June 11
1:30pm: Opening Remarks and Welcome- James R. Baker, Jr, MD
Director, Mary H. Weiser Food Allergy Center
Plenary Session I – Clinical Phenotypes of Food Allergy Responses
Chair: James R. Baker, Jr, MD
Ruth Dow Doan Professor
Director, Mary H. Weiser Food Allergy Center
Director, Michigan Nanotechnology Institute for Medicine and the Biological Sciences
University of Michigan
1:45- 2:30pm: James Gern, MD
Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine
Vice Chair of Research
Department of Pediatric School of Medicine and Public Health
University of Wisconsin-Madison
“The Early Life Environment, Allergies and Childhood Asthma”
2:30-3:15pm: Christine Joseph, PhD
Senior Scientist Epidemiology
Director of Health Disparities Research Collaborative
Henry Ford Health System
“Birth Cohorts, Microbiome and Identifying Food Allergy in Early Life”
3:15-4:00pm: Prof. Dr. med. Kirsten Beyer, MD
Professor Department of Pediatric Pneumology
Immunology & Intensive Care Medicine
Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin
“Clinical phenotyping of food allergic individuals”
4:00-4:45pm: Pamela A. Guerrerio, MD, PhD
Chief, Food Allergy Research Unit (FARU)
Laboratory of Allergic Diseases
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
“Regulation of Food Allergic Responses”
June 12
7:15-8:00am: Continental Breakfast
8:00am: Welcome Back/Overview - Nick Lukacs, PhD
Godfrey Dorr Stobbe Professor of Research
Scientific Director, Mary H. Weiser Food Allergy Center
Professor, Pathology
University of Michigan
Plenary Session II – Mechanisms in Food Allergy
Chair: Robert P Schleimer, PhD
The Roy and Elaine Patterson Professor
Chief of Allergy and Immunology
Northwestern University
Feinberg School of Medicine
8:00-8:45am: Liam O’Mahony, PhD
APC Microbiome
Ireland University College-Cork
“Microbiome and Metabolic Control of Allergic Disease”
8:45-9:05am: Gary Huffnagle, PhD
Nina and Jerry D. Luptak Research Professor
Mary H. Weiser Food Allergy Center
Professor, Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology
University of Michigan
“Modeling Host-Microbiome Interactions in a Murine Model of IgE-Mediated Food Allergy”
9:05-9:30am: Catherine Ptaschinski, PhD
Research Assistant Professor
Mary H. Weiser Food Allergy Center
Department of Pathology
University of Michigan
“SCF Blockade, Mast Cells, and Food Allergy”
9:30-9:55am: Simon P. Hogan, PhD
Aswith Research Professor of Food Allergy
Mary H. Weiser Food Allergy Center
Professor, Pathology
University of Michigan
“L-9 Producing Mast Cell Populations”
9:55-10:15am: Break
10:15am-12:40pm: Plenary Session III – Experimental Diagnostics and Treatments for Food Allergy
Chair: Lisa Wheatley, MD MPH
Section Chief, Food Allergy, Atopic Dermatitis & Allergic Mechanisms
NIAID/DAIT/AAABB
Alexandra F. Santos, MD, MSc MRCPCH FHEA, PhD
Reader & Consultant in Paediatric Allergy
Children’s Allergy Service
King’s College London
“BAT and MAT in Food Allergy”
Bruce Bochner, MD
Professor of Medicine, Division of Allergy and Immunology
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
“Siglec 8, Mast Cells and Food Allergy”
Jonathan Spergel, MD, PhD
Professor, Chief of Allergy, Department of Pediatrics/Allergy-Immunology
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
University of Pennsylvania
“EOE Treatment with the DBV milk patch”
Jessica O'Konek, PhD
Research Assistant Professor
Mary H. Weiser Food Allergy Center
Department of Internal Medicine
University of Michigan
“Food Allergy Vaccine”
Chang H. Kim, PhD
Kenneth and Judy Betz Research Professor for Food Allergy Research
Mary H. Weiser Food Allergy Center
Professor, Pathology
University of Michigan
“Swine Model of Food Allergy”
12:45-1:45: Lunch and Poster Session
Plenary Session IV – Intervention and Treatment of Food Allergy in the Clinics
1:45- 2:20 Daniel C. Adelman, MD
Chief Medical Officer
Aimmune Therapeutics, Inc.
“OIT and Clinical Development Now and in the Future”
2:20-2:55 Matthew Sleeman, PhD
Vice President, Immunology & Inflammation
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
“IL-4/13R blockade”
2:55-3:30 Ahmar Iqbal, MBBS, MBA
Group Medical Director, US Medical Affairs
Genentech
“Anti-IgE in Food Allergy”
3:30-4:00 Closing Remarks - James R. Baker, Jr, MD