2016 AKIA Summer Symposium (August 5th, 2016)



Registered members (as of 06/11/2016)

• 1. Sungjin Kim, UC Davis
  2. Seung-Hwan Lee, Univesity of Ottawa
     
  3. Sujin Lee, Emory University
  4. Jun Huh, University of Mass. School of Medicine
  5. Jeong-Sook Shin, UCSF
  6. Ae-Kyung Yi, University of Tennessee Health Sci Center
  7. Young, Hahn, University of Virginia School of Medicine
  8. Thomas Cho, Saint Louis University School of Medicine
  9. Sun Jung Kim, Feinstein Institute for Medical Research
  10. ​Minsoo Kim, University of Rochester
  11. Michael Cho, Iowa State University
  12. Eun Lee, Virginia Commonwealth University
  13. Sang-Moo Kang, Georgia State University
  14. Minji Byun, Washington University in St. Louis
  15. ​​Insoo Kang, Yale University
  16. Hyun Park, NIH
  17. ​Booki Min, Cleveland clinic
  18. Changhwan Kim, Purdue University
      
• We are pleased to announce that the 2016 AKIA summer symposium and general assembly will be held on August 5th, 2016, at the Porter Building of the NIH campus in Bethesda, MD.
  
  The NIH is accessible from three major airports (DCA, IAD, BWI), and is close the Union Station train station in Washington DC.
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  The symposium will be co-hosted by the NIH-Korean Scientist Association (NIHKSA.org) who will support logistic and organization of the symposium.
  
• Please find below the program of the summer conference.
  
  
• Registration has been closed as of June 10, 2016
• 2016 AKIA/KAI guest symposium at the 2016 AAI meeting in Seattle, WA (May 13-17, 2015)
• AKIA organized the 3rd AKIA and KAI (Korean Association of Immunobiologists) guest symposium at the 2016 AAI meeting, Sunday, May 15 from 12:30-2:30 PM.
  
  Immune regulation of viral pathogenesis 
  Co-Chair(s): Young Hahn (UVA, USA), Eui-Cheol Shin (KAIST)
  • Eui-Cheol Shin (KAIST) IL-15 and NKG2D in virus-induced immunopathogenesis_____
  • Sang-Jun Ha (Yonsei University) Role of PD-1 in regulatory T cells during chronic virus infection
  • Heung Kyu Lee (KAIST) Dysbiosis contributes to impaired antiviral immunity in the genital mucosa 
  • Sujin Lee (Emory University) Broadly Neutralizing Antibodies Induced by Multivalent Inactivated Rhinovirus
  • Michael Cho (Iowa State University) Developing vaccine strategies to modulate immunogenicity of B cell epitopes

• AKIA-KAI guest symposium dinner venue
  
  Saturday, May 14th, 2016
  at 6:30 PM.
  
  Dinner will be at
  Restaurant Shilla (walking distance from the Convention Center)
  
  Tel: 206-623-9996
  Address: 2300 8th Ave, Seattle, WA 98121

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• 2015 AKIA/KAI guest symposium at the 2015 AAI meeting in New Orleans, LA (May 8-12, 2015)


• AKIA hosted the second AKIA and KAI (Korean Association of Immunobiologists) guest symposium at the 2015 AAI meeting.
  There will be a one-day satellite meeting of AKIA members at the AAI conference to conduct AKIA business and for scientific exchange.
  For further information, please contact the AKIA council.
  
  
  
  


• 2014 AKIA/KAI joint symposium at the 2014 Fall Conference of Korean Association of Immunobiologists, Seoul, Korea 

• • AKIA will have a joint symposium with KAI on November 7th at the 2014 fall conference of the Korean Association of Immunbiologists in Seoul, Korea.
    
    
    For further information about this program, please contact the AKIA council.


• AKIA at the KAST 3rd Frontier Scientist Workshop. Langham Hotel, LA, CA (July 9-10, 2014)


• The 3rd Frontier Scientists workshop organized by KAST (Korea Academy of Science and Technology) and hosted by AKIA president Jae Jung.
  
  The following AKIA members participated and presented their work:
  Joonsoo Kang (U Mass): Search for the elusive, primordial originator of fast lymphoid effectors.
  Kyunghee Choi (Wash U): ETS factor ER71/ETV2 in vascular regeneration and tumor angiogenesis
  Yongwon Choi (U Penn): A role of TRAF6 in mucosal immunity.
  Francis Lee (Columbia): Innate immune function of osteoblasts at the bone-host interface.
  Young S. Hahn (UVA): Immunoregulatory mechanism by hepatitis C virus
  Yousang Gwack (UCLA): CRACR2A encodes a large Rab GTPase important for Ca2+ and JNK signalling to drive T cell differentiation.
  Jae U. Jung (USC): Host-Pathogen Standoff: Roles of Pattern Recognizing Receptors and Intracellular Restriction Factors in Antiviral Immune Response
  Sang-Moo Kang (GSU): Concepts and immunology of Virus-like Particle vaccines







• AKIA/KAI Joint Guest Symposium at the 2014 AAI in Pittsburgh, PA (May 2-6, 2014)


• AKIA/KAI Joint Guest Symposium at the 2014 AAI
  Regulation of host immunity by immune cell receptors and effectors
  On Saturday, May 3rd from 3:45 pm - 5:45 pm
  
  
  Chair: Charlie Surh (IBS, Korea)
  Co-chair: Mi-La Cho (Catholic University, Korea)
  
  Speakers: 
  Jae Jung (U. Southern California):  Host and Pathogen Standoff: Host Intracellular Pattern Recognition Receptors vs Viral Immune Modulators
  Yong-Soo Bae (Sungkyunkwan University): Positive and negative regulatory factors epigenetically expressed during DC development control the immunogenicity of dendritic cells
  Sungjin Kim (Michigan State U): Memory-like NK cells with potent Fc receptor function and broad-spectrum antiviral activity 
  Mi-La Cho (Catholic University): STAT3 licenses AP-1 family to drive Th17cell differentiation in autoimmune diseases
  Hyun Park (Natl. Inst. Health): Interleukin-7 receptor as a new target for immune intervention in inflammation and autoimmunity
  
  

• Inaugural 2013 AKIA meeting
  La Jolla Institue for Allergy and Immunology (LIAI)
  9420 Athena Cir. La Jolla, CA 92037

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• Agenda (July 12 - July 13, 2013)Scientific Program
  
  The Association of Korean Immunologists in America (AKIA)
  
  Thursday, July 11 2013
  
  Arrival and check in
  San Diego Marriott La Jolla
  4240 La Jolla Village Drive
  La Jolla, CA  92037
  (858) 587-1414
  
  Friday, July 12 2013
  Breakfast at the hotel
  8:30-9:00 AM                   Registration at the LIAI
  9:00-9:10 AM                   Welcoming remarks by Mitch Kronenberg
  9:10-9:30 AM                   Introduction of AKIA by Cheong-Hee Chang
  
  Session 1                        At the beginning
  9:30-9:50 AM                   Jae Ung Jung (University of Southern California)
                                        When Autophagy Meets Microbes
  9:50-10:10 AM                 Sungjin Kim (Michigan State University)
                                        Antibody-dependent memory NK cell and beyond
  10:10-10:30 AM               Young Jun Kang (The Scripps Research Institute)
                                        Immune cell signaling in inflammation: Mechanism and its application
  10:30-10:50 AM               Sun Jung Kim (The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research)
                                        Regulation of inflammatory function in dendritic cells by the Blimp-1 SLE risk variant
  10:50- 11:10                    Coffee Break
  Session 2                       Bridging innate to adaptive immunity
  11:10-11:30 AM                Insoo Kang (Yale University School of Medicine)
                                         U1-snRNP activates the NLRP3 inflammasome in human monocytes
  11:30-11:50 AM                Byung S. Kim (Northwestern University)
                                         Role of innate immunity in the development of virus-induced demyelinating disease
  11:50-12:10 PM                Booki Min* (Cleveland Clinic Foundation) - Session Chair
                                         Regulation of homeostasis-driven T cell responses by antigen presenting cells
  12:10-12:30 PM                Chang Kim (Purdue University)
                                         Regulation of gut homing receptors
  12:30-1:30 PM                  Lunch
  
  Session 3                       Effector immune cell generation and immunity
  1:30-1:50 PM                  Joonsoo Kang (University of Massachusetts Medical School)
                                        Making lymphoid effector subsets, fast and slow
  1:50-2:10 PM                  Cheong-Hee Chang (The University of Michigan Medical School)
                                        mTOR2 regulates the development and function of iNKT cells and innate-like CD4 T cells
  2:10-2:30 PM                  Hyewon Phee* (Northwestern University) - Session Chair
                                        An essential role of PAK2 in control of T cell development, maturation and homeostasis
  2:30-2:50 PM                  Charlie Surh (Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Korea)
                                        Regulation of Immune Homeostasis to Commensal Antigens
  2:50-3:10 PM                  J. Hyun Park (NIH)
                                       Constitutive activation of the cytoskeleton remodeler Ezrin desensitizes cytokine signaling and impairs T cell homeostasis
  3:10-3:30 PM                   Coffee Break
  Session 4                       Toward the end
  3:30-3:50 PM                   Young S. Hahn (University of Virginia School of Medicine)
                                        Liver-primed CD8+ T cells exhibit IL-10+PD-1+Tim-3+ phenotype with the regulatory function on antigen-specific effector CD8+ T cells
  3:50-4:10 PM                   Sujin Lee* (Emory University School of Medicine) - Session Chair
                                         Regulation of RSV T cell immunity by costimulation in young and aged mouse model
  4:10-4:30 PM                   Moon Gyo Kim (Inha University, Korea)
                                         Genes from Thymic Epithelium to Tumor Immunology
  4:30-4:50 PM                   Kyunghee Choi (Washington University in St. Louis)
                                         Hematopoietic stem cells and myeloid skewing in chronic inflammation
  5:00-6:00 PM                    Free time
  
  6:30 PM                           Group dinner
  
  Saturday, July 13 2013
  
  Breakfast at the hotel
  9:00-10:30 AM                   Small group meeting
  10:30-11:00 AM                 Coffee Break
  11:00-12:00 PM                 Organizational meeting
  12:00 PM                          Concluding remarks