Systems Immunology
April 20 - 23/4, 2021

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Abstract Status

Presenting Author

Abstract Title

Talk/Poster

Abadie, Kathleen V

Early CD8 T cell fate programming revealed by time-resolved RNA sequencing and live imaging of single cells

talk

Abdalla, Nada M

Transcriptional regulatory network in human innate lymphoid cells from scRNA-seq and scATAC-seq

poster

Achour, Achouak

Age-related changes at chromatin and gene expression levels of naïve T cells

poster

Ackerman, Margie

Principal components of antibody activity―High throughput humoral profiling and machine learning to advance vaccine research and development

talk

Aggarwal, Kunal

Deciphering the critical determinants of CD4 T cell differentiation into helper and regulatory cell subtypes

poster

Alon, Uri

Autoimmune disease as a fragility of immune surveillance against hypersecreting mutants

talk

Alpert, Ayelt

High resolution comparison of cancer samples through trajectory alignment

poster

Andreatta, Massimo

Projecting single-cell transcriptomics data onto a reference T cell atlas to interpret immune responses

poster

Apps, Richard

Unsupervised dynamic pattern analysis reveals features of responses to adjuvant that overlap with baseline variation between individuals and predict vaccination titer

poster

Arulraj, Theinmozhi

In silico analysis of germinal center shutdown

poster

Ashour, Diyaa

Dissecting the interrelation between T-cell senescence and myocardial aging

poster

Atianand, Maninjay

The role of long noncoding RNAs in gene regulation in human macrophages

poster

Baker, Gregory J

CyLinter: Interactive software for cleaning microscopy-derived, single-cell data

poster

Bandyopadhyay, Arnab

Modeling the germinal center reaction and the production of memory B and plasma cells

poster

Banerjee, Ushashi

Genome-wide network analysis identifies key genes in maintenance of latent tuberculosis

poster

Barvalia, Maunish

Using single cell technologies such as mass cytometry and single cell RNA sequencing to interrogate the role of LYN tyrosine kinase in monocytes

poster

Baugh, Lauren M

Sex hormone-driven crosstalk between human endometrial cells and macrophages in a 3D in vitro model

poster

Baumjohann, Dirk

Temporal dissection of the T cell-intrinsic factors that maintain T follicular helper cell identity and germinal centers

poster

Becker, Nils B

Robust cytokine ligand discrimination by asymmetric receptor dimerization and turnover

talk

Benoist, Christophe

A Cloud Atlas

talk

Benos, Takis

Causal analysis on PBMC-derived gene expression data identifies predictive signature of vaccine response in two MUC1 preventative vaccine trials in patients with the history of advanced adenoma of the colon

poster

Bibby, Jack

Using single cell pathway analysis (SCPA) to map transcriptional dynamics during early T cell activation

poster

Blish, Catherine

Multi-omic profiling to understand COVID-19 immunopathogenesis in vivo and in vitro

talk

Boccuni, Laura

Mechanism of cross-talk between p38 MAPK and Interferon signaling

poster

Boehm, Thomas

Evolutionary novelties in vertebrate immune systems

talk

Brauns, Elisa

Functional reprogramming of monocytes in acute and convalescents Covid-19 patients

poster

Briller, Mayan

Longitudinal multi-omic characterization of SARS-COV-2- mRNA vaccine dynamics

talk

Brodin, Petter

Bifidobacteria-mediated immune system imprinting early in life

talk

Bryson, Bryan

Learning the language of viral evolution and escape

talk

Buckley, Katherine M

Analysis of the system-wide immune response to dysbiosis in the gut of sea urchin larvae reveals both deep conservation and evolutionary novelty

talk

Bullock, Margaret Elise

Modeling epigenetic regulation of transcriptional noise in response to TNF

poster

Burel, Julie G

Systems immunology reveals HLA-DR is a marker for effector CD4 T cells in active tuberculosis patients

poster

Cameron, Cheryl M

Transcriptomic profiles of response in two MUC1 preventative vaccine trials, a pilot study and a recently unblinded randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial in patients with newly diagnosed advanced adenoma of the colon

poster

Carvalho, Klebea

Uncovering the gene regulatory networks underlying macrophage polarization through comparative analysis of bulk and single-cell data

poster

Chakraborty, Arup

How to hit highly mutable pathogens where it hurts

talk

Chaudhri, Virendra K

Digital and fuzzy binary transcriptional elements are prevalent features of immune cis-regulomes

poster

Cheemalavagu, Neha

Predicting cytokine-specific STAT regulation and inflammatory gene expression using computational modeling

talk

Chen, Sisi

Probing the multicellular mechanisms of drug response in heterogeneous immune cell populations

talk

Cheung, Foo

Gender and prior exposure shape innate immune responses to a replication-defective herpes virus vaccine

poster

Choi, Jaewoo

The novel positive regulator of proximal B cell receptor signaling in B cell lymphomas

poster

Chopp, Laura B

Leveraging single-cell genomics to build gene regulatory networks involved in ab T cell development

poster

Chowdhary, Kaitavjeet

A tiered network of transcription factors shapes Treg diversity

poster

Cifello, Jeffrey

Determining IAV M158-66-specific CD8+ TCRs based on αβ paired CDR1-3 amino acid sequences using machine learning

talk

Claringbould, Annique

Validating cell-type-specific gene regulatory networks by predicting perturbation response

poster

Consiglio, Camila R

Deciphering the roles of sex hormones in the human immune system

poster

Cooper, Martha M

Predicting host control of parasite burden following controlled human malaria infection

poster

Covert, Markus

Engineered fluorescent E. coli lysogens allow live-cell imaging of functional prophage induction triggered inside macrophages

talk

Cowan, Jennifer E

Single cell approaches to unravel thymic epithelial cell heterogeneity and alterations with age

poster

Daga, Neha

Understanding genetic and epigenetic T-cell regulatory mechanisms in autoimmune diseases

poster

Das, Jishnu

CausER―A general approach to uncover latent causal factors from multi-omic immunological datasets

talk

Davalos, Oscar A

Dynamic transcriptional profiling of CD8 T cells during early autoimmune disease

poster

Davies, James D

Transcriptional programming of tolerogenic and immunogenic responses in human epidermis

poster

Davis, Mark

Human lymphoid organoids for systems immunology

talk

Devlin, Joseph C

Multimodal single cell sequencing of adaptive immune cell repertoires and transcriptomes in response to SARS-CoV-2 infection and vaccination

poster

Dongre, Anushka

Carcinoma cell-intrinsic factors associated with the mesenchymal state drive resistance of breast carcinomas to immune checkpoint blockade therapy

poster

Doron, Itai

Human gut mycobiota tunes immunity via CARD9-dependent induction of anti-fungal IgG antibodies.

poster

Dupic, Thomas

Immune fingerprinting through repertoire similarity

talk

Espinoza, Diego A

Single-cell RNA-seq of human tonsillar B cells reveals distinct activation and maturation states and provides insight into the transcriptional dynamics of the germinal center reaction

poster

Farmer, Rohit

Stim cell selector―A high-dimensional approach for the identification and quantification of single-cell responses in stimulation-cytometry data

poster

Filip, Ioan

HLA allele-specific expression loss in tumors can shorten survival and hinder immunotherapy

poster

Ford, Rhodes

Epigenetic dysfunction of terminally exhausted tumor infiltrating T cells

poster

Fox-Fisher, Ilana

Remote immune processes revealed by immune-derived circulating cell-free DNA

talk

Geddes-McAlister, Jennifer

Combatting fungal diseases through the discovery and elucidation of novel anti-virulence strategies by quantitative proteomics

poster

Germain, Ronald

How small variations in protein expression, cell state, and signaling responses impact immunity and affect interpretation of GWAS data

talk

Gfeller, David

Prediction of neo-epitope immunogenicity reveals TCR recognition determinants and provides insight into immunoediting

talk

Gibbs, David L

Patient-specific cell communication networks associate with disease progression in cancer

poster

Glass, Marla C

High-dimensional single-cell profiling reveals the phenotypic diversity and clinical relevance of human regulatory B cells

poster

Han, Bing

Acute exposure of hydrocortisone after induced pyroptosis triggers IL-1β release in THP-1 macrophages while maintaining cells´ viability

poster

He, Lian

Engineered LOV2 as a modular photoswitch for optogenetic control of calcium signals and cell therapy

talk

Henrickson, Sarah E

Obesity dysregulates immunometabolic status in pediatric asthma and impacts vaccine responses

talk

Hoffmann, Alexander

In early B lymphopoiesis dynamic modulation of NFκB is required for the proper pacing of developmental transitions

talk

Holla, Prasida

Shared transcriptional profiles of atypical B cells suggest common drivers of expansion and function in malaria, HIV and autoimmunity

poster

Hou, Wenpin

A computational framework for differential pseudotime analysis across conditions within multiple single-cell RNA-seq samples reveals T cell immune dynamics associated with COVID-19 disease severity

poster

Hu, Sophia G

Vector field analysis using Dynamo to study covid19 symptom severity and EMT

poster

Ji, Zhicheng

Reconstruction of conserved immune landscape in COVID-19 patients via multi-study integrative analysis of single-cell RNA-sequencing data

talk

Jing, Ji

Optogenetic control of non-apoptotic cell death

poster

Jolly, Adrien

Quantifying thymocyte proliferation and differentiation with CycleFlow

poster

Katz, Samuel

Differential isoform usage reveals a regulatory layer in the macrophage LPS response not evident from differential expression analysis

poster

Kavazovic, Inga

Obesity-induced memory CD8 T cell dysfunction in mice is independent of direct insulin signaling

poster

Kelsey, Ilana

Single-cell characterization of macrophage polarization plasticity and mechanisms of regulation

poster

Kim, Chae Won

Single cell transcriptomic re-analysis of immune cells in bronchoalveolar lavage fluids reveals the correlation of B cell characteristics and disease severity of patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection

poster

Konda, Prathyusha

Discovery of tumor-associated T cell epitopes through targeted searches of mass spectrometry data

poster

Krishnaswamy, Smita

Multiscale PHATE exploration of SARS-CoV-2 data reveals multimodal signatures of disease

talk

Kueh, Hao Yuan

Tunable, division-independent control of T cell lineage commitment timing by a polycomb switch

poster

Lacsina, Joshua R

Defining human skin immunity to vector insect bites

poster

Lawton, Matthew L

Phosphoproteomic analysis of T cell exhaustion program reveals actionable system levels changes in signaling pathways driving differentiation

poster

Lee, Jiyoung

Single cell RNA-Seq and machine learning reveal novel subpopulations in low-grade inflammatory monocytes with unique regulatory circuits

poster

Lewis, Sloan A

Integrative scRNA-Seq, epigenetic, and functional profiling of the myeloid compartment in non-human primates following chronic alcohol consumption

poster

Lim, Wendell

Sensing and sensibility―Programming smarter CAR T cells

talk

Link, Verena M

Highly controlled nutritional interventions uncover defined immune and microbiome responses in human.

talk

Liu, Can J

Time-resolved multimodal single cell analyses of COVID-19 reveal disease severity network

poster

Liu, Chunhong

A critical CTCF binding site of the Ifng-Il22 locus specifies and finetunes cytokine expression and immune response

poster

Liu, Shirley

In vivo CRISPR screens identify E3 ligase Cop1 as a modulator of macrophage infiltration and cancer immunotherapy target

poster

Lu, Jian

Analysis of the fine subpopulations of human CD8+ T cells and their changes with age by single cell RNA sequencing and multi-color flow cytometry

poster

Lu, Wen

Acute Csk inhibition hinders B cell activation via constraining PI3 kinase pathway

poster

Ma, Guolin

Identification of a STIM1 splicing variant that promotes glioblastoma cell growth

poster

Martins, Andrew J

High-dimensional blood immune cell subset resolved transcriptional regulatory network changes in early life

poster

Matz, Hanover

Evolutionary precursors of germinal centers are present in sharks

poster

McGinnis, Christopher S

Single-cell epigenomics sample multiplexing using MULTI-ATAC-seq and applications to peripheral blood mononuclear cells

talk

McGrail, Daniel J

One side does not fit all―Cancer type specificity of immune checkpoint blockade biomarkers

poster

Medzhitov, Ruslan

Cell communication in tissue organization

talk

Mehta, Arnav

Plasma proteomic biomarkers reveal biological insights about the tumor microenvironment in melanoma patients after PD1 blockade

poster

Meyer, Aaron S

Developing a mechanistic view of mixed IgG antibody immune effector responses

talk

Milanez-Almeida, Pedro

Integration of human and artificial intelligence in multi-modal single cell data analysis

poster

Miraldi, Emily R

maxATAC―A suite of models for transcription factor binding prediction from (sc)ATAC-seq applied to human T-cell activation

talk

Miranda-Bedate, Alberto

Innate immune transcriptional signature of human bronchiolar epithelial cells in response to B. pertussis

poster

Mistri, Somen K

Single-cell proteogenomics reveals that SLAM/SAP signaling regulates the development of innate-like γδ T cell subsets with distinct TCR repertoires

poster

Miyazaki, Masaki

The transcription factor E2A activates multiple enhancers that drive cell type-specific Rag1/Rag2 expression during T and B cell development

poster

Mule, Matthew P

Pinpointing cell states associated with vaccination response with new computational tools for nested-group CITE-seq analysis

talk

Munoz-Rojas, Andres R

Cell-to-cell interaction networks between regulatory T cells and mesenchymal stromal cells identify novel signaling pathways regulating muscle repair

talk

Netea, Mihai

A systems immunology approach to understand trained immunity

talk

Nguyen, Nhung

Nano-optogenetic immunoengineering: Photo-tunable remote control of CAR T-cells

poster

Nguyen, Trang T

Cbl-b deficiency prevents functional but not phenotypic T cell anergy

poster

Nicotra, Matthew L

In search of an invertebrate allorecognition signaling pathway

poster

Normand, Rachelly

A single-cell and spatial atlas of autopsy tissues reveals pathology and cellular targets of SARS-CoV-2

talk

Obradovic, Aleksandar

Network-based single-cell protein activity identifies signature of renal tumor-specific macrophages predictive of post-surgical recurrence

poster

Ong, Irene

The landscape of antibody binding in SARS-CoV-2 infection

poster

Orcutt-Jahns, Brian

Structured decomposition maps the determinants of immune cell response to γ-chain cytokines at the population and single cell levels

poster

Osmanbeyoglu, Hatice U

SPaRTAN, a computational framework for linking cell-surface receptors to transcriptional regulators

poster

Oyler-Yaniv, Jennifer

TNF controls a speed-accuracy tradeoff in the cell death decision to restrict viral spread

talk

Pagadala, Meghana

Common genetic variants influence the composition of the tumor immune microenvironment and host anti-tumor responses

poster

Park, Jang Hyun

Hypoxia regulates γδ T cell-mediated antitumor immunity in the brain cancer

poster

Park, Kyemyung

Quantitative dissection of immune homeostasis using multi-scale modeling approaches

talk

Pauken, Kristen E

Use of single-cell analyses to characterize circulating anti-tumor CD8+ T cells in mice and humans and identify markers for their isolation

poster

Pease, Nicholas A

The timing of Bcl11b activation regulates the balance in thymic ILC and T cell differentiation

poster

Pelka, Karin

Multicellular immune hubs and their organization in MMRd and MMRp colorectal cancer

talk

Perelson, Alan

Modeling acute viral infections with considerations of immune responses and viral antagonism

talk

Pham, Nhung

WikiPathways as a platform for COVID-19 pathway models

poster

Phillips, Angela M

Mapping the sequence-affinity landscape of broadly neutralizing anti-influenza antibodies

talk

Prigozhin, Daniil M

A limited subset of plant immune receptors is responsible for the generation of new immune specificities

talk

Pulendran, Bali

Systems biological analysis of immunity to infection and vaccination

talk

Pullen, Krista M

Translation of vaccine immune response across studies via TransCompR

poster

Quake, Stephen

Dissecting the human immune system with single cell transcriptomics

talk

Rachmaninofff, Nicholas A

Immune variation from infancy to adolescence

poster

Ravichandran, Sathyabaarathi

Identification of molecular subnetworks that can assess disease severity in COVID-19 patients

poster

Reddy, Sai T

Convergent selection in antibody repertoires is revealed by deep learning

talk

Reyes, Miguel

Induction of a regulatory myeloid program in bacterial sepsis and severe COVID-19

poster

Robertson, Catherine C

Integrative analysis of chromatin accessibility and genetic risk in type 1 diabetes

poster

Rodriguez Gama, Alejandro

Signalosome nucleation enables digital innate immune proinflammatory responses

poster

Rodriguez, Lucie

Systems-level immunomonitoring from acute to recovery phase of severe COVID-19

poster

Rosenberg, Jacob M

An N-of-1 trial of itacitinib for a patient with aplastic anemia associated with a gain-of-function variant in STAT1

poster

Rumker, Laurie

Discovering meaningful cell populations in single-cell data using patterns of transcriptional variation shared among samples

poster

Sahni, Nidhi

Delving into proteostasis network reveals an immunogenic vulnerability in mismatch repair deficient cancer

poster

Sayeed, Md Abu

Development of a cholera rapid diagnostic test that targets both Vibrio cholerae and vibriophage

poster

Schneider, Caitlin

Migration-induced cell shattering due to DOCK8 deficiency causes a type-2 biased T cell response

poster

Schnell, Alexandra

Single-cell clonotype tracing of tissue Th17 cells during CNS autoimmunity reveals the conversion of intestinal homeostatic cells to pathogenic cells

poster

Schrom, Edward C

Quorum sensing via dynamic cytokine signaling during CD4+ T cell effector choice

talk

Selvarajoo, Kumar

Continuous and discrete models to elucidate TRAIL-resistance mechanisms in cancers

poster

Seth, Abhinav

An AP-1 independent gene module regulated by an NFAT2 positive feedback loop driven by persistent TCR stimulation is required for Tfh maintenance

poster

Shapiro, Virginia

Engineered expression of the sialyltransferase ST8Sia6 protects cancer cells and islet beta cells from the immune response

poster

Shay, Tal

Differential splicing contributes to the identity of human immune cells

poster

Shen, Lin

A disease-associated mutation that weakens ZAP70 autoinhibition enhances responses to weak and self ligands

poster

Sheu, Katherine

Quantifying response-specificity of macrophages to diverse immune threats

poster

Singh, Harinder

Coupled analysis of transcriptional states and somatic hypermutation in germinal center B cells reveals role for oxidative phosphorylation in affinity maturation

talk

Singh, Satya P

Early differentiated human Th memory cells show stable mixed-lineage activation and multi-lineage potential

poster

Skelly, Dan

Immune crosstalk in adipose tissue modulates weight gain in response to high-fat diet

poster

Slowikowski, Kamil

Unravelling immune and cellular responses associated with acute COVID-19 infection, symptoms and lethality at single-cell resolution

poster

Solomon, Benjamin D

Accuracy of in silico HLA genotype prediction methods applied to single-cell transcriptome data

poster

Steier, Zoe

Single-cell multi-omic analysis of thymocyte development reveals drivers of CD4/CD8 lineage commitment

poster

Sundaresh, Bharathi L

Genome-wide characterization of Streptococcus pneumoniae proteins interacting with C3 complement

poster

Sureshchandra, Suhas

Diverse homeostatic and immunomodulatory roles of macrophages in human term placenta

poster

Tan, Cyrillus

Identifying human-murine FcγR regulation homology through a multivalent binding model

poster

Teichmann, Sarah

Human immunity one cell at a time

talk

Thakore, Pratiksha

Matched chromatin and transcriptional profiling reveals new regulators of Th17 plasticity for pro-inflammatory states

poster

Thomas, Molly

Single-cell RNA sequencing reveals cell states and transcriptional signatures of immune and epithelial dysregulation that define colitis associated with immune checkpoint inhibitors

talk

Tiemeijer, Bart

A hydrogel droplet-based microfluidics platform to probe macrophage polarization at the single-cell level

poster

Tondi, Serena

Identification of key immune cells activated by GMMA-based vaccines in vitro

poster

Trapecar, Martin

Dissecting gut-liver-brain immunometabolic interactions using human physiomimetic models and systems biology

talk

Trynka, Gosia

Deciphering mechanisms of immune mediated diseases using single cell transcriptional map of T cells activation

talk

Tsang, John

Integrating single cell and human population variations in health and disease

talk

Ucar, Duygu

Single cell analysis of blood mononuclear cells stimulated through CD3 and CD28 shows collateral activation of B and NK cells and demise of monocytes

talk

Van Eyndhoven, Laura

Decoding type I IFN response dynamics using droplet-based microfluidics and mathematical models

poster

Venkat, Aarti

Archetypal analysis of antigen-specific T cell responses across conditions

poster

Vodovotz, Yoram

Divergent COVID-19 archetypes predicted by patient-specific perturbations of a core immune regulatory network

talk

Wang, Allan

Multiplexed, combinatorial interrogation of an enhancer cluster regulating T cell commitment

poster

Wang, Tianlu

Caffeine-operated synthetic modules for chemogenetic control of protein activities by life style

poster

Wayman, Joseph

Identifying regulators of an age-associated immunosuppressive CD4+ T cell population using gene regulatory network inference from single-cell genomics

poster

Westfall, Jesse E

Understanding the immune microenvironment of Rasmussen encephalitis via single cell transcriptomics and spatial proteomics

poster

White, William L

Precise interrogation of dynamic input/output relationships in single T cells using designed antigen-presenting scaffolds

poster

Wong, Harikesh S

A local regulatory T cell feedback process maintains immunological homeostasis by pruning self-activated T cells

poster

Xavier, Ramnik

Cell maps to stress control at mucosal surfaces

talk

Xing, Jianhua

Mapping vector field of single cells

talk

Zhang, Baochun

Insight into Epstein-Barr virus immunity and a new immune approach for B-cell malignancies

poster

Zhou, Xu

Microenvironment controls inflammatory response in macrophages

poster

Ziegler, Carly

Impaired local intrinsic immunity to SARS-CoV-2 infection underlies severe COVID-19

talk

Zulu, Michael Z

Maternal obesity compromises functional outcomes of fetal myeloid cells

poster