Speakers | Montagna Symposium on the Biology of Skin

In alphabetical order. Subject to change

*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	“Neuro-immune interactions in host defense”
	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.	Associate 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”
	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”
	Julia Oh, Ph.D.	Associate Professor	The Jackson Laboratory	“From metagenomes to therapeutics: the human skin microbiome”
	Tiffany Scharschmidt, M.D.	Associate Professor, Dermatology	University of California San Francisco	“Microbiome, Tregs up and coming”
	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”