Thursday, May 21st
14:00 - Welcome & Presentation of the GDR and Club SFI Networks
14:15 - Keynote Lecture
Mariolina Salio (Immunocore, United Kingdom) :A γδ T cell receptor defining cellular stress through glycan sensing
15:00 - 16:30 - Session #1 : Inflammation
- Maria Leite de Moraes (INEM, Paris) : MAIT cell responses to skin-adapted bacteria in chronically infected patients
- Alexis Broquet (CR2TI, Nantes) : Spatial adaptation of the post-septic immune response. Impact on anti-tumor defense
- Manon Lesturgie-Talarek (Cochin Institute, Paris) : Pathogenic role of MAIT cells in Rheumatoid Arthritis
16:30 - 17:00 - Coffee break - Poster Session
17:00 - 17:30 - Short Talks
- Hisham Shakir Hussain (Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Melbourne): Specific targeting of MR1-antigen complexes using nanobodies
- Emilie Barsac (Peter Medawar Building for Pathogen Research, Oxford) : MAIT cells shape the inflationary CD8⁺ T cell response during murine cytomegalovirus infection
- Emi Ito (Curie Institute, Paris) : Analysis of collaborative cross mouse strains to identify genes differentially involved in MAIT versus NKT cell thymic development
- Carla Ribeiro (CEPR, Tours) : Thyroid hormones as modulators of iNKT cells development and function
- Anne-Laure Le Gac (Curie Institute, Paris) : From accessibility to identity: Epigenetic regulation of murine MAIT cell thymic development
17:30 - 18:30 - Session #2 : Development & Homeostasis
- Kamel Benlagha (Saint-Louis Institute, Paris) : Integration of TCR signaling and c-Maf–dependent transcription defines NKT17 cell differentiation
- Thomas Gensollen (IPBS, Toulouse) : Imprinting of Natural Killer cells by the microbiota in lung cancer
18h30 - Special lecture
Sarina Ravens (Hannover Medical School, Germany) : Functional programming of innate lymphocytes in perinatal diseases
19:30 - Diner
Friday, May 22nd
9:00 - 10:15 - Short Talks
- Lilou Germain (IGDR, Rennes) : Remote control of MAIT cells by microbiota-derived ligands
- Juan Sienes Bailo (Pasteur Institute, Paris) : IL-23 regulates the non-canonical NF-kB pathway in human invariant Natural Killer T cells
- Anaïs Rousseaux (IGDR, Rennes) : In vitro suppressive effect of murine MAIT cells
- Elise Diaz (IRSL, Paris) : AML Blasts and Monocytic Myeloid-Derived Suppressor Cells inhibit human Mucosal-Associated Invariant T Cells Activation
- Loane Praden (IRMETIST, Poitiers) : Innate CD8+ T-cells in cord blood: immunophenotyping and functional characterization of four distinct subsets
- Louna Pili (CEPR, Tours) : Protective role of MAIT cells in severe viral pneumonia caused by influenza virus
- Léa Lippens (Center of Research in Myology, Paris) : Characterization of gamma delta T cells in Autoimmune Myasthenia Gravis
- Marion Lenain (IRCM, Montpellier) :Use of γδ T cells Armed With Monoclonal Antibodies as a Novel Cancer Cell Therapy
10:15 - 10:45 - Coffee break
10:45 - 12:15 - Session #3 : Anti-infectious responses
- Victoria Remy (Curie Institute, Paris) : MAIT cells in Murine Lymph Nodes
- François Legoux (IGDR, Rennes) : Remote control of MAIT cells by microbiota-derived ligand
- Jeanne Navarre (Cochin Institute, Paris) : Acetyl-6-formylpterin induces regulatory MAIT cells, preventing autoimmunity upon viral infection
12:15 - 13:45 - Lunch
13:45 - Keynote Lecture
Taras Kreslavskiy (Karolinska Institute, Sweden) : Unusual antigen receptor specificities of γδT cells
14:30 - 16:00 - Session #4 : Cancer
- Sophie Caillat-Zucman (Saint-Louis, Institute, Paris) : MAIT cells as a new platform for off-the-shelf CAR T-cell therapy in hepatocellular carcinoma
- Emmanuel Scotet (CRCI2NA, Nantes) : Agonist anti-butyrophilin antibodies delivered by engineered oncolytic viruses strongly enhance antitumor activity of human Vγ9Vδ2 T cells
- Marie-Thérèse Rubio (IMoPA, Nancy) : Challenges and promises of CAR-iNKT: application in leukemia and glioblastoma
16:00 - Concluding remarks & Farewell
