January 9-12, 2024
Tsinghua University Campus
Room B323, Zheng B323, Zheng Yutong Medical Sciences Building, Beijing, China
General Information
Overview
Join us to learn basic and translational immunology topics from a faculty of global experts.
Target Audience
This course is designed for:
- Clinical fellows in disciplines related to immunology, including autoimmunity, allergy, infectious disease, oncology, primary immunodeficiency, and transplantation
- Postdoctoral fellows doing basic or translational research with an emphasis on human disease
- Scientists or other research and development personnel from biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies who are involved in developing new therapies for immunological disease
- Academic or community physicians who wish to enhance their understanding of immunology
Learning Objectives
After the course, attendees will be able to:
- Discuss the fundamental mechanisms underlying protective immune responses and discuss the recent advances and emerging themes in immunology research.
- Describe the fundamental mechanisms underlying immunologic disease and associate these mechanisms with strategies for therapeutic modulation of the immune system.
- Appreciate the basic immunological principles underlying biotherapeutics and emerging opportunities for immune-regulated diseases.
- Analyze the medical literature reporting immunologic advances pertinent to their patients, cite the rationale for use of new immunodiagnostic and immunotherapeutic modalities in their patients, and serve as thought leaders within their medical communities.
Registration
The course is open to a limited number of live registrants, and is also available on demand. On demand registrants will have access to the course materials beginning on January 10, 2024, and will have access for 60 days after the conclusion of the event (March 12, 2024). To learn more and register please scan the code below.
The course is organized in collaboration with Beckton Dickinson China.
Scientific Program Committee
Dr. Alexis Kalergis
IMII-P. Universidad Católica De Chile, FOCIS Center of Excellence, Santiago, Chile, Chair
Dr. Linqi Zhang
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, Local Co-Chair
Dr. Ignacio Anegon
University of Nantes, FOCIS Center of Excellence, Nantes, France
Dr. Stephanie Eisenbarth
Northwestern University, FOCIS Center of Excellence, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Agenda
Day One: January 9, 2024 (Tuesday)
Theme: Innate Immune Responses
Chair: Dr. Alexis Kalergis, IMII-P. Universidad Católica de Chile, FOCIS Center of Excellence, Santiago, Chile
| Time | |
| 8:30-9:00 am | Reception and Registration |
| 9:00-9:05 am | Welcome, Description of FOCIS and FOCIS Centers of Excellence – Dr. Alexis Kalergis, IMII-P. Universidad Católica de Chile, FOCIS Center of Excellence, Santiago, Chile |
| 9:05-9:10 am | Welcome – BD China – Tong Wang, BD Biosciences |
| 9:10-9:15 am | Welcome – Tsinghua University – Prof. Wong Tien Yin, Vice-Provost, Tsinghua University, Chair Professor & Founding Head, Tsinghua Medicine |
| 9:15-10:15 am | Overview of the Immune System – Dr. Alexis Kalergis, IMII-P. Universidad Católica de Chile, FOCIS Center of Excellence, Santiago, Chile |
| 10:15-10:30 am | Break |
| 10:30-11:30 am | Innate Receptor Signaling – Dr. Hongyan Wang, Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Shanghai, China |
| 11:30 am-12:30 pm | NK Cells and Innate Lymphoid Cells – Dr. Leandro Carreño, Millenium Institute on Immunology and Immunotherapy FOCIS Center of Excellence, Santiago, Chile |
| 12:30-1:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30-2:30 pm | Plenary Lecture: Host-Microbe Interactions Determining the Severity of Infectious Diseases – Dr. Susan Bueno, Millennium Institute on Immunology and Immunotherapy, FOCIS Center of Excellence, Santiago, Chile |
| 2:30-3:30 pm | Plenary Lecture: Pathogen-mediated Negative Modulation of Innate Immune Function – Dr. Pablo González, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile |
Day Two: January 10, 2024 (Wednesday)
Theme: Adaptive Immune Responses and Immunopathology I
Chair: Dr. Linqi Zhang, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
| Time | |
| 8:30-9:30 am | Antigen Recognition and TCR, BCR Signaling and Costimulation – Dr. Alexis Kalergis, IMII-P. Universidad Católica de Chile, FOCIS Center of Excellence, Santiago, Chile |
| 9:30-10:30 am | T Cell Subsets – Dr. Chen Dong, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China |
| 10:30-10:40 am | Break |
| 10:40-11:40 am | B Cells – Dr. Wanli Liu, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China |
| 11:40 am-12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 12:30-1:30 pm | Immunopharmacology – Dr. Georgios Papazisis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece |
| 1:30-2:30 pm | Immune Tolerance and Regulation – Dr. Makoto Miyara, Hôpitaux Universitaires Pitié Salpêtrière Paris, France (pre-recorded virtual lecture) |
| 2:30-2:40 pm | Break |
| 2:40-3:40 pm | Tumor Immunity – Dr. Yangxin Fu, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China |
| 3:40-4:40 pm | Hypersensitivity and Allergy – Dr. Ruben D. Motrich, National University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Argentina |
Day Three: January 11, 2024 (Thursday)
Theme: Immunopathology II
Chair: Dr. Ignacio Anegon, FOCIS President-elect, INSERM CR2TI, FOCIS Center of Excellence, Nantes, France
| Time | |
| 8:30-9:30 am | Infectious Diseases – Dr. Zheng Zhang, The Third People’s Hospital of Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China |
| 9:30-10:30 am | Mucosal Immunity – Dr. Hernan Penaloza, Millennium Institute on Immunology and Immunotherapy, FOCIS Center of Excellence, Santiago, Chile |
| 10:30-10:40 am | Break |
| 10:40-11:40 am | Autoimmunity – Dr. Ruben D. Motrich, National University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Argentina |
| 11:40 am-12:40 pm | Primary Immunodeficiencies – Dr. Frédéric Rieux-Laucalt, Institute Imagine, Paris, France |
| 12:40-1:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30-2:30 pm | Defining Deep Biology with High Dimensional Platform Technologies – Robert Balderas, MBA, Becton Dickinson Biosciences, San Jose, California, USA |
| 2:30-3:30 pm | Transplantation – Dr. Ignacio Anegon, FOCIS President-elect, INSERM CR2TI, FOCIS Center of Excellence, Nantes, France |
| 3:30-3:40 pm | Break |
| 3:40-4:40 pm | Plenary Lecture: Neuroimmunity – Dr. Junwei Hao, XuanWu Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China |
| 4:40-5:40 pm | Role of Adaptive and Trained Immunity for COVID-19 Vaccination – Dr. Alexis Kalergis, IMII-P. Universidad Católica De Chile, FOCIS Center of Excellence Santiago, Chile |
Day Four: January 12, 2024 (Friday)
Theme: Immune Technologies and Applications
Chair: Dr. Alexis Kalergis, IMII-P. Universidad Católica De Chile, FOCIS Center of Excellence Santiago, Chile
| Time | |
| 8:40-8:45 am | Closing Remarks – Dr. Ignacio Anegon, FOCIS President-elect, INSERM CR2TI, FOCIS Center of Excellence, Nantes, France |
| 8:45-9:30 am | Antibody Optimization Enabled by AI Predictions – Dr. Jian Peng, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China |
| 9:30-10:15 am | Anti-tumor and Anti-infection T Cell Responses – Dr. Lilin Ye, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China |
| 10:15-10:30 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30-11:15 am | Dissecting Human Antibody Response to SARS-CoV-1 and SARS-CoV-2 Infections – Dr. Linqi Zhang, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China |
| 11:15 am-12:00 pm | Animal Models Against Coronavirus Infection – Dr. Jincun Zhao, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China |
| 12:00-1:15 pm | Lunch |
| 1:15-2:00 pm | Bacterial Immunity and Bacteria-immune Evasion Mechanism – Dr. Feng Shao, National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing, China |
| 2:00-3:00 pm | Macrophages and Dendritic Cells Origin and Function – Dr. Florent Ginhoux, Shanghai Institute of Immunology, Shanghai, China |
| 3:00-4:00 pm | Monocyte Inflammatory Response –Dr. Xiaoyu Hu, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China |
| 4:00-5:00 pm | Innate Immunity – Dr. Li Wu, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China |
Questions?
Please contact the FOCIS office by phone at +1 414-359-1670 or email at info@focisnet.org.