Conference Program

 

Saturday, January 20
KEYNOTE LECTURE AND WELCOME RECEPTION
18.00 Thomas Boehm Evolutionary novelties in vertebrate adaptive immune systems
19.00 Mix and Meet - Fingerfood will be served

 

Sunday, January 21
SESSION I - IMMUNE CELL DEVELOPMENT AND TOLERANCE
09.00 Ellen Robey A multi-omics approach to dissecting T cell fate in the thymus
09.30 Adrian Erlebacher Mechanisms of fetomaternal tolerance
10.00 t.b.d. Selected short talk
10.15 t.b.d. Selected short talk
10.30 Coffee Break
SESSION II - MYELOID CELL BIOLOGY
11.00 Caetano Reis e Sousa Dendritic cell development and function
11.30 Michael Sixt Coordination of mechanical forces in migrating leukocytes
12.00 t.b.d. Selected short talk
12.15 t.b.d. Selected short talk
12:30 Lunch Break
SESSION III - AT THE CROSSROADS OF INNATE AND ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY
14.00 Taras Kreslavskiy Unusual specificities of γδT cells
14.30 Chiara Romagnani Adaptive Features of NK cells
15.00 t.b.d. Selected short talk
15.15 t.b.d. Selected short talk
15.30 Coffee Break
16.00 Burkhard Becher Cytokines in Inflammation and Cancer
16.30 t.b.d. Selected short talk
16.45 t.b.d. Selected short talk

 

Monday, January 22
SESSION IV - GENE REGULATION AND BEYOND
09.00 Maria Mittelbrunn t.b.a
09.30 Chunaram Choudhary Lysine acetylation in gene regulation
10.00 t.b.d. Selected short talk
10.15 t.b.d. Selected short talk
10.30 Coffee Break
11.00 Romain Roncagalli Insights into the molecular mechanisms encoding TCR ligand discrimination
11.30 Martin Turner RNA binding Proteins limiting T cell differentiation and function
12:00 Lunch Break
SESSION V -  IMMUNITY CELL-BY-CELL
17.00 Muzlifah Haniffa t.b.a
17.30 t.b.d. Selected short talk
17.45 t.b.d. Selected short talk
18.00 Poster Session I – Fingerfood will be served

 

Tuesday, January 23
SESSION VI - HUMORAL IMMUNITY  
09.00 Carola Vinuesa t.b.a
09.30 Gabriel Victora B cell selection in germinal centres
10.00 t.b.d. Selected short talk
10.15 t.b.d. Selected short talk
10.30 Coffee Break
SESSION VII - IMMUNE CELL FUNCTION IN HOMEOSTASIS AND DISEASE I
11.00 Nicole Joller The co-inhibitory receptor TIGIT promotes tissue protection and repair
11.30 t.b.d. Selected short talk
11.45 t.b.d. Selected short talk
12.00 Lunch Break
SESSION VIII - IMMUNE CELL FUNCTION IN HOMEOSTASIS AND DISEASE II
17.00 Donna Farber Tissue and age determinants for human immunity
17.30 t.b.d. Selected short talk
17.45 t.b.d. Selected short talk
18.00 Poster Session II – Fingerfood will be served
     

Wednesday, January 24

  
SESSION IX - IMMUNITY IN TISSUES
09.00 Matteo Iannacone Immune surveillance of the liver
09.30 Ananda Goldrath Transcriptional programming of T cell tissue immunity in space and time
10.00 t.b.d. Selected short talk
10.15 t.b.d. Selected short talk
10.30 Coffee Break
11.00 Marion Pepper Memory T cells in tissues
11.30 Axel Kallies Differentiation and function of cytotoxic T cells in chronic infection and cancer
12.00 t.b.d. Selected short talk
12.15 t.b.d. Selected short talk
12:30

Lunch Break
SESSION X - HUMAN IMMUNOLOGY
14.00 Georg Stary Tissue-resident T cells as guardians of cutaneous immunity
14.30 Alexander Scheffold Exhausted autoreactive T cells in human autoimmunity
15.00 t.b.d. Selected short talk
15.15 t.b.d. Selected short talk
15.30 Coffee Break
SESSION XI - CANCER IMMUNOLOGY
16.00 Susan Kaech Stressing out our immune system in cancer
16.30 t.b.d. t.b.a
17.00 t.b.d. Selected short talk
17.15 t.b.d. Selected short talk
19.00 Farewell Dinner