8:00 am – 9:00 am

Registration & breakfast

9:00 am – 9:15 am

Opening remarks

Ruslan Medzhitov, Ph.D., Yale University

9:15 am – 10:00 am

Keynote: The Neural basis of sugar craving

Charles Zuker, Ph.D., Columbia University

10:00 am – 10:30 am

The Gut-Brain Axis and Reward

Ivan De Araujo, DPhil, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

10:30 am – 10:45 am

Break

10:45 am – 11:15 am

Neuro-immune interactions in the gut

Daniel Mucida, Ph.D., The Rockefeller University

11:15 am – 11:45 am

Neuronal Regulation of Innate Lymphoid Cells

Henrique Veiga-Fernandes, Ph.D., Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown

11:45 am – 12:15 pm

Regulation of intestinal inflammation

David Artis, Ph.D., Weill Cornell Medical College

12:15 pm – 1:00 pm

Lunch

1:00 pm – 1:15 pm

Short talk: Neuroimmune Loops in the Initiation of Allergic Immune Responses

Caroline Sokol, M.D., Ph.D., Massachusetts General Hospital

1:15 pm – 1:45 pm

Innate immune mechanisms regulating brain development

Anna Molofsky, M.D., Ph.D., University of California, San Francisco

1:45 pm – 2:15 pm

Microglia Diversity and Function in Health & Disease

Beth Stevens, Ph.D., Boston Children’s Hospital

2:15 pm – 2:30 pm

Break

2:30 pm – 2:45 pm

Lightning talk: CGRP negatively regulates alarmin-driven ILC2 responses

Antonia Wallrapp, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

2:45 pm – 3:15 pm

Neuron atlases as roadmaps to disease

Aviv Regev, Ph.D., Broad Institute

3:15 pm – 4:00 pm

Keynote: Nociceptor driven inflammation

Clifford Woolf, Ph.D., Boston Children’s Hospital

4:00 - 4:05 pm

Closing remarks

4:05 pm – 6:00 pm

Poster session & reception