Program

URI-2020

4th Annual Meeting of the EUCOR-Upper Rhine Immunology Group

PROVISIONAL PROGRAM

October 16, 2020

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09:15  Welcome and Introduction - Susan Chan & Chris Mueller

09:30  Surprise Plenary Speaker

10:15  Poster Session 1 (meet the speaker + 7 posters, 30 minutes)

Morning Session

Chair: Gennaro De Libero (Basel)

11:00  Tracking the Ikaros family dimers with Venus

           Marie-Céline DEAU (Lab Chan-Kastner), Strasbourg

11:15  Protection of human cytomegalovirus (HCMV)-infected cells by virion-derived 'incoming' vFcgRs at initial 
stages of replication

            Katja HOFFMANN (Lab Hengel), Freiburg

11:30  Coronin 1-mediated naive T cell survival independent of IL-7 or TCR

             Mayumi MORI (Lab Pieters), Basel

11:45  Potential role of CD44 on immunoregulation in pre-metastatic niches of pancreatic cancer

            Leonel MUNOZ-SAGREDO (Lab Orian-Rousseau), Karlsruhe

12:00  Neutrophils Extracellular Proteoglycofili (NEPs) degrade Shigella virulence factors and inhibit bacterial growth

             Antonin ANDRÉ (Lab Marteyn), Strasbourg

12:15  Poster Session 2 (7 posters, 30 minutes)

12:45  Meeting Break (30 minutes)

13:15  Poster Session 3 (7 posters, 30 minutes)

Afternoon Session 1

Chair: Anne Halenius (Freiburg)

14:00 Differences in BAFFR signaling and responses between naive and switched memory B-cells in humans

           Eirini SEVDALI (Lab Eibel), Freiburg

14:15 Cell-intrinsic, interferon-independent immunity prevents viral persistence at the single-cell level and is accompanied by 
profound transcriptome changes

           Peter REUTHER (Lab Pinschewer), Basel

14:30 The collagen network maintained by macrophages provides a niche for Staphylococcus aureus skin infection

           Benjamin VOISIN (Lab Nagao, NIH-USA), Strasbourg

14:45 A new motif in the TCR promotes anti-cancer immunotherapy and allows modulation of T-cell activity

            Nadine WÖSSNER (Lab Minguet), Freiburg

15:00  Patient-derived monoclonal antibodies against the acetylcholine receptor shed new light on pathomechanisms 
in myasthenia gravis

            Nicholas SANDERSON (Lab Derfuss), Basel

15:15  Poster Session 4 (7 posters, 30 minutes)

Afternoon Session 2

Chair: Wolfgang Schamel (Freiburg)

16:00 Renin-Angiotensin System is involved in embryonic emergence of hematopoietic stem cells

           Manuela TAVIAN (Lab Tavian), Strasbourg

16:15 Ex vivo detection of SARS-CoV-2-specific CD8+ T cells: rapid induction, prolonged contraction, and formation of
functional memory 

            Isabel SCHULIEN (Lab Neumann-Haefelin), Freiburg

16:30 No evidence for SARS-CoV-2 transcripts and disease exacerbation in COVID-19 multiple sclerosis brai

           Vidmante FUCHS (Lab Pröbstel), Basel

16:45 Study of early Ab induction following HIV Infection, implication for vaccine design

           Julie LUCAS (Lab Moog), Strasbourg

17:00 Metabolic macrophage tuning controls skin immunity

          Aaron James FORDE (Lab Henneke), Freiburg

17:15 Plinabulin, a microtubule-targeting chemotherapy agent, directly influences M1-like macrophage polarization and 
anti-tumor immunity

         Marina NATOLI & Marta TRÜB (Lab Zippelius), Basel

17:30 Closing Remarks - Wolfgang Schamel