Chairperson: To be announced

9:00 AM

Welcome Remarks
Cassie Chartier, PhD, The New York Academy of Sciences

9:15 AM

Opening Keynote Presentation
Jonathan Yewdell, MD, PhD, NIH

Chairperson: To be announced

10:30 AM

Computationally Searching the Dark Proteome: Proteogenomics and the Immunopeptidome
Alexey Nesvizhskii, PhD, University of Michigan

10:55 AM

Qingqing Wang, PhD, Regeneron

11:20 AM

Speaker To Be Announced

11:45 AM

Benjamin Greenbaum, PhD, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Chairperson: To be announced

1:25 PM

Speaker To Be Announced

1:35 PM

Speaker To Be Announced

Chairperson: To be announced

1:45 PM

A Primate-Specific Micropeptide Encoded by a Heart Disease Risk Locus Drives Inflammatory Gene Expression
Coen Van Solingen, PhD, NYU Langone Health

2:10 PM

High Throughput Identification and Functional Characterization of the Dark Proteome in Macrophages
Susan Carpenter, PhD, University of California, Santa Cruz

2:35 PM

Illuminating the Viral Dark Proteome to Advance Our Understanding on Antiviral Immunity
Shira Weingarten-Gabbay, PhD, Harvard Medical School 

Chairperson: To be announced

3:30 PM

Characterizing and Targeting the Dark Immunopeptidome Using CAR T Cells
Mark Yarmarkovich, PhD, NYU Langone Health

3:55 PM

Zuzana Tothova, MD, PhD, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

4:20 PM

Richard Childs, MD, NIH

4:45 PM

Closing Keynote Presentation: New Therapeutic Approaches for Cancer via Cancer-Specific Novel RNA Isoforms
Omar Abdel Wahab, MD, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

5:30 PM

Closing Remarks 
Cassie Chartier, PhD, The New York Academy of Sciences

5:35 PM Conference Ends