Chair
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Speakers & talks
Invited speakers and talks will include:
• Mubeccel Akdis, University of Zürich, CH
• Facundo Batista, Cancer Research Institute, UK
• Jan A Berger, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, US
• Claudine Blin-Wakkach, Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis, FR
• Meinrad Buslinger, Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, AT
• Rita Carsetti, IRCCS, IT
• Andrea Cerutti, IMIM, ES
• Francesca Chiodi, Karolinska Institute, SE
• Deborah Dunn-Walters, King's College London, UK
• Eric Eldering, Academic Medical Centre, NL
• Niel Hens, CHERMID, BE
• Elizabeth Leadbetter, Trudeau Institute, US
• Fabienne Macky, Monash University, AU
• Claudia Mauri, UCL, UK
• Ramit Mehr, Bar-Ilan University, IL
• Andreas Radbruch, German Rheumatism Research Center, DE
• Klaus Rajewsky, MDC, DE
• Davide Robbiani, Rockefeller University, US
• Anna E Sousa, University of Lisbon, PT
Akdis Mubeccel
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Lecture title: Human antigen-specific regulatory and effector memory B cells
University of Zürich, Switzerland
Facundo Batista
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Lecture title: "Dynamic imaging of Lymphocyte activation – from single molecule to living tissue"
Cancer Research Institute, UK
Burger Jan
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Lecture title: Disrupting the fatal attraction between chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) B cells and the microenvironment with new targeted therapies
The University of Texas MD, Anderson Cancer Center, US
Blin-Wakkach Claudine
Lecture title: Regulation of BM niches by osteoclasts
Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis, France
Busslinger Meinrad
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Lecture title: Transcriptional control of B cell development
Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Austria
Rita Carsetti
Lecture title: human memory
IRCCS, Italy
Cerutti Andrea
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Lecture title: Regulation of B cells by the innate immune system
IMIM, Spain
Chiodi Francesca
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Lecture title: Impaired B cell function during HIV-1 infection
Karolinska Institute, Sweden
Dunn-Walters Deborah
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Lecture title: Ageing B cell repertoire - a failure of selection?
DCL, UK
Eldering Eric
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Lecture title: Antigen independent proliferation in CLL – new options for therapeutic targeting?
University ofAmsterdam, NL
Hens Niel
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Lecture title: Inferring the Dynamics of Plasma Cell and Antibody Populations: an Illustration for Hepatitis A Virus.
Hasselt University, Belgium
Elisabeth Leadbetter
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Lecture title: Innate iNKT cells provide T-dependent type 2 help for B cells: Expanding the helper paradigm
Trudeau Institute, US
Mackay Fabienne
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Lecture title: The TACI receptor regulates T-independent marginal zone B cell responses through innate activation-induced cell death
Monash University, Australia
Mauri Claudia
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Lecture title: Gut microbiota controls the development of arthritis and regulatory B cells
UCL, UK
Mehr Ramit
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Lecture title:The footprint of somatic hypermutation
Bar-Ilan University, Israel
Radbruch Andreas
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Lecture title: Organization of immunological memory by bone marrow stroma
Deutsches Rheuma-Forschungszentrum Berlin (DRFZ)
Rajewsky Klaus
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Lecture title: Normal and malignant B cells in the germinal center environment (tentative)
Faculty of Immunology and Cancer, Germany
Robbiani Davide
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Lecture title:From chronic infection to genomic instability and B cell lymphoma
Rockefeller University, New York, US
Sousa Ana
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Lecture title: Deciphering B and T cell relationships through human immunodeficiency diseases
Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Portugal
Spaargaren Marcel
Lecture title: Instituto de Medicina Molecular
University of Amsterdam, NL