Tentative schedule

Day 1: Tuesday 27th of May

Morning Session:

  • 09:00 - 09:10:
    Opening and welcome
  • 09:10 - 09:55:
    Dirk Busch (Technical University of Munich) 
  • 09:55 - 10:40:
    Broadening the range of therapeutic targets using T-cell receptors
    Johanna Olweus (Oslo University Hospital) 
  • 10:40 - 10:45:
    Seqalis sponsored talk
  • 10:45 - 11:15:
    Coffee Break
  • 11:15 - 12:00:
    TCR cross-reactivity and generalisation during T cell tolerance induction
    Hannah Meyer (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • 12:00 - 12:45:
    Unravelling T-cell recognition: insights from Immunology and AI
    Hashem Koohy (Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)
  • 12:45 - 13:45:
    Lunch Break

Afternoon Session:

  • 13:45 - 14:30:
    T cell receptor driven fate of antigen-specific T cells in vivo
    Kilian Schober (Uniklinikum Erlangen)
  • 14:30 - 15:30:
    Submitted Talks
  • 15:30 - 16:00:
    Coffee Break
  • 16:00 - 16:05:
    Cellecta sponsored talk
  • 16:05 - 17:05:
    Submitted Talks
  • 17:05 - 18:30:
    Poster Session

Evening:

  • 19:00:
    Conference Dinner


Day 2: Wednesday 28th of May

Morning Session:

  • 09:00 - 09:45:
    Mark Davis (Stanford University)
  • 09:45 - 10:30:
    Federica Sallusto (ETH Zurich)
  • 10:30 - 10:35:
    Parse Biosciences sponsored talk
  • 10:35 - 11:15:
    Coffee Break
  • 11:15 - 12:00:
    The role of the alpha-beta T cell receptor sequence in defining T cell fate
    Soumya Raychaudhuri (Broad Institute)
  • 12:00 - 12:45:
    Dietmar Zehn (Technical University of Munich) 
  • 12:45 - 14:00:
    Lunch Break

Afternoon Session:

  • 14:00 - 14:45:
    Encarnita Mariotti-Ferrandiz (Sorbonne Université) 
  • 14:45 - 15:30:
    Assembly and analysis of TCRs in high throughput
    Michael Birnbaum (MIT)
  • 15:30 - 16:00:
    Coffee Break
  • 16:00 - 16:45:
    Deciphering the T cell receptor specificity code
    Paul Thomas (St Jude’s Children Hospital)

Evening:

  • 17:45 - 20:00:
    Tour and Closing Reception at Antwerp City Hall (limited capacity)