Chair: Dr. Liwu Li

In response to dynamic environmental cues with varying intensity and duration, key innate immune cells such as monocytes and neutrophils can adopt rudimentary memory states with distinct functional behaviors. This session will discuss key functional states of innate leukocytes that include chemotaxis and swarming; efferocytosis; tissue repair; inflammatory polarization and death. In addition to fundamental principles of innate memory dynamics, their translational implications related to infection and inflammation during organ damage and repair will be discussed by leading experts in the field.

Neutrophil-neutrophil communication, swarming, and anti-fungal actions: A rapidly changing paradigm in the lab and in the clinic
Dr. Daniel Irimia, Harvard Medical School, USA

Stepwise transcriptional reprogramming directs neutrophil trafficking and function in inflamed lungs
Dr. Hongbo Luo, Harvard Medical School, USA

Finding and pushing the limits of macrophage efferocytosis
Dr. Hanrui Zhang, Columbia University Medical School, USA

Title: TBA
Dr. Kathryn Gallagher, University of Michigan, USA