May 28th, 2024
ImmunoMetNet annual (inter)national meeting at LUMC, Leiden
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Program
Session I: T cell and DC metabolism
09:30 Keynote: Luciana Berod (Mainz, Germany) – The role of fatty acid metabolism in dendritic cell function
10:00 Beatrice Fernandez Cortes Real (Amsterdam UMC) – Sodium perturbs Treg metabolism and function
10:15 Thiago Patente (LUMC) – Metabolic regulation of intestinal tolerogenic dendritic cells
10:30 Fenne Verheijen (Utrecht University) – Deciphering a tolerogenic diet; Is glutamate a key nutrient for tolerogenic dendritic cell functionality
10:45 Break
Session II: Immunometabolism in cardiometabolic disease
11:15 Kristiaan Wouters (Maastricht University) – Immunometabolism and the modulation of immune responses: A role for methylglyoxal?
11:40 Patrick van der Zande (WUR) – The immunometabolic consequences of weight cycling in mice
11:55 Katie Hanford (Amsterdam UMC) – Modulating Endothelial FAO to attenuate inflammation and atherogenesis
12:10 Marianne Boes (Utrecht University) – LDLr-mediated uptake of lipoproteins in T-cells: a novel co-stimulatory signal for activation and proliferation
12:35 Sponsor’s Pitch: Agilent/BioSPX
12:40 Lunch
Session III: Immunometabolism in cancer
13:30 Daniel Peeper (NKI) – Function-based genomics to combat immunotherapy resistance
13:55 Helga Simon Molas (Amsterdam UMC) – Identifying the metabolic basis of T cell dysfunction in chronic lymphocytic leukemia
14:10 Ziqin Tang (Prinses Maxima Center) – Glucose restriction improves CAR-T cell activity by reshaping mitochondrial glycolytic homeostasis
14:25 Iosifina Foskolou (Sanquin) – Breathless warriors: How T cells cope in low oxygenation
14:50 Break
Session IV: Immunometabolism in infection
15:20 Jorge Dominguez-Andres (Radboud UMC) – Time for a boost: metabolic modulation of vaccines
15:45 Nils Mulling (LUMC) – Metabolic reinvigoration of Cytomegalovirus-specific CD8+ T cells in kidney transplant recipients
16:00 Keynote: Christoph Hess (Basel, Switzerland) – Epstein Barr Virus – searching for a metabolic Achilles’ heel
16:30 Drinks
Location
The ImmunoMetNet annual meeting of 2024 is organized in the Buruma lecture hall of building 3 at LUMC in Leiden.
Address:
Hippocratespad 21, 2333 ZD Leiden