Program I&I Annual Scientific Meeting 2021
Monday 12 Jul 2021

Program

13.30-14.00  Reception with coffee/tea

14.00              Welcome – Jonas Kuiper (host)

14.05-15.05  Mini symposium: From lab to drug

• Role of fundamental research in diagnostics - Dörte Hamann
• How to set up a spinoff company - Jeanette Leusen
• The Utrecht Trial Innovation Alliance Initiative (U-TRIAL) - Peter Hermans

15.05-15.15  Strategic Program I&I update – Marc Bonten & Linde Meyaard

15.15-16.00  Progress I&I Boost Grants 2020

• Identification of novel inhibitory receptors that detect and mediate tolerance to commensal microbes in host epithelium - Helen von Richthofen & Marcel de Zoete
• M6A RNA methylation promotes SARS-CoV-2 infection - Jorg van Loosdregt & Robert Jan Lebbink
• Neutrophil recovery and CD4+ T cell function in fungal infections after HTC: finding potential predictors for antifungal drug use – Pieter-Jan Haas & Coco de Koning

16.00-16.25  Coffee break

16.25-17.00  Eric Hack Publication Award 2021

• Lisanne Lutter - Conserved human effector Treg cell transcriptomic and epigenetic signature in arthritic joint inflammation.  Nature Communications 2021;12(1):2710.
• Mui Pham - Impact of self-imposed prevention measures and short-term government-imposed social distancing on mitigating and delaying a COVID-19 epidemic: A modelling study. PLoS Medicine 2020;17(7):e1003166.
• Eelco Brand - Healthy Cotwins Share Gut Microbiome Signatures With Their Inflammatory Bowel Disease Twins and Unrelated Patients. Gastroenterology 2021;160(6):1970-1985.
• Matevž Rumpret - Functional categories of immune inhibitory receptors. Nature Rev Immunol 2020;20(12):771-780.

17.00-18.00  Keynote lectures on COVID-19

• REMAP-CAP – Dutch perspective on a global trial - Lennie Derde, UMCU Utrecht
• Impact of SARS-CoV-2 variants - Marion Koopmans, Erasmus MC

18.00              Wrap-up – Jonas Kuiper

18.00 - 20.30 Drinks + Pubquiz by UpBeatles, incl. dinner bites