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” |
![]() | 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” |