Gene Expression & Signaling in the Immune System 2026

Gene Expression & Signaling in the Immune System

March 4 - 8, 2026

Abstract Deadline: January 6, 2026

Organizers:

Jon Kagan, Boston Children's Hospital / Harvard Medical School
Richard Locksley, HHMI / University of California San Francisco
Daniel Mucida, The Rockefeller University
Ellen Rothenberg, California Institute of Technology

We are pleased to announce the thirteenth Cold Spring Harbor meeting on Gene Expression & Signaling in the Immune System, which will begin on Wednesday evening, March 4, and end at noon on Sunday, March 8, 2026.

We are looking forward to a broad-based meeting, and abstracts are welcomed on all scientific topics related to immune system signaling, gene regulation, and effector activities. Non-exclusive topics of interest include the molecular regulation of immune responses in specific cell types and tissues, as they mediate immune cell development, disease pathology, and resolution.

Topics:

Regulation of Gene Expression
Cell Lineage and Ontogeny
Tissue Immunology
Signaling Intracellularly
Intercellular Communications
Host: Microbe Interactions
Immune Responses
Tissue-Immune Communications (Immunophysiology)

Confirmed Speakers:

Frederick Alt, HHMI/Children's Hospital
Janelle Ayres, Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Gregory Barton, University of California, Berkeley
Christophe Benoist, Harvard Medical School
Daria Esterhazy, University of Chicago
Donna Farber, Columbia University Medical Center
Alexander Hoffmann, University of California, Los Angeles
Veit Hornung, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich Germany
Michael Howitt, Stanford University
Andrew Koh, University of Chicago
Oliver Lantz, Institut Curie, France
Ai ling Lim, Princeton University
Dan Littman, NYU School of Medicine
Diane Mathis, Harvard Medical School
Ruslan Medzhitov, HHMI/Yale University School of Medicine
Anna Molofsky, University of California, San Francisco
Ari Molofsky, University of California, San Francisco
Megan Orzalli, UMass Chan Medical School
John O'Shea, NIH/NIAMS
Lena Pernas, University of California, Los Angeles
Caetano Reis e Sousa, The Francis Crick Institute, UK
Brian Rudd, Cornell University
Alexander Rudensky, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Tom Taghon, Ghent University
Henrique Veiga-Fernandes, Champalimaud Center for the Unknown, Portugal
Gabriel Victora, The Rockefeller University
Robert Watson, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Dario Zamboni, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil

The format of the meeting will include eight oral sessions and two poster sessions. Each oral session will include invited speakers and speakers selected from submitted abstracts. For this reason, abstracts from accomplished junior and senior investigators are warmly invited. The abstracts should focus on new and unpublished data. The organizers will select abstracts for oral or poster presentations. The status (talk/poster) of abstracts will be posted on our website (below) as soon as decisions have been made. We have applied for funds from government and industry to partially support graduate students and postdocs.

This conference is supported in part by funds provided by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the National Institutes of Health.

Social Media: The designated hashtag for this meeting is #cshlimmune. Note that you must obtain permission from an individual presenter before live-tweeting or discussing his/her talk, poster, or research results on social media. Click the Policies tab above to see our full Confidentiality & Reporting Policy.

Financial Aid: Please apply in writing via email to Val Pakaluk if you require financial support.

Pricing:

In-Person Fees
Academic/Media Private Room/Private Bath Package: $1945 (Subject to Availability)
Academic/Media Private Room/Shared Bath Package: $1820
Academic Shared Room Package: $1660
Academic/Media No-Housing Package: $1240
Student Package*: $1545
Student No-Housing Package: $1125
Corporate Private Room/Private Bath Package: $2485
Corporate No-Housing Package: $1780

*Student Housing is default double occupancy. Please enquire about availability and fees to upgrade to private room.

NOTE: We cannot guarantee housing will be on campus

Room packages close 2 weeks before the meeting start date

Virtual Participation: Includes access to the oral sessions via Zoom, the digital poster gallery, the Slack discussion workspace, and the Leading Strand video archive. If you are submitting an abstract for an oral or poster presentation, please plan to attend the meeting in-person.

Virtual Fees:

Academic Virtual Package: $370

Grad Student Virtual Package: $230

Corporate Virtual Package: $550

Late Fee (Registrations submitted after 5:00 p.m. ET on February 26, 2026)

Late Academic Virtual Package: $470
Late Student Virtual Package: $330
Late Corporate Virtual Package: $650