SynthImmune presented its research program at this year’s LEMS Conference on September 29. The program featured talks by internal and external invited speakers, covering research across all seven SynthImmune projects.
Young scientists and technology platform leads presented their research and technological approaches during the poster session. Varuni Nagesh from Heidelberg University Hospital and the CIID won one of the two poster prizes sponsored by Wiley. Nagesh received an award for her poster, “Deciphering HIV-1 Nef-Induced Heterogeneity in CD4+ T Cell Responses.”
SynthImmune spokesperson Oliver Fackler and co-spokespersons Kerstin Göpfrich and Michael Platten co-organized the conference.
Full Program of Day 1
- Session 1: Function-based Selection and Molecular Characterization of Highly Efficient Immune Cells
- Chaired by Michael Platten
- Featured Talks: Sai Reddy (Botnar Institute of Immune Engineering, Switzerland)
- Session 2: Microphysiological Model Systems
- Chaired by Oliver Fackler
- Featured Talks: Peter Loskill (University of Tübingen) & Roman Zantl (IBIDI, Germany)
- Session 3: Nanotechnology-based Therapeutics and Vaccines
- Chaired by Hedda Wardemann
- Featured Talks: Michael Jendrusch (German Cancer Research Center, Germany)
- Session 4: Engineering Targeting and Delivery
- Chaired by Nina Papavasiliou
- Featured Talks: Ken Witwer (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
- Session 5: Towards Synthetic Immune Effector Cells
- Chaired by Kerstin Göpfrich
- Featured Talks: Kurt Vesterager Gothelf (Aarhus University, Denmark)
- Session 6: Computational Modelling for Prediction and Validation of Key Parameters of Immunity
- Chaired by Kerstin Göpfich, filling in for Thomas Höfer
- Featured Talks: Anna Kreshuk (EMBL Heidelberg, Germany)
- Session 7: Ethics and Implementation
- Chaired by Markus Herrmann
- Featured Talks: Nora Heinzelmann (Heidelberg University, Germany) & Jeantine E. Lunshof (Harvard University, USA)
