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Scientific Programme

 

Sunday 22.9

 

 

17:00-20:00

Registration

 

20:00 – 22:00

The Federation of European Biochemical Societies FEBS

Beáta Vértessy, Budapest, Hungary; official FEBS delegate

Welcome Reception

 

Monday 23.9.

 

 

09:00 - 09:15

Welcome, Aim of the Course

Helmut Segner, Joachim Frey, Bern, Switzerland

 

 

Basics of the fish immune system

 

09:15 – 10:15

Anatomical principles of the fish immune system

Helmut Segner, Bern, Switzerland

 

10:15 – 11:15

Innate immune system of fish

Roy Dalmo Tromsø, Norway

 

11:15 - 11:45

Coffee break

 

11:45 – 12:45

Adaptive immune system of fish, role of T and B cells

Carolina Tafalla, Madrid, Spain

 

12:45 - 14:00

Lunch

 

14:00 - 15:00

Mucosal immunity and the role of the microbiome

Sylvia Brugman, Wageningen, The Netherlands

 

15:00 – 16:00

Training Lecture 1: Morphological and cellular  methods to analyse the fish immune system. 
4 groups/topics: immunohistochemistry, flow cytometry and cell sorting, in vitro approaches, gene expression studies. All teachers

 

16:00 – 17:00

Poster Session 1

Session will be structured based on submitted poster abstracts

All teachers: give hints how to get most of the poster information

 

17:15 – 18:30

Keynote Lecture

The hybridization of fish immunology and environmental toxicology

Charles Rice, Clemson University, Clemson SC, USA

 

19:30

Dinner

 

Tuesday 24.9.

 

 

 

Evolutionary trajectories of the fish immune system

 

09:15 – 10:15

Evolution of the innate immune system

Kurt Buchmann, Copenhagen, Denmark

 

10:15 – 11:15

Evolution of the thymus and T-cell maturation

Giuseppe Scapigliatti, Viterbo, Italy

 

11:15 - 11:45

Coffee Break

 

11:45 – 12:45

The diversity of immune mediators in fish related to evolutionary genome duplication

Chris Secombes, Aberdeen, Scotland UK

 

12:45 - 14:00

Lunch

 

14:00 - 15:30

Genomic approaches to understand the evolution and diversity of fish immune systems.

4 groups/topic: Evolution of the cytokine families, species diversity of immunity in fish, evolution of genomic signatures of immune cell types, evolution of the immunoglobulins

 

15:30-16:00

Coffee break

 

16:00 – 18:00

Poster Session 2

Session will be structured based on submitted poster abstracts

All teachers: give hints how to get most of the poster information

 

19:30

Dinner

 

Wednesday 25.9.

 

 

 

Environmental immunology and ecoimmunology of fish

 

09:15 – 10:00

Eco-immunology – what we are talking about?

Helmut Segner, Bern, Switzerland; Lluis Tort, Barcelona, Spain

 

10:00 – 10:45

Endocrine-immune crosstalk in fish immunity

Lluis Tort, Barcelona, Spain

 

10:45 - 11:15

Coffee break

 

11:15 – 12:00

Fish immunology in the aquaculture environment

Roy Dalmo, Tromsø, Norway

 

12:00-12:45

Environmental pollution and fish immunity

Helmut Segner, Bern, Switzerland

 

12:45 - 14:00

Lunch

 

 

Zebrafish as an immunological model organism

 

14:00 – 14:45

Mutant and transgenic lines of zebrafish

Serge Mostowy, London, UK

 

14:45-15:30

The use of zebrafish in biomedical immunological research

Serge Mostowy, London, UK

 

15:30-16:00

Coffee break

 

16:00 – 17:00

Training lecture 4 Groups

Methodical approaches: Transgenic fish Zebrafish as a model to study host pathogen interactions

All teachers divided in 4 groups

 

17:00 –

18:00

Poster Session 3

Session will be structured based on submitted poster abstracts

All teachers: give hints how to get most of the poster information

 

19:30

Dinner

 

Thursday 26.9.

 

 

 

Immune interactions after pathogen infections; models & vaccines

 

08:15 – 09:15

Host-pathogen interactions: Virulence and immune suppression of Aeromonas salmonicida

Joachim Frey, Bern, Switzerland

 

09:15 – 10:15

Host-pathogen interactions: the immune response of fish to viral infections

Chris Secombes, Aberdeen, Scotland K

 

10:15 - 10:45

Coffee break

 

10:45 – 11:45

Host-pathogen interactions: the immune response of fish to myxozoan parasites

Carolina Tafalla, Madrid, Spain

 

11:45 - 12:45

Vaccine design; from basic knowledge to application

Kurt Buchmann, Copenhagen, Denmmark

 

12:45 – 14:00

Lunch

 

14:00 –

Free afternoon or excursion

 

20:00

Dinner

 

Friday 27.9.

 

 

 

Future needs and developments

 

09:15 – 10:00

Future research needs in fish immunology

Round table discussion (all teachers)

 

10:00 – 10:45

Grant writing and writing a review

All teachers: Introduction and definition of the topics for grants or review articles.

 

10:45 - 11:15

Coffee break (Formation of groups for A) grant writing and B) writing a review.

 

11:15 – 12:45

Training lecture:

A) Grant writing scenario (groups of 3 – 4 students with 1 – 2 teachers) propose a research topic and prepare an oral presentation of their grant application in form of a 10 min presentation with PowerPoint slides.

B) Writing a review: (groups of 3 – 4 Students with 1 – 2 teachers prepare a concept of a review paper on the chosen main topics)

 

12:45 - 14:00

Lunch

 

14:00 - 15:45

Training lecture Grant and Review: continued

Teachers supervise the advancement

 

15:45 -16:00

Short brake

 

 

16.00 – 17:30

Training lecture: Grant writing scenario

Student’s oral reports and discussion Teachers serve as ‘grant reviewers’ during the oral reports and discuss and rate them.

 

17:30 – 18:15

Special lecture: Immunity and aging

Statis Gonos, Athens Greece

 

18:15 – 18:45

Round Table:

Conclusions of the summer school

 

19:30

Good bye Dinner

 

Saturday 28.9.

 

 

Morning

Checkout and good bye

 

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