State-of-the-Art Plenary Lecture (ADJ)

Annemieke de Jong, PhD, Columbia University

Title: TBA

Dr. Annemieke de Jong is currently the George Henry Fox assistant professor of dermatology at Columbia University in New York City. She received her PhD from Leiden University in the Netherlands, where she studied T cell immunity against oncogenic Human Papillomaviruses. During her postdoctoral research at Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School, she became interested in T cell populations that respond to lipid antigens rather than peptides, and the role these unconventional T cells play within the human immune system. Her lab is focused on understanding the regulation of skin T cell activation by lipid antigen presenting molecules, endogenous lipids, as well as lipid antigens derived from the skin microbiome. Her lab is further investigating the immune consequences of changes in lipid composition of the skin, as observed in inflammatory skin disease such as atopic dermatitis and psoriasis, as well as in skin malignancies.