GCIR ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM 2023
On 5 October 2023, scientists and clinicians from the University of Geneva and Geneva University Hospitals met at Villa Louis Jeantet with their invited speakers to discuss the latest discoveries in inflammation research.
List of speakers:
Prof. Christopher Buckley
Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, University of Oxford, UK
"A therapeutic cell atlas to study Immune-Mediated Inflammatory Diseases”
Prof. Sussan Nourshargh
William Harvey Research Institute, Queen Mary University of London, UK
“Neutrophil breaching of venular endothelial cells in reverse: mechanisms & pathophysiological implications”
Prof. Arturo Zychlinsky
Department of Cellular Microbiology, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin, Germany
“Neutrophil Extracellular Traps: the immune function of chromatin”
Prof. Jörg Seebach
Division of Clinical Immunology and Allergy, Geneva University Hospitals (HUG), Department of Medicine, Geneva Centre for Inflammation Research, UNIGE Faculty of Medicine
"Modulation of effector functions of NK cells by human purified and recombinant immunoglobulin G"
Prof. Jean Villard
Transplantation Immunology Unit, National Reference Laboratory for Histocompatibility, Geneva University Hospitals (HUG), Department of Medicine, Geneva Centre for Inflammation Research, UNIGE Faculty of Medicine
"Inflammation and allogeneic reactivity: impact for haematopoietic stem cell transplantation"
Prof. Ana-María Lennon-Duménil
Curie Institute, INSERM, Paris, France
“Cell-shape sensing in dendritic cells”
Prof. Burkhard Ludewig
Institute of Immunobiology, Kantonsspital St.Gallen, Switzerland
"Lymphoid organ fibroblast control immune cell activation and differentiation"
Prof. Amandine Guérin
Department of Microbiology and Molecular Medicine, UNIGE Faculty of Medicine
"Host manipulation by the parasite Cryptosporidium”
Department of Pathology and Immunology, Geneva Centre for Inflammation Research, Translational Research Centre in Oncohaematology, UNIGE Faculty of Medicine
"Lymphatic vessels as immunomodulators in cancer”
Prof. Mikaël Pittet
Division of Oncology, University Hospitals of Geneva (HUG), Department of Pathology and Immunology, Geneva Centre for Inflammation Research, Translational Research Centre in Oncohaematology, UNIGE Faculty of Medicine, Swiss Cancer Center Léman
"Microenvironmental coordination in human cancers"
