18th ENII EFIS EJI Summer School on Advanced Immunology
May 22 – 29, 2025
Alghero, Sardinia
Program v. 05/12/2024 – All Guest Faculty are CONFIRMED (lecture order TBC)
Thursday, May 22 – Arrival
12:45-14:00 Lunch
15:00 on Hotel Check-in available
16:00-19:00 Registration (Reception Area)
19:00-20:15 Ice breaker games (Poster Room)
20:15-21:30 Dinner
Friday, May 23
Welcome Introduction (08:45) Erica Lomnes, School Manager
Lecture (09:00-10:00*): Ivan Zanoni (USA) ALUMNUS 2006 Innate response Granolucytes, cytokines
Lecture (10:00-11:00): Veit Hornung (GER) Innate response Danger sensing
Coffee Break (11:00-11:20)
Lecture (11:30-12:30): Charlotte Scott (BEL) Myeloid cells
Lunch (13:00-14:00)
Free time**
Participant short presentations: (16:00-17:30)
Coffee Break (17:30-17:50)
Poster Session A (18:00-19:30)
Dinner (19:45-21:30)
*Faculty lectures are 40 minutes, immediately followed by 20 minutes of discussion
** Oral presentation skills workshop offered during the daily free-time (participants attend one day)
Saturday, May 24
Lecture (09:00-10:00): Carola Vinuesa (GBR) Adaptive response (Focus on B-cells) Lecture (10:00-11:00): Bernard Malissen (FRA) Adaptive response (Focus on T-cells)
Coffee Break (11:00-11:20)
Lecture (11:30-12:30): Doreen Cantrell (GBR) Immunometabolism
Lunch (13:00-14:00)
Free time
Participant short presentations: (16:00-17:30)
Coffee Break (17:30-17:50)
Poster Session B (18:00-19:30)
Dinner (19:45-21:30)
Sunday, May 25
Lecture (09:00-10:00): Emma Slack (SUI/GBR) Microbiota, mucusal immunology
Lecture (10:00-11:00): Maries van den Broek (SUI) Immune responses in pathologies (1) Cancer
Coffee Break (11:00-11:20)
Lecture (11:30-12:30): Kiavash Movahedi (BEL) Immune responses in pathologies (2) Infection
Lunch (13:00-14:00)
Free time
Participant short presentations: (16:00-17:30)
Coffee Break (17:30-17:50)
Poster Session C (18:00-19:30)
Dinner (19:45-21:30)
Monday, May 26
Lecture (09:00-10:00): Fiona Powrie (GBR) Immune response in pathologies (3) Inflammation Lecture (10:00-11:00): Petter Brodin (SWE) Immunology in pathologies (4) Aging, environment
Coffee Break (11:00-11:20)
Lecture (11:30-12:30): Sebastian Klobuch (NED) Immune therapy (1) Cancer, CAR-T
Lunch (13:00-14:00)
Free time
Participant short presentations: (16:00-17:30)
Coffee Break (17:30-17:50)
Poster Session D (18:00-19:30)
Dinner (19:45-21:30)
Tuesday, May 27
Lecture (09:00-10:00): Rino Rappuoli (ITA) Immune therapy (2) Vaccines, infection
Lecture (10:00-11:00): Chris Buckley (GBR) Keynote Lecture Integrated Immunology Autoimmunity
Coffee Break (11:00-11:20)
Lecture (11:30-12:30): Onur Boyman (SUI) Entrepreneurship
Free time
Participant short presentations: (16:00-17:30)
Coffee Break (17:30-17:50)
Poster Session E (18:00-19:30)
Dinner (19:45-21:30)
Wednesday, May 28
Cultural Excursions (optional)
Morning 08:30-11:30
Boat Excursion from Alghero Marina to visit the Neptune’s Cave under the Capo Caccia promontory.
08:30 Depart hotel, walk to the Alghero Marina, Navisarda Lines
09:00 Boat Departure
11:30 Boat Returns to the Marina
12:30-13:30 Lunch at the Hotel
Afternoon 13:30-18:30
Excursion by bus to one of the area’s finest beaches (choice based on sea conditions)
13:30 Bus departs Hotel
18:00 Bus departs Beach
Farewell Dinner: 20:30
Thursday, May 29 – Departure
07:00-10:00 Breakfast
Check out by 11:00 – Early departures may check-out Saturday night.
12:45 Lunch