Preliminary Programme 2024

April 28 – May 2, 2024

Sunday April 28

19.00 Evening registration at Hotel ’WICC’

20:00 Dinner (on own costs of the participants)

Monday April 29 Introduction to the fish immune system

9.00 - 9.15 Geert Wiegertjes (Wageningen Univ, NL): Introduction to the workshop

9.15 - 10.15 Steve Bird (Univ Waikato, NZ): Fish cytokines (60 min)

10.15 - 11.15 Geert Wiegertjes (Wageningen Univ, NL): Fish macrophages (60 min)

11.15 - 11.45 coffee break

11.45 - 12.45 Pierre Boudinot (INRAE, FR): Fish lymphocytes (B cells) (60 min)

12.45 - 13.45 lunch

14.00 - 15.00 Maria Forlenza (Wageningen Univ, NL): Fish T lymphocytes (60 min)

15.00 - 15.30 coffee break

15.30 - 16.30 Mai Nguyen-Chi (Univ Montpellier, FR): Actors of inflammation in zebrafish (60 min)

16.30 - 17.00 Kaylee van Dijk (Wageningen Univ, NL): Cytokines, the case of TNFalpha (30 min)

18.30 - 19.30 dinner

19.45 - 22.00 Evening Poster session 1

Tuesday April 30 Gut mucosal immunity

9.00 - 10.00 Sam Martin (Univ Aberdeen, UK): Gut health and microbiota (60 min)

10.00 - 10.45 Fotini Kokou (Wageningen Univ, NL): Life history of the gut (45 min)

10.45 - 11.15 coffee break

11.15 - 12.15 Carla Piazzon (CSIC, ES): Mucosal immunity and antibody tools (60 min)

12.15 - 13.15 lunch

13.15 - 13.30 group photo

13.30 - 14.00 transport to the Forum building for practicals

14.00 - 17.00 Practicals:

  • Hands-on assays in fish immunology – part A (staff CBI) or
  • Gene discovery through synteny (Steve Bird, Univ Waikato, NZ)

18.30 - 19.30 dinner

19.45 - 22.00 Evening Poster session 2

Wednesday May 1 Antiviral responses

9.00 - 10.00 Pierre Boudinot (INRAE, FR): Anti-viral IFN (60 min)

10.00 - 11.00 Bertrand Collet (INRAE, FR): In vitro cell lines for antiviral studies (60 min)

11.00 - 11.30 coffee break

11.30 - 12.30 Uwe Fischer/ (FLI, DE): Cytotoxic T cells (60 min)

12.30 - 13.30 lunch

13.30 - 14.00 transport to the Forum building for practicals

14.00 - 17.00 Practicals:

  • Hands-on assays in fish immunology – part B (staff AFI) or
  • Transcriptome analysis: general and practical aspects (Sam Martin, Univ Aberdeen, UK)

20.00 workshop closing dinner

Thursday May 2 Fish vaccination

9.00 - 9.45 Carolina Tafalla (INIA, ES): Immune responses to vaccins and adjuvants (45 min)

9.45 - 10.45 Niels Lorenzen (DTU, DK): DNA vaccination of trout against VHS (60 min)

10.45 - 11.15 coffee break

11.15 - 12.00 Mark Goldman (Wageningen Univ, NL): Novel oral vaccination approaches (45 min)

12.00 - 12.30 closure with poster prize awards

12.30 - 13.30 lunch