1st International Conference on T Cells in Health and Disease

Preliminary Program

ARRIVAL DAY (23rd Sept)

6:30-7:30 pm CONFERENCE REGISTRATION

7:30 pm WELCOME RECEPTION DINNER

 

DAY 1 (24th Sept)

7:30 am BREAKFAST

8:30 am OPENING REMARKS

8:35-10:30 am PLENARY (3 speakers plus 2 short presentations selected from the submitted abstracts)

Effector and memory differentiation

8:35-9:00 Wolfgang KastenmüllerUniversity of Würzberg, Würzberg, Germany

9:00-9:25 Marion PepperUniversity of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

9:25-9:50 Weiguo Cui, Pathology Department, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA

9:50-10:03    Short talk (Selected from abstract)

10:03-10:16  Short talk (Selected from abstract)

 

10:30-11:30 am COFFEE BREAK and POSTER SESSION

 

11:30-2:00 pm PLENARY (4 speakers plus 3 short presentations selected from the submitted abstracts)


Tolerance and autoimmunity

11:30-11:55 Dirk BrennerImmunology and Genetics, Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine, Luxembourg

11:55-12:20 Hai QiSchool of Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

12:20-12:45 Ian ParishOrganiser, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Australia

12:45-1:10 Chrysothemis BrownMSKCC, New York, NY, USA

1:10-1:23         Short talk (Selected from abstract)

1:23-1:36         Short talk (Selected from abstract)

1:36-1:49         Short talk (Selected from abstract)

 

2 pm LUNCH / INFORMAL DISCUSSIONS

3 pm INFORMAL DISCUSSIONS

7:30 pm DINNER AT LOCAL GREEK TAVERNA (BUSES DEPART HOTEL LOBBY)

 

DAY 2 (25th Sept)

7:30 am BREAKFAST

9:00-10:30 am PLENARY (3 speakers plus short presentation selected from the submitted abstracts)


Adapting to the tissue microenvironment

9:00-9.25 Ananda GoldrathUCSD, San Diego, CA, USA

9:25-9:50 Thomas GebhardtOrganiser, Microbiology and Immunology, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

9:50-10.15 Laura MackayMicrobiology and Immunology, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

10:15-10:28     Short talk (Selected from abstract)

 

10:30-11:30 am COFFEE BREAK and POSTER SESSION

 

11:30-1:30 pm PLENARY (3 speakers plus short presentation selected from the submitted abstracts)


Response to chronic infection

11:30-11:55 John WherryDepartment of Systems Pharmacology & Translational Therapeutics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

11:55-12:20 Dietmar ZehnTechnical University of Munich School of Life Sciences, Munich, Germany

12:20-12:45 Daniel UtzschneiderOrganiser, Microbiology and Immunology, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

12:45-1:10 Alice KamphorstMt Sinai, New York, NY, USA

1:10-1:23     Short talk (Selected from abstract)

 

1.30 pm LUNCH / INFORMAL DISCUSSIONS

3 pm INFORMAL DISCUSSIONS

7:30 pm DINNER AT LOCAL GREEK TAVERNA (BUSES DEPART HOTEL LOBBY)

 

 

DAY 3 (26th Sept)

7:30 am BREAKFAST

9:00-10:30 am PLENARY (3 speakers plus short presentation selected from the submitted abstracts)


Anti-cancer immunity

9:00-9.25 Caitlin ZebleySt. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA

9:25-9:50 Andrea SchietingerOrganiser, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA

9:50-10.15 Axel KalliesOrganiser, Microbiology and Immunology, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

10:15-10:28     Short talk (Selected from abstract)

 

10:30-11:30 am COFFEE BREAK and POSTER SESSION

 

11:30-2:00 pm PLENARY (4 speakers plus 3 short presentations selected from the submitted abstracts)

 

Immunometabolism

11:30-11:55 Erika PearceOrganiser, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA

11:55-12:20 Susan KaechOrganiser, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA, USA

12:20-12:45 Greg DelgoffeDepartment of Immunology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

12:45-1:10  Maria MittelbrunnConsejo Superior De Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC), Spain

1:10-1:23 Short talk (Selected from abstract)

1:23-1:36 Short talk (Selected from abstract)

1:36-1:49 Short talk (Selected from abstract)

 

2 pm LUNCH/ INFORMAL DISCUSSIONS

3 pm CULTURAL TOUR: Knossos Palace / Museum (BUSES DEPART HOTEL LOBBY)

7:30 pm DINNER AT LOCAL GREEK TAVERNA 

 

 

FINAL DAY (27th Sept)

7:30 am BREAKFAST

9:00-11:00 am PLENARY (3 speakers plus short presentation selected from the submitted abstracts)

Human immunology

9:00-9:25 Matthew SpitzerSchool of Medicine, UCSF, San Francisco, CA, USA

9:25-9:50 Carmen GerlachCenter for Molecular Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden

9:50-10:15 Haydn KissickDepartment of Urology and Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA

10:15-10.40 Federica SallustoIRB, Bellinzona, Switzerland

10:40-10:53 Short talk (Selected from abstract)

 

11-11:30 am COFFEE BREAK

 

11:30-1:30 pm PLENARY (3 speakers plus short presentation selected from the submitted abstracts)

Novel approaches to immunotherapy

11:30-11:55 Rahul RoychoudhuriUniversity of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

11:55-12:10 Lisa MielkeOlivia Newton John Cancer Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia

12:10-12:35 Tuoqi WuUniversity of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA

12:35-1.00 Stephanie EisenbarthNorthwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA

1:00-1:15 Short talk (Selected from abstract)

 

1:30 pm LUNCH / INFORMAL DISCUSSIONS

3 pm INFORMAL DISCUSSIONS

7:30 pm FARWELL DINNER

 

DEPARTURE DAY (28th Sept)

7:30 am BREAKFAST

11:00 am Check out / Departure