Cookies on this website

We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. If you click 'Accept all cookies' we'll assume that you are happy to receive all cookies and you won't see this message again. If you click 'Reject all non-essential cookies' only necessary cookies providing core functionality such as security, network management, and accessibility will be enabled. Click 'Find out more' for information on how to change your cookie settings.

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

Download programme

 

Programme

 

DAY 1

21:00

Keynote

Diane Mathis, "Mechanisms protecting us from autoimmunity"

21:45

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

DAY 2

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

Short talk 1 from Abstracts

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

Short talk 2 from Abstracts

12:00

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

12:30

Carrie Lucas, "Vaccines and autoimmunity"

1:00

Lunch & meet the Speakers

2:30

Poster session 1

Systems immunology, mechanobiology and neural interface

17:00

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

17:30

Short talks 3 and 4 from Abstracts

18:00

Morgan Huse, "Mechanical topography of T cell killing"

18:15

Short talk 5 from Abstracts

1830

Francisco Quintana, "Neuroimmunology special talk"

19:30

Dinner

DAY 3

 

B cell receptor signaling

09:00

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

09:30

Short talk 6 from Abstracts

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

11:45

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

12:00

Short talk 6 from Abstracts

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

Short talk 9 from Abstracts

15:15

Maria Mittlebrun, "Metabolism and inflammaging"

15:30

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

16:30

Excursion : Buses to Siena.

DAY 4

Differentiation

09:00

Daniel Billadeau, "Metabolic control of T cell exhaustion"

09:30

Marta Rizzi, "Extrafollicular B cell responses"

09:45

Short talk 10 from Abstracts

10:00

Carmen Gerach, "Multiple axes of T cell differentiation"

10:30

Coffee

 

Autoimmunity

11:00

Anne Spurkland, "TCR signaling and Multiple Sclerosis risk"

11:30

Short talks 11-13 from Abstracts

12:15

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

Short talk 14 from Abstracts

17:45

Nagaja Capitani, "T cell killing of leukemic cells"

18:00

Short talk 15 and 16 from abstracts

18:30

Li Tran, "CAR-T cell atlas"

19:00

Poster prizes

19:20

Mike Dustin, "Business meeting and Concluding remarks"

19:30

Dinner 

22:00

Dance Party

DAY 5

 

08:00

Breakfast

Departures by bus to Florence and Pisa

HOME