinical applications

Kristina Schoonjans

12:30 PM

28

A metabolic checkpoint in cardiovascular disease

Filip Swirski

1:00 PM

29

Meta(anti)inflammation; a defective pentose phosphate pathway reduces inflammatory macrophage responses during hypercholesterolemia

Jeroen Baardman, Sanne Verberk, Menno de Winther, and Jan Van den Bossche

 

 

 

1:15 PM

 

Lunch and Informal Discussions

 

 

 

3:00 PM

 

City Tour

Buses depart from hotel lobby at 3:00 PM

 

 

 

7:30 PM

 

Dinner and Informal Discussions

Please note that buses do not pick-up at the hotel prior to dinner. 

Dinner proceeds right after the tour

 

 

 

Saturday, June 1

 

 

 

7:30 AM

 

Breakfast

 

 

 

SESSION VIII

Peripheral Metabolism 

Chair: Vishwa Deep Dixit

8:30 AM

30

Microbiota-mediated shaping of gut secretory IgA in systemic metabolism

Fabio Grassi

9:00 AM

31

Skeletal muscle secretory proteins: a link between regular physical activity and reduced disease risk in obesity?

Martin Whithamand Mark Febbraio

9:30 AM

32

Adipocytes secrete lipid particles that regulate macrophage differentiation and function

Stephen Flaherty III, Ambar Grijalva, Xiaoyuan Xu, Eleanore Ables, and Anthony Ferrante Jr.

10:00 AM

33

The role of adipose tissue-resident eosinophils in adipocyte metabolism and whole-body energy homeostasis

Ting Li, James Hernandez, William LeSuer, Jun Liu, Adrian  Vella, Elizabeth Jacobsen, and Eleanna De Filippis

10:15 AM

34

S100A8/A9 controls body weight during obesity via its modulation of adaptive thermogenesis

Isabel Zvibel, Irina Efimova, Keren Cohen, Alona Epshtein, Chen Varol, and Sigal Fishman

 

 

 

10:30 AM

 

Coffee Break and Poster Viewing

 

 

 

SESSION IX

 

Immune cell function in homeostasis and disease 

Chair: Sam Klein

11:30 AM

35

Metabolic signals of pseudo-starvation drive human regulatory T cell transcriptional fitness

Giuseppe Matarese, Veronica De Rosa, and Paola De Candia

12:00 PM

36

An ex vivo system to study metabolism-driven T cell exhaustion in the tumor microenvironment

Carlos Carmona-Fontaine

12:30 PM

37

Sympathetic neuroimmunity for obesity

Ana Domingos

 

 

 

1:00 PM

 

Closing Remarks

 

 

 

1:10 PM

 

Lunch and Informal Discussions

 

 

 

8:00 PM

 

Farewell Dinner

 

 

 

Sunday, June 2

 

 

 

8:00 AM

 

Breakfast

 

 

 

 

 

Departure

       

 

POSTERS

38

LC3-associated endocytosis regulates inflammatory immune activation

Douglas Green and Bradlee Heckmann

39

The role of lipid metabolism in macrophage function

Heba Abdelmegeed, Alessandra Palladini, Michal Grzybek, Anupam Sinha, Andreas Petzold, Andreas Dahl, Peter Mirtschink, Nicola Zamboni, Ünal Coskun, Triantafyllos Chavakis, and Vasileia Alexaki

40

Soluble adenylate cyclase (ADCY10) promotes brown adipose tissue function

Anupam Das, Ruben García-Martín, Anupam Sinha, Thomas Noll, Triantafyllos Chavakis, and Vasileia Ismini Alexaki

41

A pathway downstream of arginine metabolism that inhibits white adipogenesis 

Vasileia Ismini Alexaki, Peter Mirtschink, Anupam Sinha, Mirko Peitzsch, Georgia Fodelianaki, Andres Soto, Alessandra Palladini, Michal Grzybek, Alexander Rauch, Mathias Lesche, Andreas Petzold, Ünal Coskun, Nicola Zamboni, Andreas Dahl, Susanne Mandrup, Peter Murray, and Triantafyllos Chavakis

42

Lysophosphatidic acid alters glucose metabolism via NRF2 activation in microglia cells

Lisha Joshi, Ioanna Plastira, Eva Bernhart, Chintan Koyani, Seth Hallström, Andelko Hrzenjak, Wolfgang Sattler, Tobias Madl, and Sarah Stryeck

43

COMMD10 regulates adipose tissue macrophage control of energy expenditure

Shani Ben-Shlomo, Nathan Gluck, and Chen Varol

44

Pompe disease causes metabolic impairment and activation defects in both human and murine T cells

Helena Costa Verdera, Umut Cagin, Philippe Veron, Priscilla Jean-Alphonse, Kuranda Klaudia, Peggy Sanatine, Laetitia van Wittenberghe , Pascal Laforet, and Federico Mingozzi

45

Glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide (GIP) controls body weight under diet-induced obesity via its regulation of dendritic cell or endothelial cell activity

Irina Efimova, Isabel Zvibel, Alona Epshtein, Sigal Fishman, and Chen Varol

46

The RNA binding protein HuR is a master regulator of hepatic-lipid homeostasis

Pallavi Subramanian, Alessandra Palladini, Sofia Gargani, Margarita Chatzimike, Anupam Sinha, Michal Grzybek, Mario Brosch, Ünal Coskun, Jochen Hampe, Dimitris Kontoyiannis, and Triantafyllos Chavakis

47

Lipid droplet formation drives pathogenic ILC2 responses in airway inflammation

Schekufe Kharabi Masouleh

48

Rifampicin resistance conferring mutations in Mycobacterium tuberculosis modulate host macrophage metabolism through cell wall lipid changes

Nicole Howard, Nancy Marin, Mushtaq Ahmed, Bruce Rosa, John Martin, Monika Bambouskova, Alexey Sergushichev, Ekaterina Loginicheva, Natalia Kurepina, Javier Rangel-Moreno, Liang Chen, Barry Kreiswirth, Robyn Klein, Jordi Torrelles, Joan-Miquel Balada-Llasat, Gaya Amarasinghe, Makedonka Mitreva, Fong-Fu Hsu, Maxim Artyomov, Barun Mathema, and Shabaana Khader

49

Combination therapy of pulsed-wave ultrasound hyperthermia and immunostimulant OK-432 enhances systemic antitumor immunity for cancer treatment

Ting-Chuan Li, Chih-Chun Liu, Yan-Zhang Lee, Chi-Feng Chiang, Win-Li Lin, and Shi-Chuen Miaw

50

Transcriptional activity of Irf5 mediates metabolic adaptation of macrophages upon metabolic stress

Lucie Orliaguet, Tina Ejlalmanesh, Raphaëlle Ballaire, Maria Kondili, Mano Matthew, Catherine Chollet, Jean-Baptiste Julla, Jean-François Gautier, Nicolas Venteclef, and Fawaz Alzaid

51

Phenotypically distinct alternatively-activated adipose tissue macrophages induced by helminth molecules differently impact metabolic homeostasis 

Hendrik van der Zande, Karin de Ruiter, Ruud Wilbers, Michael Gonzalez, Jordan Poles, Anna Zawistowska-Deniziak, Frank Otto, Arjen Schots, P'ng Loke, Maria Yazdanbakhsh, and Bruno Guigas

52

Abscisic acid and salicylic acid as potential endogenous immune regulators in animals

SeoWoo Kim, Jens Staal, Jacob Pollier, Alain Goossens, and Rudi Beyaert

53

Characterisation of circulating inflammatory markers before and after bariatric surgery

Valentina Greto, Niall Dempster, Tamara Pavić, Richard Gillies, Bruno Sgromo, Jeremy Tomlinson, Gordan Lauc, Alessandra Geremia, and Carolina Arancibia

54

Ameliorating mitochondrial dysfunction in Aging CD4+ T cells through extracellular delivery of viable mitochondria

Colwyn Headley, Varun Dwivedi, Russell Ault, and Joanne Turner 

55

Obesity potentiates TH2 immunopathology via dysregulation of PPAR

Sagar Bapat, Alexander Marson, Ronald Evans, and Ye Zheng

56

Tripartite organelle communication shapes macrophage plasticity via itaconate metabolism

Ev-Marie Schuster, Julia Zimmermann, Eirini Trompouki, Andrea Ballabio, and Angelika Rambold

57

Metabolic rewiring governs activation of human bronchial epithelial cells in response to the bacterial component flagellin

Ivan Ramirez-Moral, Xiao Yu, Michel van Weeghel, Alex de Vos, Riekelt Houtkooper, Menno de Jong, and Tom van der Poll

58

The role of Formyl Peptide Receptor 1 in the development of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis

Marina Nati, Antonios Chatzigeorgiou, Lan-Sun Chen, Ales  Neuwirth, Pallavi Subramanian, Jochen Hampe, Oliver Soehnlein, Kyoung-Jin Chung, and Triantafyllos Chavakis

59

Monocyte adherence influences the function and metabolic programming upon stimulation with lipopolysaccharide

Natasja Otto, Ivan Ramirez-Moral, Jeroen van Heijst, Alex de Vos, and Tom van der Poll

60

Hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF)1α in macrophages, but not in neutrophils, is important for host defense during K. pneumoniae-induced pneumosepsis 

Natasja Otto, Jeroen van Heijst, Alex de Vos, and Tom van der Poll

61

Metabolic adaptations of CD4+ T cells as antigen presenting cells

Jesús Osuna, Raquel García, Arantzazu Cruz-Adalia, Mónica Torres, and Esteban Veiga

62

The transcriptional co-regulator GPS2 is fundamental for adipose tissue metabolism, function and adaptation during obesity

drareni karima, Raphaëlle Ballaire, Serena Barilla, Fawaz Alzaid, Mano Mathew, Eckardt Treuter, and Nicolas Venteclef

63

Molecular regulation of Th17 and Treg development by fatty acid metabolism 

Philipp Stüve, Tim Sparwasser, and Luciana Berod

64

Decreased human adipose tissue-resident eosinophils in obese subjects is associated with increased insulin resistance

James Hernandez, Ting Li, Cassandra Rau, Mia Masuda, James Madura, Elizabeth Jacobsen, and Elena Anna De Filippis

65

Role of PPARβ on the metabolic activity and activation of the immunosuppressive mechanisms of MSCs

Rafael Contreras, Roberto Elizondo-Vega, Maria Jose Paredes-Martinez, Noymar Luque, Farida Djouad, and Patricia Luz-Crawford

66

Leptin-treated macrophages present an inflammatory profile while maintaining m2-like features

Lauar Monteiro, Felipe Silva, Cristhiane Aguiar, Gustavo Davanzo, Angela Castoldi, Silvio Consonni, and Pedro Moraes-Vieira

67

Metabolism governs the immunomodulatory effect of umbilical-cord derived mesenchymal stem cells on human T-Cells 

Noymar Luque-Campos, Rafael Contreras, Carolina Pradenas, María-José Paredes, Milenka Valdebenito, María-José Torres, Claudia Altamirano, Roberto Elizondo, Farida Djouad, and Patricia Luz-Crawford

68

Evidence for metabolic reprogramming of circulating neutrophils in Gram-negative sepsis

Oliver McElvaney, Emer Reeves, and Noel McElvaney

69

Specific inhibition of the NLRP3 inflammasome abrogates the inflammatory effect of Warburg metabolism in cystic fibrosis neutrophils.

Oliver McElvaney, Zbigniew Zaslona, Katrin Becker-Flegler, Eva Palsson-McDermott, Erich Gulbins, Luke O'Neill, Emer Reeves, and Noel McElvaney

70

Anti-tumor T cells - you are what you eat

Susan Kaech

71

The role of immunometabolism in the pathogenesis of acne

Olga Demina

72

Nutrient sensing mTORC1 and the control of splenic DCs function

Diana Moreira, Elisabeth Littwitz-Salomon, Nadine Assmann, Natalia Munoz-Wolf, and David Finlay

73

Phenotypic and metabolic changes of resident intestinal lamina propria macrophages induced by high fat diet

Angela Castoldi, Niels Olsen Camara, and Edward Pearce

74

Pathogenesis of obesity-driven non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) development is associated with Th17 metabolic switch and inflammatory hepatic Th17 cells

Maria Moreno-Fernandez, Daniel Giles, Calvin Chan, Jarren Oates, Traci Stankiewicz, Rebekah Karns, Matthew   Weirauch, Michael Helmrath, Thomas  Inge, Hitesh Deshmukh, Nathan Salomonis, and Senad Divanovic

75

The ER-localised Hrd1 ubiquitinates and inactivates Usp15 to promote TLR4-induced inflammation during bacterial infection

Yao Lu, Ying Qiu, Bin Wei, and Hongyan Wang

76

Identifying metabolic immunomodulatory mediators of fasting and refeeding using a multi-omics approach

Allison Meadows, Julian Griffin, and Michael Sack

77

Intermittent fasting improves metabolic abnormalities and rejuvenation of white adipose tissue in mice

Hoon-Ki Sung, Ju Hee Lee, Eashita Das, Sammy Shi, Somayeh Shahrokhi, and Jae-Ryong Kim

78

Use of synbiotics (L. casei and fructans of A. Salmiana) as modulators of the expression of GPR41/43 (FFAR2/3) in children with overweight and obesity

Portales Diana, Mariela Vega-Cárdenas, Olivia González-Acevedo, Fidel Martínez-Gutierrez, and Juan Vargas-Morales

79

Caloric-Restriction mediated adipose-immune crosstalk in humans: Insights from CALERIE-II

Olga Spadaro, Alexander Predeus, Yun-Hee Youm, Maxim Artyomov, Sidorov Sviatoslav, and Vishwa Deep Dixit

80

Leptin modulates lymphocyte proliferation process in a dose-dependent manner

Vinicius Diniz, Laiane Santos-Oliveira, Heloisa Alves, Tiago Lobato, Paola Domenech, Amanda Alecrim, Elaine Hatanaka, Sandro Hirabara, Rui Curi, and Renata Gorjão

81

Inhibition of glycolytic and oxidative metabolism with metformin and 2-deoxyglucose suppresses human CD4+ T cell inflammatory function

Ying-Lin Stefanie Tan, Darren Dumlao, Angela Hadjipanayis, Yogeshwar Kelkar, Heng Liu, Mary Piotrowski, Nusrat Sharif, Thomas Wynn, and James Hall

82

Targeting Tr1 cells to treat disease

Marcela Montes de Oca, Fabian de Labastida Rivera, Susanna Ng, Chelsea Edwards, Rachel Kuns, Ping Zhang, Agnieszka Kabat, Ramon Klein Geltink, Jude Uzonna, Edward Pearce, Geoffrey Hill, and Christian Engwerda

83

Intermittent Fasting (IF) prevents development of Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) by regulating low-grade inflammation through changes in metabolic flexibility

Eleni Beli, Leni Moldovan, Yaqian Duan, Sergio Li Calzi, Carmella Evans-Molina, Julia V Busik, and Maria B Grant