Topics
Special FocusImmune Activation, Effector Functions and Immune Tolerance with a special focus on Autoimmunity
Topics
Basic Mechanisms
- Innate immune response
- Dendritic cell subsets and immune regulation
- B cell subsets and immune regulation
- NK cells and NK-T cells
- Eosinophils, Basophils and Neutrophils
- Innate lymphoid cells
- Transcriptional regulation of immune responses
- Development of effector and regulatory T cells
- T and B cell memory and immune regulation
- Chemokines and receptors in immune response
- Apoptosis in the regulation of immune responses
- The role of microRNAs in immune regulation and effector functions
- Role of epithelial cells and other resident tissue cells
- Epigenetic mechanism of immune response
- Metabolism and immunity
Focus on clinical application, drug discovery and novel biotechnological developments
- Hygiene hypothesis in immune regulation
- Regulatory and effector T and B cell subsets and cytokines: from bench to bedside
- Immune response to parasites
- Tumor antigen-specific immune regulation
- Autoimmunity
- Neuroimmunology
- Allergy and asthma
- Organ transplantation
- Experimental models of inducing and breaking peripheral tolerance
- Mucosal tolerance and intestinal homeostasis
- Development of novel vaccines and drugs
- „Biologicals“ and immune response
- Cellular therapies including stem cell therapies
- Regenerative medicine and immune system
- Precision Medicine
