The program is now available as PDF
(you will receive a booklet with these contents onsite, please DO NOT print)
Saturday, January 20 |
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Registration desk open from 16.00 KEYNOTE LECTURE AND WELCOME RECEPTION |
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18.00 | Thomas Boehm | Evolutionary novelties in vertebrate adaptive immune systems |
19.00 | Mix and Meet - Fingerfood will be served | |
Sunday, January 21 |
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LYMPHOCYTE DEVELOPMENT AND MALIGNANCIES |
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09.00 | Ellen Robey | A multi-omics approach to dissecting T cell fate in the thymus |
09.30 | Andreas Krueger | High-resolution mapping of cell-cycle dynamics during steady-state T-cell development and regeneration in vivo |
09.45 | Robin Thiele | Constrained B-cell development promotes malignant transformation |
10.00 | Carlota Farre Dias | Using sequential mutagenesis to model human multiple myeloma subgroups in mice |
10.15 | Coffee Break | |
HUMORAL IMMUNITY |
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10.45 | Carola Vinuesa | Signals driving pathogenic B cells in autoimmunity |
11.15 | Gabriel Victora | B cell selection in germinal centres |
11.45 | Louise Webb | Rejuvenation of the Germinal Center Reaction and Affinity Maturation Following Depletion of T Follicular Helper Cells |
12.00 | Mirela Kuka | IFNγ Suppresses T Follicular Helper Cell Differentiation and Antibody Responses |
12:15 | Lunch Break | |
CONTROL OF GENE EXPRESSION AND PROTEIN FUNCTION |
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14.00 | Chunaram Choudhary | Lysine acetylation in gene regulation |
14.30 | Martin Turner | RNA binding proteins limiting T cell differentiation and function |
15.00 | Borja Jimenez Lasheras | Neddylation as a relevant agent in metabolism and antitumor capacity of CD8+ T cells |
15.15 | Daniel Greenwood | Mapping the heterogeneity of NF-kB response in primary human immune cells with deep-learning assisted high content microscopy |
15.30 | Coffee Break | |
T CELL ACTIVATION |
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16.00 | Romain Roncagalli | Insights into the molecular mechanisms encoding TCR ligand discrimination |
16.30 | Alexander Leithner | A second-generation supported lipid bilayer system to study the effects of ligand lateral mobility on T cell activation |
16.45 | Katarzyna Jobin | Post priming long-term T cell interaction niches scale CD8 and CAR Teff formation |
Monday, January 22 |
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AT THE CROSSROADS OF INNATE AND ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY |
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09.00 | Taras Kreslavskiy | Unusual specificities of γδ T cells |
09.30 | Chiara Romagnani | Adaptive features of NK cells |
10.00 | Immo Prinz | Resident γδ and αβ T cells in human lung and associated lymph nodes adapt into complementary regulatory and cytotoxic phenotypes |
10.15 | Georg Gasteiger | Differentiation of innate and adaptive tissue-resident lymphocytes during ontogeny, infection and allergy |
10.30 | Coffee Break | |
11.00 | Gleb Turchinovich | Power of two: new binary Cre mouse model specifically targeting type 3 Innate Lymphoid Cells |
11.15 | Julie Ribot | IL-17 regulates peripheral nerve regeneration |
11:30 | Burkhard Becher | Cytokines in inflammation and cancer |
12:00 | Lunch Break | |
TRANSCRIPTIONAL CONTROL OF IMMUNE CELL FUNCTION |
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17.00 | Ananda Goldrath | Transcriptional programming of T cell tissue immunity in space and time |
17.30 | Ari Glasner | Conserved transcriptional connectivity of regulatory T cells in the tumor microenvironment informs new combination cancer therapy strategies |
17.45 | Carmen Gerlach | CD8+ T cell differentiation and activation represent distinct axes of diversification |
18.00 | Poster Session I – Fingerfood will be served | |
Tuesday, January 23 |
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MYELOID CELL BIOLOGY |
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09.00 | Caetano Reis e Sousa | DaNgeRous necrophagy, coprophagy and immunity to cancer |
09.30 | Michael Sixt | Coordination of mechanical forces in migrating leukocytes |
10.00 | Barbara Schraml | Identification of unique RORγt expressing antigen presenting cells conserved across tissues and species |
10.15 | Michael Kern | Host intestinal perivascular macrophages protect against murine acute graft-versus-host disease via PD-L1 |
10.30 | Coffee Break | |
TOLERANCE AND AUTOIMMUNITY |
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11.00 | Adrian Erlebacher | Mechanisms of fetomaternal tolerance |
11.30 | Andrew Koh | Thymic epithelia destabilize chromatin via p53 repression to amplify transcriptional noise for AIRE-mediated immune tolerance |
11.45 | Stefano Angiari | Coenzyme A fueling with pantethine limits autoreactive T cell pathogenicity in experimental neuroinflammation |
12.00 | Lunch Break | |
IMMUNITY AND AGING |
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17.00 | Donna Farber | Tissue and age as determinants for human immunity |
17.30 | Maria Mittelbrunn | Decoding the contribution of the immune system to aging |
18.00 | Poster Session II – Fingerfood will be served | |
Wednesday, January 24 |
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HUMAN IMMUNOLOGY |
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09.00 | Muzlifah Haniffa | Decoding the developing human immune system |
09.30 | Alexander Scheffold | Exhausted autoreactive T cells in human autoimmunity |
10.00 | Georg Stary | Tissue-resident T cells as guardians of cutaneous immunity |
10.30 | Coffee Break | |
CANCER IMMUNOLOGY |
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11.00 | Susan Kaech | Stressing out our immune system in cancer |
11.30 | Axel Kallies | Differentiation and function of cytotoxic T cells in chronic infection and cancer |
12.00 | Patrizia Stoitzner | Tumor-targeted therapy with BRAF-inhibitor remodels the myeloid landscape to promote tumor immunity in melanoma |
12.15 | Lydia Dyck | Analysis of mechanisms promoting T cell tolerance against autochthonous cancer in aged mice |
12:30 | Lunch Break | |
IMMUNITY IN TISSUES |
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14.00 | Matteo Iannacone | Immune surveillance of the liver |
14.30 | Nicole Joller | The co-inhibitory receptor TIGIT promotes tissue protection and repair |
15.00 | Coffee Break | |
15.30 | Jan Dobes | Segmented filamentous bacteria-induced epithelial MHCII regulates cognate CD4+ IELs and epithelial turnover |
15.15 | Anneli Peters | T:B cell cooperation in ectopic lymphoid follicles in CNS autoimmunity |
16.00 | Marion Pepper | Memory T cells in tissues |
19.00 | Farewell Dinner |