18 MARCH 2021

BSI COMPARATIVE VETERINARY IMMUNOLOGY GROUP (CVIG) IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE BIOTECHNOLOGY AND

BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL (BBSRC) AND INTERNATIONAL VETERINARY VACCINOLOGY NETWORKS

(VVN AND IVVN)

FRONTIERS IN COMPARATIVE IMMUNOLOGY SERIES: T CELL BIOLOGY

Frontiers in comparative immunology series: T cell biology

18 March 2021

10:00 Welcome Elma Tchilian, The Pirbright Institute, UK and Tim Connelley, University of Edinburgh, UK

Session 1: Harnessing T cell immunity Chair: Lindert Benedictus, Utrecht University, Netherlands

10:15 Inflators and protectors: T cells in cytomegalovirus infection Annette Oxenius, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

10:45 Mobilising T cells by adjuvant immunomodulation Gregers Jungersen, Statens Serum Institut, Denmark

11:15 Comfort break

11:30 L-selectin: not just a lymph node homing receptor on T-cellsAnn Ager, University of Cardiff, UK

12:00 Generalist and specialist MHC molecules: the effect of peptide repertoire and cell surface expression on thymocytes and T cells Jim Kaufman, University of Edinburgh and University of Cambridge, UK

12:30-14.30

12:30-13:00 13:00-13:50 13.20-13:50 13:50-14:20

Lunch, live poster session, chat rooms and networking:

Free time Live poster session (posters will be displayed throughout the event) Chat room – Open discussion on ‘the advantages & disadvantages of animal models to study T cell immunity’ Chat room – Open discussion on ‘top tips on how to survive the impact of COVID on wellbeing and scientific career’

Session 2: Magnitude, Quality and Function of T cell Responses Chair: Elma Tchilian, The Pirbright Institute, UK

14:30 Deeper understanding of porcine peripheral and intestinal T cell populations through single-cell transcriptomics Crystal Loving, USDA, Ames, USA

15:00 Memory CD8 T Cell Immunosurveillance David Masopust, University of Minnesota, USA

15:30 Comfort break

15:45 T cell responses to rotavirus vaccine in a piglet model: Impacts of probiotics and malnutrition Linda Saif, Ohio State University, USA

16:15 Studies on the adaptive responses to SARS CoV2 Alessandro Sette, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, USA

16:45 Close

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