topics

special focus

Immune Activation, Effector Functions and Immune Tolerance with a special focus on Allergy and Autoimmunity

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

Epithelial cells and barriers

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

Epigenetic mechanism of immune response

Immune response to virus

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

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

Novel immune imaging techniques

Clinical immunology and immune deficiencies

speakers and their talks

Rafael Arguello

Single cell metabolism and epigenetics profiling in inflammation

Scott Boyd

Multi-antigen analysis of B cell memory and responses

Petter Brodin

A seeding reaction to colonizing microbes imprint immunity in human newborns

Marco Colonna

A lymphoid-derived ROR-gamma-t+ dendritic cell lineage programs oral tolerance

Eran Elinav

Host-microbiome interactions in health and disease

Lukas Flatz

How autoimmunity drives tumor control during immune checkpoint blockade

Richard Flavell

Immune sensing of cancer

Melanie Greter

The role of embryonic macrophages at the maternal-fetal interface

Andres Hidalgo

Neutrophils, the body’s pacemaker?

Camilla Jandus

The Brain’s Early Warning System Against Infection

Sebastian Jessberger

Molecular and functional heterogeneity of neural stem cells across lifespan

Claudia Kemper

Cell-intrinsic complement as integral component of Th1 biology

Vijay Kuchroo

Neuroimmune Interactions Regulate Type 2 Inflammation

Bart Lambrecht

Transcriptional control of macrophage function

Edward Morrisey

Cell type specific changes in the lung and associations with human disease

Christian Münz

The role of Epstein Barr virus infection in autoimmunity

Fiona Powrie

Host Microbe Interactions in the Intestine in Health and Disease

Hai Qi

Recallability and differentiation imprint of memory B cells: implications for vaccine design

Rogier Sanders

Atomic precision vaccine design to induce broadly neutralizing HIV antibodies

Linda Sinclair

Proteostasis in T cells

Philipp Starkl

Mast cells and eosinophils in antimicrobial type 2 immunity

Ferdinand von Meyenn

Epigenetics, the long-term cellular memory affecting health

Christoph Wilhelm

Metabolic networks controlling tissue immunity

Yee Ling Wu

Tissue resident B cells in allergic lung inflammation

Mario Zaiss

Histamine from Microbes to Mind: A CNS Gateway Modulating Joint Inflammation