SUMMER SCHOOL 2025

Award recipients

18th ENII EFIS EJI Summer School on Advanced Immunology

May 22 – 29, 2025
Hotel Carlos V, Alghero, Sardinia
Program v. 27/05/2025 

Thursday, May 22 – Arrival
Lunch (12:45-14:00) Restaurant (Level R)
Hotel Check-in, rooms available from 15:00
Registration 16:00-19:00 Conference Room (Level Reception)
Ice Breaker Games 19:00-20:15 Poster Room (Level R)
Dinner (20:15-21:15) Restaurant (Level R)

Friday, May 23


Welcome Introduction (08:45) Erica Lomnes, School Manager

Lecture (09:00-10:00*): Ivan Zanoni ALUMNUS 2006 Molecular and cellular regulation of inflammation

Lecture (10:00-11:00): Veit Hornung Detecting the stranger: non-self sensing in innate immunity

Coffee Break (11:00-11:20)

Lecture (11:30-12:30): Charlotte Scott Understanding macrophage heterogeneity in health and disease

Lunch (12:45-13:45)

Free time**

Participant short presentations: (16:00-17:30)

Coffee Break (17:30-17:50)

Poster Session A (18:00-19:45)

Dinner (20:00)

*Faculty lectures are 40 minutes, immediately followed by 20 minutes of discussion

** Oral presentation skills workshop offered during the daily free-time (participants attend one day)

Saturday, May 24

Lecture (09:00-10:00): Emma Slack Functions of secretory antibodies in the gut

Lecture (10:00-11:00): Bernard Malissen Unveiling the molecular basis of T cell malfunctions and disorders using interactomics

Coffee Break (11:00-11:20)

Lecture (11:30-12:30): Matteo Iannacone Immune surveillance of the liver

Lunch (12:45-13:45)

Free time

Participant short presentations: (16:00-17:30)

Coffee Break (17:30-17:50)

Poster Session B (18:00-19:45)

Dinner (20:00)

Sunday, May 25

Lecture (09:00-10:00): Carola Vinuesa  New insights into B cell-driven autoimmunity

Lecture (10:00-11:00): Sebastian Klobuch Adoptive T cell therapy for the treatment of solid tumors

Coffee Break (11:00-11:20)

Lecture (11:30-12:30): Onur Boyman Guided interleukin-2 immunotherapy: translation from discovery to patients

Lunch (12:45-13:45)

Free time

Participant short presentations: (16:00-17:30)

Coffee Break (17:30-17:50)

Poster Session C (18:00-19:45)

Dinner (20:00)

Monday, May 26


Lecture (09:00-10:00): Kiavash Movahedi Leveraging the Immune System to treat Brain Disease

Lecture (10:00-11:00): Maries van den Broek Interactions between cancer and the immune system

Coffee Break (11:00-11:20) 11:20 GROUP PHOTO – TERRACE BAR

Lecture (11:30-12:30): Fiona Powrie  Translating Immunology into new Therapies for Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Lunch (12:45-13:45)

Free time

Participant short presentations: (16:00-17:30)

Coffee Break (17:30-17:50)

Poster Session D (18:00-19:45)

Dinner (20:00)

Tuesday, May 27

Lecture (09:00-10:00): Rino Rappuoli Preparing the world for climate-driven amplification of infections

Lecture (10:00-11:00): Petter Brodin Human immune variation and development

Coffee Break (11:00-11:20)

Lecture (11:30-12:30): Christopher Buckley EFIS Keynote Lecture Fibroblasts: master regulators of inflammation

Lunch (12:45-13:45)

Free time

Participant short presentations: (16:00-17:30)

Coffee Break (17:30-17:50)

Poster Session E (18:00-19:45)

Dinner (20:00)

Wednesday, May 28

Cultural Excursions (optional)

Morning 08:30-11:30
Boat Excursion from Alghero Marina to visit theNeptune’s Caveunder the Capo Caccia promontory.
WEAR SHOES FOR WALKING IN THE CAVE (NO FLIP FLOPS)
08:30 Depart hotel, walk to theAlghero Marina, Navisarda Lines
09:00 Boat Departure – “DELPHINUS”
11:30 Boat Returns to the Marina
Free-time in the city center
13:00-14:00 Lunch at the Hotel
Afternoon 14:00-18:30
Excursion by bus to Maria Pia Beach (La Conchiglia area, Reserved sun beds at LIDO HERMEU)
14:00 Bus departs Hotel (STREET LEVEL, 2 Cattogno Buses, room for sitting and standing)
18:00 Bus departs Beach (exactly where it drops you off)
Farewell Dinner: 20:30
DJ until 23:30 (offered by Hotel Carlos V)

Thursday, May 29 – Departure

07:00-10:30 Breakfast
Check-out by 11:00 – Early morning departures may “check-out”/pay extras bill Wednesday night.

12:30-13:45 Lunch

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EFIS EJI have generously made available travel grants for the 2025 Immunology Summer School.

The deadline for applying was March 3, 2025.

41 grants have been awarded to these early-stage researchers: