08:00-09:20 - Registration
09:25 - Steve Ley (Imperial College London): Welcome and Introduction
09:30 - Fiona Powrie (Oxford University): Gut reactions: Immune pathways in the intestine in health and disease
Innate immune response to pathogens
Chairs: Leoni Taams (King's College London) & Steve Ley (Imperial College London)
10:10 - Felix Randow (LMB, Cambridge): How cells defend their cytosol against bacteria
10:35 - Max Gutierrez (The Francis Crick Institute): Mycobacterium tuberculosis survival within lymphatic endothelial cells
11:00 - Charlotte Odendall (King's College London): Interferon: Tug of war between Host and Pathogen
11:25-11:45 - Refreshment break
11:45 - Teresa Thurston (Imperial College London): Innate immune inhibition by Salmonella effector
12:10 - Marina Botto (Imperial College London): C1q in health and disease - roles outside the complement system
12:35 - Dave Sansom (UCL): Control of self-tolerance by the CTLA-4 immune checkpoint
13:00-14:30 - Lunch and poster session
Autoimmunity & infections
Chairs: Judith Breuer (UCL) & Mike Malim (King's College London)
14:30 - Mala Maini (UCL): Harnessing liver-resident T cells for hepatitis B cure
14:55 - Ian Goodfellow (Cambridge University): Identification of host pathways involved in the norovirus life cycle
15:20 - Ken Smith (Cambridge University): New pathways governing prognosis in immune-mediated disease
15:55-16:30 - Refreshment break
16:30 - Claudia Mauri (UCL): Regulatory B cells and gut microbiota: can we ameliorate arthritis
16:55 - Robert Wilkinson (The Francis Crick Institute): Immunology of HIV-associated tuberculosis
17:20 - Andy Waters (Glasgow University): The varied beginnings of sexual development in malaria parasites
18:00-20:00 - Drinks and finger food