Regulatory T cell mini-symposium

Leuven, October 14 2016

Hosted by the laboratory of Adrian Liston (VIB/KUL)

Regulatory T cells set the threshold between immunity and tolerance. At this mini-symposium, international experts will present the latest research on regulatory T cell biology, and how these cells can manipulate autoimmunity and cancer. 

We will also have Karin Dumstrei, Senior Editor at EMBO for immunology and neuroscience, to give advice to students and post-docs on successful navigation of the publication process.

Abstract submissions are encouraged from students and post-docs. Two will be selected for a short presentation, and the rest will be candidates for the €100 poster prize. Abstract submission is needed by Sept 1!

For information and to register, please visit: http://liston.vib.be/treg-symposium/ 

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Keynote Speakers:

Prof Ciro Piccirillo, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Prof Piccirillo is the Canada Research Chair in Regulatory Lymphocytes of the Immune System at McGill University. His work in Nature was among the first to characterise the role of Tregs in infection, and his study in New England Journal of Medicine identified IPEX mutations that resulted in loss of suppressive function in Tregs.

Prof Michelle Linterman, Babraham Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Prof Linterman is an expert on the role of Tregs in controlling the vaccination response. She was awarded an ERC Start Grant at the Babraham Institute and Churchill College at Cambridge University. Her work in Nature Medicine was the first to identify the follicular regulatory T cell.

Prof Sophie Lucas, Institut de Duve, Brussels, Belgium

Prof Lucas is an expert on the ability of Tregs to activate TGFb. She holds an ERC Consolidator award at the Institut de Duve, Université catholique de Louvain, and has recently published on the role of GARP in TGF beta activation in Science Translational Medicine.

Prof Markus Kleinewietfeld, VIB, Hasselt, Belgium

Prof Kleinewietfeld is an expert on the role of Tregs in controlling neuroinflammation. He was recently awarded an ERC Start Grant to develop a new research program at the VIB and University of Hasselt. He published a key study in Nature on the role of dietary salt on modifying neuroinflammation.

Dr Karin Dumstrei, Senior Editor at EMBO Journal

Dr Dumstrei received her PhD from the University of California Los Angeles where she studied DE-cadherin mediated cell adhesion in Drosophila in the lab of Volker Hartenstein. She then went to the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen where she worked on primordial germ cell migration in zebrafish with Erez Raz. Karin joined The EMBO Journal in 2005, where she is editor for immunology, neuroscience and host-pathogen interaction.