AIRIG Workshop

AIRIG Workshop

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Sponsored by the Alcohol and Immunology Research Interest Group (AIRIG)

Supported by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, NIH, Society for Leukocyte Biology, the Alcohol Research Program, University of Colorado Denver, and the Alcohol Research Program, Loyola University Chicago Medical Center

Welcome and Opening Remarks: Elizabeth J. Kovacs, PhD, University of Colorado Denver, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, Mashkoor A. Choudhry, PhD, Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine, Maywood, IL

12:00 pm 12:05 pm: A brief history of AIRIG, Elizabeth J. Kovacs, PhD, University of Colorado Denver, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO

12:05 pm – 1:30 pm: Connecting Extramural Immune Researchers with the NIAAA Director and Program Officers in Socially Distanced Time

Panelists: Samantha M. Yeligar, MS, PhD (Emory University, Atlanta), Rebecca L. McCullough, PhD (University of Colorado Denver), Leon G. Coleman, MD, PhD (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), Flavia M. Souza-Smith, PhD (Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans)

12:10pm – 12:30pm: George F. Koob, PhD, Director, NIAAA, National Institutes of Health

12:30pm – 1:30pm: Open Forum with M. Katherine Jung, PhD, Director, Division of Metabolism and Health Effects, NIAAA, H. Joe Wang, PhD, Program Director, NIAAA, Li Lin, PhD, Program Director, NIAAA

 

Registration for this virtual meeting is required (and is free!) thanks SLB.  Click to register…. (https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_WjIqa3O6RQaNe9MF9rsZwQ)