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 SARS-CoV-2

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

Covid-19, vaccines, immune pathogenesis and treatment

speakers and their talks

Cezmi A. Akdis

Epithelial Barrier Theory and Molecular Mechanisms of Tissue Injury in Allergic and Autoimmune Diseases

Isabelle Arnold

Eosinophils in homeostasis and disease

Dirk Brenner

cROSsing barriers: Metabolism meets T cell function

Hans Clevers

Organoids to model human disease

Nicolas Gaudenzio

Neuroimmunology of the skin

Roger Geiger

Decoding T Cell Cytotoxicity via Single-Cell CRISPR Screens in Droplets

Florent Ginhoux

Heterogenity of Resident Tissue Macrophages

Alexandre Harari

Tumour-infiltrating lymphocyte (TIL)-adoptive cell therapy

Christoph Hess

Increasing CAR T cell persistence instructed by basic immuno-metabolic principles

Daniela Latorre

Dissecting autoreactive T cell immunity in human neurological disorders

Eicke Latz

Inflammatory responses to pyroptosis

Clare Lloyd

Stromal -immune interactions drive asthma pathology in children and adults

Benjamin Marsland

Defining the factors driving mucosal healing

Julia Merkenschlager

Otimising antibody affinity maturation; how to win big without losing it all

Luke O'Neill

A break in mitochondrial endosymbiosis as a basis for inflammatory diseases

Jamie Orengo

Novel strategies for modulating type 2 immunity

Jeffrey Rathmell

Fever and Immunometabolism of T cells

Christoph Schneider

Cytokine-mediated epithelium – immune cell crosstalk

Eran Segal

Personalized medicine based on deep human phenotyping

Mohamed Shamji

Biomarker and adaptive trial driven approaches: Innovation in allergen immunotherapy

Milena Sokolowska

Metabolic Regulation of Human Th2 Cells in Health and Disease

Thomas Vogl

High-dimensional profiling of the antibody repertoire in gastrointestinal inflammatory diseases

Tomasz Wypych

Harnessing bile acids to ameliorate lung inflammation

Matthias Zilbauer

Intestinal Organoids as translational tools in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (IBD)