Workshop Programme
Thursday 7th July 2022
| 1030 - 1100 | REGISTRATION AND TEA/ COFFEE | |
| 1100 - 1115 | WELCOME | |
| SESSION 1 | SETTING A THRESHOLD FOR ACTIVATION | |
| 1115 - 1130 | Ruaidhri Carmody (University of Glasgow) Setting a threshold for activation |
CHAIR |
| 1130 - 1200 | Calum Bain (University of Edinburgh) Macrophages: setting the scene for immune responses |
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| 1200 - 1230 | Roser Vento-Tormo (Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge) Setting the scene - building the steady state |
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| 1230 - 1300 | Dylan Owen (University of Birmingham) T Cell activation - setting the scene for adaptive immunity |
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| 1300 - 1400 | LUNCH | |
| SESSION 2 1400 - 1445 |
FLASH TALKS FROM ABSTRACTS Chelsea Gerada (CRUK Beatson Institute, Glasgow) |
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| SESSION 3 | IMMUNOLOGY AT DIFFERENT SCALES | |
| 1445 - 1500 | Georgia Peronia-Wright (University of Glasgow) Immunology at different scales |
CHAIR |
| 1500 - 1530 | David Withers (University of Birmingham) Exploiting dynamic labelling of tumours to interrogate the response in real time and anatomical space |
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| 1530 - 1600 | Sophie Acton (MRC LMCB, London) Stromal-immune cell communication in context of immune response to cancer |
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| 1600 - 1630 | Adam Fletcher (University of Glasgow) Intrinsic cellular methods of immunity |
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| 1630 - 1700 | REFRESHMENT BREAK | |
| SESSION 4 | PROGRESS IN T-CELL BASED IMMUNOTHERAPY | |
| 1700 - 1715 | Ed Roberts (CRUK Beatson Institute, Glasgow) Introduction of Keynote Speaker and Q&A session |
CHAIR |
| 1715 - 1800 | KEYNOTE SPEAKER Guido Kroemer (INSERM, France) T-cell responses to cancer - how insights from basic immunology have improved this |
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| 1800 - 1900 | PRE-DINNER ACTIVITY | |
| 1900 - 2130 | BBQ DINNER THEN DEPART |
Friday 8th July 2022
| SESSION 1 |
MICROENVIRONMENT CONTROL OF IMMUNITY |
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| 0930 - 0945 | Leo Carlin (CRUK Beatson Institute, Glasgow) Tissue Environment and Immunity |
CHAIR |
| 0945 - 1015 |
Alice Denton (Imperial College, London) |
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| 1015 - 1045 |
Sarah Dimeloe (University of Birmingham) Metabolic dysfunction in disease - how tumour environment affects cell metabolism |
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| 1045 - 1115 |
Kim Midwood (Kennedy Institute, Oxford) Decoding immunomodulatory signals from complex tissue/tumor microenvironments |
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| 1115 - 1145 |
REFRESHMENT BREAK |
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| SESSION 2 | IMMUNITY AT THE SURFACE | |
| 1145 |
Megan MacLeod (University of Glasgow) Introduction of Keynote Speaker and Q&A session |
CHAIR |
| 1145 - 1230 |
KEYNOTE SPEAKER Jessica Strid (Imperial College, London) Immune surveillance in epithelial tissue and in tumours |
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| 1230 - 1315 | LUNCH | |
| SESSION 3 | TARGETING IMMUNITY WITH THERAPY | |
| 1315 - 1330 |
Chris Halsey (University of Glasgow) Cancer therapy |
CHAIR |
| 1330 - 1400 | Alasdair Fraser (SNBTS, Edinburgh) Cell therapy in transplant recipients |
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| 1400 - 1430 | Maike de La Roche (CRUK Cambridge Institute, Cambridge) Pharmacological targeting of T Cell responses |
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| 1430 - 1500 | Mihaela Lorger (University of Leeds) Immunity in brain metastasis |
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| 1500 | Closing Remarks and Depart |
