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Aegean Conferences Communication
Please note that our registration fees include hotel accommodations and therefore no additional reservations are required. The only communication you should receive is from Aegean Conferences and if your paying by credit card, payment receipts from Conferex LLC. SCAM Alert: Beware of any third party companies calling and/or emailing you to reserve hotel accommodations for you during our conferences
Registration
In completing the online registration form you are not automatically accepted to attend the conference nor are you automatically registered for the conference. Final registration to the conference shall occur after you have been accepted and notified by the conference chair of your acceptance to the conference. If you have been charged the registration fee but your attendance has been declined you will be reimbursed in full.
Airport
You want to arrive at the Ioannina Airport (code: IOA) and take a taxi from the airport to the hotel (~20 EUR)
Accommodation Tax
An accommodation tax of € 4.00 per room night will apply, and will be charged automatically to the individual guest’s extras accounts.
Accommodations
Accommodations for the conference are at the Hotel Du Lac. The hotel is located in the city of Ioannina, 7 km from the Airport.
Arrival and Check-in
It is expected that attendees will arrive/check-in after 3:00 PM. Anyone arriving after 10:30 pm on the first day should make alternative dinner arrangements.
Conference Venue
The Du Lac Conference Center is located at the hotel.
Handicapped Accessibility
The site is fully handicapped accessible.
Oral Presentations
Speakers are asked to bring their USB flash drive to the reception desk at least 30 minutes prior to the session. The allocated time for all presentations, unless otherwise indicated, includes five minutes Q&A.
City Tour
Buses for the city tour will depart from the hotel front lobby at 3:30 pm. Badges are required for participation.
Breakfast
Breakfast for registered participants and registered accompanying persons will be served at the Avra Imperial Hotel main restaurant during the hours scheduled in this program.
Lunches/Informal Discussions
Lunches for registered participants and registered accompanying persons will be served during the times indicated in this program at the main restaurant and only after the session has finished. Badges are required for admission.
Dinners/Informal Discussions
Three of the dinners/informal discussion will be served during the times indicated in the program. Vegetarian entrees are available only upon request in advance of the meeting. Please contact info@aegeanconferences.org.
Internet, Phone, & Computer
Wireless Internet access is located throughout the conference center free of charge during meeting hours. There are computers available in the hotel’s business center for the use of the attendees. Phone service is available for an additional charge from your hotel room.
Certificate of Participation
A Certificate of Participation will be distributed to a participant for those sessions that the participant has attended. A participant must attend an entire session to receive credit for that particular session. Late arrivals and early departures from a session will preclude a participant from receiving credit for that session.
Passports and Visa
Participants are advised to check on their individual requirements before attending any Aegean Conference meeting. Visa applications should be filed at the nearest Greek Embassy in the country in which you are resident, at least three months prior to the anticipated departure date.
Letters of Invitation
Letters of invitation to attend an Aegean Conference meeting will be issued only to:
- Authors of accepted abstracts
- Fully paid registrants
Note: Invitations are issued at the discretion of Aegean Conferences, and requests for letters will be accepted only 60 days prior to the conference start date.
Liability and Insurance
Neither the organizers, nor the Aegean Conferences will assume any responsibility whatsoever for damage or injury to persons or property during meeting period. Participants are advised to arrange their own personal travel and health insurance.
Other Information
Animals are not permitted on site.
Badges are required for admission to all events.
All Aegean Conferences events are non-smoking.
No Photographs and Recording Devices
Participants are not allowed to photograph and/or record using cameras, mobile telephones and other recording devices during the slide and poster presentations.
Code of Conduct Policy
Aegean Conferences is committed to making its meetings an inclusive space for sharing ideas and knowledge. The code of conduct can be viewed here.
Saturday, July 09
07:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Conference Registration
08:00 PM - 10:30 PM
Welcome Reception and Dinner
Sunday, July 10
07:30 AM - 08:30 AM
Breakfast
08:30 AM - 08:45 AM
Welcome and Opening Remarks (Organizing Committee)
Chairs: Roxane Tussiwand and Dimitris Kontoyiannis
08:45 AM - 09:10 AM
1
New tools to prevent cancer growth and spread: a 'Clever' approachSirpa Jalkanen
09:10 AM - 09:35 AM
2
An innate role of cancer associated fibroblasts in tumor immune evasionPanayotis Verginis
09:35 AM - 10:00 AM
3
Myeloid control of anti-tumor immunity in colorectal cancerSebastian Zeissig
10:00 AM - 10:25 AM
4
Stratification of the liver micro-environment: consequences for liver cancer treatmentMathias Heikenwälder
10:25 AM - 10:50 AM
5
Clonal expansion and epigenetic inheritance shape long-lasting NK cell memoryChiara Romagnani
10:50 AM - 11:10 AM
6
Neutrophils initiate anti-tumor immune responses in tumor-draining lymph nodes at the early stage of cancerEkaterina Pylaeva, Maksim Domnich, Georg Korschunow, Elena Siakaeva, Stephan Lang, and Jadwiga Jablonska
11:10 AM - 12:00 PM
Coffee Break and Poster Sessions
Chairs: Shabaana A. Khader and Liwu Li
12:00 PM - 12:25 PM
7
Immunometabolic regulation of resolution of inflammationTriantafyllos Chavakis
12:25 PM - 12:50 PM
8
Hypoxia and nutrient availability sustain reprogramming of the innate immune response Sarah R Walmsley
12:50 PM - 01:15 PM
9
Reprogramming myeloid cell metabolism reverses cognitive decline in agingKatrin D. Andreasson
01:15 PM - 01:40 PM
10
Immunological anti-ferroptosisPeter J Murray
01:40 PM - 02:05 PM
11
Metabolic control of disease tolerance to infectionMiguel P. Soares
02:05 PM - 03:30 PM
Lunch and Informal Discussions
07:30 PM - 10:30 PM
Dinner and Informal Discussions
Monday, July 11
08:00 AM - 09:00 AM
Breakfast
Chairs: Triantafyllos Chavakis and Miguel Soares
09:00 AM - 09:25 AM
12
Trained immunity: from basic mechanisms to vaccinationMihai G Netea
09:25 AM - 09:50 AM
13
Maladaptive innate immune training of bone marrow myelopoiesis links inflammatory comorbiditiesXiaofei Li1, Hui Wang1, Xiang Yu2, Gundappa Saha1, Lydia Kalafati3, Charalampos Ioannidis3, Ioannis Mitroulis3, Mihai Netea4, Triantafyllos Chavakis3, and George Hajishengallis1
09:50 AM - 10:15 AM
14
Innate immune memory dynamics of monocyte exhaustion and resolutionLiwu Li
10:15 AM - 10:40 AM
15
Mimicking Trained Immunity Through Molecular Signals of Calorie Restriction: Novel Strategies to Control MTB InfectionCarla Palma1 and Giuseppe Matarese2
10:40 AM - 11:00 AM
16
Innate immune training of granulopoiesis: A novel tool in cancer immunotherapyLydia Kalafati1, Ioannis Kourtzelis3, Aikaterini Hatzioannou1, Mihai Netea4, George Hajishengalis4, Ioannis Mitroulis6, Panayotis Verginis4, and Triantafyllos Chavakis1
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Coffee Break and Poster Viewing
Chairs: Niki Moutsopoulos and Giuseppe Matarese
12:00 PM - 12:25 PM
17
The power of one: What we learned about the innate immune system in COVID-19Joachim L. Schultze
12:25 PM - 12:50 PM
18
Therapeutic complement modulation in severe COVID-19: Novel insights, challenges and opportunitiesDimitrios C. Mastellos1, Panagiotis Skendros2, Konstantinos Ritis2, and John D. Lambris3
12:50 PM - 01:15 PM
19
Type I and type III interferons in antiviral immunity to COVID-19: A balancing act Evangelos Andreakos
01:15 PM - 01:40 PM
20
Understanding the lung landscape during tuberculosisShabaana A Khader
01:40 PM - 02:05 PM
21
Reproducible research and scientific publishing in 2022John Ioannides
02:05 PM - 03:30 PM
Lunch and Informal Discussions
07:30 PM - 10:30 PM
Dinner and Informal Discussions
Tuesday, July 12
08:00 AM - 09:00 AM
Breakfast
Chairs: Georgios Hajishengallis and Panagiotis Verginis
09:00 AM - 09:25 AM
22
Mechanisms that govern dissemination of microbial or inflammatory signals from the ileumGwen Randolph
09:25 AM - 09:50 AM
23
Group 3 innate lymphoid cells instruct cryptopatch-associated dendritic cells establishing a checkpoint for metabolic homeostasisAndreas Diefenbach
09:50 AM - 10:15 AM
24
Fibrin is a critical regulator of neutrophil effector function at the oral mucosal barrier.Niki Moutsopoulos
10:15 AM - 10:40 AM
25
The new kid on the block: Neutrophils in alveolar macrophage ontogenyMaziar Divangahi
10:40 AM - 11:05 AM
26
Ab-AIRE-ant response: Autoimmunity, IFN, STAT1, and mucosal candidiasisMichail S Lionakis, Vasileios Oikonomou, and NIki Moutsopoulos
11:05 AM - 12:00 PM
Coffee Break and Poster Viewing
Chairs: Irina Udalova and Peter Murray
12:00 PM - 12:25 PM
27
Mesenchymal cell regulation of inflammatory arthritisMarkus Hoffmann
12:25 PM - 12:50 PM
28
Dntt expression reveals developmental hierarchy and lineage specification of hematopoietic progenitorsRoxane Tussiwand1, Fabian Klein2, Julien Roux2, and Grozdan Cvijetic1
12:50 PM - 01:15 PM
29
Maintenance of epigenetic macrophage identity through expansion in long term culture Michael H Sieweke
01:15 PM - 01:35 PM
30
Semaphorin 4A/Plexin D1 signaling in the bone marrow niche suppresses myeloid-driven inflammation by restraining activation of myeloid-biased HSCLev Silberstein 1, Dorsa Toghani 1, Edie Crosse1, Amogh Pradeep 1, Elmir Mahammadov3, Antonio Scialdone 3, Negar Seyedhassantehrani 3, Christian Burns3, and Joel Spencer3
01:35 PM - 01:50 PM
31
IL-1RAcP: A central mediator in mucosal Candida immunityJames S Griffiths1, Natalia Kotowicz1, Giorgio Camilli1, Adrian Lau1, Thomas Ap Rees1, Sarah Gaffen2, and Julian R Naglik1
01:50 PM - 02:05 PM
32
Severe COVID-19 is marked by a dysregulated myeloid cell compartmentJonas Schulte-Schrepping1,2, Elise Gressier3, Nico Reusch1,2, Daniela Paclik4, Kevin Baßler1,2, Stephan Schlickeiser4, Bowen Zhang5, Benjamin Krämer6, Tobias Krammer7, Sophia Brumhard8, Lorenzo Bonaguro1,2, Elena De Domenico1, Daniel Wendisch8, Anna C. Aschenbrenner2,9, Yang Li5,9, Jacob Nattermann6,10, Birgit Sawitzki4, Antoine-Emmanuel Saliba7, Sammy Bedoui3, Leif Erik Sander8,11, and Joachim L. Schultze1,2
02:05 PM - 03:30 PM
Lunch and Informal Discussions
03:30 PM - 07:30 PM
City Tour
07:30 PM - 10:30 PM
Dinner and Informal Discussions
Wednesday, July 13
08:00 AM - 09:00 AM
Breakfast
Myeloid cells and inflammation
Chairs: Mihai Netea and Katrin Andreasson
09:00 AM - 09:25 AM
33
Neutrophils activation as the bottleneck of intestinal inflammationIrina A Udalova
09:25 AM - 09:50 AM
34
Macrophages as gate keepers of inflammationGerhard Krönke
09:50 AM - 10:15 AM
35
Investigating the relevance of hepatic macrophage plasticity across distinct inflammatory conditions.Christian Zwicker, Anna Bujko, Anneleen Remmerie, Federico F De Ponti, Kathryn Waller, Paul Collins, Pieter Louwe, Bavo Vanneste, Fleur Parmentier, Tinne Thoné, Liesbet Martens, Mushida Binte Abdul Latib, and Charlotte L. Scott
10:15 AM - 10:40 AM
36
hnRNPD as a regulator of proinflammatory to proangiogenic macrophage transitionsSofia Gargani1,2, Fotis Ioakeimidis1, Niki Lourou1,2, Christina Arapatzi1, Dimitris Tzanos1, Marania Saridaki1, Esmeralda Dushku2, Margarita Chatzimike1, Nikolaos Sidiropoulos2, Margarita Andreadou1, Vassileios Ntafis1, Pantelis Hatzis1, Vassiliki Kostourou1, and Dimitris L. Kontoyiannis1,2
10:40 AM - 11:00 AM
37
Selective reprogramming of macrophages by IFN-gamma during acute Toxoplasma gondii InfectionFelix Yarovinsky, Andrew T Martin, Shilpi Giri, Alexandra Safronova, and Samantha Kwok
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Coffee Break and Poster Viewing
Chairs: Sirpa Jalkanen and Michail Lionakis
12:00 PM - 12:25 PM
38
Neutrophil heterogeneity in tumorNg Lai Guan
12:25 PM - 12:40 PM
39
Macrophage diversity in cancer revisited in the era of single cell omicsBin-Zhi Qian1,2,3, Ruo-Yu Ma1, and Annabel Black3
12:40 PM - 12:55 PM
40
Human serum amyloid A enhances the immune response of phagocytic cells in tuberculosis. Malwina Kawka1, Bożena Dziadek1, Renata Płocińska2, Przemysław Płociński2, Anna Brzostek2, and Jarosław Dziadek2
12:55 PM - 01:10 PM
41
CTLA-4 Polymorphisms: Influence on Relapse and Survival in Children undergoing allogeneic hematopoietic Stem Cell TransplantationBernd Gruhn, Susan Wittig, and Judith Hammrich
01:10 PM - 01:25 PM
42
Activation of type 2 innate immune system in old age
Tommy Terooatea2, Yasutaka Motomura2, Natsuko Otaki2, Natsuki Takeno2, Haruka Yabukami2, Kazuyo Moro2, and Aki Minoda2
01:25 PM - 01:40 PM
43
Kupffer cell survival is critical to prevent exacerbated anti-microbial immune responsesChristian Zwicker1,2, Anneleen Remmerie1,2, Tinne Thoné1,2, Liesbet Martens1,2, Bavo Vanneste1,2, Fleur Parmentier1,2, and Charlotte L Scott1,2
01:40 PM - 01:55 PM
44
MS4A genes, patterns of pathological deregulation in innate immunity Sarah Natalia Mapelli1, Ana Rita Gomes1, Barbara Bottazzi1, and Alberto Mantovani1,2
01:55 PM - 02:00 PM
Closing Remarks
02:00 PM - 03:30 PM
Lunch and Informal Discussions
08:00 PM - 11:30 PM
Farewell Dinner
Thursday, July 14
08:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Breakfast
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Departure