29 juni - 1 juli
14.00-15.00 Registration
15.00-15.15 Opening
15.15 – 16.35 Theme - B cell development
Session chairs: Lisa Westerberg and Kristina Lejon
15.15-15.35 Mikael Sigvardsson "Epigenetic Switching as a Determinant of B-lymphocyte Lineage Commitment"
15.35-15.55 Joan Yuan "The early-life determinant Lin28B constrains IgL receptor editing independent of BCR specificity"
15.55-16.15 Victor Tybulewicz "TACI Regulates Marginal Zone B Cell Development"
16.15-16.35 Marta Rizzi "Human B lymphopoiesis: lesson from the prenatal and perinatal period"
16.35-17.05 Coffee Break
17.05-18.05 Theme - B cell activation in health and disease
Session chairs: Mikael Karlsson and Pia Dosenovic
17.05-17.25 Manuel Diaz-Munoz "Liquid-liquid phase separation and protein-RNA condensation promotes B-cell activation and immunity"
17.25-17.45 Kathrin Kläsener "CD20 tails interact with the 14-3-3/GEF-H1 complex and microtubule network upon PKCδ phosphorylation"
17.45-18.05 Michel Cogne "Like-Switch Introns Tune Human IgG Isoforms and Drive Oncogenic Translocations”
18.05-19.05 Theme - Germinal center/memory B cells
Session chairs: Mikael Karlsson and Pia Dosenovic
18.05-18.25 Virginia Garcia de Yébenes "miR-28 Regulates Germinal Center Duration and Antigen-Specific B Cell Selection"
18.25-18.45 Ralf Kuppers "Human B-cell differentiation in the germinal center reaction and the human memory B-cell compartment"
18.45-19.05 Taras Kreslavsky "Determinants of Longevity, Diversity and Rapid Responsiveness of B Cell Memory"
19.30 Dinner
Tuesday June 30th
09.00-09.45 Keynote presentation - Klaus Rajewsky ”Sharing and exploring memory"
09.45 – 10.45 Theme - Memory B cells
Session chairs: Lill Mårtensson and Rikard Holmdahl
09.45-10.05 Rajagopal Murugan "Affinity maturation drives Atypical memory B cell formation in human malaria"
10.05-10.25 Christopher Sundling "CD24 and CD27 resolve ontogeny and gradual differentiation of CD11c+ atypical memory B cells after malaria infection"
10.25-10.45 Bärbel Keller "The T-bet^high CD21^low B cell state - from inborn errors of immunity and chronic immune stimulation"
10.45-11.15 Coffee Break
11.15-11.25 Company presentation – Hanna van Ooijen, Pixelgen Technologies "The Proximity Network Assay: High-Throughput Mapping of Protein Organization in Immune Cells"
11.25-12.05 Theme - Plasma cells
Session chairs: Ka-Wei Tang and Alaitz Aranburu
11.25-11.45 Lesly Calderon "In vivo CRISPR/Cas9 screens reveal novel regulators of B cell activation and differentiation into plasma cells"
11.45-12.05 Dinis Calado "Booster vaccination improves the durability of antibody-secreting plasma cells"
12.05-12.45 Theme - B cells in tissues
Session chairs: Ka-Wei Tang and Alaitz Aranburu
12.05-12.25 Yariv Wine "Human Milk B Cells and Antibodies as a Dynamic Immune System: From Vaccine Responses to Infant Microbial Colonization"
12.25-12.45 Inta Gribonika "Cutaneous antibody production regulates host-microbiota interaction"
13.00-15.00 Lunch and Networking
15.10-16.10 Theme - B cells in tissues
Session chairs: Davide Angeletti and Mats Bemark
15.10-15.30 Tim Rollenske "Non-bacterial antigens dominate intestinal B cell responses"
15.30-15.50 Stijn Vanhee "Lung stromal cell reprogramming generates chemokine-rich niches which organise mucosal B cell responses"
15.50-16.10 Ziv Shulman "Antibody-mediated immune responses in the upper airways"
16.10-16.20 Company presentation – Michelle Jackson, Sony Biotechnology “New Frontiers – Spectral Cell Sorting & Large Particle Cell Sorting”
16.20-17.00 Theme - B cell and antibody responses to infections
Session chairs: Davide Angeletti and Mats Bemark
16.20-16.40 Idit Shachar "Role of CD84 in regulating the function of immunosuppressive cells in influenza"
16.40-17.00 Pascal Chappert "SARS-CoV-2 Spike quaternary structure governs remodeling of the memory B cell repertoire"
17.00-17.30 General Assembly
17.30-19.30 Poster Sessions with light mingle
19.30 Dinner
Wednesday July 1st
09.00-09.45 Keynote presentation - Gunilla Karlsson Hedestam " Impact of IG genotype on expressed B cell repertoires and anti-viral responses”
09.45-10.05 Theme - B cell and antibody responses to infections
Session chairs: Daniel Sheward and Christopher Sundling
09.45-10.05 Inga Rimkute "A broadly protective human antibody for GI genogroup noroviruses"
10.05-10.45 Theme - B cells in disease
Session chairs: Daniel Sheward and Christopher Sundling
10.05-10.25 Marvin van Luijn "B cells going off road in multiple sclerosis: from triggers to effector function and prognostic value"
10.25-10.45 Manuela Rosado "Characterization of B-Cell Subsets and BCR Repertoire in treatment naive NSCLC Patients with Tertiary Lymphoid Structures"
10.45-11.15 Coffee Break
11.15-12.15 Theme - B cells in disease
Session chairs: Alessandro Camponeschi and Inger Gjertsson
11.15-11.35 Miriam Wöhner "Role of B cells as drivers of inflammation in the early arthritic phase of the K/BxN mouse model"
11.35-11.55 Søren Degn "Thymic-derived T follicular regulatory cells prevent catastrophic humoral autoimmunity in response to TLR7-driven inflammation"
11.55-12.15 Almudena Ramiro "Two Alternative Pathways Generate Autoreactive Antibodies with Distinct Reactivities in Atherosclerosis"
12.15-12.20 Concluding Remarks
12.20 To go Lunch and Departure
Last updated: June 30, 2026