Preliminary Scientific Program
Wednesday, July 6th, 2022
| 10:00 | Registration open |
| 12:00 – 12:15 | Welcome note |
SESSION I: Myeloid Cell Biology
Chairs: Anne Krug and Diana Dudziak
| 12:15 – 12:40 | Charlotte Scott Investigating hepatic macrophage heterogeneity in time and space |
| 12:40 – 13:05 | Steffen Jung Microglia - T cell interactions in autoimmune CNS pathology |
| 13:05 –13:20 | Selected talk: Jan Böttcher Probabilistic deep learning identifies intratumoral clustering of stimulatory CXCL9+ cDC1 with CD8+ T cells as determinant of protective anticancer immunity |
| 13:20 – 13:45 | Muzlifah Haniffa Decoding the developing human immune system |
| 13:45 | Coffee break |
SESSION II: Single-Cell Systems Immunology
Chairs: Stefan Bonn and Sagar
| 14:30 – 14:55 | Fabian Theis Learning integrated single cell atlases |
| 14:55 – 15:20 | Dominic Grün Hidden message in the noise: Decomposing single-cell transcriptome variability |
| 15:20 – 15:45 | Shalin Naik Clonal biology in haematopoiesis |
| 15:45 – 16:00 | Selected talk: Juan Nieto Tonsil atlas as a reference of secondary lymph node immunity |
| 16:00 | Coffee break & Poster Session I (Posters 1-32) |
Keynote lecture
Chair: Dominic Grün
| 18:00 | Rahul Satija Integrated analysis of single-cell data across technologies and modalities |
| 19:00 – 20:30 | Reception / Visit of the Wine Cellar |
Thursday, July 7th, 2022
SESSION III: Innate lymphocytes
Chairs: Sarina Ravens and Jan-Eric Turner
| 09:00 – 09:25 | Georg Gasteiger Differentiation of tissue-resident innate lymphoid cells |
| 09:25 – 09:50 | Chiara Romagnani Clonal expansion and epigenetic inheritance shape long-lasting NK cell memory |
| 09:50 – 10:15 | Christoph Klose Non-redundant functions of group 2 innate lymphoid cells |
| 10:15 – 10:30 | Selected talk: Julia Sbierski-Kind Group 2 innate lymphoid cells suppress innate type 3/17 responses in hepatic fibrosis |
| 10:40 | Coffee break |
SESSION IV: T cells I
Chairs : Thomas Gebhardt and Julia Sbierski-Kind
| 11:30 - 11:55 | David Masopust T Cell Immune Surveillance |
| 11:55 – 12:20 | Martin Väth Mitochondrial integrity safeguards the stemness of exhausted T cells |
| 12:20 – 12:35 | Selected talk: Carmen Gerlach CX3CR1 is a graded and universal differentiation marker unifying human and murine T cell differentiation |
| 12:35 – 12:50 | Selected talk: Andreas Obers Intestinal TRM cell durability is shaped by danger signals originating from the local microenvironment |
| 12:50 – 14:00 | Lunch Break |
SPONSORED LUNCH SESSION: Novel single-cell solutions
| 13:15 – 13:30 | Wieland Keilholz, Market Development Manager, Spatial, Central Europe, 10x Genomics New and coming tools for spatial transcriptome analysis |
| 13:30 – 13:45 | Tba, Parse Biosciences |
SESSION V: Tissue immunity
Chairs: Zeinab Abdullah and Thomas Tüting
| 14:00 – 14:25 | Menna Clatworthy Tales of tissue humoral immunity |
| 14:25 – 14:50 | Matteo Iannacone Immune surveillance of the liver |
| 14:50 – 15:05 | Selected talk: Christian Schmidl Integrated single-cell profiling dissects cell-state-specific enhancer landscapes of human tumor-infiltrating T cells |
| 15:05 – 15:20 | Selected talk: Shweta Tikoo A distinct CD115- erythro-myeloid precursor present at the maternal-embryonic interface and in the bone marrow of adult mice |
| 15:20 | Coffee Break |
SESSION VI: T cells II
Chairs : Carmen Gerlach and Klaas van Gisbergen
| 16:00 – 16:25 | Alexander Rudensky Extrathymic differentiation of regulatory T cells |
| 16:25 – 16:50 | Kristin Hogquist The thymus: a raucous nursery |
| 16:50 – 17:05 | Selected talk: Likai Tan Identification of tissue-resident and circulating γδT cells in human lung with regulatory and cytotoxic phenotypes |
| 17:05 – 17:20 | Selected talk: Zeinab Abdullah Identification of a novel NK-like T helper cells reinvigorating dysfunctional CD8 T cells in chronic viral infection and cancer |
| 17:20 | Poster Session II (Posters 33-63) |
| 19:30 | Dinner & Congress party (Garden & Pavillon) |
Friday, July 8th, 2022
SESSION VII: Microbiome and immune cell interfaces
Chairs: Dorothee Viemann and Sammy Bedoui
| 09:00 – 09:25 | Wolfgang Kastenmüller Novel concepts in unconventional T cell biology |
| 09:25– 09:50 | Ulrich von Andrian Control of Immune Surveillance by Microvascular Endothelial Cell Specialization |
| 09:50 – 10:15 | Mercedes Gomez Maternal microbial metabolites in early life skin barrier |
| 10:15 – 10:30 | Selected talk: Jakob Zimmermann Noninvasive assessment of gut function using transcriptional recording sentinel cells |
| 10:30 – 10:45 | Selected talk: Annika Tödtmann Ontogeny of postnatal innate immunometabolism |
| 10:45 | Coffee break |
SESSION VIII: Immune cell dynamics
Chair: Angela Riedel
| 11:30 – 11:55 | Andres Hidalgo Landscapes of inflammation |
| 11:55 – 12:20 | Tim Lämmermann Swarming Sentinels and Sessile Networks – the Spectrum of Innate Immune Surveillance |
| 12:20 – 12:35 | Selected talk: José Martínez Magdaleno Exocrine gland-resident memory CD8+ T cells use mechanosensing for tissue surveillance |
| 12:35 – 12:50 | Selected talk: Mariana Pereira da Costa CXCR4 regulates pre-cDC bone marrow exit at steady state and during inflammation |
| 13:00 | Fare-Well |