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## SCIENTIFIC SYMPOSIUM HONORING

### Dennis L. Kasper, M.D.  


### Saturday, June 2, 2018

#### **Scientific Symposium**

Rotunda Room, Joseph B. Martin Conference Center  
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM (Registration and Lunch)  
12:30 PM - 6:00 PM (Symposium)

#### **Reception**

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum  
6:15 PM – 9:30 PM

Sort11:30 – 12:30 p.m.

Registration and Luncheon (Outside Rotunda Room)





**SCIENTIFIC SYMPOSIUM**   
(Rotunda Room, Joseph B. Martin Conference Center)

Sort**Vaccines**

12:30 – 12:35 p.m.Opening Remarks and Session Moderator: **John J. Mekalanos, Ph.D.**, Adele Lehman Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology, HMS12:35 – 1:20 p.m.**Anthony S. Fauci, M.D.**, Head, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, National Institutes of Health, **“Emerging and Re-Emerging Infectious Diseases: From AIDS to Zika”**1:20 – 1:50 p.m.**Lawrence C. Paoletti, Ph.D.,** Research Associate, Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology, **"Group B Streptococcal Vaccines: From Concept to Clinic"**1:50 – 2:00 p.m.Break2:00 – 2:30 p.m.**Rino Rappuoli, Ph.D.,** Chief Scientist and Head, External R&D, GSK Vaccines, Siena, Italy; Professor of Vaccines Research, Imperial College, London, UK, **“Deploying Vaccines to Fight Superbugs”**2:30 – 3:00 p.m.**Michael R. Wessels, M.D.,** John F. Enders Professor of Pediatrics, Boston Children’s Hospital, **“Emergence of Invasive Group A Streptococcal Disease: A Tale of Two Toxins”****The Microbiome**

**Christophe O. Benoist, M.D., Ph.D.**, Morton Grove-Rasmussen Professor of Immunohematology, Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology, HMS, Session Moderator

3:00 – 3:30 p.m.

**Diane J. Mathis, Ph.D.**, Morton Grove-Rasmussen Professor of Immunohematology, Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology, HMS, **“Treg Activities in the Colon and Elsewhere”**

3:30 – 4:00 p.m.

**Naama Geva-Zatorsky, Ph.D.,** Principal Investigator, Technion Israel Institute of Technology**, “Shining light on gut microbiota-host interactions”**

4:00 – 4:30 p.m.

Break & Refreshments

4:30 – 5:00 p.m.

**Laurie E. Comstock, Ph.D.**, Associate Professor of Medicine, Channing Laboratory, BWH, **“Bacterial Antagonism in the Mammalian Gut Microbiota - 50 Ways to Kill your Neighbor”**

5:00 – 5:15 p.m.

**Neeraj (Neil) Surana, M.D., Ph.D.,** Instructor in Pediatrics, Boston Children’s Hospital, **“Moving Beyond Microbiome-wide Associations to Causal Microbe Identification”**

5:15 – 5:30 p.m.

**Deniz Erturk-Hasdemir, Ph.D.,** Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Microbiology and Immunobiology, HMS, **“Molecular Mechanisms of Immunoregulation by the Capsule of a Gut Commensal”**

5:30 – 6:00 p.m.

Concluding Remarks: **Lloyd H. Kasper, M.D.,** Professor Emeritus of Immunology, Microbiology and Medicine, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College

**RECEPTION**  
(Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 25 Evans Way) **­**



6:15 p.m.

Welcome, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum **(Lobby)**

6:15 – 8:00 p.m.

Open Bar & Passed Hors d’oeuvres with music provided by the Boston Cello Ensemble and tour of 2nd floor galleries for interested guests **(Cloisters & 2nd Floor Galleries)**

7:15 p.m. -

Introduction (Larry Paoletti), Toast (Jody Kasper & John O’Loughlin) & Remarks (Dennis Kasper) **(Courtyard & Cloisters)**

8:00 – 9:30 p.m.

Buffet Dinner & Passed Desserts **(Café G, Studio, Terrace (weather permitting) & Living Room)**

9:30 p.m.

Conclusion of Reception

**– Musicians:** Boston Cello Ensemble (Joseph Gotoff, Jaehee Ju, Hyun-Min Lee, Jacques Wood), <http://www.bostoncelloensemble.org> –  
**– Photographer:** Bryce Vickmark, [http://vickmark.com&amp;nbsp](http://vickmark.com&nbsp);–

  
**THANK YOU FOR JOINING US IN THIS CELEBRATION!**