Program overview

Please be advised that this is a draft of the program, which is still subject to change.

  • Campus Lehre (N55), Ian K. Karan Lecture Hall

    Welcome Address and Opening Remarks

    Moderation: Nicola Tomas

    Christian Gerloff - Medical Director and Chairman of the Board, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE)

    Katharina Fegebank - Second Mayor of Hamburg and Senator for Science, Research and Equality

    Blanche Schwappach-Pignataro - Member of the Board and Dean of the Medical Faculty, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE)

    Ulf Panzer - Chairman of the Hamburg Center of Translational Immunology (HCTI), University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE)

    Keynote Lecture

    Chair: Manuel Friese & Eva Tolosa

    Burkhard Becher, University of Zurich (UZH)
    Discovery of a new GM-CSF dependent macrophage in mammalian development.

    HCTI - Hamburg Center of Translational Immunology (N25), Ground Floor

    Welcome Reception

  • Campus Lehre (N55), Ian K. Karan Lecture Hall

    Session 1: T cell immune responses

    Chair: Nicola Gagliani & Petra Arck

    Axel Kallies - The University of Melbourne, Doherty Institute
    Differentiation and function of cytotoxic T cells in chronic infection and cancer

    Christina Zielinski - Leibniz Institute for Natural Products Research and Infection Biology
    Regulation of CD8 T cell cytotoxicity by ionic signals in the tumor microenvironment.

    Madeleine Bunders - University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, UKE
    Differentiation and function of cytotoxic T cells in chronic infection and cancer

    Samuel Huber - University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, UKE
    Differentiation and function of cytotoxic T cells in chronic infection and cancer

    Young Reseacher (tbd) - University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, UKE

    Coffee break

    Session 2: At the crossroads of innate and adaptive immunity

    Chair: Britta Zecher & Chiara Romagnani

    Erin Adams - The University of Chicago
    Differentiation and function of cytotoxic T cells in chronic infection and cancer

    Immo Prinz - University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, UKE
    Innate and adaptive γδ T cells

    Marcus Altfeld - University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, UKE
    HLA class II-dependent regulation of NK cell function

    Young Researcher (tbd) - University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, UKE

    Change of venue: HCTI - Hamburg Center of Translational Immunology (N25), Ground Floor.

    Networking Lunch & Poster Session

    Campus Lehre (N55), Ian K. Karan Lecture Hall

    Session 3: Translational Immunology

    Chair: Regine Dress & Tim Magnus

    Francisco Quintana - Harvard Medical School

    Marco Prinz - Universität Freiburg
    The myeloid side of the brain

    Petra Arck - University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, UKE
    Towards decoding the space-time continuum of pregnancy

    Tobias Huber - University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, UKE
    Immune mediated kidney disease: From endotypes to patient cure

    Young Researcher (tbd) - University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, UKE

    Session 4: Tissue-resident memory

    Chair: Hans-Willi Mittrücker & Madeleine Bunders

    Liv Eidsmo - University of Copenhagen
    Local and distal renewal of resident T cells in human skin

    Chiara Romagnani - Deutsches Rheuma-Forschungszentrum Berlin
    NK cell clonality and memory

    Ulf Panzer - University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, UKE
    Immune profiling-based treatment of autoimmune kidney diseases

    Nicola Gagliani - University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, UKE
    Effects of short-term dietary interventions on immunity and tumour therapies

    Young Researcher (tbd) - University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, UKE

  • Campus Lehre (N55), Ian K. Karan Lecture Hall

    Keynote Lecture

    Chair: Ulf Panzer & Catherine Meyer-Schwesinger

    Sarah Gaffen - University of Pittsburgh
    At the crossroads of IL-17 signaling in autoimmunity and host defense

    Session 5: Immunity in Tissues

    Chair: Gisa Tiegs & tbd

    Christoph Kuppe - RWTH Aachen University
    Application of spatial-multiomics in heart and kidney disease

    Tim Magnus - University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, UKE
    Immunological Networks in Ischemic Stroke: latest Data from Mice and Men

    Christoph Schramm - University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, UKE
    T cells in the liver: disease drivers and therapeutic targets

    Coffee break

    Session 6: Translational Immunology

    Chair: Immo Prinz & Liv Eidsmo

    Wolfgang Kastenmüller - University of Würzburg
    A distinct phase of CD8 T cell priming selects high affinity clones and scales effector cell formation

    Manuel Friese - University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, UKE
    Understanding the neuronal inflammatory response to halt neurodegeneration inmultiple sclerosis

    Christian Krebs - University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, UKE
    Decoding the T cell immunity by combined multiplex spatial analysis of the inflammatory niche and crescent development in kidney autoimmune disease.

    Stefan Bonn - University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, UKE
    Understanding common and distinct principles across immune-mediated kidney disease using computational medicine

    Lorenz Adlung - University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, UKE
    scMod: From single-cell data to immune dynamics

    Closing Remarks: Ulf Panzer, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE)

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