ÖGAI – EFIS on Tour Symposium
With generous support from
Friday, March 31, 2023
13:00 – 18:30
Art Nouveau Lecture Hall
Rector’s Office
Spitalgasse 23
1090 Vienna
Co-Chairs:
Wolfram Hötzenecker – Winfried F. Pickl
13:00 – 13:15
Welcome and introduction
Michaela Fritz – Vice Rector for Research and Innovation, Medical University of Vienna
Wolfram Hötzenecker – President, Austrian Society of Allergology and Immunology (ÖGAI)
About EFIS
Winfried F. Pickl – Treasurer, European Federation of Immunological Societies (EFIS)
13:15 – 13:45
Vaccination in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Ursula Wiedermann – Medical University of Vienna
13:45 – 14:15
Insights into human B cell differentiation upon infection and vaccination.
Marieke van Ham – Sanquin Research, Amsterdam
14:15 – 14:45
Generation of memory plasma cells by vaccination
Andreas Radbruch – German Rheumatology Research Center, Berlin
14:45 – 15:15
The mechanisms of allergen-specific immunotherapy
Rudolf Valenta – Medical University of Vienna
15:15 – 15:45
Imaging and sequencing: more content in the high-parameter cytometry landscape
Jens Fleischer – BD BioSciences, Heidelberg
15:45 – 16:15
Coffee break
16:15 – 16:45
Precision medicine in dermatology and allergology
Wolfram Hötzenecker – Kepler University Hospital, Linz
16:45 – 17:15
Factors and mechanisms regulating skin immunity.
Maria Sibilia – Medical University of Vienna
17:15 – 17:45
Immunosensing of hepatic metabolic stress and early events in the development of steatohepatitis.
Bojan Polić – University of Rijeka
17:45 – 18:15
Human T lymphocytes: activation, differentiation and immunoregulation.
Federica Sallusto – ETH Zurich and IRB Bellinzona
18:15 – 18:30
Follow-up
