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Ample time has been allotted to networking (coffee breaks, meet-the-scientist sessions, social events).

 

Day one 

21:00

Keynote

Diane Mathis, "Mechanisms protecting us from autoimmunity"

21:45

Christophe Benoist, "Systems immunology insights into regulatory T cells"

 

Day two

Antigen receptor structure

09:00

Ryan Notti, "Structure of a T cell receptor at rest and work"

09:30

Nicole La Grut, "Autoreactive T cell receptors"

10:00

Ferreira Fernandes

10:30

Matteo Inanacone, "CD8 T cell response to infection in liver"

10:45

Coffee break

Tolerance

11:15

Julie Zikherman, "Transcriptional networks controlling T and B cell tolerance"

11:45

Ed Jenkins

12:00

Nicole Joller, "TIGIT in protection from autoimmunity and infection"

12:30

Carrie Lucas, "Decoding disease to illuminate immunobiology"

1:00

Lunch & meet the Speakers

2:30

Poster session 1

Mechanoimmunology

17:00

Omer Dushek, "Combi cells for 2D affinity and signaling analysis"

17:30

Aliya Holland

17:45

Ashwin Kumar Jainarajanan

18:00

Morgan Huse, "Mechanical topography of T cell killing"

18:15

Salvatore Valitutti- "Stenocytosis as a Mechanism of Supramolecular Attack Particle Transfer at the Cytotoxic T Lymphocyte Lytic Synapse and Its Impact on Target Cell Death"

18:30

Francisco Quintana, "Neuroimmunology special talk"

19:30

Dinner

 

Day three

B cell receptor signaling

09:00

Pieta Mattila, "Coupling BCR signaling to antigen processing functions"

09:30

Adrian Fernandez Rego

9:45

Katelyn Spillane, "Cytoskeletal control of antigen presentation by macrophages"     

10:15

Tomohiro Kurosaki, "BCR signaling in memory B cells"

10:45

Katherine Susa, "Structural basis of B cell co-receptor signalling"

11:15

Coffee break

T cell receptor signaling - supported by Centre for Integrative Biological Signalling Studies (CIBSS)

11:45

Sudha Kumari, "Actin networks in control of T cell interactions and signaling"

12:00

Alina Shomuradova

12:30

Jay Groves, "Membrane organization in TCR signaling"

13:00

Lunch & meet the speakers

Metabolism

14:30

Nuria Martinez, "B cell and germinal center metabolism"

15:00

Annabelle Buschky

15:15

Maria Mittlebrunn, "Metabolism and inflammaging"

15:30

Dirk Brenner, "Redox metabolism in T cells and cancer"

16:30

Excursion : Buses to Siena.

 

Day four

Differentiation

09:00

Daniel Billadeau, "Metabolic control of T cell exhaustion"

09:30

Jürgen Wienands, "B cell receptor signaling and differentiation"

09:45

Mohammad Al-Aghbar

10:00

Carmen Gerach, "Multiple axes of T cell differentiation"

10:30

Alessio Lanna, "Resetting senescent T cells through targeting senescence associated sestrin complex"

11:00

Coffee

 

Infection and Autoimmunity

11:30

Anne Spurkland, "TCR signaling and Multiple Sclerosis risk"

12:00

Sho Yamasaki, "Novel unconventional T cell subset recognizing mycobacterial lipids"

12:30

Tal Arnon,  "Dynamics of B cell recirculation and memory"

13:00

Lunch

14:30

Poster session 2

Tumour Immunology

17:00

Maté Biro, "Mechanical control of T cell access to tumours"

17:30

Ana Valeria Melendez Mayorga

17:45

Nagaja Capitani, "T cell killing of leukemic cells"

18:00

Anish Suri- TBA

18:30

Li Tang, "CAR-T cell atlas"

19:00

Poster prizes

19:20

Mike Dustin, "Business meeting and Concluding remarks"

19:30

Dinner 

22:00

Social event

 

Day five

08:00

Breakfast

Departures by bus to Florence and Pisa

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