Scientific program EMIG2025

8:00-9:00	Registration
9:00-9:10	Welcome (O. Pabst, M. Hornef)
9:10-10:30	Session 1: Host-microbe interactions Eran Elinav (Rehovot, Israel & Heidelberg, Germany) Host-microbiome interaction in health and disease Andreas Wack (London, UK) Interferons and macrophages in lung infections: risks and benefits
10:30-11:00	Coffee break
11:00-12:50	Session 2: Ontogeny of immune function Stephanie Ganal-Vonarburg (Bern, Switzerland) Early life microbial signals and epithelial development in the intestine 2 selected abstracts Natalia Torow (Braunschweig, Germany) Induction of hepatic T cell homeostasis: the liver as a hub for microbial and self tolerance in neonates
12:50-14:20	Lunch break
14:20-15:20	Session 3: Young immunologist’s session 4 selected abstracts
15:20-15:50	Coffee break
15:30-16:40	Session 4: Systems immunology 2 selected abstracts Petter Brodin (Stockholm, Sweden & London, UK) A leaky gut early in life – establishing immune microbe symbiosis in human newborns
16:40-19:30	Poster session 1

8:30-10:20	Session 5: Spatio-temporal dynamics Ana-Maria Lennon-Duménil (Paris, France) How colonic macrophages and epithelial cells communicate with each others 2 selected abstracts Eduardo Villablanca (Stockholm, Sweden) Decoding cellular circuits in intestinal regeneration and tumorigenesis
10:20-10:50	Coffee break
10:50-12:40	Session 6: Gut-liver axis Charlotte Scott (Ghent, Belgium) Understanding the functional heterogeneity of lipid associated macrophages across tissues 2 selected abstracts Adrien Guillot (Berlin, Germany) Cellular Interactions in liver injuries and regeneration – focus on biliary epithelial cells
12:40-14:00	Lunch break
14:00-15:50	Session 7: Immune regulation Anne Puel (Paris, France) Inborn errors of immunity impairing mucosal immunity 2 selected abstracts William Agace (Lund, Sweden) Mapping CD4+ T cell diversity within immune niches of the human intestine in health and Crohn’s disease
16:00-18:00	Poster session 2
18:00-21:00	Social event with dinner

8:30-8:45	Poster prizes
8:45-10:35	Session 8: Innate immunology Gunnar C. Hansson (Gothenburg, Sweden) Mucin secreting cells are specialized mucosal immune defenders where their secretions both inhibit and cause disease of the intestine and lung 2 selected abstracts Matthew R. Hepworth (Manchester, UK) Decoding ILC networks in mucosal barrier tissue microenvironments
10:35-11:00	Coffee break
11:00-12:50	Session 9: Adaptive immune responses Petra Bacher (Kiel, Germany) Antigen-specific modulation of human CD4+ T cell responses by the microbiota 2 selected abstracts Fiona Powrie (Oxford, UK) Translating immunology into new therapies for inflammatory bowel disease
12:50-13:00	Concluding remarks and farewell (O. Pabst, M. Hornef)