Scientific Programme
THURSDAY – SEP 16 | DAY 1
Afternoon Session
16:00-16:15 Welcome Address (Congress Organizers)
OPENING SESSION: New immune and inflammatory mechanisms in brain diseases I
16:15-17:00 Autoimmune T-cell induced CNS inflammation and neurodegeneration – Alexander Flügel (University Medical Center Göttingen | Germany)
17:00-17:45 Innate immune memory in the brain shapes neurological disease hallmarks – Jonas Neher (University of Tubingen | Germany)
Oral presentation
17:45-18:45
19:00 Welcome Cocktail
FRIDAY – SEP 17 | DAY 2
Morning Session
Focus on innate immunity I
09:00-09:45 Innate immunity and inflammation: double-edged swords – Alberto Mantovani (Humanitas University | Italy)
09:45-10:45 Oral presentations
10:45-11:15 Coffee break
The interplay between Neurodegeneration and Neuroinflammation
11:15-12:00 The Inflammasome-mediated inflammatory response in Alzheimer’s disease – Michael Heneka (University of Bonn | Germany)
12:00-13:00 Oral presentations
13:00-14:30 Lunch and poster viewing
Afternoon Session
Focus on innate immunity II
14:30-15:15 Spatial and temporal heterogeneity of microglial cells during homeostasis and demyelination – Roman Sankowski (University of Freiburg | Germany)
15:15-16:15 Oral presentations
16:15-16:45 Coffee break
Demyelinating Diseases I
16:45-17:30 Lymphocyte trafficking to the CNS – does provenance matter? – Thomas Korn (Technical University of Munich | Germany)
17:30-18:30 Oral presentations
18:30 AINI Annual General Assembly
SATURDAY SEP 18 | DAY 3
Morning Session
Adaptive immunity mechanisms in brain neuroinflammation
09:00-09:45 B cell receptor repertoire in immune-mediated diseases – Ken Smith (Cambridge University | UK)
09:45-10:45 Oral presentations
10:45-11:15 Coffee break
Demyelinating Diseases II – Insights from experimental models
11:15-12:00 Regulation of phagocyte phenotypes in neuroinflammatory lesions – Martin Kerschensteiner (University of Munich | Germany)
12:00-13:00 Oral presentations
13:00-14:30 Lunch and poster viewing
Afternoon Session
Brain regeneration during neuroinflammatory diseases
14:30-15:15 Harnessing the benefits of inflammation for CNS repair – Wee Yong (University of Calgary | Canada)
15:15-16:00 Oral presentations
16:00-16:30 Coffee break and poster viewing
16:30-18:30 Poster session
19:00 AINI Football Match
20:30 Dinner
SUNDAY SEP 19 | DAY 4
Morning Session
New immune and inflammatory mechanisms in brain diseases II
09:00-09:45 Neuronal vulnerability and multilineage diversity in multiple sclerosis – Lucas Schirmer (University of Heidelberg | Germany)
09:45-10:30 Vascular barriers and microbiota in the gut-brain axis – Maria Rescigno (Humanitas University | Italy)
10:30-10:45 Coffee break
Oral presentations
10:45-12:30
12:30-13:00 AINI awards and Closing remarks
13:00 Farewell Cocktail