D: Obesity, Environment, and Immunity
Friday, April 17, 2026
8:00–11:15 AM
Ballroom
MAJOR SYMPOSIUM D
Obesity, Environment, and Immunity
Sponsored by Eli Lilly and Company
Chairs:
Barbara S. Nikolajczyk, Univ. of Kentucky, USA
Andrew Hogan, Manooth Univ., IRL
Speakers:
Lydia Lynch, Princeton Univ., USA, What you eat—and how much—shapes anti-tumor immunity
Emily Goldberg, UCSF, USA, Studying fat as a driver of inflammatory disease
Julio Ayala Angulo, Univ. of California, Irvine, USA, CD1a-mediated T cell responses abrogate insulin resistance in high fat diet T2D mouse model
Barbara S. Nikolajczyk, Univ. of Kentucky, USA, Mechanisms that support obesity-associated inflammation in human prediabetes
Motoyoshi Nagai, NIAID, NIH, USA, Dietary exposure modulates cutaneous immunity and microbiota to facilitate wound healing
Jonathan Schertzer, McMaster Univ., CAN, Postbiotics alter immunometabolism during metabolic disease
Andrew Hogan, Manooth Univ., IRL, Environmental dysregulation of MAIT cells in obesity