Speakers | Montagna Symposium on the Biology of Skin

2022 Speaker List:

*Speaker*		*Title*	*Institution*	*Topic*
	Niroshana Anandasabapathy, M.D., Ph.D.	Associate Professor of Dermatology	Weill Cornell Medical College	“Cancer immune surveillance in tissues: where it begins and ends”
	Yasmine Belkaid, Ph.D.	Director NIAID Microbiome program Co-Director NIH Center for Human Immunology	National institutes of Health / NIAID	“Multikingdom control of skin immunity”
	Isaac Chiu, Ph.D.	Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Immunobiology	Harvard University	“Microbes and nerves: S. aureus driven itch and skin damage”
	Raymond Cho, M.D., Ph.D.	Associate Professor of Dermatology	University of California, San Francisco	“Single-cell interrogation of inflammatory skin disease”
	Ricardo Cibotti, Ph.D.	Program Director, Skin Immunology and Diseases, Skin Microbiome Program	NIAMS / NIH	“Funding Forum: Emerging challenges and opportunities”
	Richard Gallo, M.D., Ph.D.	Irma Gigli Distinguished Professor Chairman, Department of Dermatology	University of California, San Diego	“Pathogen response in the skin”
	Michel Gilliet, M.D.	Chair of Dermatology	University Hospital CHUV in Lausanne, Switzerland	“Targeting immune pathways in inflammatory diseases”
	Teri Greiling, M.D., Ph.D.	Assistant Professor of Dermatology	OHSU	“Lupus and the microbiota”
	Annemieke de Jong, Ph.D.	Assistant Professor of Dermatology	Columbia University	“Recognition of bacterial lipids by human T cells through CD1a”
	Daniel Kaplan, M.D., Ph.D.	Professor of Dermatology, Immunology	University of Pittsburgh	“Cutaneous neurons modulating immune responses”
	Brian Kim, M.D.	Professor of Dermatology	Mount Sinai	“Neuroimmune Regulation of Itch”
	Eynav Klechevsky, Ph.D.	Assistant Professor, Pathology & Immunology	Washington University in St. Louis	“Regulation and dysregulation of Immune Responses by human skin dendritic cell subsets”
	Heidi Kong, M.D., M.H.Sc.	Head, Cutaneous Microbiome and Inflammation Section Investigator, Dermatology Branch	NIH / NIAMS	“The Microbiome in Human Skin Disease”
	Sancy Leachman, M.D., Ph.D.	Chair, Department of Dermatology, OHSU Director, Melanoma Program, Knight Cancer Institute	OHSU	Introductory remarks, and co-director
	Laura Mackay, Ph.D.	Laboratory Head, Department of Microbiology and Immunology (DMI)	The University of Melbourne, Australia	Keynote: “Local Immune Protection by CD8+ Tissue-Resident Memory T Cells”
	Robert L. Modlin, M.D.	Klein Professor, Dermatology; Professor, Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics	University of Los Angeles, California	“Linking immune responses and lipid metabolism to antimicrobial responses in skin”
	Keisuke (Chris) Nagao, M.D., Ph.D.	Stadtman Investigator Cutaneous Leukocyte Biology Section	NIH / NIAMS	“Intersection of tissue, immunity and the microbiota in skin”
	Shruti Naik, Ph.D.	Assistant Professor of Medicine, Pathology, Dermatology	New York University School of Medicine	“Immune-epithelial crosstalk in skin inflammation and repair”
	Tiffany Scharschmidt, M.D.	Associate Professor, Dermatology	University of California San Francisco	“Early life immune-microbe crosstalk in skin”
	Philip O. Scumpia, M.D.	Assistant Professor	University of California, Los Angeles	“Refining immunomodulatory biomaterials for skin applications”
	Julie Segre, Ph.D.	Chief & Senior Investigator Translational and Functional Genomics Branch	NIH / NHGRI	“Human Skin Microbiome: Finding Friends and Foes”
	John O’Shea, M.D.	Chief, Molecular Immunology and Inflammation Branch NIAMS Scientific Director	NIH / NIAMS	“Lymphocytes and Superenhancers”
	Jean Y. Tang, M.D., Ph.D.	Professor of Dermatology	Stanford	“Small molecule and gene therapy approaches for BCC and SCC prevention in rare diseases”

Short Talk Speakers

George Agak, MSc, Ph.D.	Assistant Researcher	University of Los Angeles, California	“To trap a pathogen: TH17 cell-mediated extracellular traps release and their role in host defense in acne”
Nathan Archer, Ph.D.	Assistant Professor of Dermatology	Johns Hopkins School of Medicine	“Neutrophil-intrinsic TNF receptor signaling orchestrates host defense against Staphylococcus aureus”
Ian Boothby, Ph.D.	M.D.-Ph.D. Student	University of California, San Francisco	“Early Life Inflammation Primes a Th2-Fibroblast Niche in Skin”
Erin Chen, M.D., Ph.D.	HHMI Hanna Gray Postdoctoral Fellow	Stanford	“Defining the functional properties of commensal-induced T cells by redirecting them against a non-native antigen”
Liang Deng, M.D., Ph.D.	Associate Attending Physician	Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center	“Reprogramming tumor microenvironment by a second-generation recombinant modified vaccinia virus Ankara”
Zach Garrison	Research Assistant II	OHSU	“A novel MIF modulator as a melanoma therapeutic”
Sergei Koralov, Ph.D.	Associate Professor, Pathology	New York University School of Medicine	“Clonal evolution and microbial triggers in Cutaneous T Cell Lymphoma pathogenesis”
Kazumasa Oya, Ph.D.		University of Tsukuba, Japan	“Eribulin mesylate exerts antitumor effects via CD103″
Lynn Petukhova, Ph.D.	Assistant Professor	Columbia University	“Monogenic mutations implicate STAT1 in hidradenitis suppurativa pathogenesis.”
Roberto Ricardo-Gonzalez, M.D., Ph.D.	Assistant Professor, Dermatology	University of California, San Francisco	“Innate type 2 immunity controls hair follicle commensalism by Demodex mites”
Sarah Whitley, M.D., Ph.D.	Assistant Professor	University of Pittsburgh	“Local IL-23 is required for proliferation and retention of skin-resident memory Th17 cells”