| Start | End | Session | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 08:30 | 10:00 | Saga Hall | |
| Moderators: | Jeanette Boudreau, Dalhousie University | ||
| Fredrik Berg Thorén, University of Gothenburg | |||
| 08:30 | |||
| Thierry Walzer, Inserm, Lyon | |||
| Uncoupling of functional paralysis and T-cell like transcriptional exhaustion program in NK cells responding to lymphoma | |||
| 08:50 | |||
| Cristhiane Favero De Aguiar, Trinity College Dublin | |||
| Metabolic and functional diversity of tumor-infiltrating NK cells | |||
| 09:10 | |||
| Jeanette Boudreau, Dalhousie University | |||
| Schroëdinger’s NK cells and immune cell co-ordination in the solid tumor microenvironment | |||
| 09:30 | |||
| Joey Li, University of California Los Angeles | |||
| MEF2C is a critical regulator of human NK cell metabolism | |||
| 09:40 | |||
| Sam Sheppard , Imperial College London | |||
| Fatty acid metabolism promotes natural killer cell cytotoxicity and anti-tumor function | |||
| 09:50 | |||
| Katja Srpan, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center | |||
| PD-L1 ligation enhances NK cell cytotoxicity by inducing metabolic shift | |||
| 10:00 | 10:30 | Coffee Break | Foyer |
| 10:30 | 12:00 | Saga Hall | |
| Moderators: | Ashley Moffett, University of Cambridge | ||
| Nicole Marquardt, Karolinska Institutet | |||
| 10:40 | |||
| Jenny Mjösberg, Karolinska Institutet | |||
| Local differentiation of human ILCs in the inflamed and tumorous colon | |||
| 11:00 | |||
| Francesco Colucci, University of Cambridge | |||
| Tissue Education of Uterine NK cells | |||
| 11:20 | |||
| Niklas Björkström, Karolinska Institutet | |||
| Tissue-residency, recirculation, and diversity patterns of human natural killer cells | |||
| 11:40 | |||
| Marco Colonna, Washington University School of Medicine | |||
| Development and Diversity of ILC1 | |||
| 12:00 | 13:30 | Lunch | Restaurant |
| 12:15 | 13:00 | Saga Hall | |
| Dr. Hannah Isles, Associate Editor Science Immunology | |||
| 13:30 | 14:30 | Saga Hall | |
| Moderators: | Aura Muntasell, Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute | ||
| Sytse Piersma, Washington University in St Louis | |||
| 13:30 | |||
| Katherine Hsu, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center | |||
| Title to be announced | |||
| 13:50 | |||
| Bethany Mundy-Bosse, The Ohio State University | |||
| Epigenetic Dysregulation of NK Cell Development in Myeloid Malignancies | |||
| 14:10 | |||
| Frank Cichocki, University of Minnesota | |||
| BCL11B: A Transcription Factor That Sculpts Hematopoietic and NK Cell Populations | |||
| 14:30 | 15:30 | Saga Hall | |
| Moderators: | Salim Khakoo, University of Southampton | ||
| Victoria Male, Imperial College London | |||
| 14:30 | |||
| Hui Peng, University of Science and Technology of China | |||
| Development and function of liver-resident NK cells/ILC1s: from fetal to adult life | |||
| 14:40 | |||
| Inga Elisabeth Rødahl, Karolinska Institutet | |||
| Tracking tissue-dependent gene expression in fetal NK cells at the clonal level | |||
| 14:50 | |||
| Aline Pfefferle, Karolinska Institutet | |||
| A Temporal Transcriptional Reference Map of Human Natural Killer Cells | |||
| 15:00 | |||
| Samantha Barnes, University of Western Australia | |||
| Transcriptional profiling of highly functional natural killer cells reveals novel drivers of anti-cancer immunity | |||
| 15:10 | |||
| John Roy Lozada, University of Minnesota | |||
| A Single-Cell Transcriptomic Atlas of Natural Killer (NK) Cells Across Solid Tumors: A Roadmap for Enhancing NK Cell Immunotherapies | |||
| 15:20 | |||
| Clara Serger , University Hospital Basel | |||
| Characterization of the chromatin and transcriptional landscapes of intratumoral NK cells using single cell multiomics | |||
| 15:30 | 16:00 | Coffee Break | Foyer |
| 16:00 | 17:50 | Saga Hall | |
| Moderators: | Fernando Guimaraes, The University Of Queensland | ||
| Melissa Berrien-Elliott, Washington University School of Medicine | |||
| 16:00 | |||
| David Raulet, University Of California Berkeley | |||
| Increasing the efficacy of NK cells in cancer immunotherapy | |||
| 16:20 | |||
| Satu Mustjoki, University of Helsinki | |||
| Functional profiling of NK cell cytotoxicity in hematological cancers | |||
| 16:40 | |||
| Amir Horowitz, Mount Sinai | |||
| Tumor HLA-E expression and CMV infection modulate NK cell activity in human bladder cancer | |||
| 17:00 | |||
| Adelheid Cerwenka, Heidelberg University, Medical Faculty Mannheim | |||
| Title to be announced | |||
| 17:20 | |||
| Hanna Duan , University of Helsinki | |||
| Acute myeloid leukemia patients trigger distinct activation patterns in expanded NK cells upon treatment | |||
| 17:30 | |||
| Jake Myers, University of Minnesota | |||
| Exhaustion induces transcriptional and epigenetic alterations in human NK cells that weaken NK cell activation through reduced ERK1/2 signaling and cell migration | |||
| 17:40 | |||
| Dagmar Gotthardt, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna | |||
| NK cell senescence as barrier to malignant transformation | |||
| 20:00 | 00:00 | Gala Dinner | Saga Hall |
