Summary of the 2016 Alcohol and Immunology Research Interest Group (AIRIG) meeting

Lisbeth A Boule; Cynthia Ju; Marisela Agudelo; Tiyash Parira; Abigail Cannon; Booker Davis; Jonathan Eby; Gail Cresci; Derrick R Samuelson; Pradeep Shukla; Waddah A Alrefai; Suhas Sureshchandra; Subhash C Pandey; Bernd Schnabl; Brenda J Curtis; Todd A Wyatt; Mashkoor A Choudhry; Elizabeth J Kovacs

doi:10.1016/j.alcohol.2017.07.005

Summary of the 2016 Alcohol and Immunology Research Interest Group (AIRIG) meeting

Alcohol. 2018 Feb:66:35-43. doi: 10.1016/j.alcohol.2017.07.005. Epub 2017 Sep 23.

Authors

Lisbeth A Boule¹, Cynthia Ju², Marisela Agudelo³, Tiyash Parira³, Abigail Cannon⁴, Booker Davis⁵, Jonathan Eby⁴, Gail Cresci⁶, Derrick R Samuelson⁷, Pradeep Shukla⁸, Waddah A Alrefai⁹, Suhas Sureshchandra¹⁰, Subhash C Pandey¹¹, Bernd Schnabl¹², Brenda J Curtis¹, Todd A Wyatt¹³, Mashkoor A Choudhry⁴, Elizabeth J Kovacs¹⁴

Affiliations

¹ Alcohol Research Program, Department of Surgery, University of Colorado Denver, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA.
² Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Colorado Denver, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Aurora, CO, USA.
³ Department of Immunology, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA.
⁴ Burn & Shock Trauma Research Institute, Alcohol Research Program, Loyola University Chicago Health Sciences Division, Maywood, IL, USA.
⁵ Department of Gastroenterology, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA.
⁶ Pediatric Research Center and Departments of Gastroenterology/Hepatology/Nutrition and Pathobiology, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA.
⁷ Department of Internal Medicine, Louisiana State University Health Science Center, New Orleans, LA, USA.
⁸ University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, USA.
⁹ Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, & Jesse Brown VA Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA.
¹⁰ Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA.
¹¹ Center for Alcohol Research in Epigenetics, Department of Psychiatry, University of Illinois at Chicago & Jesse Brown VA Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA.
¹² Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA; Department of Medicine, VA San Diego Healthcare System, San Diego, CA, USA.
¹³ VA Nebraska-Western Iowa Health Care System, Omaha, NE, USA; Department of Environmental, Agricultural and Occupational Health, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA.
¹⁴ Alcohol Research Program, Department of Surgery, University of Colorado Denver, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA. Electronic address: elizabeth.kovacs@ucdenver.edu.

Abstract

On November 18, 2016 the 21st annual Alcohol and Immunology Research Interest Group (AIRIG) meeting was held at the Center for Translational Research and Education at Loyola University Chicago's Health Sciences Campus in Maywood, IL. The 2016 meeting focused broadly on alcohol and inflammation, epigenetics, and the microbiome. The four plenary sessions of the meeting were Alcohol, Inflammation, and Immunity; Alcohol and Epigenetics; Alcohol, Transcriptional Regulation, and Epigenetics; and Alcohol, Intestinal Mucosa, and the Gut Microbiome. Presentations in all sessions of the meeting explored putative underlying causes for chronic diseases and mortality associated with alcohol consumption, shedding light on future work and potential therapeutic targets to alleviate the negative effects of alcohol misuse.

Keywords: Alcohol; Epigenetics; Immunity; Inflammation.

Publication types

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

MeSH terms

Alcohol Drinking / adverse effects
Alcohol Drinking / genetics
Alcohol Drinking / immunology*
Alcoholism / epidemiology
Alcoholism / genetics
Alcoholism / immunology*
Alcoholism / microbiology
Allergy and Immunology*
Animals
Biomedical Research / methods*
Epigenesis, Genetic
Gastrointestinal Microbiome
Humans
Inflammation / genetics
Inflammation / immunology

Abstract

Publication types

MeSH terms

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