Summary of the 2018 Alcohol and Immunology Research Interest Group (AIRIG) meeting

Paulius V Kuprys; Hidekazu Tsukamoto; Bin Gao; Lin Jia; Jacob McGowan; Craig M Coopersmith; Maria Camargo Moreno; Holly Hulsebus; Avtar S Meena; Flavia M Souza-Smith; Philip Roper; Michelle T Foster; S Vamsee Raju; S Alex Marshall; Mayumi Fujita; Brenda J Curtis; Todd A Wyatt; Pranoti Mandrekar; Elizabeth J Kovacs; Mashkoor A Choudhry

doi:10.1016/j.alcohol.2018.08.010

Summary of the 2018 Alcohol and Immunology Research Interest Group (AIRIG) meeting

Alcohol. 2019 Jun:77:11-18. doi: 10.1016/j.alcohol.2018.08.010. Epub 2018 Aug 24.

Authors

Paulius V Kuprys¹, Hidekazu Tsukamoto², Bin Gao³, Lin Jia⁴, Jacob McGowan⁵, Craig M Coopersmith⁶, Maria Camargo Moreno¹, Holly Hulsebus⁷, Avtar S Meena⁸, Flavia M Souza-Smith⁹, Philip Roper¹, Michelle T Foster¹⁰, S Vamsee Raju¹¹, S Alex Marshall¹², Mayumi Fujita¹³, Brenda J Curtis⁷, Todd A Wyatt⁵, Pranoti Mandrekar¹⁴, Elizabeth J Kovacs⁷, Mashkoor A Choudhry¹⁵

Affiliations

¹ Department of Surgery, Alcohol Research Program, Burn & Shock Trauma Research Institute, Loyola University Chicago Health Sciences Division, Maywood, IL, United States.
² Southern California Research Center for ALPD, Cirrhosis and Department of Pathology, University of Southern California, Greater Los Angeles Veterans Affairs Health Care System, Los Angeles, CA, United States.
³ National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, Bethesda, MD, United States.
⁴ Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Hypothalamic Research, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, TX, United States.
⁵ Department of Environmental, Agricultural and Occupational Health, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Veterans Affairs Nebraska-Western Iowa Health Care System, Omaha, NE, United States.
⁶ Department of Surgery, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, United States.
⁷ Alcohol Research Program, Burn Research Program, Division of GI, Trauma and Endocrine Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Colorado Denver, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, United States.
⁸ Department of Physiology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, United States.
⁹ Department of Physiology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA, United States.
¹⁰ Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States.
¹¹ Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States.
¹² Department of Basic Pharmaceutical Sciences, High Point University Fred Wilson School of Pharmacy, High Point, NC, United States.
¹³ Department of Dermatology, University of Colorado Denver, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, United States.
¹⁴ Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, United States.
¹⁵ Department of Surgery, Alcohol Research Program, Burn & Shock Trauma Research Institute, Loyola University Chicago Health Sciences Division, Maywood, IL, United States. Electronic address: mchoudhry@luc.edu.

Abstract

On January 26, 2018, the 23rd annual Alcohol and Immunology Research Interest Group (AIRIG) meeting was held at the University of Colorado Denver, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado. The meeting consisted of plenary sessions with oral presentations and a poster presentation session. There were four plenary sessions that covered a wide range of topics relating to alcohol use: Alcohol and Liver Disease; Alcohol, Inflammation and Immune Response; Alcohol and Organ Injury; Heath Consequences and Alcohol Drinking. The meeting provided a forum for the presentation and discussion of novel research findings regarding alcohol use and immunology.

Keywords: Alcohol; Health consequences; Inflammation; Liver disease; Organ injury.

Publication types

Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
Review

MeSH terms

Alcohol Drinking / immunology*
Alcohol Drinking / pathology
Alcoholism / diagnosis
Alcoholism / immunology*
Animals
Biomedical Research / methods
Biomedical Research / trends*
Colorado
Congresses as Topic / trends*
Humans
Immunity, Cellular / drug effects
Immunity, Cellular / immunology*

Abstract

Publication types

MeSH terms

Grants and funding