Thursday, May 21st

14:00 - Welcome & Presentation of the GDR and Club SFI Networks

 

14:15 - Keynote Lecture

     Marialina 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

 

17:00 - 17:30 - Short Talks

 

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 - 10:30 - Session #3 : Anti-infectious responses

•      Victoria Remy (Cochin 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 

 

10:30 - 11:00 - Coffee break

 

11:00 -  12:00 - Short Talks

 

12:00 - 14:00 - Lunch

 

14:00 - 15:30 - 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 

 

15:30 - Keynote Lecture :

     Taras Kreslavsky (Karolinska Institute, Sweden) : Unusual antigen receptor specificities of γδT cells

 

16:15 - Concluding remarks & Farewell