Presentations

 

  1. Reddy J, Wilkie BN, Mallard BA, and Rosendal S. Cytokines in pigs bred selectively for high and low immune response.  IV International Veterinary Immunology Symposium, 1995 July 16-21, Davis, California, USA.  Vet. Immunol. Immunopathol. 54: 259 (invited paper).
  2. Reddy J, Wilkie BN, and Mallard BA.  Mitogen activation of pig blood mononuclear cells produces distinct cytokine patterns in vitro.  78th Annual Conference of Research Workers in Animal Diseases, 1997 Nov 10-11, Chicago, USA.
  3. Reddy J, Wilkie BN, Mallard BA, and Borgs P.  Cytokines in Mycoplasma hyorhinis infection in pigs bred selectively for high and low immune response.  Fifth Annual International Cytokine Society Conference, 1997 Nov 9-13, Lake Tahoe, Nevada, USA.
  4. Reddy J, Borgs P, and Wilkie BN.  Cytokine mRNA expression in leukocytes of efferent lymph from stimulated porcine lymph nodes and in cutaneous delayed-type hypersensitivity sites. 79th Annual Conference of Research Workers in Animal Diseases, 1998 Nov 11-13, Chicago USA.
  5. Reddy J, Bettelli E, Nicholson L, Waldner H, Wucherpfennig K,and Kuchroo V. Enumeration of Proteolipid Protein 139-151-reactive T cells using MHC II (I-As) tetramers in Murine Experimental Autoimmune encephalomyelitis.  Experimental Biology (FASEB meeting), "Translating the Genome" April 20-24, 2002, New Orleans, Louisiana; 2nd Annual Federation of Clinical Immunology Societies meeting, June 28-July 1, 2002, San Francisco, CA.
  6. Kuchroo V, Illes Z, and Reddy J. Promiscuous expression of myelin antigen, proteolipid protein in the thymus affects repertoire development and susceptibility to CNS autoimmune disease, experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis. American Society for Neurochemistry Meeting, May 3-5, 2003, Orange County, CA (oral presentation).
  7. Reddy J, Illes Z, Zhang X, Encinas J, Pyrdol J, Nicholson L, Sobel RA, Wucherpfennig KW, and Kuchroo VK. Genetic resistance to autoimmunity is mediated by autoantigen-specific CD4+CD25+ regulatory cells   Fifth annual Federation of Clinical Immunology Societies meeting, May 12-16, 2005, Boston, MA.  Clinical Immunology, suppl. 1, 2005: S93, S96 and S102(scored in top 10% of poster submissions).
  8. Massilamany C, Thulasingam S, Steffen D, and Reddy J.  An epitope from Acanthamoeba castellanii induces clinical signs of autoimmune encephalomyelitis in SJL mice by molecular mimicry. 97th Annual meeting of The American Association of Immunologists (AAI), Baltimore, MD, May 7-11, 2010.
  9. Massilamany C, Gangaplara A, Chapman N, Rose N, and Reddy J.  Detection of cardiac myosin-specific CD4 T cells by using MHC II / IAk tetramers in A/J mice.  97th Annual meeting of the AAI, Baltimore, MD, May 7-11, 2010.
  10. Gangaplara A, Massilamany C, Waldner H, and Reddy J.  Role of reactive oxygen species in gender-associated autoimmunity.  97th Annual meeting of the AAI, Baltimore, MD, May 7-11, 2010.
  11. Massilamany C, Gangaplara A, Steffen D, and Reddy J.  Identification of novel microbial mimics for cardiac myosin heavy chain-α 334-352 that induce autoimmune myocarditis in A/J mice. 14th International Congress of Immunology, Kobe, Japan.  August 22-27, 2010.
  12. Massilamany C, Steffen D, and Reddy J. Identification of a second mimicry epitope from Acanthamoeba castellanii that induces CNS autoimmunity through the generation of cross-reactive T cells for myelin basic protein 89-101. 98th Annual meeting the AAI, San Francisco, CA, May 13-17, 2011 (oral presentation)
  13. Massilamany C, Gangaplara A, Gardner DJ, Steffen D, Somerville G, and Reddy J. TCA cycle inactivation in Staphylococcus aureus alters nitric oxide production in RAW 264.7 cells. 98th Annual meeting of the AAI, San Francisco, CA, May 13-17, 2011.
  14. Upadhyaya BP, Massilamany C, Gangaplara A, and Reddy J. MHC Dextramers enhance the detection sensitivity of antigen-specific autoreactive CD4 cells. 98th Annual meeting of the AAI, San Francisco, CA, May 13-17, 2011.
  15. Massilamany C, Gangaplara A, Upadhyaya BP, Jamerson M, Cabral FM, Steffen D, and Reddy J. Acanthamoeba castellanii induces the generation of proteolipid protein 139-151-reactive T cells and predispose to CNS autoimmunity in SJL mice. Federation of Clinical Immunology Societies (FOCIS) 2011, Washington DC, June 23-26, 2011.
  16. Thulasingam S†, Massilamany C, Gangaplara A, Yarbaeva S, Subramaniam S, Riethoven JJ, Eudy J, Lou M and Reddy J. miR-27b*, an oxidative stress-responsive microRNA modulates nuclear factor-kB pathway in RAW 264.7 cells. FOCIS 2011, Washington DC, June 23-26, 2011. (scored in top 10% of poster presentations).
  17. Gangaplara A, Massilamany C, Steffen D, and Reddy J. Coxsackievirus B3 infection leads to the generation of cardiac myosin heavy chain-α-reactive T cells in A/J mice. FOCIS 2011, Washington DC, June 23-26, 2011.
  18. Massilamany C, Gangaplara A, Rathnaiah, G, Steffen D, Lee J, and Reddy J. Copper zinc superoxide dismutase 1-deficient mice show increased susceptibility to MOG 35-55-induced EAE. 99th Annual meeting of The American Association of Immunologists, Boston, MA, May 4-8, 2012.
  19. Annual Retreat of the Redox Biology Center, Nebraska City, NE, April 13 - 15, 2012 (oral presentation). Summer course: Redox Regulation, Oxidative Stress and Selenoproteins. Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. June 11-15, 2012.  
  20. Gangaplara A, Massilamany C, Madayiputhiya N, Nandakumar R, Kuszynski C, Steffen D, and Reddy J. Mimicry epitope from Ehrlichia canis for interphotoreceptor retinoid-binding protein ameliorates autoimmune uveoretinitis by acting as altered peptide ligand in A/J mice. 99th Annual meeting of the AAI, Boston, MA, May 4-8, 2012.
  21. Massilamany C, Gangaplara A, Kuzynski C, Nandakumar R, Madayiputhiya N, Steffen D, and Reddy J. Gender-biased differences in the expression of proteins in proteolipid protein 139-151-specific CD4 T cells derived from autoimmune-prone, SJL mice. FOCIS 2012, Vancouver, Canada, June 20-23, 2012.
  22. Gangaplara A, Massilamany C, Pattnaik A, Steffen D, Reddy, J. Determination of the generation and functionalities of coxsackievirus B3-specific T cells using MHC class II tetramers in the murine model of viral myocarditis. FOCIS 2012, Vancouver, Canada, June 20-23, 2012.
  23. Massilamany C.*, Khalilzad V.*, Gangaplara A., Steffen D., Othman S.F.¥, and Reddy J.¥ Magnetic resonance microscopic imaging of hearts reveals structural and functional defects in autoimmune myocarditic mice. Annual meeting of Conference of Research Workers in Animal Diseases, Chicago, IL, December 2-4, 2012.  (*equal contributors; ¥corresponding authors)
  24. Massilamany C., Jia T., Kang G., Zhou Y., Li Q and Reddy J. In situ detection of autoreactive CD4 T cells in the mouse models of autoimmune diseases. 100th Annual meeting of The AAI, Honolulu, Hawaii, May 3-7, 2013
  25. Massilamany C., Jamerson M., Madayiputhiya N., Nandakumar R., Cabral FM., Sejbaek TM., Illes Z and Reddy J. An evidence for a potential linkage between Acanthamoeba infections and multiple sclerosis. 100th Annual meeting of The AAI, Honolulu, Hawaii, May 3-7, 2013.
  26. Gangaplara A., Massilamany C., Steffen D., Huber S and Reddy J. Cardiac myosin heavy chain-α 334-352 is immunogenic in C57Bl/6 mice but fails to induce autoimmune myocarditis. FOICS 2013 meeting, Boston, MA, June 27-30, 2013
  27. Gangaplara A., Massilamany C., Steffen D., Pattnaik A., Huber S and Reddy J. An evidence for the pathogenic role for virus-specific T cells in the mouse model of coxsackievirus B3-induced myocarditis. 15th International Congress of Immunology, Milan, Italy, August 22-27, 2013
  28. Gebregiworgis T†., Massilamany C†., Gangaplara A†., Nielssen H., Werth M., Steffen D., Zabad R., Illes Z., Powers R and Reddy J. NMR metabolomics: a diagnostic tool for Multiple Sclerosis. 15th International Congress of Immunology, Milan, Italy, August 22-27, 2013 (†equal contributors).
  29. Massilamany C., Khalilzad V., Gangaplara A., Steffen D., Othman S.F., Huber, S.A. and Reddy J. Delineating autoimmunity in infectious myocarditis. The Myocarditis Foundation grant recipient workshop in conjunction with the Heart Failure Society of America’s Annual Scientific Meeting, Orlando, FL, Sept 21-22, 2013 (Invited oral presentation)
  30. Krishnan C, Massilamany C, Smith T, Loy JD, BarlettaR, Reddy J. Bacillus infantis NRRL B-14911-induced myocarditis: a novel disease model to study the autoimmune mechanisms of myocardial injuries in the myocarditis-susceptible, A/J mice. 101th Annual meeting of the AAI, Pittsburg, PA, May 2-6, 2014.
  31. MassilamanyC, Steffen D, Reddy J. Delineating the role of cardiac myosin-specific CD8 T cells in autoimmune myocarditis. 101th Annual meeting of the AAI, Pittsburg, PA, May 2-6, 2014.
  32. Gangaplara A, Massilamany C, Steffen D, Reddy J. Gender differences in the development of autoimmune myocarditis induced with cardiac myosin heavy chain-alpha, 334-352 in C57Bl/6 mice. 101th Annual meeting of the AAI, Pittsburg, PA, May 2-6, 2014.
  33. Jia T, Massilamany C, and Reddy J. Delineating the mechanisms of immunomodulatory effects of sex steroids in autoreactive T cells. 101th Annual meeting of the AAI, Pittsburg, PA, May 2-6, 2014.
  34. Krishnan B,MassilamanyC, PetersonD, Reddy J. Quick and efficient method of deriving antigen-specific, T cell hybridomas and their phenotypic characterization using major histocompatibility complex class II dextramers. Annual meeting of the FOCIS, Chicago, IL, June 25-28, 2014.
  35. Helle H. Nielsen, Lars P. Kristensen, Hans C. Beck, Reddy J, Illes Z. The proteome profile of the urine is different in patients with neuromyelitis optica compared to multiple sclerosis and healthy subjects.  ACTRIMS-ECTRIMS (joint meeting), September 10-13, 2014.
  36. Massilamany C, Krishnan B, Rajsekaran AR, Gangaplara A, Elowsky C, Zhou Y, Kuszynski C, and Reddy J. Versatility of Major Histocompatibility Complex Class II Dextramers for Detection, and Functional Characterization of Antigen-Specific, Autoreactive CD4 T Cells in the Mouse Models of Autoimmune Diseases. Cytokines Down Under: From Bench to Beyond, Annual meeting of the International Cytokine and Interferon Society, 26 - 29 October 2014, Melbourne, Australia. 2014
  37. Massilamany C, Krishnan B, Smith TP, Moriyama E, Barletta, RG, Loy JD and Reddy J. Role of Bacillus infantis NRRL B-14911 in the mediation of autoimmune myocarditis. Cytokines Down Under: From Bench to Beyond, Annual meeting of the International Cytokine and Interferon Society, 26 - 29 October 2014, Melbourne, Australia. 2014.
  38. Basavalingappa RH, Massilamany C, Rajasekaran RA, Steffen, D, and Reddy J. Identification of immunogenic epitopes of β-adrenergic receptor 1 that induce heart autoimmunity in A/J mice. 102nd Annual meeting of The American Association of Immunologists, New Orleans, LA, May 8-12, 2015.
  39. Massilamany C, Rajasekaran RA, Basavalingappa RH, Steffen D, and Reddy, J. Viral Myocarditis Induced with Coxsackievirus B3 Involves the Mediation of Mono Antigen-Specific Autoreactive CD4 and CD8 T Cell Responses. Federation of Clinical Immunology Societies 2015 meeting, San Diego, CA, June 24-27, 2015.
  40. Jia T, Anandan A, Massilamany C, Rajasekaran RA, Cruz R-F, and Reddy J. Evidence for autophagy as a possible mechanism that contributes to the antiproliferative effects of testosterone in the autoreactive T cells. Federation of Clinical Immunology Societies 2015 meeting, San Diego, CA, June 24-27, 2015.
  41. Gebregiworgis, T., Massilamany C, Gangaplara A, Steffen D, Nielsen H, Illes Z, and Reddy J, and R. Powers. Urine metabolomics: a potential approach to diagnose and monitor Multiple Sclerosis. 56th Experimental Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Conference, Pacific Grove, CA, United States, Apr 18-24, 2015.
  42. Massilamany, C., Mohammed, A., Loy, J. D. , Purvis, T., Krishnan, B., Basavalingappa, R.H., Kelly, C., Guda, C., Barletta, R. G., Moriyama, E., Smith, T., and Reddy, J. Whole genomic sequence analysis of Bacillus infantis: defining the genetic blueprint of strain NRRL B-14911, an emerging cardiopathogenic microbe. BMC Genomics. International Conference on Intelligent Biology and Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, November 13-15, 2015 (invited oral presentation).
  43. Basavalingappa RH, Massilamany C, Rajasekaran R, Steffen D and Reddy J Identification of immunogenic epitopes of β-adrenergic receptor 1 that induce heart autoimmunity in A/J mice. 102nd Annual meeting of American Association of Immunologists, New Orleans, Louisiana, May 8-12, 2015.
  44. Massilamany, C., Gangaplara, A., Basavalingappa, R., Rajasekaran, R., Steffen, D., Pattnaik, A., Reddy, J. 103rd Annual meeting of The American Association of Immunologist, Seattle, WA, "Mutation in the 5'NTR and non-structural protein 3A of the coxsackievirus B3 selectively attenuate myocarditogenicity", May 13, 2016.
  45. Basavalingappa, R., Massilamany, C., Krishnan, B., Gangaplara, A., Kang, G., Khalizar, V., Han, Z., Othman, S., Li, Q., Riethoven, J., Sobel, R., Steffen, D., Reddy, J. 97th conference of Research Workers in Animal Diseases Meeting & Seventh U.S BVDV Symphosium, Chicago IL, "Identification of an Epitope from Adenine Nucleotide Translocator 1 That Induces Inflammation in Heart in A/J Mice", December 6, 2016.
  46. Krishnan, B., Massilamany, C., Basavalingappa, R., Gangaplara, A., Kang, G., Li, Q., Uzal, F., Strande, J., Delhon, G., Riethoven, J., Steffen, D., Reddy, J. 97th conference of Research Workers in Animal Diseases Meeting & Seventh U.S BVDV Symphosium, Chicago Il, "Identification of branched chain alpha-ketoacid dehydrogenase kinase as a target autoantigen in the induction of cardiac autoimmunity through the generation of autoreactive T cell A/J mice", December 6, 2016.
  47. Basavalingappa R, Gangaplara A, Massilamany C, Krishnan B, Jia T, Steffen D and Reddy J Federation of Clinical Immunology Societies. Chicago. Coxsackievirus B3 viral protein1 possesses multiple immunodominant epitopes that induce differential antigen-specific, CD4 and CD8 T cell responses in A/J mice. June 14-17, 2017.
  48. Rajasekaran, R. A., Krishnan B., Massilamany C., Steffen D and Reddy J. Role of SERCA2a-reactive T cells in viral myocarditis. 2018 Annual NCV Flyswat Meeting, Nebraska City, NE, March 18-19, 2018.
  49. Sarmirova S, Borsanyiova M, Benkoova B, Rajasekaran RA, Gomolcak P, Berakova K, Reddy J and Bopegamage S. Severe affliction of the pancreatic tissue of CVB4 E2 orally infected gravid dams and their challenged pups. 20th meeting of European Study Group on the Molecular Biology of Picornaviruses EUROPIC 2018. The Netherlands, June 3-7, 2018.
  50. Lasrado N, Arumugam R, Massilamany C, Krishnan B, and Reddy J. MHC Dextramers: versatile tools for assessing antigen-specific T cell responses. 17th International Congress of Immunology - IUIS 2019. Beijing, October 19-23, 2019.
  51. Lasrado N, Gangaplara A, Arumugam R, Massilamany C, Steffen D and Reddy J. Identification of immunogenic epitopes that permit the detection of antigen-specific T cell responses in multiple serotypes of group B Coxsackievirus infections. CRWAD annual meeting, Chicago, IL, November 3-5, 2019.
  52. Arumugam R, Yalaka B, Massilamany C, Lasrado N, Haider Ali MS, Riethoven JJ, Sun X and Reddy J. Antigen-presenting cells from naive mice constitutively present the T cell epitope of SERCA2a and induce inflammatory cytokine production in antigen-specific T cells. 103rd Annual meeting of the American Association of Immunologists, May 9-13, 2019, San Diego, CA.
  53. Lasrado N, Arumugam R, Jia T, Krishnan B, Xiang S and Reddy J. Evidence for cross-reactive self-antigen in the mediation of post-infectious myocarditis induced by Coxsackie virus B3 infection. FLYSWAT annual meeting, March 17-18, 2020, Nebraska City, NE.
  54. Lasrado N, Arumugam R, Jayaraja S, Thibivilliers S, Libault M, Starr T and Reddy J. Single cell RNA sequence analysis reveals novel clusters unique to post-infectious myocarditis in the mouse model of Coxsackievirus infection. 104th Annual meeting of the American Association of Immunologists, May 8-12, 2020, Honolulu, HI.
  55. Massilamany C, Arumugam R, Lasrado N, Gangaplara A, Jayaraja S, Steffen D, Gurumurthy C, and Reddy J. A unique model of cardiac myosin-specific TCR transgenic mice for dilated cardiomyopathy. 104th Annual meeting of the American Association of Immunologists, May 8-12, 2020, Honolulu, HI.
  56. Won T, Kalinoski H, Wood M, Hughes D, Talor M, Lasrado N, Reddy J and Cihakova D. Autoimmunity against cardiac antigen drives immune checkpoint inhibitor-associated myocarditis development. Meeting the Challenges of Myocarditis Workshop, May 3-6, 2021, NHLBI.
  57. Lasrado N, Borcherding N, Arumugam R, Starr T, and Reddy J. Dissecting the complexity of heart infiltrates in post-infectious myocarditis induced with CVB3 infection by single-cell RNA sequencing analysis. 104th Virtual Annual meeting of the American Association of Immunologists, May 10-15, 2021.
  58. Rasquinha M, Lasrado N, Larman B, and Reddy J. PhIP-Seq analysis reveals autoantibodies 4 for novel antigens in the mouse model of Coxsackievirus B3 infection. 104th Virtual Annual meeting of the American Association of Immunologists, May 10-15, 2021.
  59. Reddy J, Arumugam R, Lasrado N, Renu S and Gourapura R. Antigen-specific T cell tolerance in the prevention of post-infectious myocarditis induced with Coxsackievirus B3. 104th Virtual Annual meeting of the American Association of Immunologists, May 10-15, 2021.
  60. Lasrado N, Borcherding N, Arumugam R, Starr T, and Reddy J. Dissecting the Cellular Landscape and Transcriptome Network in Viral Myocarditis by Single-Cell RNA Sequencing. CRWAD annual meeting, Chicago, IL, December 3-7, 2021.
  61. Rasquinha M, Lasrado N, Larman B, and Reddy J. Determination of autoantibody repertoires by PhIP-Seq analysis in the mouse model of Coxsackievirus B3 infection. CRWAD annual meeting, Chicago, IL, December 3-7, 2021.
  62. Sur M, Doiphode A, Lasrado N, Arumugam R, and Reddy J. Generation of SERCA2aspecific TCR transgenic mice. CRWAD annual meeting, Chicago, IL, December 3-7, 2021.
  63. Lasrado N, Rasquinha M, Sur M, Gangaplara A, Massilamany C, Arumugam M, Steffen D, and Reddy J. A live-attenuated mutant CVB3 vaccine virus protects against multiple coxsackievirus B infections. 105th Annual meeting of the American Association of Immunologists, May 5-10, 2022, Portland, OR.