Saturday, 3rd August
The Melbourne Immunotherapy Network Winter Symposium 2019
Days
Friday, 2nd August
Saturday, 3rd August
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Speakers
Session 3 – Good Immunity Gone Bad
8:30AM - 10:10AM
Saturday, 3rd August
Kooringa-Kitchener rooms
Chair: Cynthia Louis
Antigen-specific immunotherapy for autoimmune rheumatic diseases
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Ranjeny Thomas
Development of a sialylated, truncated soluble CR1 with improved potency
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Zhihui (Helen) Cao
Immunotherapy in monogenic disease
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Ingrid Winship
NK cells promote autoantibody-induced inflammatory arthritis through production of GM-CSF that is negatively regulated by the signalling suppressor CIS
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Cynthia Louis
IL-33 signalling in gastro-intestinal cancer: foe or friend?
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Moritz F Eissmann
Morning Tea
10:10AM - 10:40AM
Saturday, 3rd August
Keppel-Maryland-Cumberland rooms
Session 4 – Emerging Concepts in Immunotherapy
10:40AM - 12:00PM
Saturday, 3rd August
Kooringa-Kitchener rooms
Chair: Tracy Heng
Genome wide CRISPR screening to identify mechanisms of tumor immune evasion
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Conor J Kearney
Mesenchymal Stromal Cell Therapy – A Matter of Life And (Cell) Death
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Tracy Heng
Radiation therapy increases tumor vulnerability to NK cell mediated control
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Nicole Haynes
Tissue-resident memory T cells promote melanoma-immune equilibrium in skin
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Thomas Gebhardt
Session 4 – Fast Loud Talks
12:00PM - 1:00PM
Saturday, 3rd August
Kooringa-Kitchener rooms
Chair: Nicholas Huntington
Targeting PTPN2 to enhance T cell mediated anti-tumour immunity
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Florian Wiede
Overcoming tumour heterogeneity by engaging host immunity to enhance CAR T cell therapy of solid cancers
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Junyun Lai
Dissecting intratumoural T cell heterogeneity using novel mouse models
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Sarah Sharon Gabriel
Circulating antibodies as novel cancer biomarkers
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Jessica Da Gama Duarte
Melanoma Immunosurveillance by CD4+ T cells
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Emma Bawden
Manipulating T regulatory cells for immunotherapy
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Charis Teh
Lunch
1:00PM - 2:15PM
Saturday, 3rd August
Keppel-Maryland-Cumberland rooms
Session 5 - Immunotherapy for infections
2:15PM - 4:00PM
Saturday, 3rd August
Kooringa-Kitchener rooms
Chair: Mariapia Degli-Esposti
New strategies to prevent cytomegalovirus reactivation in transplantation
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Mariapia Degli-Esposti
Depletion of Total CD4+ T-Cells With Alemtuzumab – A Potential Strategy To Eliminate HIV Latency?
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Sharon Lewin
Regulation of CD8
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T cell exhaustion by the transcription factor Egr2
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Ian Parish
Microbiota-derived butyrate promotes metabolism and memory potential of effector CD8
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T cells
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Annabell Bachem
Prime-and-trap vaccination targeting RPL6 confers effective protection against malaria
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Daniel Fernandez-Ruiz
Open Discussion
4:00PM - 4:15PM
Saturday, 3rd August
Kooringa-Kitchener rooms
Prizes and Closing remarks
4:15PM - 4:30PM
Saturday, 3rd August
Kooringa-Kitchener rooms
Chair: Nicholas Huntington
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