10th Annual Colorado Immunology Conference Stanley Hotel, Estes Park Colorado September 8-10, 2009 Tuesday, September 8, 2009 1:00 p.m.:  Poster and vendor session setup* – Manor House *posters must be set up by 11:59 p.m. on Tuesday, September 8, 2009 3:00-5:00 p.m.:  arrive and registration 6:00 p.m.:  Keynote Presentation – Concert Hall: Elizabeth Jaffee, M.D., Johns Hopkins Medicine “Genes, Vaccines, and Immune Checkpoints: An All Out Attack on Pancreatic Cancer” 7:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.:  Dinner “As time goes on” – MacGregor Ballroom Semi-Formal or After Five:  tuxes are not required, nor are long dresses.  Dark suits (dress slacks  and a nice shirt ), or a cocktail dress . 8:30 p.m. – 9:15 p.m.  IMMUNOLOGY HAS TALENT 9:30-12:00 a.m. Jammin Dj’s:  Infinity Entertainment, Inc. Wednesday, September 9, 2009 Breakfast 7:30 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. - Concert Hall 1st session: 8:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Cancer Immunology Chair:  Ross Kedl Jill Slansky - T cell function in hypoxic conditions Don Bellgrau - Colorado's born and bred first in man immunotherapy Steve Dow - Monocyte/Macrophage Depletion Therapy to Restore Tumor Immunity Ross Kedl - Investigator seeking new approach to therapeutic tumor vaccination.  Must be adaptable to mouse model, be physiologically relevant, and like long walks on the beach in the moonlight 2nd session: 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Mucosal Immunity and Inflammation Chair:  Laurel Lenz Sean Colgan - Microenvironment of inflammatory lesions: Influences on disease resolution Andrew Fontenot - T cell recognition of beryllium Laurel Lenz - Suppression of IFNg by intracellular pathogens involves antagonistic interferon crosstalk Todd Grazia - Autologous CD117+ Progenitor Cell Therapy Significantly Prolongs Fully Allo-Mismatched Cardiac Allografts in a Dose-Dependent Fashion 1:00-1:45 p.m. Grant review and submission with Kelly, Andrea and Sandy-Billard Room 1:00-2:00 p.m. Quarterly Symposia Committee Luncheon - Music room (by invitation only) 6:00 p.m. Dinner and State of the Department Address – MacGregor Ballroom 7:00 p.m. Poster and Vendor Session – Manor House Thursday, September 10, 2009 Breakfast 7:30 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. - Concert Hall 3rd session: 8:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. From Bench to Bedside Chair:  Lenny Dragone Dave Riches - Autoimmune Interstitial lung disease Lenny Dragone - A T cell-centric view of the pathogenesis of Rheumatoid Arthritis Lucy Golden-Mason - The immune response to Hepatitis C Viral (HCV) infection – What the patient can teach us Scott Alper - A comparative genomics approach to identify genes that regulate innate immunity and disease 4th session: 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Immunological Technology and Poster Session Winners Chair:  Dirk Homann George Eisenbarth - Probing and Autoimmune Trimolecular Complex Dirk Homann - Chemokine flow cytometry David Pollock - High throughput sequencing of TCR repertoires Poster Winners