Confirmed Speakers 

Gregers Andersen Aaarhus University

John Atkinson Washington University

Camille Bedrosian Alexion Pharmaceuticals

Ali-Reza  Biglarnia Uppsala University

Anna  Blom Lund University

Triantafyllos Chavakis University of Dresden

Peter Cowan University of Melbourne

Kristina Ekdahl Linnaeus University Kalmar

Peter Garred University of Copenhagen

Brian Geisbrecht Kansas State University

Berhane Ghebrehiwet Stony Brook University

George Hajishengallis University of Pennsylvania

Claire Harris GlaxoSmithKline

Michael Holers University of Colorado

Markus Huber-Lang Ulm University

Anastasios Karadimitris Imperial College London

Neel Krishna Eastern Virginia Medical School

John Lambris University of Pennsylvania

Susan Lea University of Oxford

Florea Lupu Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation

Richard Marconi Virginia Commonwealth University

Mark Nicolls Stanford University

Bo Nilsson Uppsala University

Jun-Ichi Nishimura Osaka University

Matthew Pickering Imperial College London

Ruben Pio University of Navarra

Helen Quill National Institutes of Health (NIH funding for Innate Immunity)

Daniel Ricklin University of Pennsylvania

Antonio Risitano Federico II University of Naples

Steve Sacks King’s College London

Wilhelm Schwaeble University of Leicester

Richard Smith University of Iowa

Wenchao Song University of Pennsylvania

Ronald Taylor University of Virginia

Francesco Tedesco University of Trieste

Peter Ward University of Michigan Medical School 

Trent Woodruff University of Queensland

Sacha Zeerleder University of Amsterdam

Peter Zipfel Hans-Knöll-Institute Jena