Saturday, May 13, 2023     12:30 PM – 2:30 PM ET     Room 101

Canadian Society for Immunology (CSI) Symposium

The Ontogeny and Functioning of the Immune System: Lessons from Non-mammalian Systems

Chairs

• Edan Foley, Univ. of Alberta, Canada
• Jason N. Berman, Univ. of Ottowa and Children's Hosp. of Eastern Ontario Res. Inst., Canada

Speakers

• Edan Foley, Univ. of Alberta, Canada, Single-cell resolution of the zebrafish intestinal immune response to a Vibrio cholerae infection
• Jason N. Berman, Univ. of Ottowa and Children's Hosp. of Eastern Ontario Res. Inst., Canada, Leveraging the zebrafish model for preclinical studies of the immune microenvironment in cancer
• Francesca Di Cara, Dalhousie Univ., Canada, Drosophila immunity
• Shayan Sharif, Univ. of Guelph, Canada, Chicken immunity and viral pathogens
• W. Brent Derry, Univ. of Toronto, Canada, C. elegans innate immunity