| 08:00 – 09:00 | Registration |
| 09:00 – 10:40 | Session 1 |
| Chairperson | Ido Amit & Sylvia Knapp |
| 09:00 – 09:10 | Opening remarks |
| 09:10 – 09:40 | Navigation of leukocytes in complex environments – Michael Sixt |
| 09:40 – 10:10 | Macrophage, Matrix & Metazoan Parasites: a story of type 2 immunity – Judi Allen |
| 10:10 – 10:40 | Targeting Dendritic Cells: Novel Approaches to Cancer Immunotherapy – Rony Dahan |
| 10:40 – 11:10 | coffee break |
| 11:10 – 12:40 | Session 2 |
| Chairperson | Benedicte Machiels & Thomas Weichhart |
| 11:10 – 11:40 | Determinants of pulmonary immune homeostasis – Sylvia Knapp |
| 11:40 – 12:10 | Tumor-infiltrating dendritic cells : lineages, states and therapeutic opportunities – Pierre Guermonprez |
| 12:10 – 12:25 | MYCOBACTERIAL INFECTION UNCOVERS KUPFFER CELL PLASTICITY – Jana Neuber |
| 12:25 – 12:40 | REDOX-ACTIVE MACROPHAGES CONFER FERROPTOSIS PROTECTION TO BYSTANDER CANCER CELLS VIA IL4I1 – Julia Sauer |
| 12:40 – 12:45 | Spectral Modularity extends Flow Cytometry – Gerhard Kurz Company Talk Sponsored By – Beckman |
| 12:45 – 13:40 | Lunch |
| 13:40 – 15:10 | Session 3 |
| Chairperson | Andreas Schlitzer & Riem Gawish |
| 13:40 – 14:10 | The ontogeny and function of placental macrophages – Naomi McGovern |
| 14:10 – 14:40 | Adenophages, a GM-CSF-dependent macrophage population of glandular tissues – Burkhard Becher |
| 14:40 – 14:55 | CANCER CELLS IMPAIR MONOCYTE-MEDIATED INTRATUMORAL T CELL STIMULATION TO EVADE IMMUNITY – Anna Obenauf |
| 14:55 – 15:10 | INFLAMMATORY SIGNALS DURING VIRAL INFECTION AND SEPSIS IMPACT DENDRITIC CELL DEVELOPMENT – Regine J. Dress |
| 15:10 – 15:15 | Exploring THP-1 differentiation to provide new tools to simplify your research – Benjamin Rauwel Company Talk Sponsored By – Invivogen |
| 15:15 – 15:40 | coffee break |
| 15.40 – 17.10 | Session 4 |
| Chairperson | Merav Cohen & Jo van Ginterachter |
| 15:40 – 16:10 | Dissecting how Breast Tumors hijack Myelopoiesis to promote Metastasis – Karin de Visser |
| 16:10 – 16:40 | Understanding the Lifespan of Human Dendritic Cells in Health and Inflammation – Simon Yona |
| 16:40 – 16:55 | ACONITATE DECARBOXYLASE-1 (ACOD1) EXPRESSING INTESTINAL MONOCYTES ARE A HYPER-INFLAMMATORY MACROPHAGE SUBSET IN MICE & HUMANS WITH DISTINCT ONTOGENY, LOCALLY INDUCED BY INNATE SOURCES OF IFNΓ – Gareth-Rhys Jones |
| 16:55 – 17:10 | Poster pitch 1-5 |
| LACK OF TYPE 2 CONVENTIONAL DENDRITIC CELLS DIFFERENTIALLY AFFECTS THE DISEASE OUTCOME OF LEISHMANIA MAJOR AND LEISHMANIA MEXICANA INFECTION – Tobias Gold | |
| CELL TYPE-SPECIFIC EFFEROCYTOSIS GOVERNS FUNCTIONAL PLASTICITY OF MACROPHAGES DURING RESOLUTION OF INFLAMMATION – Ulrich Matt | |
| DEVELOPMENTAL PROGRAMMING OF KUPFFER CELLS BY MATERNAL OBESITY CAUSES FATTY LIVER DISEASE IN THE OFFSPRING – Hao Huang | |
| ELUCIDATING THE FUNCTION OF AN ARGINASE-1+ SCAR-ASSOCIATED MONOCYTE-DERIVED MACROPHAGE POPULATION IN DRIVING FIBROSIS IN KIDNEY DISEASE MODELS – Rachel Bell | |
| INFECTIOUS INTERACTIONS: HOW EPITHELIAL CELLS DETERMINE THE OUTCOME OF RESPIRATORY VIRAL INFECTIONS IN CONCERT WITH ACTIVATED MONOCYTE-MACROPHAGE RESPONSES – Lisabeth Pimenov | |
| 17:10 – 19:00 | Poster #1 and welcome Drinks |
| 08:30 – 09:00 | Registration |
| 09:00 – 10:30 | Session 5 |
| Chairperson | Florent Ginhoux & Birgit Strobl |
| 09:00 – 09:30 | Spatial and functional regulation of mononuclear phagocytes during health and disease – Andreas Schlitzer |
| 09:30 – 10:00 | Myeloid cell-mediated cellular communications drive tissue development and disease – Merav Cohen |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | DeLIVERing in vivo CRISPR screens to identify cell-cell interactions within the macrophage niche – Martin Guilliams |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | coffee break |
| 11:00 – 12:35 | Session 6 |
| Chairperson | Venetia Bigley & Matthias Farlik |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Respiratory viruses shape the alveolar landscape, with lasting consequences for lung immunity – Benedicte Machiels |
| 11:30 – 12:00 | Tissue Macrophage Heterogeneity – Florent Ginhoux |
| 12:00 – 12:15 | A DISTINCT CSF1R- ERYTHRO-MYELOID PRECURSOR PRESENT AT THE MATERNAL-EMBRYONIC INTERFACE AND IN THE BONE MARROW OF ADULT MICE – Shweta Tikoo |
| 12:15 -12:35 | Poster pitch 6-10 |
| NEUTROPHILS LIMIT MACROPHAGE-DRIVEN INFLAMMATION BY METABOLIC COMPETITION – Paul Ettel | |
| UNDERSTANDING THE ANATOMICAL NICHE-DEPENDENT IMMUNE CELL TRAFFICKING IN GLIOBLASTOMA PATIENT SAMPLES – Roman Sankowski | |
| PITUITARY GLAND TISSUE-RESIDENT MACROPHAGES, CELLS CONNECTING THE IMMUNE AND ENDOCRINE SYSTEMS – Henna Lehtonen | |
| TARGETING IL4I1 IN MREGDCS: A NOVEL APPROACH TO OVERCOME IMMUNE SUPPRESSION IN THE TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT – Marco Gargaro | |
| ALVEOLAR LIPIDS REDUCE MACROPHAGE RESPONSIVENESS TO IL-4 – Carlos Minutti | |
| 12:30 -12:35 | Empowering Breakthroughs in Biology with GEM-X, Visium HD, and Xenium – Erika Urdaneta Company Talk Sponsored By – 10x Genomics |
| 12:35 -13:30 | Lunch |
| 12:35 -14:00 | EMDS Career & Networking Lunch for Early Career Scientists (Registration via Conversation Starter App) |
| 13:00-13:45 | EMDS General Assembly |
| 13:30-15:00 | Poster #2 |
| 15:00-16:30 | Session 7 |
| Chairperson | Karin de Visser & Omar Sharif |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | Transcriptional control of alveolar macrophage function in Type 2 immunity – Bart Lambrecht |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Tissue-resident macrophages are essential for epithelial regeneration after radiotherapy-induced salivary gland injury – Elaine Emmerson |
| 16:00 – 16:15 | INFECTION HISTORY IMPRINTS PROLONGED CHANGES TO THE KUPFFER CELL EPIGENOME, TRANSCRIPTOME AND FUNCTION – Jo Van Ginderachter |
| 16:15 – 16:30 | SYSTEMIC IFN-I COMBINED WITH TOPICAL TLR7/8 AGONISTS PROMOTES DISTANT TUMOR-SUPPRESSION BY C-JUN-DEPENDENT IL-12 EXPRESSION IN DENDRITIC CELLS – Philipp Novoszel |
| 16:30 – 17:00 | coffee break |
| 17:00 – 18:30 | Session 8 |
| Chairperson | Simon Yona & Naomi McGovern |
| 17:00 – 17:30 | Control of macrophage responses by chromatin organization – Gioacchino Natoli |
| 17:30 – 18:00 | Pathways or networks: Effects of JAK-STAT signaling in homeostasis – Nikolaus Fortelny |
| 18:00 – 18:30 | The power of ONE: Immunology in the age of spatial and single cell genomics – Ido Amit |
| 19:30 | Conference Dinner |
| Award Announcement At Dinner |
| 08:30 – 09:00 | Registration |
| 09:00 – 10:30 | Session 9 |
| Chairperson | Bart Lambrecht & Shweta Tikoo |
| 09:00 – 09:30 | Early-life development of innate barrier immunity – Philipp Henneke |
| 09:30 – 10:00 | IRF8 and Human Dendritic Cell Development – Venetia Bigley |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Myeloid Cells in the Brain Tumor Ecosystem – Johanna Joyce |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | coffee break |
| 11:00 – 12:30 | Session 10 |
| Chairperson | Thomas Decker |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | A polyamine mediated posttranslational modification required for macrophage tissue residency – Erika L. Pearce |
| 11:30 – 12:00 | EMDS Young Investigator Award Speaker |
| 12:00 – 12:30 | Closing & Poster Prize |
