Program for 2025

Registration with coffee

08:30 – 09:00

Welcome (Caroline Barisch)

09:00 – 09:15

Infection session 

Olivier Neyrolles, Toulouse (Keynote)

Effluxosomes and the arms race for metal homeostasis in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Chair: Norbert Reiling

09:15 – 09:50

Bidiepta Saha, Greifswald - Insel Riems, Talk #1
Tunneling nanotubes (TNTs): An export/import strategy for Chlamydia via direct
cell-to-cell communication

Martino Morici, Hamburg, Talk #2
Fighting antimicrobial resistance with new weapons: Saskemycin, a potent antimycobacterial
agent targeting a unique site on the ribosome

09:50 – 10:05

  10:05 – 10:20

Group picture in front of the manor house

Coffee break

10:20 – 10:30

10:30 – 11:00

Maximiliano Gutierrez, London (Keynote)

Membrane damage and repair dynamics in tuberculosis

Chair: Daniel Meissner

11:00 – 11:35

Lena Gonner, Hamburg, Talk #3
TARGET-MYCO peptide-enhanced targeting and eradication of pathogenic mycobacteria

Michelle Savickis, Hamburg, Talk #4
Function and spatio-temporal patterning of the Small basic protein (Sbp) in
Staphylococcus epidermidis biofilm formation

11:35 – 11:50

11:50 – 12:05

Coffee Break

12:05 – 12:25

Susanne Häußler, Braunschweig (Keynote)
Functional genomics in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Chair: Holger Sondermann

12:25 – 13:00

Group picture in front of the manor house

12:45 – 12:55

Lunch break

13:00 – 14:00

Immunology & Inflammation session

Sponsor pitches

Biomol (Anneliese Fuhrmann), ibidi (Carla Seegers), Novogene (Lena Danckert),
BioLegend (Agata Widera), MACHEREY-NAGEL (Cordt Westensee)

Chair: Aileen Kerfin and Lennart Bartels

14:00 – 14:30

Silke Meiners, Borstel (Keynote)
The immunoproteasome at the crossroad of infection & autoimmunity

Chair: Bianca Schneider

14:30 – 15:05

Marco Trujillo, Hamburg, Talk #5
Exocyst subunit links immune signalling and autophagy

Jakia Khan, Borstel, Talk #6
Targeting IL-13 signaling pathway as a potential therapeutic approach in experimental models of pulmonary arterial hypertension

15:05 – 15:20

15:20 – 15:35

Coffee Break  

15:35 – 16:00

Christian Karsten, Lübeck (Keynote)
The complement system: Its critical role in infection control and the challenges
of infection risk in patients receiving anti-complement therapies

Chair: Katarzyna Duda

16:00 – 16:35

Daniel Anton Myburgh, Kiel, Talk #7
Tracing the pre-antibiotic osteomyelitis pathogens behind today's hospital superbug
epidemics

Ann-Cathrin Hofacker, Kiel, Talk #8
Effects of smoking, physical activity and obesity on respiratory and organismal
health across generations

16:35 – 16:50

16:50 – 17:05

Speed and / or “edutaintment”  talks  

Chair: Linda Zemke

17:05 – 17:40

Maria Lerm, Linköping, Talk #9
Quantum biology – an emerging field of science that matters to everyone

Thierry Cottineau, Greifswald - Insel Riems, Talk #10
Hypoxic persistence of spore-like particles (SLPs) of the zoonotic pathogen Coxiella
burnetii

Judith Bossen, Kiel, Talk #11
JAK/STAT signalling controls proliferation, apoptosis and migration of progenitor
cell types in the Drosophila airways

Liisa Knipp, Borstel, Talk #12
Sex-specific regulation of immunoproteasome function determines response to
infection

Kai Guo, Borstel, Talk #13
Dissecting immunoproteasome function in lung regeneration using mouse
lung organoids

Fabian Lüttchens, Hamburg, Talk #14
Synthesis and structure-activity relationships of novel amino acid-based LpxCinhibitors

 Closing session

Poster session I  (with drinks and snacks)

17:40 – 18:15

Poster session II  (with drinks and snacks)

18:15 – 18:50

Awards and Conclusion

Dinner

18:50 – 19:15

19:15 pm – 20:30 pm