Friday, May 12, 2023     3:45 PM – 5:45 PM ET     Room 101

International Complement Society (ICS) Symposium

Location Matters: The Evolving Roles of Cell-autonomous and Local Complement

Chairs

• Ben Afzali, NIDDK, NIH
• Marcela Pekna, Univ. of Gothenburg, Sweden

Speakers

• Niki M. Moutsopoulos, NIDCR, NIH, Innate immunity and the oral mucosa
• Markus Bosmann, Boston Univ., Take a breath: local complement in lung pathologies
• Marcela Pekna, Univ. of Gothenburg, Sweden, C3a receptor signaling in neural plasticity and astrocyte-microglia crosstalk after CNS injury
• Brahm H. Segal, Univ. at Buffalo, SUNY, The unexpected contributions of local complement in ovarian cancer