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 Sunday 22.9  | 
 
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 17:00-20:00  | 
 Registration  | 
 
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 20:00 – 22:00  | 
 The Federation of European Biochemical Societies FEBS  | 
 
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 Monday 23.9.  | 
 
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 09:00 - 09:15  | 
 Welcome, Aim of the Course Helmut Segner, Joachim Frey, Bern, Switzerland  | 
 
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 Basics of the fish immune system  | 
 
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 09:15 – 10:15  | 
 Anatomical principles of the fish immune system Helmut Segner, Bern, Switzerland  | 
 
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 10:15 – 11:15  | 
 Innate immune system of fish Roy Dalmo Tromsø, Norway  | 
 
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 11:15 - 11:45  | 
 Coffee break  | 
 
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 11:45 – 12:45  | 
 Adaptive immune system of fish, role of T and B cells Carolina Tafalla, Madrid, Spain  | 
 
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 12:45 - 14:00  | 
 Lunch  | 
 
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 14:00 - 15:00  | 
 Mucosal immunity and the role of the microbiome Sylvia Brugman, Wageningen, The Netherlands  | 
 
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 15:00 – 16:00  | 
 Training Lecture 1: Morphological and cellular  methods to analyse the fish immune system.    | 
 
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 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  | 
 
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 17:15 – 18:30  | 
 Keynote Lecture The hybridization of fish immunology and environmental toxicology Charles Rice, Clemson University, Clemson SC, USA  | 
 
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 19:30  | 
 Dinner  | 
 
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 Tuesday 24.9.  | 
 
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 Evolutionary trajectories of the fish immune system  | 
 
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 09:15 – 10:15  | 
 Evolution of the innate immune system Kurt Buchmann, Copenhagen, Denmark  | 
 
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 10:15 – 11:15  | 
 Evolution of the thymus and T-cell maturation Giuseppe Scapigliatti, Viterbo, Italy  | 
 
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 11:15 - 11:45  | 
 Coffee Break  | 
 
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 11:45 – 12:45  | 
 The diversity of immune mediators in fish related to evolutionary genome duplication Chris Secombes, Aberdeen, Scotland UK  | 
 
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 12:45 - 14:00  | 
 Lunch  | 
 
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 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  | 
 
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 15:30-16:00  | 
 Coffee break  | 
 
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 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  | 
 
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 19:30  | 
 Dinner  | 
 
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 Wednesday 25.9.  | 
 
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 Environmental immunology and ecoimmunology of fish  | 
 
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 09:15 – 10:00  | 
 Eco-immunology – what we are talking about? Helmut Segner, Bern, Switzerland; Lluis Tort, Barcelona, Spain  | 
 
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 10:00 – 10:45  | 
 Endocrine-immune crosstalk in fish immunity Lluis Tort, Barcelona, Spain  | 
 
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 10:45 - 11:15  | 
 Coffee break  | 
 
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 11:15 – 12:00  | 
 Fish immunology in the aquaculture environment Roy Dalmo, Tromsø, Norway  | 
 
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 12:00-12:45  | 
 Environmental pollution and fish immunity Helmut Segner, Bern, Switzerland  | 
 
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 12:45 - 14:00  | 
 Lunch  | 
 
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 Zebrafish as an immunological model organism  | 
 
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 14:00 – 14:45  | 
 Mutant and transgenic lines of zebrafish Serge Mostowy, London, UK  | 
 
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 14:45-15:30  | 
 The use of zebrafish in biomedical immunological research Serge Mostowy, London, UK  | 
 
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 15:30-16:00  | 
 Coffee break  | 
 
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 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  | 
 
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 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  | 
 
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 19:30  | 
 Dinner  | 
 
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 Thursday 26.9.  | 
 
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 Immune interactions after pathogen infections; models & vaccines  | 
 
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 08:15 – 09:15  | 
 Host-pathogen interactions: Virulence and immune suppression of Aeromonas salmonicida Joachim Frey, Bern, Switzerland  | 
 
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 09:15 – 10:15  | 
 Host-pathogen interactions: the immune response of fish to viral infections   | 
 
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 10:15 - 10:45  | 
 Coffee break  | 
 
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 10:45 – 11:45  | 
Host-pathogen interactions: the immune response of fish to myxozoan parasites Carolina Tafalla, Madrid, Spain  | 
 
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 11:45 - 12:45  | 
 Vaccine design; from basic knowledge to application Kurt Buchmann, Copenhagen, Denmmark  | 
 
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 12:45 – 14:00  | 
 Lunch  | 
 
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 14:00 –  | 
 Free afternoon or excursion  | 
 
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 20:00  | 
 Dinner  | 
 
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 Friday 27.9.  | 
 
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 Future needs and developments  | 
 
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 09:15 – 10:00  | 
 Future research needs in fish immunology Round table discussion (all teachers)  | 
 
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 10:00 – 10:45  | 
 Grant writing and writing a review All teachers: Introduction and definition of the topics for grants or review articles.  | 
 
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 10:45 - 11:15  | 
 Coffee break (Formation of groups for A) grant writing and B) writing a review.  | 
 
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 11:15 – 12:45  | 
 Training lecture:  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)  | 
 
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 12:45 - 14:00  | 
 Lunch  | 
 
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 14:00 - 15:45  | 
 Training lecture Grant and Review: continued Teachers supervise the advancement | 
 
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 15:45 -16:00  | 
 Short brake  | 
 
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 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.  | 
 
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 17:30 – 18:15  | 
 Special lecture: Immunity and aging Statis Gonos, Athens Greece  | 
 
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 18:15 – 18:45  | 
 Round Table: Conclusions of the summer school  | 
 
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 19:30  | 
 Good bye Dinner  | 
 
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 Saturday 28.9.  | 
 
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 Morning  | 
 Checkout and good bye  | 
 
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