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: a 3Rs approach (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