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Final Program

Vaccines, Emerging Pathogens & Post-infectious Syndromes

Thursday, June 26, 2025
2:10pm - 3:55pm East Coast USA Time
Location: Salons F-G

    Chair(s)

  • PG

    Pablo Gonzalez, PhD

    Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
    Santiago, Region Metropolitana, Chile

    • Co-Chair(s)

  • TW

    Timothy Watkins

    Graduate Student
    Yale University
    New Haven, Connecticut, United States

Presentations:

  • 2:10pm - 2:35pm East Coast USA Time
    Blood Drivers of Thromboinflammation and Neuropathology in COVID-19

    Speaker: Katerina Akassoglou, PhD – Gladstone Institutes, University of California - San Francisco

  • 2:35pm - 2:50pm East Coast USA Time
    Beyond Genetics: Lyme Disease's Unexpected Role in Connective Tissue Health - Findings from a Murine Model for Borrelia Burgdorferi Infection and the Human Clinical Study MAESTRO

    Presenting Author: Grace Loeser, BSc – Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • 2:50pm - 3:15pm East Coast USA Time
    Vaccine Immunity Counteracts Respiratory Virus-mediated Impairment of Immunological and Neurological Synapses

    Speaker: Alexis M. Kalergis, PhD – Millennium Institute on Immunology and Immunotherapy, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

  • 3:15pm - 3:30pm East Coast USA Time
    Germline Variants and Somatic Mosaic Chromosomal Alterations Affect COVID-19 Vaccine Immunogenicity, Infectious Diseases, and Autoimmune Diseases

    Presenting Author: Yukinori Okada, MD, PhD – The University of Tokyo, Osaka University, RIKEN IMS

  • 3:30pm - 3:55pm East Coast USA Time
    What Triggers Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children after SARS-CoV-2 Infection?

    Speaker: Adrienne G. Randolph, MD, MSc. – Boston Children's Hospital