General Information

The 20^th Meeting of the Society for Natural Immunity (SNI) will be held in Oslo, Norway.

The meeting will take place at the Scandic Holmenkollen Park Hotel.

The conference is now fully booked, and registration is closed.

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Program

ABSTRACT PRESENTATIONS

Abstract submission is now closed. All accepted abstracts, regardless of presentation type, will be presented as posters.

Poster Presentations

Poster sessions will be Tuesday and Wednesday evenings in “Olav den Hellige” (below Saga Hall) and connected meeting rooms, including a heated tent in conjunction to “Olav den Hellige”. Posters can be mounted from 10:00 am in the morning of the specified day and should be taken down directly after each poster session. Any posters not removed will be taken down and disposed by the staff. Poster sessions will be held during the following times:

Selected Oral Abstract Presentations

Oral abstract presentations will take place in Saga Hall. Each abstract presenter will have 10 minutes total: 8 minutes for a formal presentation and 2 minutes for questions and answers.

Lightning Poster Presentations

There will be two Lightning Poster Sessions held during the meeting in Saga Hall. All Lightning Poster presenters will have 3 minutes (recommend max 3 slides) to present their work and 2 minutes for questions and answers.

Information for Speakers

Upload your presentations with the AV technician in Saga Hall on the day of your presentation at the following time points:

MEALS

All coffee breaks, meals, the Welcome Reception and the Gala dinner will be at the hotel. The exception is the dinner at the Fram Museum on Wednesday, September 27^th. Those people not attending the Fram museum will need to make their own arrangements for dinner on this day. Meal times and locations can be found within the detailed program schedule.

SOCIAL EVENTS

Welcome Reception
The Welcome Reception will take place on Tuesday, September 26^th from 18:00 until 19:30

Visit to Fram Museum – Ticket Required
The visit to the Fram museum will take place on Wednesday, September 27^th from 17:30 until 20:00.

Gala Dinner
The Gala Dinner will take place on Thursday, September 28^th from 20:00.

Drink tickets for social events will be included within registration packets. For additional drinks, a cash bar will be available at all events.

WEATHER

The average temperature in September is between 8°C (45°F) and 15°C (60°F). It rains often. It may occasionally snow. Wear layers!

LOCAL SCIENTIFIC & HOST COMMITTEE

Karl-Johan Malmberg, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
Lise Kveberg, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
Erik Dissen, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
Marit Inngjerdingen, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
Yenan Bryceson, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Michael Daws, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

SNI COUNCIL MEMBERS

PRESIDENT

Todd A. Fehniger, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, USA

PRESIDENT ELECT

Mariapia Degli-Esposti, Monash University, Victoria, Australia

PAST PRESIDENT

Adelheid Cerwenka, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany

SECRETARY

Carsten Watzl, Leibniz Research Center, Dortmund, Germany

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

Adelheid Cerwenka, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany
Mariapia Degli-Esposti, Monash University, Victoria, Australia
Markus Altfeld, Leibniz Institute For Virology, Hamburg, Germany
Megan Cooper, Washington University In St. Louis, USA
Aharon Freud, The Ohio State University, Columbus, USA
Katharine Hsu, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA
Barbara Kee, University Of Chicago, USA
Hans-Gustaf Ljunggren, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Tim O'Sullivan, University of California Los Angeles, USA
Chiara Romagnani, Charité University and DRFZ Berlin, Germany
Joseph Sun, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA
Zhigang Tian, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
Eric Vivier, CIML, Marseille, France
Carsten Watzl, IfADo, Dortmund, Germany
Nadia Guerra, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
Katy Rezvani, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, USA
Karl-Johan Malmberg, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
Lise Kveberg, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
Erik Dissen, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
Marit Inngjerdingen, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
Yenan Bryceson, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Michael Daws, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway