Formosa Immunology Spring School & Symposium 2023
Formosa Immunology Spring School & Symposium 2023
International Faculty
Spring School Faculty & Speaker
HongBo Chi, Ph.D.
Professor and Robert G. Webster Endowed Chair in Immunology, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, USA
- School Topic: Immunometabolism
- Symposium Title: Integrating Systems Immunology with Metabolism and Cancer
Spring School Faculty & Speaker
Gillian Griffiths, Ph.D.
Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellowship, Cambridge
Professor of Immunology and Cell Biology, CambridgeFellow of the Royal Society, UK
Fellow of Academy of Medical Sciences, UKMember, European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
- School Topic: The Cell Biology Controlling T Cell Killing
- Symposium Title: Control of Polarized Signaling in CD8+ Cytotoxic T Lymphocytes
Spring School Faculty & Speaker
Eric S Huseby, Ph.D.
Professor,
UMass Chan Medical School, USA
T.H. Chan School of Medicine, USA
- School Topic: TBA
- Symposium Title: TB
Spring School Faculty & Speaker
Laura Kate Mackay, Ph.D.
Professor, University of Melbourne, Australia
President, The Federation of Immunological Societies of Asia-Oceania
- School Topic: Site-Specific Regulation of Tissue-Resident Immune Responses
- Symposium Title: Inter-Organ Diversity of Tissue-Resident Lymphocytes
Spring School Faculty & Speaker
Lewis L. Lanier, Ph.D.
J. Michael Bishop, MD, Distinguished Professor in Microbiology and Immunology, UCSF, USA
American Cancer Society Professor and Chair, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, UCSF, USA
Director- Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy at UCSF, USA
Member, National Academy of Sciences, USA
- School Topic: Innate Lymphocyte Biology
- Symposium Title: NK Cell Activating Receptors
Spring School Faculty & Speaker
Susan M. Kaech, Ph.D.
Professor and Director of the NOMIS Center for Immunobiology and Microbial Pathogenesis, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, USA
Deputy of Research for the Salk Cancer Center, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, USA- School Topic: Making Immunological Memories
- Symposium Title: Stressing Out the Immune System in Cancer
Spring School Faculty & Speaker
Fiona Powrie, Ph.D.
Director, Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, University of Oxford, UK
Fellow, Royal Society, UK
Member, Academy of Medical Sciences, UK
Member, European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
Member, National Academy of Sciences, USA
- School Topic: TBA
- Symposium Title: Translating Immunology into New Therapies for Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Spring School Faculty & Speaker
Klaus Rajewsky, M.D.
Senior Investigator and Professor, Head of the Group in Immune Regulation and Cancer of Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC), Germany
Member, National Academy of Sciences, USA
- School Topic: Normal and Malignant B Cell Development
- Symposium Title: B Cell Development and Pathologies, Targeted Mutagenesis and Gene Repair
Spring School Faculty & Speaker
Shimon Sakaguchi, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor, Immunology Frontier Research Center, Osaka University, Japan
Professor Emeritus, Kyoto University, Japan
Member, National Academy of Sciences, USA
- School Topic: Regulatory T Cells
- Symposium Title: Treg Control of Autoimmunity and Tumor Immunity by Modulating Co-Stimulatory and Co-Inhibitory Molecules
Spring School Faculty & Speaker
Joseph Chai-Yuen Sun, Ph.D.
Professor,
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, USA
Weill Cornell Medical College, USA
- School Topic: TBA
- Symposium Title: Three-dimensional Chromatin Dynamics during Innate and Adaptive Immune Memory Acquisition
Special Guest
Editors of the four major journals in the field of immunology
Laurie Dempsey, Ph.D.
Senior Editor,
Nature Immunology (Journal)
Peter Lee, Ph.D.
Editor-in-Chief,
Immunity (Journal)
Xin (Cindy) Sun, Ph.D.
Senior Scientific Editor,
Journal of Experimental Medicine (Journal)
Ifor Williams, M.D., Ph.D.
Editor,
Science Immunology (Journal)
Taiwanese Faculty
Spring School Faculty and Speaker
Ping-Chih Ho, Ph.D.
何秉智 博士
Professor,
University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Associate member, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research
Member, European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
- Symposium Title: Metabolic Symbiosis in The Tumor Microenvironment Feeds Corrupted Macrophages
Symposium Speaker
Li-Chung Hsu, Ph.D.
徐立中 博士
Director and Professor,
Institute of Molecular Medicine
National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taiwan
- Symposium Title: The Src-ZNRF1 Axis Controls TLR3 Trafficking and Interferon Responses to Limit Lung Barrier Damage and Prevent Bacterial Superinfection
Spring School Faculty and Speaker
Chia-Lin Hsu, Ph.D.
徐嘉琳 博士
Associate Professor,
Institute of Microbiology and Immunology
National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
- Symposium Title: How Tissue Resident Macrophages Cope with Stress – Taking Thymic Macrophage as an Example
Spring School Faculty and Speaker
Ming-Zong Lai, Ph.D.
賴明宗 博士
Distinguished Research Fellow,
Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
- Symposium Title: Caspase-8-Dependent Switch of Cell Death Pathways: from Apoptosis, Necroptosis to Pyroptosis
Spring School Faculty and Speaker
Han-Yu Shih, Ph.D.
史涵宇 博士
Investigator,
National Eye Institute
National Institutes of Health, USA
- Symposium Title: Lymphocyte Regulomes in Health and Diseases
Symposium Speaker
Wei-Le Wang, M.D., Ph.D.
王維樂 博士
Assistant Research Fellow,
Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
- Symposium Title: DuraBle Lymphopoiesis at the CNS Borders and its Implication in Neurodegenerative Diseases
Spring School Faculty
Nien-Jung Chen, Ph.D.
陳念榮 博士
Director and Associate Professor,
Institute of Microbiology and Immunology
National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Spring School Faculty
Szu-Ting Chen, Ph.D.
陳斯婷 博士
Associate Professor,
Institute of Clinical Medicine
National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Spring School Faculty
Stanley Ching-Cheng Huang, Ph.D.
黃景政 博士
Assistant Professor,
Department of Pathology, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, USA
Spring School Faculty
Cheng-Lung Ku, Ph.D.
顧正崙 博士Professor,
Graduate Institute of Clinical Medical Sciences
Chang Gung University, Taiwan
Spring School Faculty
Li-Fan Lu, Ph.D.
呂理帆 博士
Associate Professor,
Section of Molecular Biology, Division of Biological Sciences
University of California-San Diego, USA
Spring School Faculty
Wan-Lin Lo, Ph.D.
駱宛琳 博士
Assistant Professor,
Department of Pathology, School of Medicine
University of Utah
Spring School Faculty
Wen-Yi Tseng, M.D., Ph.D.
曾文逸 醫師 博士
Assistant Professor,
Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taiwan
Spring School Faculty
Hsin-Jung Joyce Wu, Ph.D.
吳欣容 博士
Professor,
Department of Internal Medicine
The Ohio State of University, USA
Spring School Faculty
Muh-Hwa Yang, M.D., Ph.D.
楊慕華 醫師 博士
Professor,
National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Spring School Faculty
Huang-Yu Yang, M.D., Ph.D.
楊皇煜 醫師 博士
Professor,
Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taiwan
