Joint with: Early Life Immunity and Tolerance
Immunomodulatory Microbiota in Health and Disease

Mar 07–10, 2027 | Fairmont Banff Springs, Banff, AB, Canada
Scientific Organizers: Andrew T. Gewirtz, Ivaylo I. Ivanov, and Ruth E. Ley

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Mar 07–10, 2027 | Fairmont Banff Springs, Banff, AB, Canada

Scientific Organizers: Andrew T. Gewirtz, Ivaylo I. Ivanov, and Ruth E. Ley

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***Meeting program subject to change.

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Sunday, March 7, 2027
Registration
4:00–8:00 PM
 Riverview Lounge
Welcome Mixer
6:00–8:00 PM
 Riverview Lounge
Monday, March 8, 2027
Breakfast
7:00–8:00 AM
 Alberta/New Brunswick
Welcome Remarks (Joint)
8:00–8:10 AM
 Cascade Ballroom
Keynote Session (Joint)
8:10–9:30 AM
 Cascade Ballroom
Lora V. Hooper, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
How Microbiota Controls Innate Immunity
Sing Sing Way, Cincinnati Children's Hospital
Pediatric Infectious Diseases
Coffee Break
9:30–9:50 AM
 Riverview Lounge
Microbiota and T Cells (Joint)
9:30–11:30 AM
 Cascade Ballroom
Kathy D. McCoy, University of Calgary
Long-Term Reprogramming of Monocytes by Commensal Bacteria during Early Life Improves Host Defence against Infection
Ivaylo I. Ivanov, Columbia University
Innate–Adaptive Circuits in Commensal-Specific Immunity
Fiona M. Powrie, University of Oxford
Host-Microbiota Interactions in IBD
Short Talk(s) Chosen from Abstracts
Poster Setup
11:30–1:00 PM
 Alberta/New Brunswick
On Own for Lunch
11:30–2:30 PM
Poster Viewing
1:00–10:00 PM
 Alberta/New Brunswick
Symposia Spotlight 1
2:30–4:30 PM
 Cascade Ballroom
Short Talks Chosen from Abstracts
Coffee Available
4:30–5:00 PM
 Riverview Lounge
Microbial Metabolites and Immunity
5:00–7:00 PM
 Cascade Ballroom
Matam Vijay-Kumar, University of Toledo College of Medicine
Microbiota Metabolites and Dampening Immune Responses: Too Much of a Good Thing
Jun R. Huh, Harvard Medical School
Microbial Regulation of Immunity via the Synthesis of Small Molecule Metabolites
Kenya Honda, Keio University School of Medicine
Microbiota Influence on Adaptive Immunity
Social Hour with Dinner
7:00–8:00 PM
 Alberta/New Brunswick
Poster Session 1
7:30–10:00 PM
 Alberta/New Brunswick
Tuesday, March 9, 2027
Breakfast
7:00–8:00 AM
 Alberta/New Brunswick
Microbial Tolerance (Joint)
8:00–11:00 AM
 Cascade Ballroom
Ruth E. Ley, Max Planck Institute for Biology
Distinguishing Friend from Foe
Gregory M. Barton, University of California, Berkeley
Tolerance in the Intestine
Rodney D. Newberry, Washington University School of Medicine
Tolerance and IBD
Tiffany C. Scharschmidt, University of California, San Francisco
Early Life Tolerance to Skin Commensal Bacteria
Short Talk(s) Chosen from Abstracts
Coffee Break
9:00–9:20 AM
 Riverview Lounge
Poster Setup
11:00–1:00 PM
 Alberta/New Brunswick
On Own for Lunch
11:00–3:00 PM
Poster Viewing
1:00–10:00 PM
 Alberta/New Brunswick
Career Roundtable (Joint)
3:00–4:30 PM
 Alhambra Ballroom
Coffee Available
4:30–5:00 PM
 Riverview Lounge
Microbiota Beyond Gut
5:00–7:00 PM
 Cascade Ballroom
Andrew T. Gewirtz, Georgia State University / Frontiers
Gut Microbiota Control of Lung Immunity
Douglas S Kwon, Harvard Medical School
Vaginal Microbiome and HIV
Daniel H Kaplan, University of Pittsburgh
Microbiota and Epidermal Mast Cells
Short Talk(s) Chosen from Abstracts
Social Hour with Dinner
7:00–8:00 PM
 Alberta/New Brunswick
Poster Session 2
7:30–10:00 PM
 Alberta/New Brunswick
Wednesday, March 10, 2027
Breakfast
7:00–8:00 AM
 Alberta/New Brunswick
Frontiers in Microbiota-Immune Interactions
8:00–11:00 AM
 Cascade Ballroom
Ken H Cadwell, University of Pennsylvania
Host Adaptations to Gut Microbes
Theresa Alenghat, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
Epithelial Regulation of the Host-Microbiota Relationship
Noah W. Palm, Yale University
Transgingdom Interactomen
June L. Round, University of Utah
Fungi, Macrophages and B-Cells
Short Talk(s) Chosen from Abstracts
Coffee Break
9:00–9:20 AM
 Riverview Lounge
On Own for Lunch
11:00–2:30 PM
Symposia Spotlight 2
2:30–4:30 PM
 Cascade Ballroom
Short Talks Chosen from Abstracts
Coffee Available
4:30–5:00 PM
 Riverview Lounge
Better Bugs for Therapy
5:00–6:45 PM
 Cascade Ballroom
Marlies Meisel, University of Pittsburgh
Diet, Microbiota and Cancer
Laurence Zitvogel, Institut Gustave Roussy
Metabolite Regulation of Gut Dysbiosis to Solve Cancer Immunoresistance
Dan R. Littman, HHMI/New York University School of Medicine
Engineered Bacteria and Cancer treatment
Short Talk(s) Chosen from Abstracts
Meeting Wrap-Up: Outcomes and Future Directions (Organizers)
6:45–7:00 PM
 Cascade Ballroom
Social Hour with Dinner
7:00–8:00 PM
 Alberta/New Brunswick
Entertainment
8:00–11:00 PM
Cash Bar
8:00–11:00 PM
Thursday, March 11, 2027
Departure
12:00–11:59 PM

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