This April, AAI was pleased to support awards for trainee presenters at the 28th Woods Hole Immunoparasitology (WHIP) Meeting in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. The meeting featured keynotes addresses from three AAI members: P’ng Loke, Ph.D., of the NIAID Laboratory of Parasitic Dseases; former AAI president Jenny Ting, Ph.D, of the University of North Carolina, and John Harty, Ph.D., DFAAI, of the University of Iowa.
The WHIP meeting is an annual international meeting for trainees, early career, and established scholars conducting research in the immunology of parasitic infections and diseases.
AAI provided support for three poster awards and three podium presentation awards for students and post-docs. The AAI podium presentation awardees received the highest overall scores according to the conference rubric.
Podium Presentation Awards
(Left to right: Hodge, Merolle, Schroter)
First Place: Marissa Schroeter
Rutgers University
“The serotonin receptor 5’HTR2c regulates alveolar macrophage response post-helminth infection”
Second Place: Maria Merolle
University of Pennsylvania
“Generation of the memory T cell response to Cryptosporidium”
Third Place: Suzanne Hodge
University of Dundee, UK
“Vaccination with helminth immunomodulatory proteins allows productive type 2 immunity and protects against infection”
Poster Presentation Awards
(Left to right: Garrot, O’Dea, Kelly)
Abigail Kelly
University of Virginia
“Tnfr1 is critical for adequate immune cell infiltration into the brain during acute T. gondii infection”
Keenan O’Dea
University of Pennsylvania
“Contribution of CD40L to innate and adaptive mechanisms of resistance to Cryptosporidium“
Alexander Garrot
University of Georgia
“High fat diet enhances vaccine-mediated protection from malaria”
