Sunday April 24^st

• Evening registration at Hotel ’WICC’
• Dinner (on own costs of the participants)

Monday April 25^th            Introduction to the fish immune system

• Geert Wiegertjes (Wageningen Univ, NL): Introduction to the workshop
• Steve Bird (Univ Waikato, NZ): Fish cytokines
• Carolina Tafalla (INIA, ES): Fish chemokines
• coffee break
• Maria Forlenza (Wageningen Univ, NL): Fish T cells
• lunch
• Geert Wiegertjes (Wageningen Univ, NL): Fish macrophages
• Phil Elks (Sheffield Univ, UK): Zebrafish neutrophils
• coffee break
• Pierre Boudinot (INRA, FR): Fish B cells and their repertoires
• dinner
• Evening Poster session 1

Tuesday April 26^th            Gut mucosal immunity

• Sam Martin (Univ Aberdeen, UK): Gut and gill health: interaction with microbiota
• Sylvia Brugman (Wageningen Univ, NL): Mucosal immunity in zebrafish
• coffee break
• Carla Piazzon (CSIC, ES): Gut mucosal immunity in gilthead seabream
• lunch
• group photo

• Practicals:

  • Hands-on assays in fish immunology – part A (staff AFI) or
  • Transcriptome analysis: general and practical aspects (Sam Martin, Univ Aberdeen, UK)
• dinner
• Evening Poster session 2

Wednesday April 27^th      Anti-viral responses

• Pierre Boudinot (INRA, FR): Interferons and anti-viral responses
• Uwe Fischer (FLI, DE): Cell-mediated cytotoxicity
• coffee break
• Bertrand Collet (INRAE, FR): In vitro cell lines for anti-viral studies
• lunch

• Practicals:

  • Hands-on assays in fish immunology – part B (staff AFI) or
  • Gene discovery through synteny (Steve Bird, Univ Waikato, NZ)
• workshop closing dinner

Thursday April 28^th         Fish vaccination

• Daisy Vanrompay (Ghent University): Trained immunity in shrimps
• Oystein Evensen (NMBU, Norway): Vaccination of Atlantic salmon
• coffee break
• Niels Lorenzen (DTU): Fish DNA vaccines – basic and applied aspects
• closure with poster prize awards
• lunch