Past Events
Dear BIS members,
In 2018 we will not have an annual BIS meeting in Belgium, but we will participate to the 5th European Congress of Immunology in Amsterdam and we will have our General Assembly then.
In order to benefit from the reduced registration fees for EFIS members and to be eligible for EFIS travel grants you will have to be regularly registered as a BIS member.
ECI 2018 Event Information
5th European Congress of Immunology September 2-5, 2018, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
The 5th European Congress of Immunology will cover all fields of modern immunology, ranging from innate memory and tissue specific regulation of T and B cell differentiation to unsupervised analyses of big data for diagnostics and combinational immunomodulatory biologicals. Sessions will be specifically dedicated to identify new discoveries in fundamental immunology that hold diagnostic and therapeutic promise and to tackle challenges that arise from connecting fundamental and translational science.Scientists from interdisciplinary fields, like data management, systems biology and multidimensional systems imaging will be there to form beachheads for novel directions of immunological research and optimised evaluations of clinical trials.
Congress President: Marieke van Ham Scientific Program Committee Chair: Jacques Neefjes Local Organizing Committee Chair: Janneke Samsom
2017 BIS Annual Meeting, November 24th (Campus Gasthuisberg, KULeuven)
The 2017 BIS annual meeting will be themed around "immune regulation".
This year we will have four parallel sessions in the morning (10 am-12 pm), each with a distinct immunological focus:
- fundamental immunology (Chair: Prof Susan Schlenner),
- clinical immunology (Chair: Dr Erika Van Nieuwenhove),
- tumour immunology (Chair: Dr Abhishek Garg),
- neuroimmunology (Chair: Prof Niels Hellings).
12:00 - 1:00 pm Lunch and sponsorship booths ( Gasthuisberg Campus, O&N2, Foyer )
1:00pm – 1:20pm BIS General Assembly (Gasthuisberg Campus, O&N2, Room BMW1 )
The afternoon will feature a joint session, with a plenary talk and four keynote talks, one of each of the morning topics:
Joint afternoon session (1:20pm - 5pm) on Immune Regulation (Chair: Prof Adrian Liston)
1:20 – 2:00 Keynote speaker on tumour immunology
Prof Gabriele Bergers, VIB / KU Leuven (Belgium) Prof Gabriele Bergers, VIB / KU Leuven (Belgium)
"Tertiary Lymphoid Structures in Cancer: Generation and Therapeutic Implication"
2:00 – 2:40 Keynote speaker on neuroimmunology
Prof Denise Fitzgerald, Queen’s University Belfast (UK)
"Emerging regenerative functions of regulatory T cells in the CNS: more than just inflammatory brakes!"
2:40 – 3:20 Keynote speaker on fundamental immunology
Prof Anne Dejean, INSERM / Universite Toulouse (France)
"The Foxo3/Eomes axis in CD4 T cells differentiation"
3:20 – 4:00 Keynote speaker on clinical immunology
Prof Anne Puel, INSERM / Institut Imagine (France)
"Inborn errors of immunity and susceptibility to fungal diseases"
4:00 – 4:10 Sponsored talk: BD Biosciences
4:10 – 5:00 Presentation of EFIS-IL Lecture Award 2017 to
Plenary speaker Prof Gitta Stockinger, The Francis Crick Institute (UK)
"Environmental influences on intestinal homeostasis and inflammation"
Registrations and abstract submissions are now open:
Late registration open until October 14, 2017
FINAL program:
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Annual Meeting of the French Dendritic Cell Society (CFCD)

Dendritic cells: Trafficking and Regulation
December 18-19, 2017
ASIEM, Paris
Abstract submission before October 20th
Joint BSI (British Society for Immunology) / NVVI (Dutch Society for Immunology) Congress, 6–9 December 2016 Arena Conference Centre in Liverpool, UK
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12th International Congress on Systemic Lupus Erythematosus & the 7th Asian Congress on Autoimmunity (LUPUS 2017 & ACA 2017) Melbourne, Australia, 26-29 March 2017 |
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We would like to cordially invite you and the members of the Belgian Immunological Society to the 12th International Congress on Systemic Lupus Erythematosus & the 7th Asian Congress on Autoimmunity (LUPUS 2017 & ACA 2017) that will take place in Melbourne, Australia, 26-29 March 2017.
I’m pleased to inform you that free lectures on LUPUS are available for your members - click here. (Lectures taken from the 10th International Congress on Autoimmunity 2016).
As the abstract submission deadline is approaching, we encourage you and your colleagues to submit an abstract for oral or poster presentation.
Abstract Submission Deadline: 19 October 2016
Ella Siman
Marketing – LUPUS 2017 & ACA 2017
Tel: +41 22 9080488 Ext 967 Email: esiman@kenes.com Website: http://kenes-group.com/ |
Belgian Society for the Advancement of Cytometry
Bedford Hotel, Brussels on October 21st 2016
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Dear BSAC members
I am very proud to present you in attachment the final program of the Annual Meeting of the Belgian Society for the Advancement of Cytometry to be held on October 21st 2016 at the Bedford hotel, Brussels.
You can now register for our meeting using the following link http://www.cytometry.be/en/Events/Brussels_AM_2016 . Accreditation is requested.
We also welcome abstract submissions for research to be presented during a storm session.
For this, please mail the enclosed abstract template to bsac_info@sympa.ua.ac.be. Deadline for abstract submission is September 30th, 2016.
Looking forward seeing you at our symposium!
Have a nice, sunny day
Nathalie
Nathalie Cools, PhD
Assistant Professor, University of Antwerp
Group Leader, Immune Regulation & tolerance-inducing Strategies (IRiS) research group Tel + 32 3 821 35 84 / Fax +32 3 821 44 56
bsac_annual_meeting_20161021.pdf
Abstract template BSAC.doc
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Immunity for Health (October 20th-21st 2016, Ghent) |
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2016 Fall Conference of the Korean Society of Immunologists (KAI) November 16 – 18, 2016 Seoul, Korea. |
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46th Annual Meeting of the German Society for Immunology (DGfI)
27–30 September 2016
Hamburg • Germany
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REMINDER: Call for Abstracts
Dear Sir or Madam,
On behalf of the board of the German Society for Immunology (DGfI), we are delighted to invite you to participate in the 46th Annual Meeting of the German Society for Immunology to be held in Hamburg, Germany from 27–30 September 2016.
Deadline for abstract submission ends on 23 May 2016!
We kindly remind you to submit your scientific contributions online. More information on how to submit an abstract and general hints for authors can be found here. For further information and to get an overview of our preliminary program, please download our flyer here. Program Planner
With the help of the Planner of the scientific program (updated continuously), you can structure your personal conference program. Simply benefit from the intuitive handling and get an overview of the daily program, each session and at a later point even access to every single abstract.
Up-to-date and any necessary information regarding organizational remarks can be found on our conference website www.immunology-conference.de. Should you have any questions, please contact the organizing agency Conventus via phone +49 3641 31 16-374 or email immunology@conventus.de.
With best regards, Gisa Tiegs and Bernhard Fleischer Conference Chairs DGfI 2016
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Dear all,
It is a pleasure to announce that the website for registration of the 2016 congress “Dendritic cells and Macrophages: Distant relatives or just close neighbours?”, organized by the European Macrophage and Dendritic cell Society (EMDS) is now open. The congress will take place in the Rode Hoed in Amsterdam, 21-23 September. We are glad that many speakers have already agreed to come.
For an impression of the contents of the program, below a selection of our speakers from abroad:
Edward Pierce - Metabolic reprogramming during plasmacytoid dendritic cell activation
Joachim Schultze - The multi-dimensional model of macrophage activation: What’s next?
Peter Cresswell – Mechanistic elements of conventional MHC class I antigen processing and cross-presentation
Muzlifah Haniffa – Functional heterogeneity of human mononuclear phagocytes in health and disease
Benjamin Marsland - Implications of the microbiota in airway inflammatory responses
Kris Thielemans – Dendritic cell and mRNA based immunotherapy
Paul Kubes - A novel macrophage recruitment paradigm
In addition to the invited speakers, we will select a large number of submitted abstracts for oral presentations. Several travel grants, and prizes for best poster and oral presentation are available for young investigators.
For more information about the preliminary program, registration, abstract submission, travel grants and prizes, please go to our website: www.emds2016-amsterdam.nl and read the separate attachments.
We hope to welcome you at the meeting.
With best wishes, also on behalf of the other members of the scientific organization committee,
Esther C. de Jong, PhD
Professor of Cellular Immune Regulation
Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam
Dept. of Cell Biology and Histology, room L3-109
Center for Immunology Amsterdam (CIA)
Meibergdreef 15, 1105 AZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands
T +31.20.5664963
M +31.6.42230381
E e.c.dejong@amc.uva.nl
W http://www.amc.nl/index.cfm?pid=6701
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15th European Congress of Internal Medicine that will be held on 2 and 3 September 2016 in Amsterdam (the Netherlands).
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EDT-Immunology will organise a one day meeting on May 27th 2016.
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Dear all,
As you already know, EDT-Immunology will organise a one day meeting on May 27th 2016. The preliminary program is attached. Registration is mandatory but free of charge for students and academics. For non-academics, it costs 50€. Deadline for abstracts submission is April 27th. To be submitted by email to EDT-Immuno@edt-sbp.be
Here is a doodle link for registration: http://doodle.com/poll/z42rfh3itbd84miq
Best regards
Souad Rahmouni, PhD
EDT-Immunlogy Spokesperson
Email: EDT-Immuno@edt-sbp.be
Phone: +32 (0)4366 2830
http://www.edt-sbp.be/immuno/
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Joint spring meeting of the Belgian Society of Parasitology & Protistology (BSPP)
and the Netherlands Society of Parasitology (NVP)
Friday 20th May 2016, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam |
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BIS Annual Meeting 2016
Monocytes and macrophages in inflammatory diseases and cancer
Friday November 25th 2016
Salle Dupréel, ULB Campus du Solbosh, Building S, 1st floor
Avenue Jeanne 44, 1050 Brussels
Deadline for abstracts : September 30th, all topics welcome and selection for short oral presentations related to this year’s topic
For your info: meeting is free only for BIS members who have paid their 2016 membership fee (PhD students do not have to pay)
ABSTRACT:
All abstracts that were submitted for the BIS 2016 meeting have been accepted for poster presentation.
The abstracts that were accepted for oral presentation are in the final program.
Presenters of short oral presentations are welcome to present their poster as well (not compulsory).
Poster boards are 2m high x 0.9m wide. A0 portrait posters are recommended
JOURNEE RECHERCHE EN ALLERGOLOGIE - 15 April 2014 |
Minisymposium Graft-versus-Host Disease - UCL 11th APRIL 2014 |
Minisymposium organized by Prof. J.-P. Coutelier
A meeting supported by the immunology doctoral school, and intended first to PhD students, but also to other interested reseachers.
The theme this year will be Graft-versus-Host Disease.
Prof. J.-P. Coutelier
de Duve Institute
Universite Catholique de Louvain
SSS/DDUV - ICP
Av. Hippocrate 75, bte B1.75.02
1200 Woluwe-Saint-Lambert
Belgique
tel 32 2 764 7437
fax 32 2 764 7430
e-mail jean-paul.coutelier@uclouvain.be
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Advanced course on Innate Immunity 2012 |
Advanced course on Innate Immunity 2012: From Evolution to Revolution.
Directed by Prof. Klas Kärre (Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden) Prof. Lorenzo Moretta (Giannina Gaslini Institute, Genoa, Italy), Prof. Ennio Carbone (Magna Graecia University, Catanzaro, Italy), from 31 October to 4 November to Sorrento, Naples.
The focus of this Course will cover broad aspects of innate immunity, including different cells, molecules, basic and clinical science.
Attached you can find the poster with the course program.
We are extremely pleased to have the increased support of EFIS; in fact, this is considered an EFIS-EJI course. Part of their funding is destined for bursaries, and in accordance with the School tradition, preference will be given to applicants from developing countries.
Silvia Fontana-Zappacosta, PhD President of the Ruggero Ceppellini Advanced School of Immunology IEOS Istituto di Endocrinologia e Oncologia Sperimentale CNR Dipartimento di Biologia e Patologia Cellulare e Molecolare Università "Federico II" Napoli Via Pansini,5 80131 Napoli ITALY e-mail sfontana@unina.it Internet www.ceppellini.it tel +39 081 7463057/3311 fax +39 081 7463252 |
European Congress of Immunology 2012 |
ECI 2012 Organiser Secretariat Tel: +44 (0) 20 7383 8030 Fax: +44 (0) 20 7383 8040 Email: fwong@kenes.com Website: www.kenes.com/uk
Kenes UK Ltd 1st Floor Chesterfield House, 385 Euston Road, London, NW1 3AU UK Company reg no. 4814326
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15th Biennial Meeting of the European Society |
The 15th Biennial Meeting of the European Society for Immunodeficiencies (ESID 2012) to be held in Florence, Italy, October 3-6, 2012.
We would like to bring our meeting to the attention of your organisation and your members that might be interested in attending our congress.
Congress Name: 15th Biennial Meeting of the European Society for Immunodeficiencies
Congress Website: www.kenes.com/esid
Congress Description: ESID 2012 will gather over 2000 scientists and clinicians specializing in Primary Immunodeficiency Diseases. ESID 2012 offers an advanced scientific programme with a leading international faculty, new approaches to diagnosis and treatments, interactive discussions, opportunities for collaborative research, and networking events.
For more information on the congress we would like to kindly invite you visit our website at www.kenes.com/esid I look forward hearing from you.
Mrs. Raya van Hugten, MSc ESID Congress Secretariat De Ruyterkade 7 (12th Floor) 1013 AA, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Tel: +31 20 763 0517 I Fax: +31 20 763 0511 E-mail address: rvanhugten@kenes.com
Join fellow clinicians and scientists in beautiful Florence, Italy for another wonderful ESID meeting. |
2012 FIRN Conference to be held in Salzburg, Austria |
FRONTIERS IN IMMUNOLOGY RESEARCH 2012 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
www.firnweb.com
SALZBURG, AUSTRIA July 1-4, 2012 Crowne Plaza Hotel
The Frontiers in Immunology Research Network (FIRN) invites you to participate in its 2012 Conference to be held in Salzburg, Austria, at the Crowne Plaza (The Pitter) Hotel, July 1-4. The conference welcomes researchers from academia, corporations, governments and other organizations. Participants may present their research findings, display their posters, participate in roundtables or simply observe. Subject to your approval, submitted manuscripts will be considered for possible publication in the International Journal of Immunological Studies. To participate as a PRESENTER please submit via email and post ABSTRACTS and/or brief descriptions of POSTERS (of no more than 200 words) along with your complete details by March 30th, 2012 as follows:
Frontiers in Immunology Research Network (FIRN) 64 Holden Street Worcester MA 01605-3109 USA
Tel.: 508-852-3937, Fax: 508-595-0089 Email: hkan@firnweb.com Web: http://www.firnweb.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/Immunology_Conf |
5th International Singapore Symposium of Immunology |
We are writing to inform that our society, Singaporean Society for Immunology (SgSI) will be organizing the 5th International Singapore Symposium of Immunology on 7th – 8th June 2012 at Town Plaza Auditorium, University Town in Singapore. This event is co-organised with A*STAR’s Singapore Immunology Network (SIgN), National University of Singapore (NUS) and Nanyang Technological University (NTU).
This is the fifth year we are organizing this annual scientific meeting and the number of participants, in particular overseas participants have been increasing throughout the years. In this coming symposium, we hope to bring together both local and international researchers as well as clinicians to discuss on topics related to Molecular and Cellular Aspects of Inflammation, Host-Pathogen Interaction, Immune Recognition and Regulation of Immune Response.
Please refer to the enclosed event flyer and program for more information.
5th International Singapore Symposium of Immunology Event date: 7th – 8th June 2012 Location: Town Plaza Auditorium, University Town, Singapore
Symposium website: www.sgsi2012.org
REGISTER NOW at sgsi.org.sg/index.php?option=com_workshop (If you are not a member yet, join us now). Members are entitled to free admissions to our annual symposiums, workshops and other events.)
Deadline for abstract submission: 6th April 2012 Deadline for online registration: 31st May 2012, 12pm
Thank you very much. Regards, Zhihong LI On behalf of Singaporean Society of Immunology |
Third International Conference on Regulatory T Cells |
I am very pleased to let you know that the Third International Conference on Regulatory T Cells and Th Subsets and Clinical Application in Human Disease (China Tregs/Th Subsets 2012 conference) will be held on 13-16 October 2012 in Shanghai. This conference will focuse on Tregs, Th subsets including Th17, Th9, Th22, and follicular T helper cells.
We have more than 40 confirmed international speakers. The lineup of folk is terrific.
Keynote speakers: Diane Mathis, Alexander Rudensky, Dan Littman.
Plenary speakers: Abul Abbas, Bruce Blazar, Jeffrey Bluestone, Daniel Campbell, Harvey Cantor, Xuetao Cao, Daniel Cua, Chen Dong, Michael Dustin, Gerard Eberl, Gary Goretzky, David Hafler, Christopher Hunter, Lars Klareskog, Tadamitsu Kishimoto, Ludger Klein, Vijay Kuchroo, Antonio Lanzavecchia, Yong-Jun Liu, Tak Mak, Michael McHeyzer-Williams, Kingston Mills, Anne O'Garra, Dhaval Patel, Drew Pardoll, William Paul, Fiona Powrie, Maria Grazia Roncarolo, Shimon Sakaguchi, Ethan Shevach, Hergen Spits, Dale Umetsu, Carola Vinuesa, Harald von Boehmer, Casey Weaver, Steven Ziegler.
Conference website: www.chinatregs.com
Shuiping Jiang, Ph.D Founder and President China Tregs/Th Subsets Conference Series www.chinatregs.com |
15th Biennial Meeting of the European Society for Immunodeficiencies |
The 15th Biennial Meeting of the European Society for Immunodeficiencies (ESID 2012) will be held in Florence, Italy, October 3-6, 2012.
Congress Description: ESID 2012 will gather over 3000 scientists and clinicians specializing in Primary Immunodeficiency Diseases. ESID 2012 offers an advanced scientific programme with a leading international faculty, new approaches to diagnosis and treatments, interactive discussions, opportunities for collaborative research, and networking events.
For more information on the congress we would like to kindly invite you visit our website at www.kenes.com/esid
Mrs. Raya van Hugten, MSc e-mail address: rvanhugten@kenes.com direct line: +31 20 763 0517 ESID Congress Secretariat, Join fellow clinicians and scientists in beautiful Florence, Italy for another wonderful ESID meeting. |
5th Congress of the Federation of Immunological Societies of Asia |
5th Congress of the Federation of Immunological Societies of Asia Oceania New Delhi, India March 14-17, 2012 Click image for website
I. Proposed Scientific Themes (Symposia and/or Workshops)
* Immunology Regulatory Networks * Understanding host pathogen interaction * Cytokines and inflammation * Regulatory T cells & clinical applications in human Disease * Adjuvants & vaccines * Stem cells and Regenerative Medicine * Tolerance and Transplantation * Tumor Immunology: new insights and emerging therapeutics * Cross talk between innate & adaptive immunity * Interplay of Immune System: child and mother with antiretroviral therapy * Autoimmunity: Emerging Concepts * Nano Technology: Diagnostics & Therapy * Cell Therapy: DCs, Stem cells and NKT * Immune Mechanisms underlying autoimmune and infectious diseases * Immunodeficiencies * Complement System in Health and Disease * T and B cell memory * Microbicides and Mucosal Immune System
II. Special Sessions
Institutional and Capacity development in Immunology Career Development in Immunology for the Developing World Immunologists
III. Technology Sessions
These will be industry sponsored Lunch Sessions with primary focus on technology developments in key areas of immunology research.
IV. Master Lectures (12 numbers)
Each of these will be upto 45 minutes duration, four each day (two early morning and two in the evening) to be delivered by eminent scientists. The Scientific Program Committee will identify such speakers.
V. Key Note Speaker – for the opening ceremony
With best regards.
Yours sincerely,
(Prof. N.K. Mehra) (Dr. D.N. Rao) President Organizing Secretary
(Prof.D.N.Rao) Professor Department of Biochemistry, AIIMS, New Delhi-110029.India Ph:91-11-26593545(o) 91-11-26588060(R) Mobile : 9868592706 Fax: 91-11-26588641,26588663 |
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