Annual Symposium 2024

SYIS Annual Symposium 2024

The SYIS is thrilled to announce its third SYIS Annual Symposium! Download the booklet here (only available to participants).

This time we are happy to welcome you at our first 2-days event close to Basel, hosted and sponsored by the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (TPH) in Allschwil.

We will apply for you to be granted 1 day animal experiment continuing education.

Travel grants

EFIS travel grants can help attendees cover the costs of transportation & accommodation to our event. We can offer up to 200 EUR for participants traveling within Switzerland and up to 1000 EUR for participants traveling from abroad. Grants will be assigned according to scientific merit of the submitted abstract.

Requirements:

1. You must be an SYIS or other EFIS member society member,

2. You must submit an abstract,

3. You must participate in the symposium.

The application deadline for the travel grant is 30 April 2024.

SYIS members can also apply for an SSAI travel grant up to 700 CHF. For more information, visit the SSAI website.

Event at a glance

When: 13-14 June 2024
Where: Swiss TPH, Kreuzstrasse 2, Allschwil

Registration and abstract submission opening: 1 February 2024
Abstract submission deadline: ~~20 April 2024~~ 30 April 2024
Late breaking abstract submission deadline: 14 May 2024

Fees
Members:
– SYIS-SSAI members: CHF 30*
– SSAI only members: CHF 70

Non-members:
– Early bird (until 20 April): CHF 70
– Late registration (after 20 April): CHF 100

*Take the chance to become a member via this page. You will be able to join the Symposium with a reduced fee and have additional benefits. You have time until the first day of the Symposium to provide proof of membership.

Registration

Program

Day 1 – 13 June

Time	Session	Room
9.00	Registration with coffee	Foyer
10.00	Opening session	SR4+5
10.15	Keynote speaker Prof. Dr. Anne-Katrin Pröbstel – “Microbiota-immune crosstalk in neuroinflammation“	SR4+5
11.00	Short talks from selected abstracts: Tumor immunology → Idil Hutter: Recruiting Innate Immune Cells Universally: Development of a Novel Universal Innate Cell Engager for Cancer-Immunotherapy → Mathilde Nugue: Impact of autophagy on Fc gamma receptors mediated functions. → Maud Mayoux: Mapping T cell signatures associated to response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy in colorectal liver metastasis. → Boutaina El kenz: NFAT single-deficient T cells as a therapeutic option for anti-leukaemia and anti-lymphoma responses	SR4+5
12.00	Lunch	Foyer
13.00	Keynote speaker Dr. Nikolche Gjorevski – “Engineered models of the human intestine to reproduce and study inflammation“	SR4+5
13.45	Short talks from selected abstracts: Autoimmunity → Annika Hausmann: Orthotopically transplanted organoids closely recapitulate human colonocytes in vivo → Stefanie Schärli: IL-9 sensitizes human Th2 cells to pro-inflammatory IL-18 signals in atopic dermatitis → Marta Monguió-Tortajada: The SLC15A4-TASL immune adaptor complex in TLR7-9 signalling for IRF5 activation: pathophysiological implications in autoimmunity, antiviral and anti-parasitic responses → Laura Revert: Recruitment and suppressive functions of specialized Treg subset	SR4+5
14.45	Sponsor talk: BD Biosciences	SR4+5
15.00	Coffee break	Foyer
15.30	Flash talks from selected abstracts (poster session I)	SR4+5
16.00	Poster session I	Foyer
17:00	Apéro	Foyer
18.30	Social dinner	Markthalle

Day 2 – 14 June

Time	Session
9.00	Coffee	Foyer
10.00	Keynote speaker Prof. Dr. Matthieu Perreau – “HIV persistence in lymph node“	SR4+5
10.45	Short talks from selected abstracts: Infection immunology → Urszula Radzikowska: Metabolic regulation of epithelial RIG-I signaling in viral exacerbations of asthma → Sarah Schmidiger: Dissection of human ex vivo granulomatous responses to Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection reveals a protective role of CD56+ cells → Lisette van Os: Immune defense in urinary tract infections: how to integrate immune cells into an in vitro model of UTI → Míriam Díaz Varela: Distinct neutrophil transcriptional program induced by drug-resistant parasites reshapes the local immune microenvironment in cutaneous leishmaniasis	SR4+5
11.45	Paper Award winner talk: Mechthild Lütge Conserved stromal–immune cell circuits secure B cell homeostasis and function	SR4+5
12.00	Lunch	Foyer
13.00	Flash talks from selected abstracts (poster session II)	SR4+5
13.30	Poster session II	Foyer
14.30	Coffee break	Foyer
15.00	Workshops in parallel → Career Hike: The jungle between industry and academia → SciComm: 3 tips to improve your talks → Anatomy of a research report	SR4+5 SR3 SR6
16.15	Keynote speaker Prof. Dr. Stephanie Ganal-Vonarburg – “Diet-Host-Microbiota interactions in early life and their impact on immune development“	SR4+5
17.00	Closing session: poster & talk prizes	SR4+5