Session I
Chairs: Tuure Kinnunen, Laura Airas and Trevor Owens |
| 09:00-09:30 | Lucy Walker, University College London, United Kingdom:
Fine-tuning costimulation blockade in autoimmunity | |
| 9:30-10:00 | Mark Ansel, University of California San Francisco, USA:
RNA Circuits in Immune Responses | |
| 10:00-10:30 | Coffee & exhibition | |
| 10:30-11:00 | Yenan Bryceson, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden:
Regulation of lymphocyte cytotoxicity in tissues | |
| 11:00-11:10 | Sponsored talk, Taija Pietilä, Medical Lead (PhD), Neuroscience, Novartis Finland Oy: Targeting B cells in Multiple Sclerosis | |
| 11:10-11:40 | Heinz Wiendl, University of Münster, Germany:
Learning immunopathogenesis via therapeutic intervention:
example Multiple sclerosis disease modification | |
| 11:40-11:50 | Sponsored talk, Merja Jaronen, Medical Manager (PhD), Neurology and Immunology, Merck Oy: Is there an unmet need in MS? | |
| 11:50-13:00 | Lunch & exhibition | (Council meeting) |
| 13:00-14:00 | Poster viewing | |
| 14:00-15:50 | Workshop 1 - Innate immunity and inflammation (Room: AAVA)
Chairs: Jona Freysdottir and Alexander Mildner
Erika Atencio Herre: Evaluating new macrophage-targeting radiotracer in an experimental myocarditis model, WS1.2
Noemie AM Dudzinska: From mouth to brain: periodontopathogen Porphyromonas gingivalis as an etiological factor in Alzheimer’s disease progression, WS1.6
Martin Gonzalez-Rodriguez: Dynamic of TSLP-responsiveness on Langerhans cells in vivo, WS1.8
Matthew Maasdorp: Investigating the interaction of the immune system with metabolism and the central nervous system in the Drosophila model, WS1.11
Lea Mikkola: Multi-tissue single-cell atlas of murine atherosclerosis, WS1.12
Julia Nihtilä: Effect of genetic variation in NK cell receptor genes on relapse and GVHD risks after allogeneic stem cell transplantation, WS1.15
Tiina Salminen: Cell-mediated and humoral innate immune responses are affected by natural variation in the mitochondrial genome, WS1.17
Amanda Sudworth: Tissue-specific NK cell responses during acute GvHD, WS1.18
Sara Torstensson: The immune profile in a mouse model of polycystic ovary syndrome, WS1.19
Aina van der Meeren: Bergen BrainGut study: diagnostic gut biomarkers with imaging mass cytometry in irritable bowel syndrome, WS1.20 | Workshop 5 - Tumour immunology (Room: MERI)
Chairs: Kirsi Rautajoki and Maija Hollmén
Miriam Aarsund Larsen: miRNA content in subpopulations of NK cell-derived extracellular vesicles connects to different functional activity, WS5.1
Anna Brunell: Development of a T cell exhaustion assay for immuno-oncology target identification and validation, WS5.2
Olli Dufva: Single-cell functional genomics of natural killer cell evasion in blood cancers, WS5.6
Marta Kamińska: Cancer imaging: selective ssDNA micro-probe for PD1 detection, WS5.9
Karolina Losenkova: Tumour cells evade immune responses via modulation of T cell metabolism and bioenergetics, WS5.10
Elisabeth Müller: Inhibition of S100A8/A9-mediated myeloid inflammation is detrimental for the initiation of anti-tumor immune responses, WS5.12
Kiesha Rice: A novel proteomic immunophenotyping technology for immuno-oncology drug discovery and diagnostics, WS5.15
Sina Tadayon: Role of Clever-1 in tumor immunity and tumor growth, WS5.17
Tracer Yong: Revealing altered lipid metabolism as a key vulnerability of germinal centre derived B-cell lymphoma, WS5.18 |
| 15:50-16:20 | Coffee & exhibition | |
| 16:20-17:10 | Workshop 2 -Immune cells, development and differentiation (Room: AAVA)
Chairs: Carlos Rogério Figueiredo and Pia Rantakari
Syed Bilal Ahmad Andrabi: Long non-coding RNA LIRIL2R modulates FOXP3 expression and suppressive function of human CD4+ regulatory T cells by regulating IL2RA, WS2.1
Yuliya Basikhina: Mitochondrial dysfunction in immune cells leads to distinct transcriptome profile and improved immune competence in Drosophila, WS2.2
Ritobrata Goswami: Calcitriol downregulates the differentiation of Th2 cells via regulation of Th2-specific transcription factors, WS2.5
Julian Hofmann: Deciphering phenotype, dynamics, and function of early-life neutrophils using single-cell RNA sequencing and lineage tracing, WS2.6 | Workshop 6 - Infectious diseases and vaccination (Room: MERI)
Chairs: Hanna Jarva and Hans-Gustaf Ljunggren
Alan-Dine Courey-Ghaouzi: Heterogeneity and origins of T-Bet+ CD11c+ atypical b cells, WS6.1
Ilse Ekman: The effect of early-life cytomegalovirus infection on the immune profile of children, WS6.2
Kristian Savstrup Kastberg: Complement fragment C3d in B cell activation and antigen transport, WS6.3
Vili Lampinen: SpyCatcher-mediated influenza M2e peptide display is more immunogenic than direct genetic fusion on the norovirus-like particle, WS6.4
Leo Starck: Antibodies, complement activation and phagocytosis of ChAdOx1-S adenoviral vector Covid-19-vaccine, WS6.9 |
| 18:00-19.00 | Optional social programme: River tour & Students hangout | |
