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Translational Immunology
8-9 December 2020, Ghent, Belgium
This conference is postponed to 8-9 December 2020
Translational Immunology
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Due to the Coronavirus, Translational Immunology and the satellite BIS meeting were postponed from 26-27 March 2020 to the end of the year. We are happy to confirm the new date: 8-9 December 2020.
The aim of this conference is to bridge the translational gap in immunopathology, bringing together clinicians, research scientists and industry partners to discuss prominent advances from the bench to the clinic.
Internationally renowned speakers will present their latest findings during 5 plenary sessions:
- Making the most of your antibodies
- T Cell activation and exhaustion
- Bugs and drugs in immunology
- From drug to market
- Tissue immunity
Prior to the VIB Conference you can join the Satellite - BIS annual meeting on 7 December 2020.
Information for poster submissions
The format for your poster should be: A0 (841 x 1189 mm / 33.1 x 46.8 in), portrait orientation. The best three abstracts were given a short talk slot in the plenary program. The 2 best posters will win the Poster prize sponsored by Elsevier's journal "Cellular Immunology"!
Confirmed speakers
Federica Sallusto
Federica Sallusto
Institute of Microbiology, ETH Zurich and Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Università della Svizzera italiana, CH
Christophe Lahorte
Christophe Lahorte
Innovation Office & Scientific-Technical Advice Unit & Federal Agency for Medicines and Health Products, BE
Séverine Vermeire
Séverine Vermeire
Translational Research in GastroIntestinal Disorders, KU Leuven, BE
Marvin van Luijn
Marvin van Luijn
Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam MS Center ErasMS, NL
Program
Satellite- BIS meeting - Monday, 07 December, 2020
Day 1 - Tuesday, 08 December, 2020
Below you can find the preliminary program
08:15
08:50
Registration & coffee
08:50
09:00
Welcome
09:00
09:45
Opening keynote
09:00
09:45
From primary immunodeficiencies (PID) to (patho)physiology and therapeutics
Alain Fischer
Collège de France, Imagine Institute, AP-HP Hôpitaux de Paris, FR
Keynote speaker
09:45
12:55
Session 1: Making the most of your antibodies
09:45
10:20
Dissecting human antibody responses: useful, basic and surprising findings
Antonio Lanzavecchia
Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB), CH
10:20
10:55
Targeting subcellular trafficking pathways for therapy
Sally Ward
University Of Southampton, UK
10:55
11:25
Coffee break
11:25
12:00
Antibodies that dissolve in vivo protein crystals
Bart Lambrecht
VIB-UGent Center for Inflammation Research, BE
12:00
12:35
Gut-joint axis: First shutting down the barrier, then starting arthritis
Georg Schett
Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, DE
12:35
12:50
Regulatory T cells engineered with a chimeric antigen receptor as immunotherapy for type 1 diabetes
Matthias Hardtke-Wolenski
Essen University Hospital, DE
Selected from abstracts
12:50
12:55
Powering the Synthetic Biology Revolution
Chris Thorne
Senior Manager, Field Marketing, Twist Bioscience, USA
Sponsored talk
12:55
14:15
Lunch
13:30
14:00
Workshop - Pathway project
Fostering developing Translational scientists in Europe: A Pathway to success?
Annet van Royen-Kerkhof - UMC Utrecht, NL
14:00
17:25
Session 2: T cell activation and exhaustion
14:15
14:50
Human T cell subsets in health and disease
Federica Sallusto
Institute of Microbiology, ETH Zurich and Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Università della Svizzera italiana, CH
14:50
15:25
Presenter to be announced
15:25
15:40
Multiple environmental signaling pathways control the differentiation of RORγt-expressing regulatory T cells
Hind Hussein
Université Libre de Bruxelles
Selected from abstracts
15:40
16:15
Coffee break
16:15
16:50
Lentiviral-mediated gene transfer to convert T cells into Treg-like cells: new generation immune therapies
Rosa Bacchetta
Stanford University School of Medicine, US
16:50
17:25
Presenter to be announced
17:25
19:00
Reception & poster session
20:00
Conference dinner @Volta
Additional fee
Day 2 - Wednesday, 09 December, 2020
Below you can find the preliminary program
09:00
09:45
Keynote
09:00
09:45
The unsuspected role of gut microbiota in cancer therapies
Laurence Zitvogel
Gustave Roussy, INSERM, University Paris Saclay, FR
Keynote speaker
09:45
10:55
Session 3: Bugs and drugs in immunology
09:45
10:20
Microbes, Metabolites and Immune Interactions in Cancer Immunotherapy
Kathy McCoy
University of Calgary, CA
10:20
10:40
Microbiota Modulation Strategies in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (IBD) management - MIMOSA
Séverine Vermeire
Translational Research in GastroIntestinal Disorders, KU Leuven, BE
10:40
10:55
Roquin-1: a gatekeeper for inflammation and auto-immunity
Simon Tavernier
VIB-UGent Center for Inflammation Research, BE
Selected from abstracts
10:55
11:25
Coffee break
11:25
12:25
Session 4: From drug to market
11:25
11:45
Challenges in obtaining a regulatory approval
Bengt Höpken
Clinical Program Director, UCB Pharma, DE
11:45
12:05
Key evolutions in the European and Belgian landscape of scientific-regulatory advice and other innovation support mechanisms provided by regulatory authorities
Christophe Lahorte
Innovation Office & Scientific-Technical Advice Unit & Federal Agency for Medicines and Health Products, BE
12:05
12:25
Presenter to be announced
12:25
12:30
Biology at True Resolution: Advancing Immunology with Single Cell, Multi-omic & Spatial Analysis
Guido van de Worp
Sales Executive Benelux, 10xGenomics, NL
Sponsored talk
12:30
14:00
Lunch & poster session
14:00
17:25
Session 5: Tissue Immunity
14:00
14:35
Deciphering the programs of B- and T-cell subsets driving multiple sclerosis
Marvin van Luijn
Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam MS Center ErasMS, NL
14:35
15:10
Presenter to be announced
15:10
15:30
Early remission induction as gateway to restoring immune homeostasis in arthritis
Dirk Elewaut
VIB-UGent Center for Inflammation Research, BE
15:30
15:50
In search of the macrophage niche
Martin Guilliams
VIB-UGent Center for Inflammation Research, BE
15:50
16:15
Coffee break
16:15
16:50
Presenter to be announced
16:50
17:25
Presenter to be announced
17:25
17:35
Closing remarks
Organizing committee
Bart Lambrecht
VIB-UGent Center for Inflammation Research, BE
Dirk Elewaut
VIB-UGent Center for Inflammation Research, BE
Séverine Vermeire
Translational Research in GastroIntestinal Disorders, KU Leuven, BE
Sofie Bekaert
VIB HQ, BE
Evy Vierstraete
Science Events Manager VIB, BE
Abstracts
Submit your abstract for this event
Via this button you can submit for the BIS meeting & the Translational Immunology conference.
Register before the early bird deadline if you would like your abstract to be recorded in the program book.
Abstract submission closing date:
Monday, 05 October, 2020
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The full list of abstracts will be available on 24-11-2020 until 15-12-2020
This list will only be available for registered attendees of the event.
This list will only be available for registered attendees of the event.
Attendees
The full list of attendees will be available on 24-11-2020 until 15-12-2020
This list will only be available for registered attendees of the event.
This list will only be available for registered attendees of the event.
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