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'Tis the Season: Fall Submission of AAI Abstracts, Travel Award In This Issue… DECEMBER 2014 32 FocusCall for on 2015 Public AAI AwardAffairs: Applications ■ Government Re-opens 3 Focusafter on 16-Day Public AffairsShutdown 8 ■AAI AAI Council Recognizes Welcomes 2013 JerryPublic Boss Service Award 10 2014-2015Honorees AAI Committee Rosters 6 AAI Council Welcomes New 16 CouncillorMembers in JoAnnethe News Flynn 7 JoAnne■ Lisa Butterfield L. Flynn’s 2013 AAI Candidate’s Statement ■ Lynn Corcoran, 8 MembersDavid Tarlinton in the News ■ ■ Randy Gary Koretzky Brutkiewicz ■ 20 In MemoriamRuslan Medzhitov ■ Joshua Obar ■ John Fahey 13 In Memoriam: ■ Ray Owen Yacov Ron, Ph.D. 1426 AAI1st CareersLooks Back in Immunology Fellowship Awardees 22 myIDP Prepares Trainees Announced to Transition to the 29 “Final1st Travel Frontier” for Techniques 25 Re-Cap:Award Recipients Summer Announced2013 AAI 29 AAIIntroductory Expands TravelImmunology Award OpportunitiesCourse 3026 2014Re-Cap: Introductory Summer 2013 AAI Advanced Immunology Immunology Course Course 32 2014 Advanced 28 AAI Members and Staff ParticipateImmunology in Course 15th ICI 3033 AAI LooksAnnounces Back: TieredFounding Awardsof AAI Summer for the Courses 2014 34 OutreachTrainee Abstract Program Award Update Program 37 Renew Your AAI 32 Grant & Award Deadlines Membership Today! 34 Meetings & Events ‘Tis the Season: Fall Submission 39 Grant & Award Deadlines Calendar 40 Meetings Calendar of AAI Abstracts, Travel Award Applications NOW OPEN! Details on page 2 and back cover IMMUNOLOGYIMIMMUNOLOGYM Y 20155™ THET AMERICANAMERICAN ASSOCIATIONASSOCIATION OFOF IMMUNOLOGISTSIMMUNOLOGISTS MAY 8–12,8–12, 2015 I AAI ANNUAL MEETINGMEETING I NEW ORLEANS,ORLEANS, LA Call for 2015 Award Applications Deadline: January 12, 2015 Applications are invited for the following AAI Travel Awards and Grants, which annually foster the promise and professional development of investigators of all career stages, including underrepresented minority scientists and trainees. Lefrançois-BioLegend Memorial Award Lustgarten-eBioscience Memorial Award Established to honor the memory of AAI member Dr. Leo Lefrançois, Established to honor the memory of AAI member Dr. Joseph Lustgarten, this award is intended to advance the career of a trainee who this award is intended to advance the career of a mid-career scientist who attends the AAI annual meeting and presents an outstanding attends the AAI annual meeting and presents an outstanding abstract abstract specifically in the area of mucosal immunology. The award specifically in the area of immune regulation. The award recipient will recipient will receive a $1,000 cash award and a certificate during receive up to $1,250 travel reimbursement and a certificate during an an awards presentation program at the AAI annual meeting. awards presentation program at the AAI annual meeting. This award is gener- This award is generously supported through a grant from BioLegend ously supported through a grant from eBioscience, an Affymetrix Company. and donations from friends and colleagues of Dr. Lefrançois. AAI Underrepresented Scientist Travel Awards AAI Trainee Poster Awards These awards provide travel support to eligible AAI members to attend the These awards provide up to $300 travel reimbursement to AAI trainee AAI annual meeting. Two types of awards are available (trainee, junior faculty), members (students and postdoctoral fellows) whose first-author providing support of up to $1,850 for registration and meeting-related travel abstracts submitted to the AAI annual meeting are selected for poster expenses. This award is generously supported through the FASEB Minority sessions only and found to be exceptional by the AAI Abstract Access to Research Careers (MARC) program and a grant from the National Programming Chairs. Selection is based on the originality and Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), NIH. significance of the research being presented. AAI Trainee Abstract Awards Pfizer-Showell Travel Award These awards provide up to $500–750 travel reimbursement to AAI trainee This award recognizes the professional promise of an early career members (students and postdoctoral fellows) whose first-author abstracts investigator (assistant professor or equivalent) by assisting the award submitted to the AAI annual meeting are selected for presentation in recipient with travel to the AAI annual meeting. Selection is based on block symposia. career progress and submission of an outstanding abstract selected for oral presentation in a block symposium at the meeting. The award AAI Undergraduate Faculty Travel Grants recipient will be recognized and presented with a certificate at an These grants assist undergraduate faculty in attending the AAI annual meeting. awards presentation program at the AAI annual meeting. Support Each grant will also support travel costs for an undergraduate student of the of up to $1,500 will be provided for meeting registration and travel. recipient’s selection. A grant of up to $1,250 is awarded to the undergraduate This award is supported through an endowment from Henry J. Showell faculty member, and a grant of up to $1,000 is awarded to the selected under- and Pfizer, Inc. graduate student (registration for an undergraduate student is complimentary). AAI-Thermo Fisher Trainee Achievement Awards AAI Laboratory Travel Grants These awards recognize up to six promising trainees in the field of Now open to both mid-career and senior investigators! immunology. Selection is based on career promise and presentation These grants assist mid-career and senior investigators in attending the AAI of an outstanding first-author abstract selected for oral presentation annual meeting. Applicants must hold an appointment of associate professor, in a block symposium. Awardees will receive a $1,000 cash prize full professor, or equivalent; have limited research funding; and be a first and reimbursement for meeting expenses. This award is generously or last author on one or more abstracts submitted to the annual meeting. supported through a grant from Thermo Fisher Scientific. Each grant will provide two travel awards of up to $1,250 each: one to the AAI Early Career Faculty Travel Grants PI or laboratory director and another to a member of his or her lab, chosen by the PI or laboratory director. Recipients will be reimbursed for registration These grants assist young investigators (assistant professor or and travel expenses. equivalent) in attending the AAI annual meeting. Recipients will be reimbursed up to $1,250 for registration and travel expenses. For complete AAI Travel Award and Grant Chambers-eBioscience Memorial Award application details, visit www.AAI.org/Awards. Established to honor the memory of AAI member Dr. Cynthia Chambers, this award is intended to advance the career of an early The 2015 AAI Awards will be presented in conjunction with career scientist who attends the AAI annual meeting and presents ™ an outstanding abstract specifically in the area of cancer biology. IMMUNOLOGY 2015 The award recipient will receive a $1,000 cash award and a certificate May 8–12, 2015 • New Orleans, Louisiana during an awards presentation program at the AAI annual meeting. This award is generously supported through a grant from eBioscience, Questions? Contact AAI at 301-634-7178 an Affymetrix Company. or [email protected] FOCUS ON PUBLIC AFFAIRS Short-Term Funding Bill Enacted to Keep Government Open through December 11 NIH Issues Interim Policy for Funding Grants The American Association ongress recently passed, and the president signed into law, a Continuing of Immunologists CResolution (CR) that funds most federal government departments, agencies, and programs through December 11, 2014, at approximately last year’s funding 9650 Rockville Pike levels. The CR was overwhelmingly approved by both the House (by a vote of Bethesda, MD 20814-3994 319–108) and the Senate (by a vote of 78–22) after Congress failed to finalize any of Tel: 301-634-7178 its 12 appropriations bills before the new fiscal year (FY) 2015 began on October 1, Fax: 301-634-7887 2014. Enactment of the CR averted a government shutdown. E-mail: [email protected] www.aai.org Although the CR does not include many spending or policy changes, there are Member Services some notable exceptions, including $88 million in additional funding, requested by President Obama, to help address the Ebola epidemic in West Africa. To pay for its Tel: 301-634-7195 new spending, the CR includes an across-the-board cut of 0.0554 percent. If this cut E-mail: [email protected] remains in the final spending package for FY 2015, and the NIH budget otherwise The Journal remains flat, the NIH budget will be reduced by $161.5 million. of Immunology Consistent with its prior policy, NIH has issued a notice indicating that it Tel: 301-634-7197 will pay “non-competing research grant awards at a level below that indicated E-mail: [email protected] on the most recent notice of award (generally up to 90 percent of the previously www.jimmunol.org committed level)” (see http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT- OD-15-001.html) through December 11. Council The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) announced President that its interim R01 payline for established investigators is the 10th percentile and that its interim R01 payline for new and early-stage investigators is the 14th Linda A. Sherman, Ph.D. percentile. These paylines will be reconsidered after a final FY 2015 NIH budget has Vice President been approved. At press time, no other relevant NIH institutes have announced Dan R. Littman, M.D., Ph.D. interim R01 paylines for FY 2015. Past President Congress is in recess through the upcoming midterm elections and is scheduled Marc K. Jenkins, Ph.D. to return on November 12, leaving approximately one month to complete the Secretary-Treasurer appropriations process. Congress will likely either pass an omnibus appropriations Mitchell Kronenberg, Ph.D. bill that could include all 12 spending bills and last through the remainder of FY 2015 or pass another CR to keep the government’s doors open. Councillors Arlene H. Sharpe, M.D., Ph.D. AAI Cosponsors Rally for Medical Research Wayne M.
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