Tregs in corneal health and disease

This symposium will focus on the complex network of cells and molecular mechanisms that regulate immunity in the cornea and ocular surface. Talks will focus on the phenotype and function of corneal and ocular surface antigen-presenting cells in heath and disease; the immunopathogenesis and regulation of allergic eye disease; the myriad functions of nerves in maintaining immune homeostasis in the ocular surface; and T cell regulatory mechanisms that maintain immune privilege and how they be subverted in chronic inflammation and autoimmunity. Those attending the symposium should achieve a greater in-depth understanding of how immune cells, epithelial cells, and nerves interface to regulate immunity in the anterior segment of the eye.