Preliminary Scientific Programme
SUNDAY – MAY 10 | DAY 1
Afternoon Session
16:00-16:15 Welcome Address (Congress Organisers)
OPENING SESSION: New immune and inflammatory mechanisms in brain diseases I
Lecture 1
16:15-17:00 Beta-Synuclein-reactive T cells in autoimmune CNS grey matter degeneration – Alexander Flügel (University Medical Center Göttingen | Germany)
Lecture 2
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
MONDAY – MAY 11 | DAY 2
Morning Session
Focus on innate immunity I
09:00-09:45 Spatial and temporal heterogeneity of microglial cells during homeostasis and demyelination – Roman Sankowski (University of Freiburg | Germany)
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 Innate immunity and inflammation: double-edge swords – Alberto Mantovani (Humanitas University | Italy)
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
TUESDAY MAY 12 | 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
Afternoon Session
Brain regeneration during neuroinflammatory diseases
14:30-15:15 Demyelination mechanisms and therapies: new directions and challenges in multiple sclerosis – V. Wee Yong (University of Calgary | Canada)
15:15-16:30 Oral presentations
16:00-16:30 Coffee break
16:30-18:30 Poster session
18:30 AINI Football Match
20:00 Dinner
Wednesday May 13 | Day 4
Morning Session
New immune and inflammatory mechanisms in brain diseases II
Lecture 1
09:00-09:45 Unconventional T cells during inflammatory responses: a role for gamma delta T cells – Adrian Hayday (King’s College London | UK) TBC
Lecture 2
09:45-10:30 Neuronal vulnerability and multi lineage diversity in multiple sclerosis – Lucas Schirmer (University of Heidelberg | Germany)
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