8:00 to 9:00  –  Registration (Salle Académique – Place du 20-août, Ground floor)

8:30  –  Welcome note:  William Horsnell and Benjamin Dewals

 

9:00  –  Every little breath: development of allergic immunity in early life, Clare Lloyd (Imperial College London, UK)

 

Abstract session 1 (chair: William Horsnell)

9:45 – Maternal probiotic supplementation prevents murine neonatal T helper 2-type asthma: a role for maternal IgG – Justine Smout

10:05  –  Prenatal exposure to ozone triggers development of lung diseases in offspring –  Alison Gillard

10:25 – Suppression of airway allergic eosinophilia by Hp-TGM, a helminth mimic of TGF-ß –  Caroline Chauché

 

10:45 – Coffee break (Salle des professeurs - Place du 20-août, 1^st floor)

 

11:30  –  How does maternal filariasis affect their offspring’s Th2 and Regulatory T cell responses? – Matthew Taylor (University of Edingburgh, UK)

 

Abstract session 2 (chair: Hermelijn Smits)

12:15  –  IL-4 receptor signaling regulates lung macrophages during helminth coinfection resulting in enhanced gammaherpesvirus permissiveness – Georgios Petrellis

12:35  –  Maternal γδ T cells shape offspring pulmonary type-2 immunity in a microbiota-dependent manner – Pedro Papotto

12:55  –  MafB and c-Maf regulate the differentiation and identity of lung interstitial macrophages – Wen Peng

 

13:15  –  Lunch and Poster session (Salle des professeurs - Place du 20-août, 1^st floor)

 

15:00  –  Transmission of trained immunity and heterologous resistance to infections across generations - Jorge Dominguez-Andrés (Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, NL)

 

Abstract session 3 (chair: David Vermijlen)

15:45  –  A persistent gammaherpesvirus infection reprograms the alveolar macrophage niche for the long-term by dampening type 2 properties of group 2 innate lymphoid cells – Loos Pauline

16:05  –  How does pneumovirus influence antigen presentation in neonatal mice? – Elisabeth Deleeuw

 

16:25  –  Coffee break (Salle des professeurs - Place du 20-août, 1^st floor)

 

Abstract session 4 (chair: Benjamin Dewals)

17:00  –  The specific history of viral infections may pave the way for tumor development – Lucia Rodriguez-Rodriguez

17:20  –  Single-cell analysis of human fetal and pediatric γδ T cells reveals distinct functional thymic programming – Guillem Sanchez-Sanchez

17:40  –  Altered in utero immune priming through chronic infection in a helminth-endemic region – Esther Ludwig

 

18:00  –  The immunological footprints generated by different environmental factors – Maria Yazdanbakhsh (Leiden University Medical Center, NL)

 

19:00 – Cocktail reception (Salle des professeurs - Place du 20-août, 1^st floor)

8:00 –  Welcome coffee (Salle des professeurs - Place du 20-août, 1^st floor)

 

9:00 – Influence of perinatal environment on development of type 2 immune responses to allergens in early life – Bart Lambrecht (VIB, UGent, BE)

 

Abstract session 5 (chair: Arnaud Marchant)

9:45  –  Ly6C^hi monocytes balance regulatory and cytotoxic CD4 T cell responses to control virus-induced immunopathology – Céline Maquet

10:05  –  Humoral immune responses to different Covid-19 vaccine platforms in pregnancy – Larissa De Branbandere

 

10:25 – Coffee break (Salle des professeurs - Place du 20-août, 1^st floor)

 

11:05 –  Fetomaternal immune crosstalk modifies T cell priming through sustained changes to DC function – Clarissa Prazeres da Costa (Center for Global Health, TUM, München, DE)

 

Abstract session 6 (chair: Laurent Gillet)

11:50  –  Human Plasma Like Media Alters the Activation Phenotype of Neonatal Naïve CD4+ T Cells – Sean Holm

12:10  –  Protecting late-moderate preterm infants from respiratory tract infections and wheeze in their first year of life by using bacterial lysates– Inger van Duuren

 

12:30 –  Immunity across generations: The preconception origins of asthma and allergy – Cecilie Svanes (Centre of International Health, University of Bergen, NO)

 

13:15 –  Lunch and Poster session (Salle des professeurs - Place du 20-août, 1^st floor)

 

15:00 –  Integrating maternal and infant immunization strategies - Arnaud Marchant (Université Libre de Bruxelles, BE)

 

Abstract session 7 (chair: Bénédicte Machiels)

15:45  –  Human liver γδ T cells show TCR focusing and increased cytotoxicity in CMV-associated biliary atresia children – Maria Papadopoulou

16:05  –  A role for the tRNA-modifying enzyme Elp3 in tuft cell differentiation and in the immune response in the intestine – Caroline Wathieu

16:25  –  Cord blood immune response differences between Europeans and malaria exposed Africans using mass cytometry – Yoanne Darele Mouwenda

 

16:45 –  Maternal type 2 immunity inherently protects offspring from helminth infection  –  William Horsnell (University of Cape Town, SA)

 

17:30 –  Meeting closure