Tuberculosis: Science Aimed at Ending the Epidemic
December 2-4, 2020 | 10:00AM ET | 3:00PM UTC*
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Wednesday, December 2, 2020
Welcoming Remarks and Keynote Address
10:00 AM - 10:40 AM EST
Wednesday, December 2, 2020Organizer
Anne Kasmar, MD
Genentech
Speaker
Soumya Swaminathan, MD
World Health Organization
Welcoming Remarks and Keynote Address
Taking Science‑Based Solutions to Scale
10:00 AM - 10:40 AM EST
Wednesday, December 2, 2020Speaker
Soumya Swaminathan, MD
World Health Organization
Welcoming Remarks and Keynote Address
Breakthroughs in Biomarkers
10:40 AM - 1:20 PM EST
Wednesday, December 2, 2020Co-Chairs
Bruno Andrade, MD, PhD
Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (FIOCRUZ)
Mark Hatherill, MD, PhD
University of Cape Town
Breakthroughs in Biomarkers
Breakthroughs from Brazil and Beyond
10:40 AM - 11:05 AM EST
Wednesday, December 2, 2020Speaker
Bruno Andrade, MD, PhD
Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (FIOCRUZ)
Breakthroughs in Biomarkers
Can Host Blood Transcriptomic Biomarkers of Tuberculosis Inform Therapy?
11:05 AM - 11:30 AM EST
Wednesday, December 2, 2020Speaker
Mark Hatherill, MD, PhD
University of Cape Town
Breakthroughs in Biomarkers
Short Talk: Biomarkers to Predict Leprosy: it takes two…
11:30 AM - 11:42 AM EST
Wednesday, December 2, 2020Speaker
Annemieke Geluk, PhD
Leiden University Medical Center
Breakthroughs in Biomarkers
Short Talk: Immune Correlates of Protection in Humans
11:42 AM - 11:54 AM EST
Wednesday, December 2, 2020Speaker
Elisa Nemes, PhD
University of Cape Town
Breakthroughs in Biomarkers
Coffee Break
11:54 AM - 12:04 PM EST
Wednesday, December 2, 2020Breakthroughs in Biomarkers
Short Talk: GPX4 and BACH1 Regulate Necrotic Cell Death and Host Resistance in Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Infection in vivo
12:04 PM - 12:16 PM EST
Wednesday, December 2, 2020Speaker
Eduardo Pinheiro Amaral, PhD
NIAID, National Institutes of Health
Breakthroughs in Biomarkers
Short Talk: Apparent Sterilizing Immunity in BCG‑Immunized Mice Challenged with an Ultra Low Dose of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
12:16 PM - 12:28 PM EST
Wednesday, December 2, 2020Speaker
Courtney Plumlee, PhD
Seattle Children's Research Institute
Breakthroughs in Biomarkers
Short Talk: Host Immune Regulator PARP1 Drives TB Sex Differences
12:28 PM - 12:40 PM EST
Wednesday, December 2, 2020Speaker
William Bishai, MD, PhD
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Breakthroughs in Biomarkers
Short Talk: Genome‑to‑Genome Analysis Identifies the Effect of the Host Immune Systems on Mycobacterium Tuberculosis and Its Impact on Clinical Outcomes
12:40 PM - 12:52 PM EST
Wednesday, December 2, 2020Speaker
Yang Luo, PhD
Harvard Medical School
Breakthroughs in Biomarkers
Panel: COVID4TB
12:50 PM - 1:20 PM EST
Wednesday, December 2, 2020Moderator
Rodrigo Corrêa-Oliveira, PhD
FIOCRUZ
Panelists
Morten Ruhwald, MD, PhD
FIND
Annette Vogel, DSc
BioNTech
David Alland, MD
Rutgers University, New Jersey Medical School
Breakthroughs in Biomarkers
Career Roundtable
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM EST
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Panelists
Bryan Bryson, PhD
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Joao Monteiro, MD, PhD
Nature Medicine
Lakshmi Ramachandra, PhD
NIAID, National Institutes of Health
Career Roundtable
Highlights from the Host
5:00 PM - 8:00 PM EST
Wednesday, December 2, 2020Co-Chairs
Katrin Mayer‑Barber, PhD
NIAID, National Institutes of Health
Milton Ozório Moraes, PhD
Oswaldo Cruz Institute‑ Fiocruz
Highlights from the Host
Can Basic Immunology Solve Tuberculosis?
5:00 PM - 5:25 PM EST
Wednesday, December 2, 2020Speaker
Alan Sher, PhD
NIAID, National Institutes of Health
Highlights from the Host
Mechanisms of Protection in Nonhuman Primates
5:25 PM - 5:50 PM EST
Wednesday, December 2, 2020Speaker
Patricia Darrah, PhD
NIAID, National Institutes of Health
Highlights from the Host
Tricytotoxic CTLs in Leprosy and TB
5:50 PM - 6:15 PM EST
Wednesday, December 2, 2020Speaker
Robert Modlin, MD
University of California, Los Angeles
Highlights from the Host
Coffee Break
6:15 PM - 6:35 PM EST
Wednesday, December 2, 2020Highlights from the Host
Unexpected Aspects of Granuloma Biology
6:35 PM - 7:00 PM EST
Wednesday, December 2, 2020Speaker
Katrin Mayer‑Barber, PhD
NIAID, National Institutes of Health
Highlights from the Host
Short Talk: Autophagy and Host Metabolism in Leprosy
7:00 PM - 7:12 PM EST
Wednesday, December 2, 2020Speaker
Milton Ozório Moraes, PhD
Oswaldo Cruz Institute‑ Fiocruz
Highlights from the Host
Short Talk: Identification of Autophagy Inhibiting Factors of Mycobacterium tuberculosis by High Throughput Loss of Function Screening
7:12 PM - 7:24 PM EST
Wednesday, December 2, 2020Speaker
Emily Strong, PhD
UTMB
Highlights from the Host
Short Talk: Intravenous BCG Vaccination Transiently Depletes Alveolar Macrophages and Contributes to Protection against Mtb via Long Term Remodeling of the Pulmonary Myeloid Compartment
7:24 PM - 7:36 PM EST
Wednesday, December 2, 2020INTRAVENOUS BCG VACCINATION CONTRIBUTES TO PROTECTION AGAINST MTB VIA LONG-TERM REMODELING OF THE PULMONARY MYELOID COMPARTMENT
Speaker
Kerry Hilligan, PhD
NIAID, National Institutes of Health
Highlights from the Host
Short Talk: Type III Interferons Are Expressed in Tuberculous Granulomas and Promote Inflammatory Phenotypes in Macrophages that Differ from Type I Interferons
7:36 PM - 7:48 PM EST
Wednesday, December 2, 2020Speaker
Priyanka Talukdar, MS
University of Pittsburgh
Highlights from the Host
Short Talk: GPR183 Oxysterol Axis Is Dysregulated at the Site of Disease during M. tuberculosis Infection
7:48 PM - 8:00 PM EST
Wednesday, December 2, 2020Speaker
Stacey Reanna Bartlett, PhD
Translational Research Institute–Mater Research Institute
Highlights from the Host
Thursday, December 3, 2020
Back to Bacterial Basics
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM EST
Thursday, December 3, 2020Co-Chairs
Deborah Hung, MD, PhD
Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard
Oyindamola Adefisayo, PhD
Weill Cornell Medicine
Back to Bacterial Basics
The Biology of Metals in Mycobacterial Virulence and Antimycobacterial Immunity
10:00 AM - 10:25 AM EST
Thursday, December 3, 2020Speaker
Olivier Neyrolles, PhD
IPBS, CNRS‑University of Toulouse
Back to Bacterial Basics
How MTB Sees the Host‑Pathogen Interface
10:25 AM - 10:50 AM EST
Thursday, December 3, 2020Speaker
David Sherman, PhD
Back to Bacterial Basics
Short Talk: Live‑Imaging M. Leprae
10:50 AM - 11:02 AM EST
Thursday, December 3, 2020Speaker
Cressida Madigan, PhD
University of California, San Diego
Back to Bacterial Basics
Targeting Adaptive Mycobacterial Translation as Anti‑Virulence Strategies
11:02 AM - 11:27 AM EST
Thursday, December 3, 2020Speaker
Babak Javid, MD, PhD
University of California San Francisco
Back to Bacterial Basics
Coffee Break
11:27 AM - 11:47 AM EST
Thursday, December 3, 2020Back to Bacterial Basics
Mining PROSPECT for TB Drugs
11:47 AM - 12:12 PM EST
Thursday, December 3, 2020Speaker
Deborah Hung, MD, PhD
Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard
Back to Bacterial Basics
Short Talk: The Abundant Small Proteome of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
12:12 PM - 12:24 PM EST
Thursday, December 3, 2020Speaker
Todd Gray, PhD
New York State Department of Health
Back to Bacterial Basics
Short Talk: Pseudogenization as a Source of Genetic Variability to the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex
12:24 PM - 12:36 PM EST
Thursday, December 3, 2020Speaker
Naila Cristina Soler Camargo, BS
University of São Paulo
Back to Bacterial Basics
Short Talk: Functional Characterization of the Transcriptional Response to DNA Damage in Mycobacteria
12:36 PM - 12:48 PM EST
Thursday, December 3, 2020Speaker
Oyindamola Adefisayo, PhD
Weill Cornell Medicine
Back to Bacterial Basics
Short Talk: Visualization of Dormancy Induced by Ribosome Hibernation in Zinc Starved Mycobacteria
12:48 PM - 1:00 PM EST
Thursday, December 3, 2020Speaker
Jamie Corro, MS
State University of New York at Albany
Back to Bacterial Basics
Meet the Editors Roundtable
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM EST
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Panelists
Salvatore Fabbiano, PhD
Cell Press
George Hills
Sage Publishing
Zeljko Durdevic, PhD
EMBO Press
Francesca Dickens, BS
Frontiers
Meet the Editors
Data to Drive Innovation
5:00 PM - 8:00 PM EST
Thursday, December 3, 2020Co-Chairs
Purvesh Khatri, PhD
Stanford University
Shuyi Ma, PhD
University of Washington
Data to Drive Innovation
Clonal Dynamics of the Antibody Response
5:00 PM - 5:25 PM EST
Thursday, December 3, 2020Speaker
Gabriel Victora, PhD
Rockefeller University
Data to Drive Innovation
Multiscale Approaches Decipher the Many Faces of Altered Drug Susceptibility in Mycobacterium Tuberculosis
5:25 PM - 5:50 PM EST
Thursday, December 3, 2020Speaker
Sarah Fortune, MD
Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health
Data to Drive Innovation
Adventures of a Data Parasite: Using Heterogeneity in "Dirty Data" to Accelerate Translational Medicine
5:50 PM - 6:15 PM EST
Thursday, December 3, 2020Speaker
Purvesh Khatri, PhD
Stanford University
Data to Drive Innovation
Coffee Break
6:15 PM - 6:30 PM EST
Thursday, December 3, 2020Data to Drive Innovation
Modeling Genetic Diversity in TB Susceptibility
6:30 PM - 6:55 PM EST
Thursday, December 3, 2020Speaker
Christopher Sassetti, PhD
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Data to Drive Innovation
Tuberculosis Strain Diversity Drives Immune Response
6:55 PM - 7:20 PM EST
Thursday, December 3, 2020Speaker
Shabaana Khader, PhD
Washington University School of Medicine
Data to Drive Innovation
Short Talk: Data‑Driven Inference of Drug Synergy
7:20 PM - 7:32 PM EST
Thursday, December 3, 2020Speaker
Shuyi Ma, PhD
University of Washington
Data to Drive Innovation
Short Talk: Defining the Role of CD8 T Cell Subsets in Tuberculosis in Non Human Primates
7:32 PM - 7:44 PM EST
Thursday, December 3, 2020Speaker
Caylin Winchell, PhD
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Data to Drive Innovation
Short Talk: Mycobacterium tuberculosis VapC4 Toxin Engages Small ORFs to Initiate an Integrated Oxidative and Copper Stress Response
7:44 PM - 7:56 PM EST
Thursday, December 3, 2020Speaker
Valdir Barth, PhD
Boston Children's Hospital
Data to Drive Innovation
Friday, December 4, 2020
Rethinking Risk in TB
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM EST
Friday, December 4, 2020Co-Chairs
Julio Croda, PhD
Oswaldo Cruz Foundation / Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul / Yale School
Sara Suliman, PhD
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Rethinking Risk in TB
Transmission is Driving the TB Epidemic, but Where Is the Majority of Transmission Occurring?
10:00 AM - 10:25 AM EST
Friday, December 4, 2020Speaker
Neel Gandhi, MD
Emory University
Rethinking Risk in TB
Tuberculosis in Prisons: Spillover and Impact in the Community
10:25 AM - 10:50 AM EST
Friday, December 4, 2020Speaker
Julio Croda, PhD
Oswaldo Cruz Foundation / Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul / Yale School
Rethinking Risk in TB
Mtb Transmissibility and Tissue Response
10:50 AM - 11:15 AM EST
Friday, December 4, 2020Speaker
Padmini Salgame, PhD
Rutgers University
Rethinking Risk in TB
Coffee Break
11:15 AM - 11:35 AM EST
Friday, December 4, 2020Rethinking Risk in TB
A Focus on Bacterial Factors
11:35 AM - 12:00 PM EST
Friday, December 4, 2020Speaker
Kyu Rhee, MD
Weill Cornell Medical College
Rethinking Risk in TB
Short Talk: Integration of Genetic and Transcriptional Profiles of Innate Cells to Decipher Mechanisms of TB Susceptibility
12:00 PM - 12:12 PM EST
Friday, December 4, 2020Speaker
Sara Suliman, PhD
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Rethinking Risk in TB
Short Talk: The Effect of Dysglycemia on Mycobacterium tuberculosis Transmission to Close Contacts of Persons with Pulmonary Tuberculosis
12:12 PM - 12:24 PM EST
Friday, December 4, 2020Speaker
Betania Nogueira, MS
Universidade Federal da Bahia
Rethinking Risk in TB
Short Talk: The Next Generation Diarylquinoline TBAJ 587 has Superior Efficacy Against, and Restricts Selection of, Bedaquiline Resistant Rv0678 Mutants in a Mouse Model of Tuberculosis
12:24 PM - 12:36 PM EST
Friday, December 4, 2020Speaker
Paul Converse, PhD
Johns Hopkins University
Rethinking Risk in TB
Short Talk: MtbEis Mediated Acetylation of RelMtb Regulates Stringent Response in Mycobacterium tuberculosis
12:36 PM - 12:48 PM EST
Friday, December 4, 2020Speaker
Nittu Singh, MS
CSIR‑IMTECH
Rethinking Risk in TB
Short Talk: CryoEM Structure of an Mce/YrbE ABC Transporter Complex Sheds Light on Hydrophobic Transport across the Envelope
12:48 PM - 1:00 PM EST
Friday, December 4, 2020Speaker
Damian Ekiert, PhD
New York University School of Medicine
Rethinking Risk in TB
Directing Discovery to Transform TB
5:00 PM - 8:15 PM EST
Friday, December 4, 2020Co-Chairs
David Alland, MD
Rutgers University, New Jersey Medical School
Stefanie Krug, PhD
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Directing Discovery to Transform TB
Short Talk: BCG for COVID
5:00 PM - 5:12 PM EST
Friday, December 4, 2020Speaker
Mihai Netea, MD
Radboud University
Directing Discovery to Transform TB
LTBI Management in Mainland China
5:12 PM - 5:37 PM EST
Friday, December 4, 2020Speaker
Lei Gao, PhD
Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences
Directing Discovery to Transform TB
Taming Tuberculosis: The Path from Pathogen to Commensal
5:37 PM - 6:02 PM EST
Friday, December 4, 2020Speaker
Yasmine Belkaid, PhD
NIAID, National Institutes of Health
Directing Discovery to Transform TB
Emerging Results from Next Gen EBA Studies
6:02 PM - 6:27 PM EST
Friday, December 4, 2020Speaker
Clifton Barry, PhD
NIAID, National Institutes of Health
Directing Discovery to Transform TB
Ending TB in the Next 15 Years: Can We Do It, Using the Tools We Have Now, Better?
6:27 PM - 6:49 PM EST
Friday, December 4, 2020Speaker
Guy Marks, PhD
University of New South Wales
Directing Discovery to Transform TB
Coffee Break
6:52 PM - 7:10 PM EST
Friday, December 4, 2020Directing Discovery to Transform TB
Short Talk: Pyrazinamide Inhibits the Host Enzyme PARP1 to Reduce Inflammation and Accelerate Bacterial Clearance
7:10 PM - 7:22 PM EST
Friday, December 4, 2020Speaker
Stefanie Krug, PhD
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Directing Discovery to Transform TB
Short Talk: A Donor‑Unrestricted TCR‑Bispecific Redirects T Cell Immunity Against Mycobacterium tuberculosis via HLA E
7:22 PM - 7:34 PM EST
Friday, December 4, 2020Speaker
Sarah Leonard, PhD
Immunocore Ltd
Directing Discovery to Transform TB
Short Talk: An Anti‑Viral Vaccine Regimen that Leverages Mycobacteria Specific Helper T Cells Induced by Prior BCG Vaccination
7:34 PM - 7:45 PM EST
Friday, December 4, 2020Speaker
Tony Ng, PhD
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Directing Discovery to Transform TB
Closing Keynote Address: Turning Discoveries into Useful Tools
7:45 PM - 8:15 PM EST
Friday, December 4, 2020Speaker
David Alland, MD
Rutgers University, New Jersey Medical School
Directing Discovery to Transform TB
