Preliminary scientific programme

Subject to change

Thursday, November 28^th, 2019

Ivan Lefkovits: The immune system - its silent reserve repertoire, 40min
Yehuda Shoenfeld: The Kaleidoscope of Autoimmunity – primun non nocere, 40min

Alan Ebringer: Molecular mimicry in ankylosing spondylitis, rheumatoid arthritis and multiple sclerosis, 40min
Andreas Plückthun: Protein Engineering in the developments of new therapeutics, 40min
Ron N. Apte: Interleukin-IL1beta in tumor biology and immunotherapy, 40min

Norbert Žilka: The importance of being Earnest: the conversation of the brain immune system and degeneration, 20min
Eva Syková: Astrocytes and Stem Cells in Pathophysiology of Neurodegenerative disease, 20min
Daša Čížková: Immune profile following acute spinal cord injury, 20min
Mangesh Bhide: Borrelia and complement system: an example of perfect immunity, 20min
Sandra Mihaljević: Changes of the choroid plexus barrier in tauopathies, 10min

Luca Vannucci: Re-thinking the tumor immune microenvironment, 25min
Jiřina Bartůňková: Cell-based immunotherapy, 25min
Milada Širová: Polymer drug delivery systems for targeted chemotherapy and immunooncotherapy 20min
Lenka Kašíková: Immune infiltrate in ovarian cancer, 15min
Pavol Lukáč: 3D cultures in the evaluation of the tumor immune microenvironment, 15min
Riccardo Pasculli: Cytek Aurora Spectral flow cytometer providing up to 40-colour panels is the future of Immunotherapy and Immunoprofiling, 15 min

Jaroslav Turánek: Nanoparticles and nanomaterials, unique modulators of the inflammatory response, 25min
Jean-Louis Vincent: Immunotherapy of sepsis, 25min
Mária Bucová: The role of inflammation in gliomas, 20min
Nataša Kopitar-Jerala: Cystatins in non-canonical NLRP3 inflammasome activation and sepsis, 20min

Martin Hrubiško: Ragweed epidemy in Central Europe, actual situation in south-west Slovakia, 20min
Matija Rijavec: Molecular mechanism of anaphylaxis: immune cells, mediators, and pathways, 20min
Iva Topalušić: Influence of urban (city of Zagreb) and rural (National park Lonjsko polje) environment in allergic diseases, 20min
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, 20min
Martin Liška: Do we miss allergenic components of chickpea and other legumes in available platforms for IgE detection?, 20min

16,15 - 16,30 Break, posters
16,30-18,00 Immunodeficiency and autoinflammation disorders (chairmen: Anna Šedivá, Miloš Jeseňák)

Anna Šedivá: Immunity and inflammation in Schnitzler syndrome, 20min
Peter Čižnár: Rare case of late-onset SCID, 20min
Miloš Jeseňák: Familiar Mediterranean Fever – Complex Analysis of Slovak Cohort, 20min
Ivan Markovič: Adult-onset periodic fever, aphthous stomatitis, pharyngitis and cervical adenitis 9PFAPA0 syndrome, 15min
Ulrich Sack: Recent options in identifying patients with immunodeficiencies, 15 min

Yehuda Shoenfeld: ASIA (autoimmune syndrome induced by adjuvants) – why do we develop autoimmune diseases, 25min
Milan Buc: A role of regulatory T and B cells in health and disease, 25min
Ines Mrakovčić-Šutić: Immunomodulatory functions of enzymes matrix metalloproteinases, innate immune cells, CD68 and heat shock protein 70 in the ethiopathogenesis of atherosclerosis, 25min
Ilona Jámbor: Role of TFH cells in abnormal B cells distribution and disease severity in primary Sjogren’s syndrome, 10min
Natália Chebotareva: Heat shock protein 70 and anti-heat shock protein 70 antibodies in patients with chronic glomerulonephritis, 10min
Kristína Szabó: Alteration in follicular T helper cell subsets and cytokine production contributes to dysregulated humoral immune response in systemic lupus erythematosus, 10min

10,15 - 10,30 Break
10,30-11,50 Immunogenetics and transplantation immunology (chairmen: Ilja Stříž, František Mrázek)

Ilja Stříž: Mononuclear phagocyte subpopulations in kidney transplantations, 20min
František Mrázek: Immunogenetics of allogeneic haematopoietic stem cell transplantation, 20min
Martin Petřek: Allele level of HLA variation in Czech patients with sarcoidosis, 20min
Daniel Kuba: Detection of anti-HLA antibodies in organ transplantation, 20min

Tibor Hajto: Can a standardized and evidence based plant immunomodulator increase the effects of MEK and BRAF inhibitors with clinical benefit?, 15min
Gábor Papp: Immunomodulatory effect of regular physical exercise in older age, 15min
Xinkai Jia: Foliate lymphoid aggregates- novel form of lymphoid organoids of the serosa in mice involved in the peritoneal dissemination of high-grade B-cell lymphoma, 15min
Szofia Polai: Human herpesvirus 6 and its connection with cell signaling, 15min