The 2025 Principles of Mucosal Immunology Virtual Course was held June 30-July 2, 2025 with sessions focusing on both scientific and career development topics facilitated in three hour segments each day of the course. The course was offered virtually with live-streamed sessions and available asynchronously to enable full access globally. Registrants had the opportunity to ask questions of all presenters live, with an online forum for additional questions and to engage in continued conversation with each other throughout the course and beyond.
Program Committee
Alessandra Filardy, PhD - Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Stephanie Ganal-Vonarburg, PhD - University of Bern
Sangwon Kim, PhD - Thomas Jefferson University
Course Schedule
Principles of Mucosal Immunology Course Schedule - US Central Daylight Time (CDT).
| June 30, 2025 | Basics of mucosal immunology | Faculty |
| 14:00 | Overview of mucosal barriers | Rodney Newberry, MD Washington University St. Louis |
| 14:30 | Myeloid cells of the Gastrointestinal Tract | Brian Kelsall, MD NIAID |
| 15:00 | Break | |
| 15:15 | ILCs | Marco Colonna, MD Washington University St. Louis |
| 15:45 | The mucosal B cell response | Carla Nowosad, PhD NYU Langone Grossman School of Medicine |
| 16:15 | Break | |
| 16:30 | Dendritic cells as arbiters of intestinal barrier immunity | Dan Littman, MD, PhD NYU |
| 17:00 | Immune system programming by gut bacteria and food antigens at steady state and in disease | Dan Littman, MD, PhD NYU |
| July, 1, 2025 | Specialized mucosal immunity - beyond the intestine | Faculty |
| 14:00 | The mucosal immune system of the airways and the lungs | Clare Lloyd, PhD Imperial College London |
| 14:30 | Axis of gut and brain | Anne-Katrin Pröbstel, MD University of Basel |
| 15:00 | Break | |
| 15:15 | Immunity in the skin barrier | Caroline Sokol, MD, PhD Massachusetts General Hospital |
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15:45 |
Environmental influences on the mucosal immune system | Erika von Mutius, MD, PhD, MSc German Centre for Lung Research |
| 16:15 | Break | |
| 16:30 | Oral tolerance: Past and present insights | Ana Caetano, MD, PhD Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais |
| 17:00 | Bacterial foodborne infections |
Brian Sheriden, PhD |
| July, 2, 2025 | Towards new horizons in mucosal immunity | Faculty |
| 14:00 | From maps to mechanisms: How Spatial Technologies are redefining mucosal immunology | Gustavo Andrés Monasterio Ocares, DMD, PhD Karolinska Institutet |
| 14:30 | Effects of intergenerational transmission of small intestinal bacteria cultured from stunted Bangladeshi children with enteropathy | Kali Pruss, PhD Washington University St. Louis |
| 15:00 | Understanding the neonatal gut immune system: Foundations for developing effective oral vaccines | Natalia Torow, PhD Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research |
| 15:30 | Break | |
| 16:00 | Publishing – a perspective from an academic Editor-in-Chief | Benjamin Marsland, PhD Monash University |
| 16:30 | Career opportunities in the pharmaceutical R&D ecosystem | Francisco Leon, MD, PhD Tolerance Bio |