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Final Program

Immunogenetics

Wednesday, June 25, 2025
3:15pm - 5:15pm East Coast USA Time
Location: Salons A-D

    Chair(s)

  • CL

    Carrie Lucas, PhD

    Assistant Professor of Immunobiology
    Department of Immunobiology
    Yale University
    New Haven, Connecticut, United States

    • Co-Chair(s)

  • RE

    Ryuya Edahiro

    Assistant professor
    Department of Statistical Genetics, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine
    Osaka University
    Osaka, Osaka, Japan

Presentations:

  • 3:15pm - 3:30pm East Coast USA Time
    A New Risk Gene Is Associated with Very Early Onset Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Autoimmune Hepatobiliary Disease: A Mechanistic Study Using Patient Organoids and Transgenic Models

    Presenting Author: Siyan Cao, MD, PhD – Washington University in St. Louis

  • 3:30pm - 3:45pm East Coast USA Time
    The Ulcerative Colitis Susceptibility Gene Adenylyl Cyclase 7 Restrains Th2 Cytokine Production and Class II Antigen Presentation

    Presenting Author: Christopher J. Cardinale, MD, PhD – The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

  • 3:45pm - 4:00pm East Coast USA Time
    Unveiling the Role of IL-12A in Lupus: Linking Genetic Risk to B Cell Pathogenicity

    Presenting Author: Mariasilvia Colantuoni – Boston Children's Hospital

  • 4:00pm - 4:15pm East Coast USA Time
    Functional Assessment of Genetic Variants of CARD11 and BCL10 with Saturation Genome Editing

    Presenting Author: Nathan Camp – Seattle Children's Research Institute

  • 4:15pm - 4:30pm East Coast USA Time
    Atlas of Promoter-Enhancer Interactions in Human ILC3s Links Crohn’s Disease-Associated Variants with Established and Newly Implicated Target Genes

    Presenting Author: Nora Lakes – Cincinnati Children's Hospital

  • 4:30pm - 4:45pm East Coast USA Time
    X-MAID Disease Caused by a Novel Synonymous MSN Variant That Disrupts mRNA Splicing

    Presenting Author: Simran Samra, MSc – BC Children's Hospital, University of British Columbia

  • 4:45pm - 5:00pm East Coast USA Time
    Enhancer Hijacking of IgH Locus Leading to Antibody Deficiency and Invasive Streptococcus Pneumoniae Infection

    Presenting Author: Joshua M. Tobin – Washington University in St. Louis

  • 5:00pm - 5:15pm East Coast USA Time
    Human ELF4 Deficiency Illuminates Its Role in Inflammasome Biology

    Presenting Author: Dinesh Babu Uthaya Kumar – Yale University