Scientific Programme

Please, find below , the most current programme. Note, that this will be updated on a regular basis, so be sure to check back to here. You will be able to find the officical programme prior to the conference.

• Neuroimmunology
• Cancer immunology
• Inflammation
• Allergy
• Immunodeficiency
• Autoimmune diseases
• Immunogenetics and transplantation immunology
• Varia

You can submit your abstract here.

Preliminary scientific program

Thursday, November 28th, 2019

• 12,00
  Arrival, registration
  
  
• 15,00
  Welcome (president)
  
  
• 15,30-18,30
  Plenary session
  Ivan Lefkovits: The immune system - its silent reserve repertoire
  Yehuda Shoenfeld: The mosaic and the kaleidoscope of Autoimmunity – primun non nocere
  Alan Ebringer:  Molecular mimicry in ankylosing spondylitis, rheumatoid arthritis and multiple sclerosis
  Andreas Pluckthun: Improvement of antibodies by recombinant DNA technologies and their use in therapy and diagnostics
• 19,30 Welcome drink
  
  

Friday, November 29th, 2019

• 8,30-10,00
  Neuroimmunology (chairmen: Norbert Žilka, Petr Novák)
  Norbert Žilka: The importance of being Earnest: the conversation of the brain immune system and degeneration
  
  
• 10,00-10,30
  Break, posters
  
  
• 10,30-12,00
  Cancer immunology (chairmen: Jiřina Bartůňková, Luca Vannucci)
  Jiřina Bartůňková: Is there still the space for active cell-based therapy in immunooncology?
  
  
• 12,00-12,20
  Break, posters
  
  
• 12,20-13,30
  Inflammation (chairmen: Mária Bucová, Jan Krejsek)
  Jean-Louis Vincent: Immunotherapy of sepsis
  Jan Krejsek: Nanoparticles and nanomaterials, unique modulators of the inflammatory response (Invited)
  Nataša Kopitar-Jerala: Cystatins in non-canonical NLRP3 inflammasome activation and sepsis
  
  
• 13,30-14,30
  Lunch
  
  
• 14,30-16,00
  Allergy (chairmen: Petr Panzner, Martin Hrubiško)
  Petr Panzner: Component resolved diagnostic in respiratory allergy
  Martin Hrubiško: Ragweed epidemy in Central Europe, actual situation in south-west Slovakia
  Iva Topalušić: Influence of urban (city of Zagreb) and rural (National park Lonjsko polje) environment in allergic diseases.
  Željka Babić: Associations of TNF alpha-308G>A, TNF alpha-238G>A, IL-1 alpha-889C>T and IL-10-1082G>A Genetic Polymorphisms with Atopic Diseases: Asthma, Rhinitis and Dermatitis
  
  
• 16,00-16,30
  Break, posters
  
  
• 16,30-18,00
  Immunodeficiency (chairmen: Miloš Jeseňák, TBA)
  
  
• 18,00
  Posters
  
  
• 20,00
  Dinner
  
  

Saturday, November 30th, 2019

• 8,30-10,00
  Autoimmune diseases (chairmen: Yehuda Shoenfeld, Milan Buc)
  Yehuda Shoenfeld: ASIA (autoimmune syndrome induced by adjuvants) – why do we develop autoimmune diseases
  Buc M.: A role of regulatory T and B cells in health and disease
  
  
• 10,00-10,30
  Break
  
  
• 10,30-12,00
  Immunogenetics and transplantation immunology (chairmen: Ilja Stříž, František Mrázek, Martin Petřek)
  Ilja Stříž: Mononuclear phagocyte subpopulations in kidney transplantations
  František Mrázek: Immunogenetics of allogeneic haematopoietic stem cell transplantation
  
  
• 12,00-12,30
  Break
  
  
• 12,30-14,00
  Varia
  
  
• 14,00
  Conclusion Remarks (president)