Schedule for: 22w5139 - Sensing and Signaling in Immune Systems: Mathematics meets Biology

Beginning on Sunday, February 13 and ending Friday February 18, 2022

All times in Banff, Alberta time, MST (UTC-7).

Sunday, February 13
16:00 - 17:30 Check-in begins at 16:00 on Sunday and is open 24 hours (Front Desk - Professional Development Centre)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner (Kinnear Center 105)
20:00 - 22:00 Informal gathering (TCPL Foyer)
Monday, February 14
07:00 - 08:45 Breakfast (Kinnear Center 101)
08:45 - 09:00 Introduction and Welcome by BIRS Staff (TCPL 201)
09:00 - 09:30 Hedda Wardemann: Evolution of a human T follicular helper cell response (Online)
09:30 - 10:00 Andreas Mayer: Quantifying structure in immune receptor epitope maps (Online)
10:00 - 10:15 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:30 - 11:00 Thierry Mora: Long-term strategies of affinity maturation (Online)
11:00 - 11:30 Armita Nourmohammad: Organization and encoding of memory in evolving environments (TCPL 201)
11:45 - 13:00 Lunch (Kinnear Center 101)
13:00 - 14:00 Guided Tour of The Banff Centre (PDC Front Desk)
14:00 - 14:20 Group Photo (TCPL Foyer)
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
15:50 - 17:05 Armita Nourmohammad: Discussion (Online)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner (Kinnear Center 101)
Tuesday, February 15
07:00 - 09:00 Breakfast (Kinnear Center 101)
08:00 - 08:30 Aleksandra Walczak: ReRepertoire profiling of T-cell thymic development (Online)
08:30 - 09:00 Anastasia Minervina: Characterization of SARS-CoV-2 public CD4+ αβ T cell clonotypes through reverse epitope discovery (Online)
09:00 - 09:30 Paul Thomas: Deconstructing the form and function of T cell responses to infections (TCPL 201)
10:00 - 10:10 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:10 - 10:40 Philip Bradley: Generation and selection of T cell receptors (TCPL 201)
10:40 - 11:10 Michael Dustin: Fluorescence spectroscopy of CD4 and CD8 coreceptors: insights into T cell receptor signaling and antigen discrimination (TCPL 201)
11:10 - 11:40 Anton Zilman: Encoding signaling specificity in the presence of cross-talk (TCPL 201)
12:00 - 12:30 Alexander Hoffmann: Cracking a Signaling Code (Online)
12:10 - 13:00 Lunch (Kinnear Center 101)
14:30 - 16:00 Anton Zilman: Discussion Modeling & Machine learning (Anton & Paul) (Online)
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner (Kinnear Center 101)
Wednesday, February 16
07:00 - 09:00 Breakfast (Kinnear Center 101)
08:00 - 08:30 Omer Dushek: The discriminatory power of the T cell receptor (Online)
08:30 - 09:00 Aneta Koseska: Cellular processing of non-stationary signals (Online)
09:00 - 09:30 William White: Kinetic Proofreading in TCR Signaling by Condensate Nucleation (TCPL 201)
09:30 - 10:00 Jayajit Das: Signal integration in spatiotemporal NK cell signaling (TCPL 201)
10:00 - 10:05 Virtual Photo (Online)
10:00 - 10:15 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:30 - 11:00 Hao Yuan Kueh: A reversible epigenetic switch opens multiple paths to memory T cell generation (Online)
11:00 - 11:30 Leila Perie: Family matters: the role of single cell family in hematopoiesis (Online)
11:30 - 12:00 Ellen Rothenberg: Quantitative epigenetic constraints on gene regulatory network dynamics in mammalian blood cell development (TCPL 201)
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch (Kinnear Center 101)
13:30 - 17:30 Free Afternoon (Banff National Park)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner (Kinnear Center 101)
Thursday, February 17
07:00 - 09:00 Breakfast (Kinnear Center 101)
08:30 - 09:00 Yaron Antebi: Integration of equivalent and contradictory signals in the TGFb pathway (Online)
09:00 - 09:30 Ignacio Moraga: Molecular and cellular determinants defining cytokines functional diversity (Online)
09:30 - 10:00 Cecile Fradin: Diffusion and signaling: An experimentalist's point of view (TCPL 201)
10:00 - 10:30 Carmen Molina-Paris: Algebraic approaches to decipher cytokine receptor signalling (Online)
10:45 - 11:00 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
11:00 - 11:30 Amber Smith: Connecting Immune Dynamics with Lung Pathology to Understand Influenza (TCPL 201)
11:30 - 12:00 Shenshen Wang: Why immune cells do physical work to sense and evolve (Online)
12:00 - 12:30 John Tsang: Systems immunology of COVID-19 and machine learning of immune dynamics (TCPL 201)
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch (Kinnear Center 101)
14:30 - 16:00 Anton Zilman: Discussion III: Systems Immunology (Anton & Grégoire) (Online)
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner (Kinnear Center 101)
Friday, February 18
07:00 - 09:00 Breakfast (Kinnear Center 101)
08:00 - 08:30 Thomas Hofer: Tissue-resident progenitor T cells maintain graft versus host disease (Online)
08:30 - 09:00 Sid Goyal: A dynamical systems treatment of transcriptomic trajectories in blood development (Online)
09:00 - 10:00 Gregoire Altan-Bonnet: & Paul Francois - Universal antigen encoding of T cell activation from high dimensional cytokine dynamics (Part I & II) (Online)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:30 - 11:00 Checkout by 11AM (Front Desk - Professional Development Centre)
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch from 11:30 to 13:30 (Kinnear Center 101)