The Erasmus Immunology Seminars
SEMINARS 2024
| 23rd of May Thursday 16:00hrs | Prof. dr. ir. Stan J.J. Brouns Department of Bionanoscience, Delft University of Technology, Delft, the Netherlands Title: “New innate antiviral strategies in bacteria shared with eukaryotes” (contact Harmen van de Werken) |
| 6th of June Thursday 16.00hrs | Lin (Kathy) Hsin Allergy and Clinical Immunology Lab at Department of Immunology, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia Title: “CytoBas enables precise determination of house dust mite sensitization in patients with asthma and allergic rhinitis” (contact Menno van Zelm) |
| 13th of June Thursday 16.00hrs | Isaak Quast, Ph.D. Immune Memory Lab at Department of Immunology, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia Title: “Maintaining diversity while maximising affinity: The balancing act of B cell selection” (contact Menno van Zelm) |
| 29rd of August Thursday 14.00hrs | Olaf Perdijk Utrecht University Title: “Microbial metabolites as master regulators of systemic (immune) homeostasis” (contact Dr. Stefan Erkeland / Dr. Christopher Schliehe) |
| 26rd of September Thursday 14.00hrs | Li Xue TU Delft Title: “3D modelling boosted AI for cancer immunotherapy design” (contact Dr. Stefan Erkeland / Dr. Christopher Schliehe) |
| 24rd of October Thursday 14.00hrs | Anne O’Garra The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK Title: “Cytokine interference in immunity to infection with a focus on tuberculosis: Transcriptional signatures reveal the immune response underlying progression and pathogenesis in tuberculosis” (contact Dr. Stefan Erkeland / Dr. Christopher Schliehe) |
| 21rd of November Thursday 14.00hrs | Hylkje Geertsema TU Delft Title: “Spying on the nuclear lamins with super-resolution” (contact Dr. Stefan Erkeland / Dr. Christopher Schliehe) |
| 12rd of December Thursday 14.00hrs | Harry Dolstra Radboud UMC Title: “Cancer immunotherapy with ex vivo-generated NK cells from hematopoietic progenitor cells” (contact Dr. Stefan Erkeland / Dr. Christopher Schliehe) |
SEMINARS 2023
| 9th of March Thursday 16:00hrs | Anthony K.L. Leung, Ph.D. Molecular Biologist, Johns Hopkins, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore Maryland, USA Title: “Chemical Proteomics revealed Poly(ADP-ribose) as a Potent for Biomolecular Condensates Implicated in Cancer, Viral infection, and Neurodegeneration (contact Stefan Erkeland) |
| 30th of March Thursday 16.00hrs | Prof.dr. Ferry A. Ossendorp Professor of Molecular Vaccine Biology, head of the Tumor Immunology group in the department Immunology of the Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands Title: “Specific immunotherapy of cancer by self-adjuvanted T cell vaccines” (contact Christopher Schliehe) |
| 20th of April Thursday 16.00hrs | Eveline de Geus, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Scientist, Regulation of Interferon and Innate Signalling, Hudson Institute of Medical Research, Clayton Victoria, Australia Title: “Epithelially expressed Interferon epsilon protects against colitis” (contact Wim Dik) |
SEMINARS 2022
| 19th of April Tuesday 11:00hrs | Menno C. van Zelm Head Laboratory for Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Deputy Head (Research) Dept. Immunology and Pathology, Monash University and Alfred Hospital, Melbourne VIC Australia Title: “SARS-CoV-2 specific memory B cells after infection or vaccination: immunophenotype, durability and capacity to recognise variants-of-concern” (contact Wim Dik) |
| 22nd of June Wednesday 16.00hrs | Wim vanden Berghe Head Protein chemistry, proteomics & epigenetic signaling lab, Department biomedical sciences, UAntwerp, Belgium Title: “Developing novel ferroptosis sensitization strategies and phosphocatalytic kinome diagnostic tools for improved therapeutic outcome in multiple myeloma” (contact Martijn Verbeek) |
| 23rd of June Thursday 16.00hrs | Wilfred van Ijcken Labmanager Center for Biomics, Genomics Core Facility, Department of Cell Biology, Erasmus MC Rotterdam Title: “Single Cell Technologies in the Erasmus MC Genomic Core Facility” (contact Harmen van de Werken) |
| 27th of October Thursday 16.00hrs | Konstantinos Petrovas Head of the Laboratory of Tissue Investigation, Institute of Pathology, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Lausanne University Hospital (chuv) and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland Title: “Spatial organization of the human immune system in health and disease: the germinal center paradigm” (contact Peter Katsikis) |
| 17th of November Thursday 16.00hrs | Amit Awasthi Immuno-biology Laboratory, Translational Health Science and Technology Institute, Faridabad, India Title: “Role of IL-9-producing helper T cells in health and diseases” (contact Peter Katsikis) |
| 24th of November Thursday 16.00hrs | Jeroen Demmers Associate professor, Director of the Core Facility (CoFa) Proteomics | Proteomics Center, dept. of Biochemistry, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Title: “Proteomics at the Erasmus MC – Opportunities for Fundamental and Translational Research” (contact Christopher Schliehe) |
| 1st of December Thursday 16.00hrs | Alex Motta Immunologist, Partner and CTO at IMcoMET, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Title: “Harnessing the complexity of the tumour micro-environment to improve cancer immunotherapy” (contact Peter Katsikis) |
SEMINARS 2021
| 8th of April Thursday 16.00hrs | Douglas A. Drevets Department of Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK, USA Title: “Roles of miR-155 in brain inflammation during neuroinvasive bacterial infection” (contact Stefan Erkeland) |
| 25th March Thursday 16.00hrs | Heinz Wiendl Prof. at Muenster University, Director at the Department of Neurology with Institute of Translational Neurology at Muenster University, Honorary Professor at Sydney University Title: “Next Generation Neuroimmunology: Novel approaches to understand complex diseases” (contact Marvin van Luijn) |
| 20th May Thursday 16.00hrs | Elena Martens-Uzunova, Ph.D. Department of Urology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands Title: “On the consequences of altered ribosome methylation in prostate cancer” (contact Stefan Erkeland) |
| 3rd June Thursday 16.00hrs | Dr. Meritxell Alberich-Jorda Institute Molecular Genetics of the CAS Title: “Chronic inflammation decreases HSC fitness via hyperactivation of the druggable IL6/STAT3 signaling pathway” (contact Stefan Erkeland) |
| 10th June Thursday 16.00hrs | Geert van den Bogaart Department of Molecular Immunology and Microbiology, University of Groningen, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences & Biotechnology Institute (GBB), Groningen, The Netherlands Title: “Control of macrophage functions by the neuroendocrine prohormone Chromogranin A” (contact Ruth Huizinga) |
| 24th June Thursday 16.00hrs | Nicholas J. Proudfoot Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, Oxford UK. Title: “Defining RNA polymerase II transcription units and co-transcriptional RNA processing across the human genome” (contact Stefan Erkeland) |
SEMINARS 2020
| 16th January Thursday 16.00hrs | Leendert Trouw Department of immunohematology and blood transfusion, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands Title: “C1q levels in health and disease, not just a biomarker” (contact Wim Dik) |
| 12th March Thursday 16.00hrs | Leo Joosten Radboud University Medical Center, Dept of Internal Medicine, Nijmegen, The Netherlands Title: “Urate Induced Epigenetic Reprogramming of Myeloid Cells” (contact Marjan Versnel) |
SEMINARS 2019
| 10th January Thursday 16.00hrs | Dirk Busch Institut für Medizinische Mikrobiologie, Immunologie und Hygiene, Technishe Universität München Title: Adoptive T cell therapy of infections upon allogeneic stem cell transplantation (contact Peter Katsikis) |
| 17th January Thursday 16.00hrs | Eric Eldering Experimental Immunology, Amsterdam UMC (AUMC) Title: Bcl-2 members in normal and malignant B cells: targets for therapy and the road to resistance (contact Ton Langerak) |
| 21th January Monday 12.00hrs | Martin Turner Brabraham Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom Title: RNA binding proteins regulating lymphocyte development and activation (contact Peter Katsikis) |
| 7th February Thursday 16.00hrs | Benoit Stijlemans Myeloid Cell Immunology Lab, VIB Center for Inflammation Research, Brussels, Belgium Title: MIF and IL-10: Yin and Yang key players during animal African trypanosomiasis-associated pathogenicity (contact Pieter Leenen) |
| 14th February Thursday 16.00hrs | Rick Koup Vaccine Research Center, NIAID, NIH, Bethesda, USA Title: Manipulating HIV neutralizing antibodies to improve antiviral activity (contact Peter Katsikis) |
| 7th March Thursday 16.00hrs | Rob de Boer University Utrecht Title: Interpreting immune repertoire data by mathematical modeling (contact: Martijn Kolijn) |
| 16th April Tuesday 12.00hrs | Marie Wahren Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden Title: Neonatal lupus – how maternal autoimmunity influences fetal heath (contact Marjan Versnel) |
| 2nd May Thursday 16.00hrs | Michael Basler University of Konstanz Title: The immunoproteasome – a novel target in autoimmunity and transplantation (contact Christopher Schliehe) |
| 9th May Thursday 16.00hrs | Ramon Klein Geltink Max Planck, Freiburg Title: Are you always what you eat? The links between T cell metabolism and function (contact: Ton Langerak) |
| 4th July Thursday 16.00hrs | Alice Sijts University Utrecht Title: Cutting and pasting in the immunoproteome of infected cells (contact Christopher Schliehe) |
| 8th July Monday 12.00hrs | Meinrad Busslinger Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), Vienna, Austria Title: Control of B cell development, function and leukemia by the transcription factor Pax5 (contact Fabian Kaiser) |
| 11th July Thursday 16.00hrs | Kees Murre UC San Diego, Division of biological sciences, California, USA Title: The role of non-coding transcription and gelation in orchestrating immune cell fate (contact Stefan) |
| 12th September Thursday 16.00hrs | Jurjen Tel Eindhoven University of Technology, Institute of Complex Molecular Sytems, the Netherlands Title: “From heterogeneity and decoding cellular interactions to improved immunotherapy” (contact Marjan Versnel) |
| 10th October Thursday 16.00hrs | Joost Smolders head of the MS Center ErasMS and the Neuroimmunology Brain (NIB) Research Group in the Department of Immunology. Easmus MC, the Netherlands Title: “CD8+ tissue resident memory T cells in advanced multiple sclerosis“ (contact Peter Katsikis) |
| 9th October Wednesday 11.00hrs | Anne Puel French Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM), Paris, France Title: “Inborn errors of immunity leading to fungal diseases“ (contact Martin van Hagen) |
| 16th October Wednesday 13.00hrs | Falk Nimmerjahn University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Department of Biology, Division of Genetics Title: “Organ specific pathways of IgG activity“ (contact Martin van Hagen) |
| 28th October Monday 16.00hrs | Marc Seifert Principal Investigator, Immunology and Lymphomagenesis, Institute of Cell Biology (Cancer Research), University Hospital EssenTitle: “Distinct developmental and functional features of the infant human B cell system and their implication on CLL pathogenesis“ (contact Rudi Hendriks) |
| 31st October Thursday 16.00hrs | Evangelos Andreakos Biomedical Research Foundation Academy of Athens, Greece Title: “The emerging biology of lambda interferons in the respiratory tract“ (contact Peter Katsikis) |
| 21st November Thursday 16.00hrs | Jan Rehwinkel MRC Human Immunology Unit, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK Title: Sensing and Restricting: Innate Immune Control of Virus Infection (contact Marjan Versnel) |
SEMINARS 2018
| 19th January Friday 16.00 hrs | Inge Verbrugge NKI, Amsterdam Title: Mechanisms underlying combined local and systemic responses to radio-immunotherapy (contact Peter Katsikis) |
| 25th Jan Thursday 16.00hrs | Peter van Veelen Leids Universitair Medisch Centrum (LUMC), The Netherlands Title: HLA-peptidomics, fundamentals and applications. (contact Stefan Erkeland) |
| 1st Feb Thursday 16.00 hrs | Clemens Löwik Erasmus MC, Dept. Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, The Netherlands Title: New tools for whole body optical imaging: imaging tumors and their immune microenvironment. (contact Pieter Leenen) |
| 8th Feb Thursday 16.00 hrs | Jim di Santo Institut Pasteur, Innate Immunity Unit, Paris, France Title: Developmental and Functional Plasticity of Human Innate Lymphoid Cells (contact Rudi Hendriks) |
| 15th Feb Thursday 12.00 hrs | Lucile Capuron French National Institute for Agricultural Research, France Title: Role of Inflammation in Neuropsychiatric Research Domains (contact Marjan Versnel) |
| 22th Feb Thursday 16.00 hrs | Anke van den Berg University of Groningen, The Netherlands Title: The role of MYC-regulated noncoding RNAs in B cell lymphoma. (contact Stefan Erkeland) |
| 29th March Thursday 16.00 hrs | Lukas Flatz Institute of Immunobiology in Kantonsspital St. Gallen, Switzerland Title: Autoimmune toxicity of checkpoint inhibitors reveals cancer antigens (contact Christopher Schliehe) |
| 6th April Friday 16.00 hrs | Dietmar Zehn School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Technical University Munich, Germany Title: Subsets and T cell differentiation in chronic LCMV infection (contact Peter Katsikis) |
| 19th April Thursday 16.00 hrs | Jonas Kuiper Laboratory of Translational Immunology, dept. of Ophthalmology, University Medical Centre Utrecht Title: A multi-omics exploration of inflammatory eye disease (contact Wim Dik) |
| 26th April Thursday 16.00 hrs | Meri Alberich-Jorda Institute of Molecular Genetics of the ASCR, Czech Republic Title: Transcriptional regulation by C/EBPs during myeloid differentiation (contact Stefan Erkeland) |
| 17th May Thursday 16.00 hrs | Suzan Rooijakkers Medical Microbiology University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands Title: Exploiting the human immune system for antibacterial therapies (contact Christopher Schliehe) |
| 24th May Thursday 16.00 hrs | Angelika Riemer German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany Title: A mass spectrometry approach for epitope identification on the target cell – applied for therapeutic HPV vaccine design (contact Christopher Schliehe) |
| 28th June Thursday 16.00 hrs | Adrian Liston University of Leuven and the VIB, Belgium Title: Systems immunology, in health and disease (contact Peter Katsikis) |
| 2nd July Monday 12.00 hrs | Derk Amsen Sanquin, Amsterdam Title: Using the mass spectrometer to understand regulatory T cell identity (contact Peter Katsikis) |
| 4th July Wednesday 10.00 hrs | Immunology Mini symposium Erasmus MC, Immunology Title: Connecting B cell Differentiation Pathways and Antibody Deficiencies (contact Marjolein Wentink and Mirjam van der Burg) |
| 9th July Monday 12.00hrs | Koen Schepers LUMC, Leiden Title: A Mesenchymal stromal cell-centric view of the immune system (contact Martin van Hagen) |
| 12th July Thursday 16.00hrs | Stephen Schoenberger La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, UCSD Moores Cancer Center, San Diego Center for Precision Immunotherapy Title: An integrated multi-component platform for the identification and therapeutic targeting of personalized and shared neoantigens in cancer (contact Peter Katsikis) |
| 31st August Friday 16.00 hrs | Linda M. Bradley Infectious and Inflammatory Diseases Center, NCI Designated Cancer Center, Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, California, USA Title: PSGL-1: A Checkpoint Regulator of Effector, Memory and Exhausted T cells (contact Peter Katsikis) |
| 27th Sept Thursday 16.00 hrs | Reuven Agami The Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI) Title: Functional genetic screens of regulatory DNA elements (contact Stefan Erkeland) |
| 8th November Thursday 16.00hrs | Mario Roederer Vaccine Research Center, NIAID, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA Title: TB Vaccine Development: Can Monkeys Teach us a New Trick? (contact Peter Katsikis) |
| 15th November Thursday 16.00 hrs | Silvano Sozzani University of Brescia, Italy Title: Multiple functions of plasmocytoid dendritic cells in autoimmunity (contact Marjan Versnel) |
| 21th November Wednesday 16.00hrs | Ken Ishii Center for Vaccine and Adjuvant Research (CVAR), National Institute of Biomedical Innovation, Health and Nutrition (NIBIOHN), Osaka, Japan. Lab. Vaccine Science, Immunology Frontier Research Center (IFReC), Osaka University Title: Nucleic acids as a vaccine adjuvant and potential immunotherapeutic agent (contact Peter Katsikis) |
| 6th December Thursday 16.00 hrs | Monika Wolkers Sanquin, Amsterdam Title: T cell responses in infection and cancer: how post-transcriptional regulation defines immune responses (contact Rudi Hendriks) |
SEMINARS 2017
| 23rd January Monday 12.00hrs | Eli Rothenberg Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Perlmutter Cancer Center, New York University School of Medicine, New York Title: Mechanism and Fidelity of Human Nonhomologous End–Joining (contact Mirjam van der Burg) |
| 1st February Wednesday 16.00hrs | Timothy Radstake Professor of Translational Immunology within the depts. Of Rheumatology & Clinical Immunology, UMC Utrecht, the Netherlands Title: A Systems Medicine approach to understand, re-classify and treat chronic inflammatory diseases in a personalized way (contact Marjan Versnel) |
| 8th February Wednesday 16.00hrs | Ingrid Dijkgraaf Department of Biochemistry, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands Title: Design, synthesis and evaluation of molecular imaging agents: chemokines and chemokine-binding proteins (contact Hemmo Drexhage) |
| 26th April Wednesday 16.00hrs | Ramon Arens Department Immunohematology and Blood Transfusion, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands Title: Understanding T cell costimulation in immunotherapy (contact Peter Katsikis) |
| 3rd May Wednesday 16.00hrs | Dmitri A Kazmin Senior Bioinformatics Analyst, Emory Vaccine Center, Emory University, Atlanta, USA Title: Diverse paths to protective vaccine immunity (contact Peter Katsikis) |
| 5th July Wednesday 12.00hrs | Tobias Bopp Institute for Immunology, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg- University Mainz, Germany Title: Molecular Mechanisms underlying Context- and Tissue-specific Regulation of Immunity and Tolerance by Regulatory T cells (contact: Peter Katsikis) |
| 13th July Thursday 12.00hrs | Esteban Ballestar Chromatin and Disease Group, Leader, Cancer Epigenetics and Biology Programme (PEBC), Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), Barcelona, Spain Title: Targeting Epigenetic Changes in Immune Cells: Implications in Disease (contact Peter Katsikis) |
| 19th July Wednesday 12.00hrs | Uttiya Basu Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Columbia University, New York Title: Noncoding RNA regulation in B cell immunity and Cancer (contact Peter Katsikis) |
| 13th September Wednesday 16.00hrs | Terry J. Smith Frederick G.L. Huetwell Professor, Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Professor of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Michigan, USA Title: From bench to bedside: translation of a cell-biological concept to the patient with Graves’ disease (contact: Wim Dik) |
| 27th September Wednesday 16.00hrs | Mark S. Anderson Professor University of California, San Francisco, Director, UCSF Medical Scientist Training Program, UCSF Diabetes Center, San Francisco, USA Title: Control of immune tolerance by Aire-expressing cells (contact Peter Katsikis) |
| 3rd October Tuesday 12.00hrs | Qiang Pan-Hammarström Division of Clinical Immunology, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Karolinska Institutet Title: Genome instability and B cell lymphoma genesis (contact Mirjam van der Burg) |
| 4th October Wednesday 16.00hrs | Vassili Soumelis Dept. of Immunology, Institut Curie, Paris Title: Human dendritic cell and T helper cell diversity in inflammatory conditions: mechanisms and physiopathological implications (contact Peter Katsikis) |
| 16th November Thursday 12.00hrs | Christos A. Ouzounis Director of Research at CPERI-CERTH (Greece) Title: Developing computational biology – from comparative genomics to systems biomedicine (contact Peter Katsikis) |
| 22nd November Wednesday 16.00hrs | Alexa K. Klettner Experimental Retinology, University of Kiel, University Medical Center, Department of Ophthalmology, Kiel, Germany Title: The retinal pigment epithelium and Fc-containing therapeutics – uptake, transport and function (contact Wim Dik) |
SEMINARS 2016
| 20th January Wednesday 12.00hrs | John F. Cryan Anatomy & Neuroscience, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland Title: A Gut Feeling about the Brain: The Microbiome-Gut-Brain Axis in Health & Disease Across the Lifespan (contact Hemmo Drexhage) |
| 24th February Wednesday 12.00hrs | Monika Wolkers Sanquin, dept. of Hematopoiesis, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Title: T cells keep control: how transcriptional and post-transcriptional events govern cytokine production in effector and memory T cells (contact Peter Katsikis) |
| 2nd March Wednesday 12.00hrs | Marta Rizzi Department of Rheumatology and Center for Chronic Immunodeficiency University Medical Center Freiburg Title: Autoimmune Lymphoproliferative Syndrome (ALPS) and B lymphocytes: a FAScinating story (contact Mirjam van der Burg) |
| 7th March Monday 12.00hrs | Douglas A. Drevets Infectious Diseases,University of Oklahoma HSC and the VAMC Oklahoma City, OK, USA Title: Expression and function of miRNA-155 in the brain during L. monocytogenes infection of mice (contact Mirjam van der Burg) |
| 16th March Wednesday 12.00hrs | Samuel Chiang Center for Hematology and Regenerative Medicine (HERM) Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge,Stockholm, SWEDEN Title: An algorithm for diagnosing common causes of primary hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (contact Mirjam van der Burg) |
| 30th March Wednesday 12.00hrs | Debby Bogaert Professor of paediatric infectious diseases, Florey Institute for Host-Pathogen Interactions, University of Sheffield School of Medicine/Royal Hallamshire Hospital Sheffield, United Kingdom, Principal investigator pathogenesis of respiratory infections group, Department of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunology Wilhelmina Children’s Hospital/University Medical Center Utrecht, Netherlands Title: host-microbiome interactions: key to respiratory infections? (contact: Mirjam van der Burg) |
| 6th April Wednesday 16.00hrs | René van Lier Director of Research division Sanquin, Professor of Experimental Immunology AMC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Title: Blood and beyond: Properties of human tissue-resident T cells (contact Mirjam van der Burg) |
| 13th April Wednesday 12.00hrs | Haico van Attikum Associate Professor, Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) Department of Human Genetics, Leiden, The Netherlands Title: The molecular basis of immunodeficiency in ICF syndrome (contact Mirjam van der Burg) |
| 20th April Wednesday 12.00hrs | Janneke N. Samson Head Laboratory of Pediatrics, Group leader of the division Pediatric Gastroenterology, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam Title: IL-10R signaling in antigen presenting cells is pivotal for gluten tolerance in the small intestine (contact: Mirjam van der Burg) |
| 4th May Wednesday 12.00hrs | Heinz Jacobs The Netherlands Cancer Institute NKI-AVL, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Title: Programmed Mutagenesis and Chromosomal Translocations in B cells: Distinguishing Between Causality and Correlation (contact Stefan Erkeland) |
| 1st June Wednesday 12.00hrs | Marieke van Ham Dept. Immunopathology, Sanquin Research, Amsterdam Title: Induction and termination of antigen-specific B-Tfh responses (contact Mirjam van der Burg) |
| 13st August Wednesday 16.00hrs | Clio Mavragani Attending Rheumatologist and tenured Assistant Professor, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Medicine Title: Sjögren’s syndrome: Clinics and molecular aspects (contact Marjan Versnel) |
| 5th September Monday 12.00hrs | Gerald de Haan Teamleader Laboratory of Ageing Biology and Stem Cells Scientific Co-director ERIBA, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands Title: Regulators of Normal and Leukemic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Selfrenewal (contact Stefan Erkeland) |
| 7th September Wednesday 16.00hrs | Lisa M. Ott de Bruin Research Fellow in Pediatrics, Department Pediatrics, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, USA Title: Novel mouse models provide molecular insights into the phenotypic spectrum of RAG1 Deficiency (contact Mirjam van der Burg) |
| 16th September Friday 12.00hrs | Catherine Sanders Adaptive Biotechnologies Amplify Immunology, Director/Team Lead, Scientific Liaisons Seattle, USA Title: Accelerating Discovery and Innovation with Immunosequencing (contact Mirjam van der Burg) |
| 21th September Wednesday 16.00hrs | Irma van Die Department of Molecular Cell Biology & Immunology, VU University Medical Centre Amsterdam, The Netherlands Title: Parasitic helminths: old friends or foes? (contact Mirjam van der Burg) |
| 12th October Wednesday 16.00hrs | Alison J. Carey Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Attending Neonatologist, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States Title: Rapid evolution of the CD8+ T cell receptor repertoire in neonatal mice (contact Mirjam van der Burg) |
| 19th October Wednesday 16.00hrs | Tomas Kalina CLIP – Childhood Leukemia Investigation Prague, Department of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, 2nd Faculty of Medicine, Charles University Prague and University Hospital Motol, Prague, Czech Republic Title: Mass cytometry investigation of cellular compartments: unexpected findings and new subset discovery enabled (contact Mirjam van der Burg) |
| 2nd November Wednesday 16.00 hrs | Menno de Winther Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands Title: Epigenetic enzymes regulating macrophage function and inflammatory responses (contact Pieter Leenen) |
SEMINARS 2015
| 7th January Wednesday 12.00hrs | Martin Turner Brabraham Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom Title: The regulation of lymphocyte development and activation by microRNAs and RNA binding proteins (contact Peter Katsikis) |
| 18th February Wednesday 12.00hrs | Marc Feldmann Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Oxford University, United Kingdom Title: Beyond anti-TNF therapy for Rheumatoid Arthritis: How can we get closer to a cure? (contact Peter Katsikis) |
| 17th March Tuesday 13.00hrs | Annie de Groot Director for Institute for Immunology and Informatics, University of Rhode Island, CEO/CSO EpiVax, Inc., Providence, RI Title: Tregitope Mediated Tolerance: The Role of HLA (contact Ruth Huizinga) |
| 13th May Wednesday 11.00hrs | Francesca Fallarino Professor at the Department of Experimental Medicine and Biochemical Science, University of Perugia Title: Aryl hydrocarbon receptor expression in dendritic cells controls endotoxin tolerance pathway (contact Marjan Versnel) |
| 28th October Wednesday 12.00hrs | Stephen A. Williams Chief Medical Officer, Somalogic Inc. Title: Aphrodite and Medusa; Portraying the beauty of biology and the Gorgon of disease using SOMAscan highly multiplexed proteomics (contact Peter Katsikis) |
| 9th November Monday 12.00hrs | Cornelis Murre Department of Molecular Biology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA Title: The Contraction of Space and Time in Immunity and Gene Regulation (contact Bibi van Bodegom) |
| 25th November Wednesday 12.00hrs | Mikalai lapkouski Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden Title: Molecular bases for the initiation of V(D)J recombination (contact Peter Katsikis) |
| 2nd December Wednesday 12.00hrs | Taras Kreslavsky Busslinger Group, Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), Vienna, Austria Title: Transcriptional regulation of B-1 lymphocytes (contact Peter Katsikis) |
| 3th December Thursday 12.00hrs | Noelia Alonso-Gonzalez Centro Nacional Investigaciones Cardiovasculares, CNIC, Madrid, Spain Title: Origin and Functional Specialization of Tissue Resident Macrophages (contact: Peter Katsikis) |
| 8th December Tuesday 12.00hrs | Jacques-Eric Gottenberg National Centre for Systemic Autoimmune Diseases, University Hospital of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France Title: New pathogenic roles, beyond B-cell activation, of BAFF in autoimmune diseases (contact Marjan Versnel) |
| 10th December Thursday 12.00hrs | Christopher Schliehe CeMM – Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences Title: Antigen presentation and immune regulation – Towards novel strategies in immunotherapy (contact Peter Katsikis) |
SEMINARS 2014
| 25th March Tuesday 16.00hrs | Charles A. Dinarello University of Colorado Aurora, CO, USA and Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands Title: Treating inflammation by blocking Interleukin 1 in a broad spectrum of diseases (contact Jon Laman) |
| 8th July Tuesday 16.00hrs | Andrea Cerutti Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, USA, ICREA Research Professor, IMIM, Barcelona, Spain Title: Regulation of frontline B cells by the innate immune system (contact Menno van Zelm) |
| 15th July Tuesday 16.00hrs | Alberto Orfao Department of Medicine, Cancer Research Centre (IBMCC-CSIC-USAL) and Cytometry Service, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain Title: Utility of flow cytometry in systemic mastocytosis (contact Menno van Zelm) |
| 12th November Wednesday 16.00hrs | Richard A. Gatti Dept. of Pathology & Lab Medicin, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA Title: Radiation sensitivity and DNA repair defects: the Present and the Future (contact Menno van Zelm) |
| 10th December Wednesday 12.00hrs | Thomas Brocker Institute for Immunology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany Title: Tissue-specific control of tolerance by Dendritic Cells (contact Peter Katsikis) |