SSI 2019 Programme

SSI 2019 will feature leading Scandinavian and international speakers covering basic research and applied immunology topics.

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Research interests and meeting abstracts of the confirmed speakers are shown below (alphabetical order):

Jan Terje Andersen

Oslo University Rikshospitalet, Norway

Design of antibodies for half-life extension

Menna R. Clatworthy

***EFIS-IL Lecture Awardee***

University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

Anti-commensal IgG and FcRs play a pivotal role in intestinal inflammation

Søren Egedal Degn

Aarhus University, Denmark

Beyond antibodies – pleiotropic functions of B cells in autoimmune disease

Liv Eidsmo

Karolinska Institute, Sweden

Resident T cells in human skin – protective, pathogenic or contextual?

Trude Helen Flo

Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

Single-cell dynamics of inflammasome activation and cell death in M.tuberculosis infected macrophages

Stephen Galli

Stanford University, USA

Investigating the critical roles of mast cells and IgE in innate and adaptive defenses against venoms

Gudmundur Hrafn Gudmundsson

University of Iceland, Iceland

Induced expression of antimicrobial peptides to fight infections

Gunnveig Grødeland

University of Oslo, Norway

DNA vaccination with APC-targeted antigens for prevention of influenza pandemics

Frode Lars Jahnsen

University of Oslo, Norway

Plasma cells live for decades in the human small intestine

David Cole

Immunocore, United Kingdom

Antigen-targeted soluble bispecific T cell receptor (ImmTAC®) molecules in immunotherapy

Fridtjof Lund Johansen

Oslo University Rikshospitalet, Norway

A comprehensive atlas of autoantibody reactivity in autoimmune disease and cancer

Matthew Krummel

University of California, USA

Imaging a world beyond checkpoints – classes of immune responses in vivo

Tapio Lönnberg

University of Turku, Finland

Resolving productive and pathogenic T cell responses with single-cell transcriptomics

Vivianne Malmström

Karolinska University Hospital Solna, Stockholm, Sweden

Immune memory in rheumatoid arthritis

Seppo Meri

University of Helsinki, Finland

Inflammation in atherosclerosis: innate immunity on track or off-piste?

Etienne Meunier

University of Toulouse, France

Unchaining the non-canonical inflammasome

Trine Mogensen

Aarhus University, Denmark

Immunogenetics of infectious diseases and primary immunodeficiencies

Wolfgang Schamel

University of Freiburg, Germany

Optogenetic control of TCR activation

Andy Sewell

Cardiff University, United Kingdom

Discovery of new broadly-expressed tumour antigens and new modes of T-cell recognition by dissection of successful Scandinavian cancer immunotherapy

Devin Sok

Scripps Research California, USA

Translating concepts to clinical trials:rational HIV vaccine design

Antibody discovery against variable pathogens

Ludvig Sollid

University of Oslo, Norway

Understanding how gluten drives autoimmunity in celiac disease

Lisa Westerberg

Karolinska Institute, Sweden

Understanding actin regulators in immune cells

Gur Yaari

Bar Ilan University, Israel

AIRR-seq data reveal mosaic deletion patterns of the human antibody heavy and light chain loci