18th - 20th September 2024

HCTI Opening Symposium - Program

  • 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)

    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 for Translational Immunology (N25), Ground Floor

    Welcome Reception

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

    Session 1: 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

    Nariaki Asada - University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, UKE
    The integrated stress response/eIF2a pathway controls cytokine production in tissue-resident memory CD4+ T cells

    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

    Björn-Philipp Diercks - University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, UKE
    Initial Ca2+ microdomains in T cells - Role of extra and intracellular adenine nucleotides

    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

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

    Change of venue: HCTI - Hamburg Center for 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
    Regulation of CNS inflammation

    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

    Felicitas Hengel - University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf
    Nephrin autoantibodies in glomerular disease

    Coffee Break

    Session 4: 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
    Epithelial cell-lymphocyte networks regulating intestinal development

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

    Jana Sonner - University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, UKE
    The GDF-15–GFRAL axis controls autoimmune T cell responses during CNS inflammatio

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

    Keynote Lecture

    Chair: Ulf Panzer & Gisa Tiegs

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

    Session 5: Immunity in Tissues

    Chair: Ulf Panzer & Gisa Tiegs

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

    Marie Weskamm - University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, UKE
    Dissecting immune responses to vaccination using
    systems vaccinology

    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

    Ines Sophie Schädlich - University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, UKE
    BrEndO - a new mouse model for cerebral vasculitis

    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

    Robin Khatri - University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf
    Computational deconvolution to study complex tissue microenvironments

    Closing Remarks: Petra Arck, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE)

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