SYIS Annual Symposium 2025
The SYIS is thrilled to announce its fourth SYIS Annual Symposium!
After our successful two-day event in Basel last year, this time we are happy to welcome you in Lausanne for one day packed with talks, workshops and, of course, networking!
Event at a glance
When: 27 August 2025
Where: Synathlon Building, UNIL, Ecublens, Switzerland
Registration and abstract submission opening: 1 March 2025
Abstract submission deadline: 1 July 2025 (Deadline extended from June 1)
Registration closing: 15 July 2025
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.
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Program
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| Time | Session | Room |
|---|---|---|
| 8.30 | Registration with coffee | Foyer |
| 9.00 | Opening session | Synathlon 1216 |
| 9.15 | Keynote speaker Dr. Nagham Alouche | Synathlon 1216 |
| 10.00 | Short talks from selected abstracts 1. Lea Bernaleau – CCDC134 controls TLR biogenesis through the ER chaperone Gp96 2. Verena Lentsch – Vaccine-enhanced competition permits rational bacterial strain replacement in the gut 3. Flavia Fico – CCL19+ CAFs orchestrate response to anti-PD1 therapy in breast cancer 4. Laura Ihm – Investigating the functional significance of USP18 in HIV pathogenesis 5. Alba Neher Mestre – Microglial Uptake of Listeria from Neurons Boosts Infection 6. Rahel Datwyler – Unexpected immune profiles following PD-1 and TIGIT co-blockade could explain the lack of clinical response in advanced melanoma | Synathlon 1216 |
| 11.30 | Best article award presentation | Synathlon 1216 |
| 11.45 | Platinum Sponsor talks 1. BD Biosciences: Mastering (high-dimensional) panel design: Essential tips and tricks for creating high-dimensional spectral and conventional panels 2. Standard BioTools: Revolutionizing Immune Profiling: From Fast, Scalable Analysis of Fresh and Stabilized Blood With CyTOF to High-Throughput Multiplexed Whole Slide IMCTM | Synathlon 1216 |
| 12.05 | Lunch | Foyer |
| 13.00 | Short talks from selected abstracts 1. Maxime Boy – CD70/CD27 Signaling Promotes Clonal Plasma Cell Expansion in Multiple Myeloma and Represents a Promising Therapeutic Target 2. Pascal Naef – Type 2 innate lymphoid cells play a diverse role in breast cancer development and progression 3. Abhijeet Kulkarni – Dysregulations in L-phenylalanine metabolism facilitate pro-inflammatory Th2 phenotype in severe allergy | Synathlon 1216 |
| 13.45 | Flash poster talks from selected abstracts 1. Ines Jardon Parages – Innate Immune Memory and Metabolic Reprogramming in the Lower Airway Epithelium of Patients with Allergic Asthma 2. Sergio Sanches Luqin – CD8+ T cell dissemination into non-lymphoid tissues requires the actin regulator WASp 3. Zoe Camenzind – Generation of a microtissue model to investigate the human immune response to urinary tract infections 4. Jasmin Albiez – Dissecting heterogeneity of human macrophage response to Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection at single cell level 5. Laura Zaragoza-Infante – Peripheral blood single-cell landscape of tuberculosis patients in the context of disease severity and treatment 6. Mingling Yang – The role of differential expression of HR1 and HR2 on B cells and their functions | Synathlon 1216 |
| 14.15 | Coffee break + Poster session | Foyer |
| 16.15 | Workshops in parallel: 1. Career paths: how to transition to your next job in industry 2. Writing an Effective Research Project Proposal as a Postdoc 3. Science communication: waste of time or power tool? | Synathlon 2212 Synathlon 2420 Synathlon 2218 |
| 17.15 | Keynote speaker Dr. Milena Sokolowska | Synathlon 1216 |
| 18.00 | Closing ceremony and Awards | Synathlon 1216 |
| 19.00 | Social Dinner |
We thank our official sponsors for supporting the 4th SYIS Annual Symposium!
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We express gratitude to our symposium organizers and abstract evaluators for their efforts!
Organizers:
Marta Monguió-Tortajada, University of Lausanne
Flavia Fico, University of Geneva
Urszula Radzikowska, Swiss Institute of Allergy and Asthma Research
Katarina Schmidt, University of Zurich
Anna Estrada, University of Zurich
Anne Häfke, ETH Zurich
Miriam Diaz-Varela, University of Bern
Abhijeet Kulkarni, Swiss Institute of Allergy and Asthma Research
Etnik Sheremeti, University of Basel
Manal Bel imam, University of Zurich
Annika Hausmann, ETH Zurich
Verena Lentsch, University of Oxford
Sarah Schmidiger, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute
Stefanie Schärli, University of Bern
Maud Mayoux, University of Zurich
Pyry Helkkula, University of Zurich
Fabian Luther, University of Bern
Nora Wetzel, University of Basel
Ioana Sandu, Karolinska Institute
Mariana Borsa, University of Basel
Luca Schlotheuber, EPFL
Evaluators:
Schärli, Stefanie, Sarah Schmidiger, Urszula Radzikowska, Abhijeet Kulkarni, Etnik Sheremeti, Verena Lentsch, Fabian Luther, Flavia Fico, Míriam Díaz Varela, Marta Monguio Tortajada
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