17th International Conference on Innate Immunity

Program - Tuesday, July 12

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    Registration 
    In completing the online registration form you are not automatically accepted to attend the conference nor are you automatically registered for the conference. Final registration to the conference shall occur after you have been accepted and notified by the conference chair of your acceptance to the conference. If you have been charged the registration fee but your attendance has been declined you will be reimbursed in full.

    Airport
    You want to arrive at the Ioannina Airport (code: IOA) and take a taxi from the airport to the hotel (~20 EUR)

    Accommodation Tax
    An accommodation tax of € 4.00 per room night will apply, and will be charged automatically to the individual guest’s extras accounts. 

    Accommodations
    Accommodations for the conference are at the Hotel Du Lac.  The hotel is located in the city of Ioannina, 7 km from the Airport. 

    Arrival and Check-in
    It is expected that attendees will arrive/check-in after 3:00 PM. Anyone arriving after 10:30 pm on the first day should make alternative dinner arrangements.

    Conference Venue
    The Du Lac Conference Center is located at the hotel. 

    Handicapped Accessibility
    The site is fully handicapped accessible.

    Oral Presentations
    Speakers are asked to bring their USB flash drive to the reception desk at least 30 minutes prior to the session.  The allocated time for all presentations, unless otherwise indicated, includes five minutes Q&A.

    City Tour
    Buses for the city tour will depart from the hotel front lobby at 3:30 pm. Badges are required for participation. 

    Breakfast
    Breakfast for registered participants and registered accompanying persons will be served at the Avra Imperial Hotel main restaurant during the hours scheduled in this program. 

    Lunches/Informal Discussions
    Lunches for registered participants and registered accompanying persons will be served during the times indicated in this program at the main restaurant and only after the session has finished. Badges are required for admission.

    Dinners/Informal Discussions
    Three of the dinners/informal discussion will be served during the times indicated in the program. Vegetarian entrees are available only upon request in advance of the meeting.  Please contact info@aegeanconferences.org. 

    Internet, Phone, & Computer
    Wireless Internet access is located throughout the conference center free of charge during meeting hours. There are computers available in the hotel’s business center for the use of the attendees. Phone service is available for an additional charge from your hotel room.

    Certificate of Participation
    A Certificate of Participation will be distributed to a participant for those sessions that the participant has attended. A participant must attend an entire session to receive credit for that particular session. Late arrivals and early departures from a session will preclude a participant from receiving credit for that session. 

    Passports and Visa
    Participants are advised to check on their individual requirements before attending any Aegean Conference meeting. Visa applications should be filed at the nearest Greek Embassy in the country in which you are resident, at least three months prior to the anticipated departure date.

    Letters of Invitation
    Letters of invitation to attend an Aegean Conference meeting will be issued only to:

    • Authors of accepted abstracts
    • Fully paid registrants

    Note: Invitations are issued at the discretion of Aegean Conferences, and requests for letters will be accepted only 60 days prior to the conference start date.

    Liability and Insurance
    Neither the organizers, nor the Aegean Conferences will assume any responsibility whatsoever for damage or injury to persons or property during meeting period. Participants are advised to arrange their own personal travel and health insurance.  

    Other Information
    Animals are not permitted on site.
    Badges are required for admission to all events.
    All Aegean Conferences events are non-smoking.

    No Photographs and Recording Devices
    Participants are not allowed to photograph and/or record using cameras, mobile telephones and other recording devices during the slide and poster presentations. 

    Code of Conduct Policy 
    Aegean Conferences is committed to making its meetings an inclusive space for sharing ideas and knowledge. The code of conduct can be viewed here. 

Tuesday, July 12

08:00 AM - 09:00 AM
Breakfast
Mucosal Immunity
Chairs: Georgios Hajishengallis and Panagiotis Verginis
09:00 AM - 09:25 AM
Mechanisms that govern dissemination of microbial or inflammatory signals from the ileum
Gwen Randolph
09:25 AM - 09:50 AM
Group 3 innate lymphoid cells instruct cryptopatch-associated dendritic cells establishing a checkpoint for metabolic homeostasis
Andreas Diefenbach
09:50 AM - 10:15 AM
Fibrin is a critical regulator of neutrophil effector function at the oral mucosal barrier.
Niki Moutsopoulos
10:15 AM - 10:40 AM
The new kid on the block: Neutrophils in alveolar macrophage ontogeny
Maziar Divangahi
10:40 AM - 11:05 AM
Ab-AIRE-ant response: Autoimmunity, IFN, STAT1, and mucosal candidiasis
Michail Lionakis, Vasileios Oikonomou, and NIki Moutsopoulos
11:05 AM - 12:00 PM
Coffee Break and Poster Viewing
Host response regulation
Chairs: Irina Udalova and Peter Murray
12:00 PM - 12:25 PM
Mesenchymal cell regulation of inflammatory arthritis
Markus Hoffmann
12:25 PM - 12:50 PM
Dntt expression reveals developmental hierarchy and lineage specification of hematopoietic progenitors
Roxane Tussiwand1, Fabian Klein2, Julien Roux2, and Grozdan Cvijetic1
12:50 PM - 01:15 PM
Maintenance of epigenetic macrophage identity through expansion in long term culture
Michael Sieweke
01:15 PM - 01:35 PM
Semaphorin 4A/Plexin D1 signaling in the bone marrow niche suppresses myeloid-driven inflammation by restraining activation of myeloid-biased HSC
Lev Silberstein 1, Dorsa Toghani 1, Edie Crosse1, Amogh Pradeep 1, Elmir Mahammadov3, Antonio Scialdone 3, Negar Seyedhassantehrani 3, Christian Burns3, and Joel Spencer3
01:35 PM - 01:50 PM
IL-1RAcP: A central mediator in mucosal Candida immunity
James Griffiths1, Natalia Kotowicz1, Giorgio Camilli1, Adrian Lau1, Thomas Ap Rees1, Sarah Gaffen2, and Julian Naglik1
01:50 PM - 02:05 PM
Severe COVID-19 is marked by a dysregulated myeloid cell compartment
Jonas Schulte-Schrepping1,2, Elise Gressier3, Nico Reusch1,2, Daniela Paclik4, Kevin Baßler1,2, Stephan Schlickeiser4, Bowen Zhang5, Benjamin Krämer6, Tobias Krammer7, Sophia Brumhard8, Lorenzo Bonaguro1,2, Elena De Domenico1, Daniel Wendisch8, Anna Aschenbrenner2,9, Yang Li5,9, Jacob Nattermann6,10, Birgit Sawitzki4, Antoine-Emmanuel Saliba7, Sammy Bedoui3, Leif Sander8,11, and Joachim Schultze1,2
02:05 PM - 03:30 PM
Lunch and Informal Discussions
03:30 PM - 07:30 PM
City Tour
07:30 PM - 10:30 PM
Dinner and Informal Discussions