reGistration fees sPonsors and eXhibitors

until 30 June from 01 July Call for Member DGfI, SIICA – regular 285 EuR 415 EuR Premium Sponsor non-member – regular 395 EuR 530 EuR abstraCts Member DGfI, SIICA – student 120 EuR 160 EuR non-member – student 160 EuR 175 EuR

Social program Gold Sponsors Welcome reception, tuesday, 10 september conference participant included II Joint Meeting of the accompanying person 20 EuR German society for immunology (dGfl) social evening, thursday, 12 september Silber Sponsor regular 60 EuR and the student 40 EuR italian society of immunology, Clinical immunology and allergology (siiCa) Please register online via www.immunology-conference.de. Bronze Sponsors

10–13 SEPTEMBER 2019 l inVited sPeaKers

Alessandro Aiuti (Milan/IT) Christoph Klein* (Munich/DE) Vincenzo Barnaba (Rome/IT) Bart Lambrecht (Gent/CH) Flavia Bazzoni* (Verona/IT) Alberto Mantovani (Milan/IT) Sponsors Bernd Bodenmiller (Zurich/CH) Giuseppe Matarese* Vincenzo Bronte* (Verona/IT) (napoli/IT) Andrea Cerutti* Gioacchino natoli (Milan/IT) (new york, ny/uS) Luigia Pace* (Torino/IT) Exhibitors Paolo Dellabona (Milan/IT) Massimiliano Pagani* Abcam Plc Lonza Cologne GmbH Donna Farber* (new york, ny/uS) (Milan/IT) Adaptive Biotechnologies Miltenyi Biotec GmbH Simon Fillatreau* (Berlin/DE) Rossella Paolini (Rome/IT) AID GmbH nanoString Technologies nicola Gagliani* (Hamburg/DE) Manolis Pasparakis* BioLegend GmbH GmbH Bodo Grimbacher* (Freiburg/DE) (Cologne/DE) Bio-Rad Laboratories OLS – OMnI Life Science GmbH Vigo Heissmeyer* (Munich/DE) Marco Prinz* (Freiburg/DE) Bio-Techne & Co. KG Veit Hornung* (Munich/DE) Chiara Romagnani* (Berlin/DE) BIOZOL GmbH OriGene Technologies GmbH Samuel Huber* (Hamburg/DE) Jürgen Ruland* (Munich/DE) Biozym Scientific GmbH peptides & elephants GmbH Jochen Hühn* (Braunschweig/DE) ugur Sahin (Mainz/DE) Cisbio Bioassays PeproTech GmbH Matteo Iannacone* (Milan/IT) Federica Sallusto (Zurich/CH) CTL Europe GmbH Sarstedt AG & Co. KG Akiko Iwasaki (new Haven, CT/uS) Joachim Schultze (/DE) Fluidigm GmbH Takara Bio Europe Carl H. June* (Philadelphia, PA/uS) Erika von Mutius* HiSS Diagnostics GmbH Susan Kaech (Munich/DE) IBA Liefsciences (new Haven, CT; San Diego, CA/uS) Intavis AG Wolfgang Kastenmüller* Jackson Immunoresearch (Würzburg/DE) *confirmed Europe Ltd State: 8 March 2019

© davis l fotolia.com Welcome Note Call for Abstracts General Information

We cordially invite you to submit your abstract to one of the following Venue and date abstract topics online at www.immunology-conference.de. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Abstracts must be submitted in English by 5 May 2019. Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1 l 80539 Munich (DE) 10–13 September 2019

• Antigen presentation Website and preliminary program Dear colleagues and friends, • Autoimmunity and chronic inflammation www.immunology-conference.de • B-cell biology On behalf of the board members of the Italian Society for Immunology, • Dendritic and myeloid cells Organizer Clinical Immunology and Allergology (SIICA) and the German Society • Immune cell fate and plasticity Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München for Immunology (DGfI), we are pleased to invite you to our joint annual • Immunodeficiencies in cooperation with meeting in Munich running from 10–13 September 2019. After a • Immunosignaling German Society for Immunology (DGfI) l www.dgfi.org highly successful joint meeting of both societies in Riccione, Italy, in • Immunotherapy Italian Society of Immunology, Clinical Immunology 2011 we are looking forward to seeing you in Munich, the heart of • Infection and Allergology (SIICA) l www.siica.org Bavaria, for our next joint meeting. • Microbiome and mucosal immunity in collaboration with Technische Universität München • Natural killer and innate lymphoid cells Munich is the home of two highly renowned German universities, the • Neuroimmunology Congress chairs and co-organizers Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU) and the Technische • Reproductive immunology Angela Santoni, PhD Thomas Brocker, PhD Universität München (TUM). In addition, the Max Planck Society, the • T cell development Sapienza University of Rome Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Helmholtz Zentrum München and numerous biotech companies and • Transplantation Department of Molecular München start-ups make Munich a lively environment for basic and translational • Tumor immunology Biomedical Center research in immunology. Scientists in Munich actively participate in • Vaccination Immunology, Cancer Research Institute for Immunology a series of immunologically focused Collaborative Research Centres … more topics available online Rome (IT) Munich (DE) (CRCs) currently funded by the German Research Council (DFG). These include: CRC1054 “Plasticity of immune cell fate decisions”, CRC914 Steering committee of SIICA and DGfI “Trafficking of immune cells”, CRC1123 “Atherosclerosis”, CRC824 Angela Santoni (Rome/IT) Thomas Brocker (Munich/DE) “Cancer therapies”, TRR127 “Xenotransplantation”, TRR128 “Multiple Francesco Annunziato (Florence/IT) Thomas Kamradt (Jena/DE) Sclerosis” and TRR179 “Hepatitis Virus Infection”. The Munich biotech Marco A. Cassatella (Verona/IT) Carsten Watzl (Dortmund/DE) cluster of approximately 250 companies, with two innovation and Andrea Cossarizza (Modena/IT) Jürgen Wienands (Göttingen/DE) founding centers for biotechnology, demonstrates the important focus Angelo Vacca (Bari/IT) the city and region places on personalized medicine and immunotherapy. Time schedule and deadlines Certification The joint SIICA and DGfI meeting in 2019 will take place in the main Credit points for continuing medical education will be applied to building of the LMU in the heart of Munich at the historic Ge-schwister- 05 May Abstract submission the Medical Council (Ärztekammer) of the State of Bavaria and Scholl-Platz. This location is surrounded by historic buildings, beer June Review of submitted abstracts to the European Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical gardens, the famous “Englischer Garten” city park, as well as a vibrant Education (EACCME). city and university life, all well connected by easily accessible public June notification of authors transportation. The organizing committee will strive to bring together 30 June Early bird registration Professional congress organizer and industrial exhibition an interesting program covering current topics of basic and transla- Conventus Congressmanagement & Marketing GmbH tional immunology research in plenary sessions, main symposia and Lisa Koch/Wenke Schütte workshops. We invite everyone to submit abstracts early in 2019 and Phone +49 3641 31 16-399/ -366 to join us in Munich for this exciting meeting. [email protected] l www.conventus.de

We are looking forward to welcome you all in this beautiful city. Sincerely yours

Angela Santoni and Thomas Brocker Conference chairs