Network meeting, Utrecht

The third network meeting was held on 25-27 January 2023 at the Hotel Mitland, Utrecht, The Netherlands.

The meeting consisted of talks by speakers from the Netherlands, Spain and Germany, and an interactive communication workshop for the ESRs.

The ESRs also gave PechaKucha presentations where they had to break down a topic in their research project by using only 20 pictures to explain, with each slide being displayed for exactly 20 seconds - a really interesting and different way to present!

Programme:

Wednesday 25.01.23

10:00-10:25 Get together with coffee and tea
10.25-10.30 Welcome
10:30-11:15 Inge Wortel, Radboud University Nijmegen 'What if T cells could learn French? – New answers to the old question of self-foreign discrimination by the T-cell repertoire'
11:15-12:00 Linde Meyaard, UMC Utrecht ‘Inhibitory pattern recognition receptors in health and disease’
12:00-13:30 Lunch break
13:30-14:30 First Pechakucha session by QuanTII PhD students:
-- Carina Bruckmaier
-- Elena de Dios Panal
-- Alessandro Greco
-- Maria Ruiz
14:30-15:00 Coffee break
15:00-15:45 Femke van Wijk, UMC Utrecht 'Human T-cells in time and space'
15:45 -17:00 Break and meeting in front of the Academiegebouw, Domplein
17:00-19:00 Guided city tour
19:00 Dinner

Thursday 26.01.23

09:00-9:45 Mette Hazenberg, UMC Amsterdam ‘Lymphocyte reconstitution after allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation’
09:45-10:30 Second Pechakucha session by QuanTII PhD students:
-- Erdem Sanal
-- Van Thuy Truong
-- Charandeep Kaur
10:30-10:45 Coffee break
10:45-11:30 Dietmar Zehn, TU München ‘Tracking and Quantifying T cell diversity in acute and chronic infections’
11:30-12:30 Lunch break
12:30-16:30 Communication workshop on teaching and effective presentations (QuanTII ESRs only) by Simone Schut , UMC Utrecht
14:00 Board meeting
19:00 Dinner

Friday 27.01.23

09:00-9:45 Alexander Yermanos, UMC Utrecht 'Functional and computational properties of B-cell and Tfh immune repertoires'
09:45-10:30 Peter de Greef, Utrecht University ‘Chasing the chains by testing them twice’
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-11:45 Mariona Baliu-Piqué, GALARIA, Santiago de Compostela (former Marie Curie fellow) 'Life after QuanTI ITN'
11:45-13:15 Lunch and good-bye